TY - JOUR
T1 - Trends in Antarctic ecological research in Latin America shown by publications in international journals
AU - Stotz, Gisela C.
AU - Salgado-Luarte, Cristian
AU - Rios, Rodrigo S.
AU - Acuña-Rodriguez, Ian S.
AU - Carrasco-Urra, Fernando
AU - Molina-Montenegro, Marco A.
AU - Gianoli, Ernesto
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Antarctica is a highly interesting region for ecologists because of its extreme climatic conditions and the uniqueness of its species. In this article, we describe the trends in Antarctic ecological research participation by Latin American countries. In a survey of articles indexed by the ISI Web of Science, we searched under the categories "Ecology,""Biodiversity Conservation"and "Evolutionary Biology"and found a total of 254 research articles published by Latin American countries. We classified these articles according to the country of affiliation, kingdom of the study species, level of biological organization and environment. Our main finding is that there is a steady increase in the relative contribution of Latin American countries to Antarctic ecological research. Within each category, we found that marine studies are more common than terrestrial studies. Between the different kingdoms, most studies focus on animals and most studies use a community approach. The leading countries in terms of productivity were Argentina, Chile and Brazil, with Argentina showing the highest rate of increase.
AB - Antarctica is a highly interesting region for ecologists because of its extreme climatic conditions and the uniqueness of its species. In this article, we describe the trends in Antarctic ecological research participation by Latin American countries. In a survey of articles indexed by the ISI Web of Science, we searched under the categories "Ecology,""Biodiversity Conservation"and "Evolutionary Biology"and found a total of 254 research articles published by Latin American countries. We classified these articles according to the country of affiliation, kingdom of the study species, level of biological organization and environment. Our main finding is that there is a steady increase in the relative contribution of Latin American countries to Antarctic ecological research. Within each category, we found that marine studies are more common than terrestrial studies. Between the different kingdoms, most studies focus on animals and most studies use a community approach. The leading countries in terms of productivity were Argentina, Chile and Brazil, with Argentina showing the highest rate of increase.
KW - Antarctica
KW - Argentina
KW - Brazil
KW - Chile
KW - Research trends
KW - Scientific productivity
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U2 - 10.3402/polar.v32i0.19993
DO - 10.3402/polar.v32i0.19993
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84901236440
SN - 0800-0395
VL - 32
JO - Polar Research
JF - Polar Research
IS - SUPPL.
M1 - 19993
ER -