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Regional patterns and controls of biomass in semiarid woodlands: lessons from the Northern Argentina Dry Chaco

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Acknowledgments

This study is part of the N.I. Gasparri’s PhD thesis supported by a scholarship from CONICET, Argentina. Funds to support the field work of this investigation were provided by Rufford Small Grant for Nature Conservation. Partially support was provided by the project: PICT 2006 #1693 from the Argentine Fund for Science and Technology (FONCyT). G. Baldi is funded by grants from the International Research Development Center (IDRC-Canada, Project 106601-001), and the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI, CRN II 2031), which is supported by the US National Science Foundation (Grant GEO-0452325). NGO’s collaborate with the logistic in the field: Asociación para la Promoción de la Cultura y el Desarrollo (APCD); Equipo para la Promoción y el Acompañamiento Solidario (EPRASOL); Acompañamiento de la Iglesia Anglicana del Norte Argentino and FUNDAPAZ. Wichi communities from Formosa and Salta (Lote 27; Lote 42; Tres Pozos; El Trebol; Pozo del Mortero; Pozo del Toro; La Junta; La Curvita; Asamblea de Díos) and the National Parks Administration give authorization to the field work in protected areas. Also thanks for its collaboration in the field work to M.A. Gasparri; M. Galarza; E. Ferrero and C.R. Spagarino. H.R Grau, H. Karszenbaum F. Grings and J. Bono provided useful comments on early manuscripts.

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    Nestor Ignacio Gasparri

  2. Grupo de Estudios Ambientales—IMASL, Universidad Nacional de San Luis & CONICET, Ejército de los Andes 950, D5700HHW, San Luis, Argentina

    Germán Baldi

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Gasparri, N.I., Baldi, G. Regional patterns and controls of biomass in semiarid woodlands: lessons from the Northern Argentina Dry Chaco. Reg Environ Change 13, 1131–1144 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-013-0422-x

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