El Dr. Mauricio Lima Arce es investigador Grado 4 en el Area Biología del PEDECIBA. Ingresó al Programa en 1999. Desempeña sus actividades en la Universidad Católica de Chile.

Líneas de investigación:

Resumen de las principales publicaciones de 1998 a 2002

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  Stenseth NC, Mysterud A, Ottersen G, Hurrell JW, Chan K-S, Lima M
  Ecological effects of climate fluctuations
  Science, 297: 1292-1296 (2002)
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  Lima M, Stenseth NC, Jaksic FM
  Food web structure and climate effects in the dynamics of small mammals and owls in semiarid Chile
  Ecol Lett, 5: 273-284 (2002)
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  Lima M, Merritt JF, Bozinovic F
  Numerical fluctuations in the northern short-tailed shrew: evidence of non-linear feedback signatures on population dynamics and demography
  J Anim Ecol, 71: 159-172 (2002)
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  Camus PA, Lima M
  Populations, metapopulations, and the open-closed dilemma: the conflict between operational and natural population concepts
  Oikos, 97: 433-438 (2002)
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  Berryman AA, Lima M, Hawkins BA
  Population regulation, emergent properties, and a requiem for density dependence
  Oikos, 99: 600-606 (2002)
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  Lima M, Stenseth NC, Jaksic F M
  The population dynamics of a South American small rodent: seasonal structure interacting with the role of climate, density-dependence and predator guild effects
  P Roy Soc Lond B Bio, (en prensa) (2002)
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  Lima M, Julliard R, Stenseth NC, Jaksic FM
  Demographic dynamics of a Neotropical small rodent (Phyllotis darwini): feedback structure, predation and climate
  J Anim Ecol, 70: 761-775 (2001)
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  Lima M, Stenseth NC, Yoccoz NG, Jaksic FM
  Demography and population dynamics of the mouse-opossum (Thylamys elegans) in semiarid Chile: feedback structure and climate
  P Roy Soc Lond B Bio, 268: 2053-2064 (2001)
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  Merrit JF, Lima M, Bozinovic F
  Seasonal regulation in fluctuating small mammal populations: feedback structure and climate
  Oikos, 95: 505-514 (2001)
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  Lima M, Brazeiro A, Defeo O
  Population dynamics of the yellow clam (Mesodesma mactroides): recruitment variability, density-dependence and stochastic processes
  Mar Ecol - Prog Ser, 207: 97-108 (2000)
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  Lima M, Marquet PA, Jaksic FM
  El Niño events, precipitation patterns and rodent outbreaks are statistically associated in semiarid Chile
  Ecography, 22: 213-218 (1999)
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  Lima M, Keymer JE, Jaksic FM
  ENSO-driven rainfall variability and delayed density-dependence cause rodent outbreaks in Western South America: from demography to population dynamics
  Am Nat, 153: 476-491 (1999)
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  Lima M, Jaksic FM
  Population variability among three small mammal species in the semiarid Neotropics: the role of density-dependent and density-independent factors
  Ecography, 21: 175-180 (1998)