Investigador Independiente CONICET
E-mail: degurvich@unc.edu.ar
Título: Dr. en Ciencias Biológicas
Área: ECOLOGÍA. Línea de Investigación: Ecología Vegetal y Fitogeografía
Resumen de proyecto de investigación
Mi principal línea de investigación se centra en la biología, ecología y conservación de plantas suculentas del centro de Argentina, particularmente cactus. Hemos estudiado aspectos de las distribuciones de las especies, respuestas a disturbios como el fuego. También hemos analizado cómo los gradientes ambientales, particularmente altitudinales, afectan diferentes aspectos de la biología de estas especies.
Publicaciones
Lipoma L, Gurvich DE, Urcelay C & Díaz S. 2016. Community resilience in the face of fire: experimental evidence from a semi-arid shrubland. Austral Ecology, 41, 501-511.
Whitworth-Hulse JI, Cingolani AM, Zeballos SR, Poca M & Gurvich DE. 2016. Grazing induces intraspecific trait variation in plant species from a sub-humid mountain ecosystem in Central Argentina. Austral Ecology, 41, 745-755. DOI: 10.1111/aec.12361*
Contreras Quiroz, M, Pando Moreno M, Jurado E, Flores J, Bauk K & Gurvich DE. 2016. Is seed hydration memory dependent on climate? Testing this hypothesis with Mexican and Argentinian cacti species. Journal of Arid Environments, 130, 94-97.*
Gurvich DE, Tecco P & Díaz S. 2016. Response to Vergara et al. 2015. Fruiting phenology as a “triggering attribute” of invasion process: Do invasive species take advantage of seed dispersal service provided by native birds? Biological Invasions, 18, 2773-2774. DOI: 10.1007/s10530-01601176-4
Zeballos SR, Giorgis MA, Cabido MR & Gurvich DE. 2017. Unraveling the coordination between the leaf and stem economic spectra through local and global scale approaches. Austral Ecology, 42:394-403.*
Bauk K, Flores J, Ferrero C, Las Peñas ML, Pérez Sánchez R & Gurvich DE. 2017. Seed germination under different temperatures, water potentials and light conditions of Gymnocalycium monvillei (Cactaceae) along its entire altitudinal range. Botany, 95: 419-428.*
Gurvich DE, Pérez-Sánchez R, Bauk K, Jurado E, Ferrero MC, Funes G & Flores J. 2017. Combined effect of water potential and temperature on seed germination and seedling development of cacti from a mesic Argentine ecosystem. Flora, 227, 18-24.
Giorgis M, Cingolani AM, Gurvich DE, Tecco P, Chiapella J, Chiarini F & Cabido M. 2017. Changes in floristic composition and physiognomy are decoupled along altitudinal gradients in central Argentina. Applied Vegetation Science, en prensa. DOI: 10.1111/avsc.12324
Poca M, Cingolani AM, Gurvich DE, Whitworth Hulse JI & Saur Palmeri V. 2018. La degradación de los bosques de altura de Polylepis australis Bitter reduce su capacidad de almacenamiento de agua en el centro de Argentina. Ecología Austral, 28: 235-248.*
Ferrero MC, Zeballos SR, Whitworth-Hulse JI, Giorgis AM & Gurvich DE. 2018. Functional strategies and distribution of vine communities in different vegetation patches in a subtropical dry forest, central Argentina. Journal of Plant Ecology.*
Poca M, Cingolani AM, Gurvich DE, Saur Palmieri, Bertone G. 2018. Water storage dynamics across different types of vegetated patches in rocky highlands of central Argentina. Ecohydrology, e1981. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1981 *
Martino P, Bauk K, Ferrero C, Gurvich DE, Las Peñas ML. 2018. Ecological significance of determinate primary root growth: inter- and intra-specific differences in two species of Gymnocalycium (Cactoideae, Cactaceae) along elevation gradients. Flora, 248: 70-75.*
Kowaljow E, Morales MS, Whitworth-Hulse JI, Zeballos SR, Giorgis MA, Rodríguez Catón M & Gurvich DE. 2019. A 55-year-old natural experiment gives evidence of the effects of changes in fire frequency on ecosystem properties in seasonal Subtropical Dry forest. Land Degradation and Development, https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.3219.*
Gurvich DE. 2019. The use of herbicides in South America dry forests to control shrub encroachment: a new threat to cactus species? A first assessment. Haseltonia, 26: 39-42.
Whitworth-Hulse JI, Magliano PN, Zeballos SR, Gurvich DE, Spalazzi F & Kowaljow E. Advantages of rainfall partitioning by the global invader Ligustrum lucidum over the dominant native Lithraea molleoides in a dry forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, en prensa. *
Cortés S, Whitworth-Hulse JI, Piovano EL, Gurvich DE & Magliano PN. Rainfall partitioning in a water-limited land cover change system: the native Lithraea molleoides vs. the alien Pinus elliottii. Journal of Arid Land, en prensa.
Financiación
FONCYT PICT 2016 0077, 2017 0220
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Diego_Gurvich
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RUNPpC8AAAAJ&hl=es