The growth of Chilean salmon production has not been free of important sanitary and
environmental shortcomings. To ensure sustainability, it is necessary to understand the …

The marine areas of South America (SA) include almost 30,000 km of coastline and
encompass three different oceanic domains—the Caribbean, the Pacific, and the Atlantic …

The conservation and sustainable use of marine resources is a highlighted goal on a
growing number of national and international policy agendas. Unfortunately, efforts to …

Abstract The Humboldt Current System (HCS) is one of the most productive marine
ecosystems on earth. It extends along the west coast of South America from southern Chile …

Since the mid-1960s, Atlantic salmon Salmo salar farming has grown into a large industry
within and beyond the native range of the species. Norway, Chile, Scotland and Canada are …

The most ubiquitous and well recognized diversity pattern at large spatial scales is the
latitudinal increase in species richness near the equator and decline towards the poles …

This article presents the first compilation of marine non-indigenous species (NIS) of algae
and macro-invertebrates invading Chilean waters. A total of 32 cosmopolitan and non …

We assessed the genetic structure of the giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera across a broad
latitudinal range along the southeastern Pacific coast (SEP). Specifically we analyzed the …

The kelp forests of southern South America are some of the least disturbed on the planet.
The remoteness of this region has, until recently, spared it from many of the direct …

A molecular taxonomic study of the bladed Bangiales of the South Eastern Pacific (coast of
Chile) was undertaken based on sequence data of the mitochondrial COI and chloroplast …