Publications
Peer-reviewed papers
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2022
Soto DP, Salas-Eljatib C, Donoso PJ, Hernández-Moreno A, Seidel D, D’Amato AW. 2022. Impacts of varying precipitation regimes upon the structure, spatial patterns, and productivity of Nothofagus pumilio-dominated old-growth forests in Patagonia. Forest Ecology and Management 524: 120519.
2022
Liang J, Gamarra J, Picard N, Zhou M, Pijanowski B, Jacobs DF, Reich PB, Crowther TW, Nabuurs G, de-Miguel S, Fang J, Woodall CW,
Svenning J, …, Salas-Eljatib C, et al, Hui C. 2022. Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients. Nature Ecology and Evolution.
2022
Donoso PJ, Soto DP, Salas-Eljatib C, Riquelme T. 2022. Present and prospects for multi-aged silviculture in Chilean temperate forests: targeting secondary forests in transition and partially harvested old-growth forests. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change.
2022
Cazzolla R, Reich P, Gamarra J, Crowther T, Hui C, …., Rutishauser E, Saikia P, Salas-Eljatib C, Schepaschenko D, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Šebeň V, Silveira M, …. Liang J. 2022. The number of tree species on Earth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119(6): e2115329119.
2022
Donoso PJ, Promis A, Loguercio G, Beltran HA, Caselli M, Chauchard LM, Cruz G, Gonzales M, Martinez G, Navarro C, Nunez P, Salas-Eljatib C, Soto DP, Vasquez-Grandon A. 2022. Silviculture of South American temperate native forests. New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science 52: 2.
2022
Herrera H, Fuentes A, Ortiz J, Soto J, da Silva R, Salas-Eljatib C, Arriagada C. 2022. Root-associated endophytes isolated from juvenile Ulex europaeus L. (Fabaceae) plants colonizing rural areas in South-Central Chile. Plant and Soil 474: 181–193.
2021
Salas-Eljatib C, Mehtatalo L, Gregoire TG, Soto DP, Vargas-Gaete R, 2021. Growth equations in forest research: mathematical basis and model similarities. Current Forestry Reports 7(4): 230-244.
2021
Salas-Eljatib C. 2021. A new algorithm for reconstructing tree height growth with stem analysis data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 12(10): 2008-2016.
2021
Salas-Eljatib C. 2021. An approach to quantify climate-productivity relationships: an example from a widespread Nothofagus forest. Ecological Applications 31(4): e02285.
2020
Salas-Eljatib C. 2020. Height growth–rate at a given height: a mathematical perspective for forest productivity. Ecological Modelling 431: 109198.
2020
Salas-Eljatib C, Weiskittel AR. 2020. On studying the patterns of individual-based tree mortality in natural forests: a modelling analysis. Forest Ecology and Management 475: 118369.
2020
Salas-Eljatib C, Promis A. 2020. Un llamado a la activación real de la Sociedad Chilena de Ciencias Forestales
[A call to awaken the Chilean Society of Forest Science]. Bosque 41(3): 209-212.
2020
Cardil A, de-Miguel S, Silva C, Reich P, Calkin D, Brancalion P, Vibrans A,.., Piotto D, Salas-Eljatib C, Broadbent E, et al. 2020. Recent deforestation drove the spike in Amazonian fires. Environmental Research Letters 15: 121003.
2020
Vargas-Gaete R, Salas-Eljatib C, Penneckamp D, Neira Z, Diez MC, Vargas-Picón R. 2020. Estructura y regeneración de bosques de
Prumnopitys andina en los Andes del sur de Chile [Structure and regeneration of Prumnopitys andina forests in the southern Andes of Chile]. Gayana Botanica 77(1): 48–58.
2020
Soto DP, Donoso PJ, González-Chang M, Vásquez-Grandón A, Salas-Eljatib C. 2020. Differential early performance of two underplanted hardwood
tree species following restoration treatments in high-graded temperate rainforests. Forests 11(4): 401.
2020
Donoso P, Puettmann K, D’Amato A, Ponce D, Salas-Eljatib C, Ojeda P. 2020. Short-term effects of variable-density thinning on regeneration in hardwood-dominated temperate rainforests. Forest Ecology and
Management 464: 118058.
2020
Fuentes-Ramirez A, Salas-Eljatib C, González ME, Urrutia-Estrada J, Arroyo-Vargas P, Santibañez P. 2020. Initial response of understory vegetation and tree regeneration to a mixed-severity fire in old-growth Araucaria-Nothofagus forests. Applied Vegetation Science 23(2):
210–222.
2020
Bannister JR, Travieso G, Galindo N, Acevedo M, Puettmann K,Salas-Eljatib C. 2020. Shrub influences on seedlings performance when restoring the slow-growing conifer Pilgerodendron uviferum in southern bog forests. Restoration Ecology 28(2): 396–407.
2019
Ponce DB, Donoso PJ, Salas-Eljatib C. 2019. Índice de bosque adulto: Una herramienta para evaluar estados de desarrollo de bosques nativos de tierras bajas del centro-sur de Chile [Old-growth Index: a tool to evaluate developmental stages in native forests in the lowlands of south-central Chile]. Bosque 40(2): 235–240.
2019
Steidinger BS, Crowther TW, Liang J, Van Nuland ME, Werner G, Reich P, Nabuurs G, de-Miguel S, Zhou M, Picard N, Herault B, Zhao X, Zhang C,
Routh D, Peay KG, Abegg M, …, Salas-Eljatib C, et al. 2019. Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of
forest-tree symbioses. Nature 569: 404–408.
2019
Salas-Eljatib C, Corvalán P, Pino N, Donoso PJ, Soto D. 2019. Modelos de efectos mixtos de altura-diámetro para Drimys winteri en el
sur (41-43 S) de Chile [Mixed-effects height-diameter
models for Drimys winteri in the south (41-43 S) of Chile]. Bosque 40(1): 71–80.
2019
Vargas-Gaete R, Doussoulin, H, Smith-Ramírez C, Bravo S, Salas-Eljatib C, Andrade N, Trávníček B. 2019. Evaluation of rust pathogenicity
(Phragmidium violaceum) as a biological control agent for the invasive plant Rubus ulmifolius on Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile. Australasian Plant Pathology 48(3): 201–208.
2019
Donoso PJ, Schlegel B, Salas-Eljatib C, Donoso C. 2019. Development of 26-year-old mixed forests following different regeneration cutting
treatments in Andean temperate rainforests of south-central Chile. Forest Ecology and Management 432: 686–693.
2018
Salas-Eljatib C, Weiskittel AR. 2018. Evaluation of modelling strategies for assessing self-thinning behavior and carrying capacity. Ecology and Evolution 8(22): 10768–10779.
2018
Salas-Eljatib C, Fuentes-Ramirez A, Gregoire TG, Altamirano A, Yaitul V. 2018. A study on the effects of unbalanced data when fitting
logistic regression models in ecology. Ecological Indicators 85: 502–508.
2018
Vargas-Gaete R, Salas-Eljatib C, Gärtner SM, Vidal OJ, Bannister JR,
Pauchard A. 2018. Invasive plant species thresholds in the forests of
Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile. Plant Ecology & Diversity 11(2):
205–215.
2018
Cifuentes R., Van der Zande D, Salas-Eljatib C, Farifteh J, Coppin
P. 2018. A simulation study using terrestrial LiDAR point cloud data to
quantify spectral variability of a broad-leaved forest canopy.
Sensors 18(10): 3357
2018
Fuentes-Ramirez A, Barrientos M, Almonacid L, Arriagada-Escamilla C, Salas-Eljatib C. 2018. Short-term response of soil microorganisms,
nutrients and plant recovery in fire-affected Araucaria araucana forests. Applied Soil Ecology 131: 99–106.
2017
Ponce DB, Donoso PJ, Salas-Eljatib C. 2017. Differentiating structural and compositional attributes across successional stages in
Chilean temperate rainforests. Forests 8(9): 329
2017
Kralicek K, Huy B, Poudel KP, Temesgen H, Salas C. 2017. Simultaneous estimation of above- and below-ground biomass in tropical
forests of Viet Nam. Forest Ecology and Management 390: 147–156.
2017
Cifuentes R., Van der Zande D, Salas C, Tits L., Farifteh J, Coppin P. 2017. Modeling 3D Canopy Structure and Transmitted PAR Using
Terrestrial LiDAR. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 43(2): 124–139.
2017
Soto DP, Jacobs DF, Salas C, Donoso PJ, Fuentes C, Puettmann KJ. 2017. Light and nitrogen interact to influence regeneration in old-growth Nothofagus-dominated forests in south-central Chile. Forest Ecology and Management 384: 303–313.
2016
Liang J, Crowther TW, Picard N, Wiser S, Zhou M, Alberti G, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, A. David McGuire, Bozzato F, Pretzsch H,
de-Miguel S, Paquette A, Herault B, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Barrett CB, Glick HB, Hengeveld GN, Nabuurs GJ, Pfautsch S, Viana H,
Vibrans AC, Ammer C, Schall P, Verbyla D, Tchebakova N, Fischer M, Watson JV, Chen HYV, Lei X, Schelhaas MJ, Lu H, Gianelle D,
Parfenova EI, Salas C, Lee E, Lee B, Kim HS, et al. 2016. Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in
global forests Science 354 (6309): 201–205.
2016
Salas C, Donoso PJ, Vargas R, Arriagada CA, Pedraza R, Soto DP. 2016. The forest sector in Chile: an overview and current challenges. Journal of Forestry 114(5): 562–571.
2016
Salas C, Gregoire TG, Craven DJ, Gilabert H. 2016. Modelación del crecimiento de bosques: estado del arte
[Forest growth modelling: the state of the art ]. Bosque 37(1): 3–12.
2016
Korhonen L, Salas C, Østgård T, Lien V, Gobakken T, Næsset E. 2016. Predicting the occurrence of large-diameter trees using airborne laser
scanning. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 46: 461–469.
2016
Altamirano A, Cely JP, Etter A, Miranda A, Fuentes-Ramírez A, Acevedo P, Salas C, Vargas R. 2016. The invasive species Ulex europaeus
(Fabaceae) shows high dynamism in a fragmented landscape of south-central Chile. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 188: 495–509.
2015
González ME, Szejner P, Donoso PJ, Salas C. 2015. Fire, logging and establishment patterns of second-growth forests in south-central Chile:
implications for their management and restoration. Ciencia e Investigación Agraria 42(3): 427–441.
2015
Crowther T, Glick H, Covey K, Bettigole C, Maynard D, Thomas S, Smith J, Hintler G, Duguid M, Amatulli G, Tuanmu M, Jetz W, Salas C, Stam C, Piotto D, et al. 2015. Mapping tree density at a global scale. Nature 525: 201–205.
2015
Soto DP, Donoso PJ, Salas C, Puettmann KJ. 2015. Light availability and soil compaction influence the growth of underplanted Nothofagus following partial shelterwood harvest and soil scarification. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 45: 998–1005.
2015
Almonacid L, Fuentes A, Ortiz J, Salas C, García-Romera I, Ocampo J, Arriagada C. 2015. Effect of mixing soil saprophytic fungi with organic residues on the response of Solanum lycopersicum to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Soil Use and Management 31(1): 155–164.
2014
Cifuentes R., Van der Zande D, Farifteh J, Salas C, Coppin P. 2014. Effects of voxel size and sampling setup on the estimation of forest canopy gap fraction from terrestrial laser scanning data. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 194: 230–240.
2014
Castro M, Parra JC, Morales LJ, Salas C. 2014. Establishment of empirical relations between fuel moisture content and the normalised difference vegetation index. Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition 14 (3): 670–675.
2014
Cifuentes R, Van der Zande D, Salas C, Farifteh J, Coppin P. 2014. Correction of erroneous LiDAR measurements in artificial forest canopy experimental setups. Forests 5: 1565–1583.
2013
Altamirano A, Salas C, Yaitul V, Smith-Ramírez C, Ávila A. 2013. Influencia de la heterogeneidad del paisaje en la ocurrencia de incendios forestales en Chile Central. Revista de Geografía del Norte Grande 55: 157–170.
2010
Salas C, Ene L, Gregoire TG, Næsset E, and Gobakken T. 2010. Modelling tree diameter from airborne laser scanning derived variables:
a comparison of spatial statistical models. Remote Sensing of Environment 114 (6): 1277–1285.
2010
Salas C, Gregoire TG. 2010. Statistical analysis of ratio estimators and their estimators of variances when the auxiliary variate
is measured with error. European Journal of Forest Research 129(5): 847–861.
2010
Salas C, Ene L, Ojeda N, Soto H. 2010. Métodos estadísticos paramétricos y no-paramétricos para predecir variables de rodal basados
en Landsat ETM+: una comparación en un bosque de Araucaria araucana en Chile [Parametric and non-parametric statistical methods for predicting plotwise variables based on Landsat ETM+: a comparison in an Araucaria araucana forest in Chile ]. Bosque 31(3): 179–194.
2010
Soto DP, Salas C, Donoso PJ, Uteau D. 2010. Heterogeneidad estructural y espacial de un bosque mixto dominado por Nothofagus
dombeyi después de un disturbio parcial [Structural and spatial heterogeneity of a mixed Nothofagus dombeyi-dominate forest stand after a partial disturbance ]. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 83(3):
335–347.
2009
Gregoire TG, Salas C. 2009. Ratio estimation with measurement error in the auxiliary variate. Biometrics 65(2): 590–598.
2009
Salas C. 2008. ¿Por qué comprar un programa estadístico si existe R? [Why purchase commercial statistical software if there is R? ]. Ecología Austral 18(2): 223–231.
2008
Salas C, Stage AR, and Robinson AP. 2008. Modeling effects of overstory density and competing vegetation on tree height growth. Forest Science 54(1): 107–122.
2008
Salas C. 2008. Sugerencias para mejorar la calidad de las revistas científicas chilenas: una aplicación en las ciencias forestales con Bosque [Suggestions to improve the quality of Chilean scientific journals: an application to forest science with Bosque ]. Bosque 29(1): 3–10.
2007
Salas C. 2007. ¿Dónde va a parar la investigación forestal chilena de “excelencia”?: Pasado, presente y futuro [Where the best chilean forest research is going?: Past, present, and future ]. Bosque Nativo 40: 10–13.
2007
Stage AR, and Salas C. 2007. Interactions of elevation, aspect, and slope in models of forest species composition and productivity. Forest Science 53(4): 486–492.
2006
Salas C, LeMay V, Núñez P, Pacheco P, and Espinosa A. 2006. Spatial patterns in an old-growth Nothofagus obliqua forest in south-central
Chile. Forest Ecology and Management 231(1-3): 38–46.
2006
Salas C, and García O. 2006. Modelling height development of mature Nothofagus obliqua. Forest Ecology and Management 229(1-3): 1–6.
2006
Rebolledo R, Sáez P, Klein C, Salas, C., and Aguilera A. 2006. Daños en casas de madera ocasionados por coleópteros xilofagos, IX
Región, Chile [Damages to wooden houses caused by xylophagus Coleoptera, IX Region, Chile ]. Bosque 27(1): 52–56.
2005
Salas C, Nieto L, and Irisarri A. 2005. Modelos de volumen para Pinus pinaster Ait. en la comarca del Baixo Miño, Galicia, España [Volume equations for Pinus pinaster Ait. in the Baixo Miño region,
Galicia, Spain]. Quebracho 12: 11–22.
2005
Salas C, Reyes M, and Bassaber C. 2005. Medición de diámetros fustales con relascopio y forcípula finlandesa: efectos en la estimación de volumen [Measurement of upper-stem diameters with Bitterlich mirror relascope and Finnish parabolic caliper: effects on volume
estimations]. Bosque 26(2): 81–90.
2002
Salas C. 2002. Ajuste y validación de ecuaciones de volumen para un relicto del bosque de Roble-Laurel-Lingue [Fitness and validation of volume equations for a relict forest of Roble-Laurel-Lingue]. Bosque 23(2): 81–92.
2001
Salas C. 2001. Caracterización básica del relicto de biodiversidad Rucamanque [Basic characterization of the biodiversity remnant Rucamanque]. Bosque Nativo 29: 3–9.