Carolina Villagrán
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Carolina Villagrán
OR:
Carolina Villagrán on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

Carolina Villagrán Moraga is a Chilean
biologist A biologist is a scientist who conducts research in biology. Biologists are interested in studying life on Earth, whether it is an individual Cell (biology), cell, a multicellular organism, or a Community (ecology), community of Biological inter ...
known for her work on
Quaternary The Quaternary ( ) is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), as well as the current and most recent of the twelve periods of the ...
biogeography Biogeography is the study of the species distribution, distribution of species and ecosystems in geography, geographic space and through evolutionary history of life, geological time. Organisms and biological community (ecology), communities o ...
. Her works include models for the past extent of different
altitudinal zonation Altitudinal zonation (or elevational zonation) in mountainous regions describes the natural layering of ecosystems that occurs at distinct elevations due to varying environmental conditions. Temperature, humidity, soil composition, and solar radi ...
s in Chile and on the origin of the Chilean flora. She is part of the Faculty of Science for the University of Chile.


See also

*
Arid Diagonal The Arid Diagonal () is a contiguous zone of arid and semi-arid climate that traverses South America from coastal Peru in the Northwest to Argentine Patagonia in the Southeast, including large swathes of Bolivia and Chile. The Arid Diagonal encom ...
*
Claudio Donoso Claudio Donoso Zegers (died 22 March 2021) was a Chilean forester, teacher and professor emeritus at the Austral University of Chile in Valdivia. Donoso was among the first to define the different forest types of Chile when he released the book ''T ...
* Ricardo Villalba *
Edmundo Pisano Edmundo Pisano Valdés (19 May 1919 – 29 March 1997) was a Chilean plant ecologist, botanist and agronomist. Born in Punta Arenas in Chile's far south Pisano studied agronomy at the University of Chile. In the late 1960s he return ...
* Valdivian temperate rain forest


Sources


ACADÉMICOS DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOLOGíAPublications


External links


(1/4) Carolina Villagrán: "Biodiversity, Biogeography and Evolution I"
21st-century Chilean biologists Women biologists Chilean educators Chilean women educators Living people Palynologists Phytogeographers Academic staff of the University of Chile University of Göttingen alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Chilean women scientists 21st-century Chilean botanists Chilean women botanists {{biologist-stub