Andrea Enriquez

National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA)
National Council of Science and Technology (CoNICET)
Area of Natural Resources
Group of Water and Soil
Modesta Victoria 4450 PC: 8400
San Carlos de Bariloche-Río Negro
Argentina

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Research Interests

My research interests include general ecology and soil science. Particularly I am interested in wetland environments, where I performed most of my undergraduate degree and postgraduate activities. In wetlands of the arid and semiarid areas, where the grazing activity is added to the climatic adversities, I studied C and N cycling (biogeochemistry). At present I approach the subject of climate change, evaluating the effects of open-top passive warming chambers on soil respiration, C cycling, and GHG’s in meadows of the semi-arid steppe in Patagonia (post-doc).

Lines of interest

General ecology
Soil science
Ecology of wetlands in arid and semi-arid areas
Carbon sequestration. Greenhouse gases. Climate change
Water dynamics on Patagonian meadows
Biogeochemistry (water and soil) of arid and semi-arid wetlands
Identification of indicators of status in soil and water of Patagonian meadows

Education

2017-April. Post-doc (CoNICET). Study of the carbon cycle in North Patagonian meadows with an artificial increase of temperature (climatic change).

2014 Ph.D. Biology, Universidad Nacional del Comahue

Dissertation: Carbon and nitrogen dynamics in soil and water of North Patagonian meadows, and its relation to long-term overgrazing.

2008 B.S. Biology (Ecology). Universidad Nacional del Comahue.

Dissertation: Characterization of carbon (C) and nutrients (N and P) reservoirs in Northern Patagonia meadows, along a West-East precipitation gradient

Selected Publications

Enriquez A.S., R. Chimner, P. Diehl, M.V. Cremona y G.L. Bonvissuto. 2015. Historical overgrazing affects C sequestration of Northern Patagonia wet and mesic meadows. Wetland Ecology and Management. 23(3):439-451 - DOI: 10.1007/s11273-014-9393-z

Fernández Arhex, V; M.; Amadio M.E.; Enriquez A.S.; Pietrantuono A.L.; Becker G.; Bruzzone O. 2015. Effect of volcanic ash over Orthoptera survival in Patagonia. Ecología Austral 25:81-85.

Enriquez A.S., R. Chimner y M.V. Cremona. 2014. Long-term grazing negatively affects nitrogen dynamics in Northern Patagonian wet meadows. Journal of Arid Environment 109:1-5.