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Overview

Ricardo Rozzi is affiliated with the University of North Texas in the United States and has a primary focus on environmental science. Their research encompasses various subfields including ecology, nature and landscape conservation, ecological modeling, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and plant science.

The scientist's work covers several main topics such as environmental and cultural studies in Latin America and beyond, polar research and ecology, species distribution and climate change, environmental philosophy and ethics, avian ecology and behavior, animal and plant science education, and the intersection of religion, ecology, and ethics.

Among recent publications are:

  • "Diverse values of nature for sustainability" (2023) published in Nature
  • "Exiting the Anthropocene: Achieving personal and planetary health in the 21st century" (2022) published in Allergy
  • "Field Environmental Philosophy: A Biocultural Ethic Approach to Education and Ecotourism for Sustainability" (2021) published in Sustainability
  • "Assessing distribution shifts and ecophysiological characteristics of the only Antarctic winged midge under climate change scenarios" (2020) published in Scientific Reports
  • "Nest-site selection and breeding success of passerines in the world's southernmost forests" (2020) published in PeerJ

Frequent coauthors associated with Ricardo Rozzi include Omar Barroso, Rodrigo A. Vásquez, Roy Mackenzie, Tamara Contador, and Ritesh Kumar.

Key publication venues where the scientist has contributed multiple works are:

  • Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Biodiversity and Conservation
  • Magallania

Ricardo Rozzi has also contributed to book publications with a title released by Universidad Veracruzana:

  • "La conservación de la diversidad biológica y cultural" (2025)

Best Publications

  • Conservation Targets in South American Temperate Forests

    Juan J. Armesto;R. Rozzi;C. Smith-Ramírez;Mary T. K. Arroyo

  • From the Holocene to the Anthropocene: A historical framework for land cover change in southwestern South America in the past 15,000 years

    Juan J. Armesto;Daniela Manuschevich;Alejandra Mora;Cecilia Smith-Ramirez

  • Ten Principles for Biocultural Conservation at the Southern Tip of the Americas: The approach of the Omora Ethnobotanical Park

    Ricardo Rozzi;Francisca Massardo;Christopher B. Anderson;Kurt Heidinger

  • Integrating Ecology and Environmental Ethics: Earth Stewardship in the Southern End of the Americas

    Ricardo Rozzi;Juan J. Armesto;Julio R. Gutiérrez;Francisca Massardo

  • Biocultural Ethics: From Biocultural Homogenization Toward Biocultural Conservation

    Ricardo Rozzi;Ricardo Rozzi

  • Haematozoa in forest birds from southern Chile: Latitudinal gradients in prevalence and parasite lineage richness

    Santiago Merino;Rodrigo A. Vásquez;Javier Martínez;Inocencia Sánchez-Monsálvez

  • The effects of invasive North American beavers on riparian plant communities in Cape Horn, Chile: Do exotic beavers engineer differently in sub-Antarctic ecosystems?

    Christopher B. Anderson;Clayton R. Griffith;Amy D. Rosemond;Ricardo Rozzi;Ricardo Rozzi

  • Seed dispersal syndromes in the rain forest of Chiloé: evidence for the importance of biotic dispersal in a temperate rain forest

    J. J. Armesto;R. Rozzi

  • Changing lenses to assess biodiversity: patterns of species richness in sub-Antarctic plants and implications for global conservation

    Ricardo Rozzi;Ricardo Rozzi;Ricardo Rozzi;Juan J Armesto;Juan J Armesto;Bernard Goffinet;William Buck

  • Plant / frugivore interactions in south american temperate forests

    J.J Armesto;R Rozzi;P Miranda;C Sabag

  • Towards a societal discourse on invasive species management: A case study of public perceptions of mink and beavers in Cape Horn

    Elke Schüttler;Elke Schüttler;Elke Schüttler;Ricardo Rozzi;Ricardo Rozzi;Kurt Jax;Kurt Jax;Kurt Jax

  • Exotic Vertebrate Fauna in the Remote and Pristine Sub-Antarctic Cape Horn Archipelago, Chile

    Christopher B. Anderson;Ricardo Rozzi;Ricardo Rozzi;Juan C. Torres-Mura;Steven M. Mcgehee

  • Vulnerability of ground-nesting waterbirds to predation by invasive American mink in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve, Chile.

    Elke Schüttler;Elke Schüttler;Elke Schüttler;Reinhard Klenke;Steven McGehee;Steven McGehee;Ricardo Rozzi;Ricardo Rozzi

  • The Reciprocal Links between Evolutionary-Ecological Sciences and Environmental Ethics

    Ricardo Rozzi

  • First evidence of bryophyte diaspores in the plumage of transequatorial migrant birds

    Lily R. Lewis;Emily Behling;Hannah Gousse;Emily Qian

  • Field Environmental Philosophy and Biocultural Conservation: The Omora Ethnobotanical Park Educational Program

    Ricardo Rozzi;Ximena Arango;Francisca Massardo;Christopher Anderson

  • Direct long-distance dispersal shapes a New World amphitropical disjunction in the dispersal-limited dung moss Tetraplodon (Bryopsida: Splachnaceae).

    Lily R. Lewis;Ricardo Rozzi;Ricardo Rozzi;Bernard Goffinet

  • Conservation strategies for biodiversity and indigenous people in Chilean forest ecosystems

    J. J. Armesto;C. Smith‐Ramirez;R. Rozzi

  • Invasive American mink Mustela vison in wetlands of the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve, southern Chile: what are they eating?

    José Tomás Ibarra;Laura Fasola;David W. Macdonald;Ricardo Rozzi

  • Linking Ecology and Ethics for a Changing World Values, Philosophy, and Action /

    Ricardo Rozzi;Steward Pickett;Clare Palmer;Juan Armesto

Frequent Co-Authors

Juan J. Armesto
Juan J. Armesto Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Bernard Goffinet
Bernard Goffinet University of Connecticut
Lohengrin A. Cavieres
Lohengrin A. Cavieres University of Concepción
Peter Convey
Peter Convey British Antarctic Survey
Leopoldo G. Sancho
Leopoldo G. Sancho Complutense University of Madrid
J. Baird Callicott
J. Baird Callicott University of North Texas
Julio R. Gutiérrez
Julio R. Gutiérrez University of La Serena
Steward T. A. Pickett
Steward T. A. Pickett Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
T.G. Allan Green
T.G. Allan Green University of Waikato
Mary T. K. Arroyo
Mary T. K. Arroyo University of Chile

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