Ernesto G. Verga is a pos-doctoral fellow at CONICET. He is interested in the effects of land use change caused by agricultural expansion on populations and communities of bird species. He carries out his studies in the Chaco Forest, one of the most threatened regions worldwide. His current project assesses effects of forest loss on bird species richness, abundance, and composition, and examines which is the adequate landscape extension to understand such effects (scale of effect). Such approach allows to define minimum landscape extensions (units of conservation) and minimum forest cover within such local landscapes to conserve bird community in the region.

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Leonardo Galetto is full professor at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina and senior researcher at CONICET. He has studied socio-agroecosystems, mainly the responses of functional processes by different groups of organisms to forest fragmentation and forest loss. The last years, most studies are focused on linking biodiversity, ecosystem services and crop yields.

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Susana I. Peluc is a researcher at CONICET and examines ecological and environmental variables that influence the occurrence and persistence of birds in different natural and anthropically modified environments, as well as their bodily and physiological responses to different disturbance and stress situations.

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