Keywords: Biodiversity

Encuentra las noticias producidas en la UC sobre investigaciones, acuerdos estratégicos y reconocimientos relacionados a la biodiversidad de especies, ecosistemas y genética.

1000 Genomas: Mapping Chile’s Biodiversity

Across laboratories spanning Chile—from the high-altitude altiplano to the icy edges of Antarctica—scientists are using cutting-edge sequencers to turn…

Salar La Isla: Science for a Future With Sustainable Lithium

A team of researchers from the Faculty of Biological Sciences and the Millenium Institute Center for Genome Regulation (CGR, as per its acronym in Spanish)…

Snow-capped volcanoes rise above the high Andean plateau in northern Chile, with golden tussock grasses covering the arid plain in the foreground.

How Do Plants in the Atacama Desert Adapt to Drought?

After studying more than thirty plant species that survive in one of the driest places on Earth, a team led by UC Biological Sciences professor and researcher…

Image of the Conguillio National Park where you can see araucarias in the foreground, and a lake and a volcano in the background

Why is Chile uniquely beautiful, and how can we keep it that way?

The geography of Chile, a long and narrow strip of land, gives rise to diverse climates and terrains, resulting in a wide variety of ecosystems and a rich…

From left to right, provost from the University of North Texas (EE.UU), Michael McPherson; the director from the International Cape Horn Center (CHIC), Ricardo Rozzi and the UC Chile President Ignacio Sánchez.

UMAG, UC Chile, and CHIC Strengthen University Partnership to Boost Magallanes as a Scientific Hub

The strategic agreement is part of the cooperation of the consortium of national and foreign higher education institutions that support the work of the Cape…

Photo: Dientes de Navarino. In the back are brown and green hills. In the front are some white and brown roots above the green grass. In the middle of both is water.

CHIC Project: A Look at Climate Change from the Far Reaches of the World

The Cape Horn International Center, a consortium of seven universities, seeks to study and monitor how sub-Antarctic ecosystems respond to climate change.

Why Driest Desert on Earth Sometimes Blooms? And What Secrets Reveals?

In one of the driest places on earth, the Atacama Desert, a flower blanket occurs every time the right amount of rainfall and temperature come together to…

Plants Living on the Edge of Aridity in the Atacama Desert

Better known as airplants, tillandsias are unique species capable of capturing water from the ground and the fog. This particularity has made them excellent…

The Rediscovery of Mayten Seed Oil

The unique characteristics of this tree motivated a group of scientists from Universidad Católica and CAPES to study the properties of the oil extracted from…