Publications by authors named "Fernanda Salinas"
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- - The study investigated the presence of antibodies to 13 livestock and zoonotic pathogens in 164 southern pudu deer in Chile from 2011 to 2023, revealing that 20.18% of wild and 30.91% of captive pudus showed exposure to these pathogens.
- - It found that fawn pudus are at a higher risk of infection compared to adults, and those living in free-range conditions are less likely to contract certain parasites.
- - This research marks the first evidence of livestock pathogen exposure in South American wildlife, indicating potential livestock-to-wildlife transmission in Chile’s temperate forests, and linking a past zoo outbreak to abortions among captive pudus.
In January 2017, hundreds of fires in Mediterranean Chile burnt more than 5000 km, an area nearly 14 times the 40-year mean. We contextualize these fires in terms of estimates of global fire intensity using MODIS satellite record, and provide an overview of the climatic factors and recent changes in land use that led to the active fire season and estimate the impact of fire emissions to human health. The primary fire activity in late January coincided with extreme fire weather conditions including all-time (1979-2017) daily records for the Fire Weather Index (FWI) and maximum temperature, producing some of the most energetically intense fire events on Earth in the last 15-years.
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