Ecological Connections Across the Marine-Terrestrial Interface in Chilean Patagonia (original) (raw)

Chilean Patagonia encompasses the two southernmost terrestrial ecoregions of the temperate forest biome of South America (North-Patagonian and Sub-Antarctic Magellanic) and the two western marine ecoregions of the Magallanes Province (Chiloense, and Channels and Fjords of Southern Chile). These ecoregions are immersed in a complex mosaic of terrestrial (with marked altitudinal gradients), freshwater (including wetlands, rivers, lakes, and lagoons) and marine ecosystems (with myriad islands, channels, and fjords). With more than