Dr. Mariana Chiuffo

Personal website: mchiuffo.weebly.com

Scholary profiles: ResearchGate, Google Scholar

Education

2016 – Universidad Buenos Aires. Ph.D. form the University of Buenos Aires. 

2009 – Universidad Nacional de La Pampa. Bachelor's degree in Natural Resources and Environmental Management.

Academic Career

2025-Present ­­­– Postdoc at Ecology/Macroecology Group, University of Potsdam.

2021- Present – Assistant Researcher(on leave), Grupo de Ecología de las Invasiones - INIBIOMA - CONICET, Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Argentina. Permanent position within the Argentine scientific system; currently on official leave for postdoctoral research abroad.

2019-2021 – Postdoctoral Fellow, Grupo de Investigaciones de Ecología en Ambientes Antropizados (IdEAS)- INIBIOMA - CONICET, Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Argentina.

2019 – Postdoctoral Research Associate-Division of Biological Sciences. University of Montana, United States.

2016-2019 – Postdoctoral Fellow, Grupo de Ecologia de las Invasiones - INIBIOMA - CONICET, Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Argentina.

Scholarships and Awards

2025 – Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

2022–2023 – PIBAA Grant, CONICET (Argentina) – Principal Investigator.

2022–2023 – “Walk the Trail! Bog Protection in Patagonia”, European Outdoor Conservation Association – Co-Coordinator.

2019 – PICT Joven (PICT 2019 No. 00969), National Agency for Scientific and Technological Promotion (Argentina) – Principal Investigator.

2019 – Fulbright Fellowship, research stay at University of Montana, USA (3 months)

2015 – Postdoctoral Fellowship, CONICET.

2014 – Travel Grant, Professional Council of Natural Sciences of La Pampa (XXVI Argentine Ecology Meeting).

2014 – Scholarship, Millennium Science Initiative ICM P05-002 (Chile) – Postgraduate course “Trends in the Ecology of Plant Invasion”.

2011 – PhD Fellowship Type II, CONICET.

2010 – Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP), research stay at University of Guelph, Canada (9 months).

2009  – PhD Fellowship Type I, CONICET.

Publications

Submitted

Arnillas, CA, Stotz, GC, Ortiz, AMD., Chinga Chamorro, JB, Chiuffo, MC, Collinge,  SK, Kariuki, RW, Norman, H, Regan, H, Visakorpi, K, Devarajan, K, Klein, A-M,  Schnabel, F, Arponen, A, Cadotte, MW, Cousens, R, Ehrlich, K, Grell-Brisk, M, Hughes, L,  Kharouba, HM, Martin, T, Prado-Valladares, AC, Rumpff, L, Soares, BE, Williams, M, Winter, M, Yannelli, F, Beyene, M, Fernando, S, Hart, T, Santaoja, M, Santos Domínguez, N. Strengthening responsibilities to face global crises: A call to ecologists, environmental scientists, and their societies. Submitted to People and Nature.

Martin, T, Arnillas, C, Arponen, A, Devarajan, K, Ehrlich, K, Kharouba, HM, Prado-Valladares, AC, Rumpff, L, Schnabel, F, Winter, M, Visakorpi, K, Baum, JK, Cadotte, MW, Camaclang, A, Chamorro, JC, Chiuffo, MC, Clark, E, Collinge, SK, Cousens, R, Grell-Brisk, M, Kariuki, RW, Klein, A-M, Ortiz, MAD, Magel, J, McComb, S, Moore, JW, Norman, H, Regan, H, Stewart, D, Soares, BE, Stotz, GC, Williams, M, Yannelli, F. With knowledge comes responsibility: Increasing conservation scientists' impact in a time of global crisis. Submitted to Conservation Letters

Ortiz, AMD, Huinca Blanco, P, Arnillas, CA, Arponen, A, Cadotte, MW, Chinga Chamorro, JB, Chiuffo, MC, Collinge, S, Devarajan, K, Ehrlich, K, Grell-Brisk, M, Guevara, C, Kariuki, RW, Kharouba, HM, Martin, T, Prado-Valladares, AC, Regan, HM, Santos Domínguez, N, Soares, BE, Stotz, GC, Ulloa Caniú, I, Visakorpi, K, Winter, M, Yannelli, FA. Listening deeply to Indigenous people: A collaborative perspective of a Mapuche Machi and ecologists. Submitted to Ecology and Evolution.

Published or In Press

Yannelli, F, Visakorpi, K, Arponen, A, Arnillas, C, Chinga Chamorro, J, Chiuffo, MC, Collinge, SK, Cousens, R, Devarajan, K, Ehrlich, K, Grell-Brisk, M, Kariuki, RW, Kharouba, HM, Ortiz, AMD, Prado-Valladares, A, Regan, H, Schnabel, F, Soares, BE, Stotz, GC, Williams, M, Cadotte, MW. (2025). Ecology for a social revolution: Re-defining the role of ecological and environmental science professionals and their responsibilities towards society. Research Ideas and Outcomes, 11, e152859. link 

Hargreaves, AL, Ensing, J, Rahn, O, Oliveira, FMP, Burkiewicz, J, Lafond, J, Haeussler, S, Byerley-Best, MB, Lazda, K, Slinn, HL, Martin, E, Carlson, ML, Sformo, TL, Dawson-Glass, E, Chiuffo, MC, Vargas-Rodriguez, YL, García-Jiménez, CI, Gomes, IJMT, Klemet-N’Guessan, S, Paolucci, L, Joly, S, Mehltreter, K, Muñoz, J, Buono, C, Brodie, JF, Rodriguez-Campbell, A, Veen, T, Freeman, BG, Lee-Yaw, JA, Muñoz, JC, Paquette, A, Butler, J, Suaréz, E. (2024). Latitudinal gradients in predation persist in urbanized environments. Nature Ecology & Evolution 8, 1897–1906. link

Rodriguez-Campbell, A, Rhan, O, Chiuffo, MC, Hargreaves, AL. (2024). Clay larvae do not accurately measure biogeographic patterns in predation. Journal of Biogeography, 6, 1004–1013. link

Chiuffo, MC, Hierro, JL. (2024). Abiotic and biotic contexts shape the effect of disturbance on non-native plant invasion. Oikos, 2, e09952. link

Robinson, ML, Hahn, PG, Chiuffo, MC, et al. (2023). Plant size, latitude, and phylogeny explain within-population variability in herbivory. Science, 382, 679–683. link

Chiuffo, MC, Moyano, J, Policelli, N, Torres, A, Vitali, A, Nuñez, M, Rodriguez-Cabal, M. (2022). Importance of invasion mechanisms varies with abiotic context and invader growth form. Journal of Ecology, 110, 1957–1969. link

Franzese, J, Raffaele, E, Chiuffo, MC, Blackhall, M. (2022). Pine introduction legacy threatens fuel traits of native forests in Patagonia. Biological Conservation, 267, 109472. link

Kuebbing, S, McCary, MA, Lieurance, D, Nuñez, MA, Chiuffo, MC, Zhang, B, Seebens, H, Simberloff, D, Meyerson, L. (2022). A self-study of editorial board diversity at Biological Invasions. Biological Invasions, 24, 321–332. link

Nuñez, MA, Chiuffo, MC, Seebens, H, Kuebbing, S, McCary, M, Lieurance, D, Zhang, B, Simberloff, D, Meyerson, LA. (2022). Two decades of data reveal that Biological Invasions needs to increase participation beyond North America, Europe, and Australasia. Biological Invasions, 24, 333–340. link

Nuñez, MA, Chiuffo, MC, Pauchard, A, Zenni, R. (2021). Making ecology really global. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 36, 766–769. link

Reinhart, K, Bauer, J, McCarthy-Neumann, S, MacDougall, A, Hierro, J, Chiuffo, MC, Mangan, S, Heinze, J, Bergmann, J, Joshi, J, Duncan, R, Diaz, J, Kardol, P, Rutten, G, Fischer, M, van der Putten, W, Bezemer, T, Klironomos, J. (2021). Globally, plant-soil feedbacks are weak predictors of plant abundance. Ecology and Evolution, 11, 1756–1768. link

Castro-Díez, P, Vaz, AS, Silva, JS, van Loo, M, Alonso, A, Aponte, C, Bayón, Á, Bellingham, P, Chiuffo, MC, DiManno, N, Julian, K, Kandert, S, La Porta, N, Marchante, H, Maule, HG, Mayfield, MM, Metcalfe, D, Monteverdi, MC, Nuñez, MA, Ostertag, R, Parker, IM, Peltzer, DA, Potgieter, L, Raymundo, M, Rayome, D, Reisman-Berman, O, Richardson, DM, Roos, RE, Saldaña, A, Shackleton, RT, Torres, A, Trudgen, M, Urban, J, Vicente, JR, Vilà, M, Ylioja, T, Zenni, RD, Godoy, O. (2019). Global effects of non-native tree species on multiple ecosystem services. Biological Reviews, 94, 1477–1501. link

Moyano, J, Chiuffo, MC, Nuñez, MA, Rodriguez-Cabal, MA. (2019). Seed predation does not explain pine invasive success. Oecologia, 189, 981–991. link

Moyano, J, Chiuffo, MC, Policelli, N, Nuñez, MA, Rodriguez-Cabal, MA. (2019). The interplay between propagule pressure, seed predation and ectomycorrhizal fungi in plant invasion. NeoBiota, 42, 45–58. link

Chiuffo, MC, Moyano, J, Rodriguez-Cabal, MA, Nuñez, MA. (2018). Seed predation of non-native species along a precipitation gradient. Plant Ecology, 11, 1307–1314. link

Chiuffo, MC, Cock, M, Prina, A, Hierro, JL. (2018). Response of native and non-native ruderals to natural and human disturbance. Biological Invasions, 20, 2915–2925. link

Chiuffo, MC, Policelli, N, Moyano, J, Torres, A, Rodriguez-Cabal, MA, Nuñez, MA. (2017). Still no evidence that pathogen accumulation can revert the impact of invasive plant species. Biological Invasions, 20, 9–10. link  (*equal co-first authors)

Policelli, N, Chiuffo, MC, Moyano, J, Torres, A, Rodriguez-Cabal, MA, Nuñez, MA. (2017). Pathogen accumulation cannot undo the impact of invasive species. Biological Invasions, 20, 1–4. link  (*equal co-first authors)

Nuñez, MA, Chiuffo, MC, Torres, A, et al. (2017). Ecology and management of invasive pines around the world: Progress and challenges. Biological Invasions, 19, 3099–3120. link

Chiuffo, MC, MacDougall, AS, Hierro, JL. (2015). Native and non-native ruderals experience similar plant-soil feedbacks and neighbor effects in a system where they coexist. Oecologia, 179, 843–852. link

Pearson, DE, Hierro, JL, Chiuffo, MC, Villarreal, D. (2014). Rodent seed predation provides strong biotic resistance to exotic plant invasion. Biological Invasions, 16, 1185–1196. link

Hierro, JL, Eren, Ö, Villarreal, D, Chiuffo, MC. (2013). Non-native conditions favor non-native populations of invasive plant: Demographic consequences of seed size variation? Oikos, 122, 583–590. link