Martín
Durante

Biography

Agronomist and Doctor of Agricultural Sciences (FAUBA), researcher in the ruminant department of INTA Concepción del Uruguay, currently doing postdoctoral studies at INIA Tacuarembó (Uruguay), professor of Ecology at FAUBA (2007-2011) and "Writing thesis" at the Master's Degree in Extensive Crop Management at the UCU (2018-2020). Editor of RIA since 2013. Speaker at technical and scientific conferences and author and co-author of scientific articles. My area of ??interest is the development of tools that facilitate decision-making in extensive livestock systems, fundamentally based on remote sensors. At the regional level, my work has contributed to understand the controls of the variation of forage productivity in Argentina and the United States and to characterize the floods in the Entre Ríos Delta. I have also worked on an experimental scale to better understand the relationship between spectral data and biophysical variables of vegetation. In this sense, my work has contributed to defining the limits within which it is possible to estimate biomass and forage quality through remote sensing and to describe to what extent the coverage of woody species affects herbaceous productivity and the ability to estimate it through remote sensing. I participate in the forage productivity monitoring platform in Argentina (produccionforrajes.org). I also work on management tools based on functional aspects of grasslands foraging species. ResearchGate

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