Pregrado: Responsable: Zoología, Introducción a las Ciencias Ambientales, Taller de Ciencias Integradas, Practica Profesional, Seminarios de Investigación, Tesis de Titulación.

Colaborador: Limnologia e Hidrobiologia, Lagos como centinelas, Biologia Aplicada, Invertebrados Marinos, Principios de ecotoxicologia, Contaminación acuatica.

Postgrado: Limnología Practica (colaborador), Seminarios de Investigación, Tesis de Grado.

Intereses de investigación

1. Conservación ecosistemas dulceacuáticos
2. Limnología
3. Índice bióticos
4. Bentos

Mis intereses como investigador se centran en estudios multidisciplinarios basados en taxonomía y ecología de macroinvertebrados, ecología de ríos y estuarios, cadenas tróficas, y como los cambios en uso de suelo afectan la biodiversidad en los ecosistemas acuáticos.

Proyectos de investigación en curso

FONDECYT INICIACION 11190631. Influence of Land Use on Stream Ecosystems: Homogenization of Macroinvertebrate Assemblages among ecoregions in Southern Chile. Investigador Principal (2019-2022).

• Astorga Roine, A., Reid, B., Uribe, L., Moreno‐Meynard, P., Fierro, P., Madriz, I., & Death, R. G. (2022). Macroinvertebrate community composition and richness along extreme gradients: The role of local, catchment, and climatic variables in Patagonian headwater streams. Freshwater Biology, 67(3), 445-460.
• Machuca-Sepúlveda, J., Fierro, P., & Nimptsch, J. (2022). Variability of benthic macroinvertebrate biomass in two contrasting streams in southern Chile. Hydrobiologia, 849(3), 641-660.
• Figueroa-Munoz, G., Gomez-Uchida, D., Fierro, P., Valdebenito, I., & Arismendi, I. (2022). First record of a synergistic interaction between invasive salmonids in South America. Biological Invasions, 24(1), 1-8.
• Leal-Bastidas, C., Vargas-Chacoff, L., Sandoval, N., & Fierro, P. (2021). Seasonal and spatial variability of aquatic macroinvertebrates and water quality in the Palena River, Chilean Patagonia. GAYANA, 85(2), 132-145.
• Tapia, J., Molina-Montenegro, M., Sandoval, C., Rivas, N., Espinoza, J., Basualto, S., P. Fierro … & Vargas-Chacoff, L. (2021). Human Activity in Antarctica: Effects on Metallic Trace Elements (MTEs) in Plants and Soils. Plants, 10(12), 2593.
• Fierro, P., Hughes, R. M., & Valdovinos, C. (2021). Temporal Variability of Macroinvertebrate Assemblages in a Mediterranean Coastal Stream: Implications for Bioassessment. Neotropical Entomology, 50(6), 873-885.
• Torremorell, A., Hegoburu, C., Brandimarte, A. L., Rodrigues, E. H. C., Pompêo, M., da Silva, S. C., P. Fierro … & Navarro, E. (2021). Current and future threats for ecological quality management of South American freshwater ecosystems. Inland Waters, 11(2), 125-140.
• Pablo Fierro, Tapia, J., Bertrán, C., Acuña, C., Vargas-Chacoff, L., 2021. Assessment of heavy metal contamination in two edible fish species and water from north Patagonia estuary. Applied Sciences 11, 2492.
• Pablo Fierro, Valdovinos, C., Lara, C., Saldías, G.S., 2021. Influence of intensive agriculture on benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages and water quality in the Aconcagua River Basin (Central Chile). Water 13, 492.
• Elgueta, A., Górski, K., Thoms, M., Fierro, P., Toledo, B., Manosalva, A., Habit, E., 2021. Interplay of geomorphology and hydrology drives macroinvertebrate assamblage responses to hydropeaking. Science of the Total Environment 768, 144262.
• Pablo Fierro, Arriagada, L., Piñones, A., Araya, J.F., 2021. New insights into the abundance an seasonal distribution of the Portuguese man-of-war Physalia physalis (Cnidaria: Siphonophorae) in the southeastern Pacific. Regional Studies in Marine Science 41, 101557.
• Pablo Fierro, Ferrú, M., Lara, C., 2020. Effects of forest conversion on the aquatic Coleoptera assemblage in Mediterranean-climate streams. Ecological Indicators 111, 106043.
• Salvo, J., Valdovinos, C., Fierro, P., 2020. Benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages of a stream-lake network in the upper zone of the trans-Andean basin of the Valdivia River (Chile). New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 1-18.
• Vasquez, D., Sandoval, N., Fierro, P., Valdovinos, C., 2020. Morphological impacts of the Chilean megathrust earthquake Mw 8.8 on coastal wetlands of high conservation value. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 245, e106922.
• Molineri, C., Nieto, C., Dos Santos, D.A., Emmerich, D., del Carmen Zuñiga, M., Fierro, P., Pessacq, P., Gomez, D., Márquez, J.A., Príncipe, R., Valdovinos Zarges, C., Domínguez, E., 2020. Do mayflies (Ephemeroptera) support a biogeographic  transition zone in South America? Journal of Biogeography 47, 1980-1993.
• Novoa, V., Rojas, O., Ahumada-Rudolph, R., Sáez, K., Fierro, P., Rojas, C., 2020. Coastal Wetlands: Ecosystems affected by urbanization? Water 12, 698.
• Muñoz-Ramírez, C., Briones, R., Colin, N., Fierro, P., Górski, K., Jara, A., Manosalva, A., 2020. A century after! Rediscovery of the ancient catfish Diplomystes Bleeker 1858 (Siluriformes: Diplomystidae) in coastal river basins of Chile and its implications for conservation. Neotropical Ichthyology 18, e190073.
• Valdovinos, C., Fierro, P., Olmos, V., 2019. Freshwater invertebrates of southwestern South America: Diversity, biogeography, and threats. Inland Waters – Dynamics and Ecology. 31 pp.
• Pablo Fierro, Valdovinos, C., Arismendi, I., Díaz, G., Ruiz de Gamboa, M., Arriagada, L., 2019. Assessment of anthropogenic threats to Chilean Mediterranean freshwater ecosystems: Literature review and expert opinions. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 77: 114-121.
• Pablo Fierro,Valdovinos, C.,Arismendi, I.,Díaz, G.,Jara, A.,Habit, E.,Vargas-Chacoff L., 2019. Examining the influence of human stressors on benthic algae, macroinvertebrate, and ?sh assemblages in Mediterranean streams of Chile. Science of the Total Environment 686: 26-37.
• Tapia, J.,Villagra, F.,Carlos Bertrán,Espinoza, J.,Focardi, S.,Fierro, P.,Tapia, C.,Pizarro, R.,Vargas-Chacoff L., 2019. Effect of the earthquake-tsunami (Chile, 2010) on toxic metal content in the Chilean abalone mollusc Concholepas concholepas. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 169: 418-424.Environmental Pollution 169: 418-424.
• Barrientos, C.,Tapia, J.,Bertrán, C,Peña-cortés, F.,Hauenstein, E.,Fierro, P.,Vargas-Chacoff L., 2019. Is eating wild rainbow trout safe? The effects of different land-uses on heavy metals content in Chile. Environmental Pollution 254, 112995.
• Troncoso, J.M., Vergara, C., Alvarez, D., Díaz, G., Fierro, P., Araneda, A., Torrejón, F., Rondanelli-Reyes, M., Fagel, N., Urrutia, R, 2019. Record of environmental, climatic and anthropogenic changes in the last 1000 years on Chiloé Island, inferred through a multi-proxy approach: Lago Pastahue, central-southern Chile (42°S). The Holocene 29: 421-431.
• Pablo Fierro, I. Arismendi, R.M. Hughes, C. Valdovinos, A. Jara-Flores, 2018. A benthic macroinvertebrate multimetric index for Chilean Mediterranean streams. Ecological Indicators, 91: 13-23.
• Daniel Dos Santos, C. Molineri, C. Nieto, M.C. Zuñiga, D. Emmerich, P. Fierro, P. Pessacq, B. Rios-Touma, J. Márquez, D. Gomez, F.F. Salles, A. Encalada, R. Príncipe, G.C. Gómez, C. Valdovinos Zarges, E. Domínguez, 2018. Cold/Warm stenothermic freshwater macroinvertebrates along altitudinal and latitudinal gradients in Western South America: A modern approach to an old hypothesis with updated data. Journal of Biogeography, 45 1571:1581.
• Pablo Fierro, C. Bertrán, J. Tapia, E. Hauenstein, F. Peña-Cortés, C. Vergara, C. Cerna & L. Vargas-Chacoff, 2017. Effects of local land-use on riparian vegetation, water quality, and the functional organization of macroinvertebrate assemblages. Science of the Total Environment, 609: 724-734.
• Pablo Fierro, C. Valdovinos, L. Vargas-Chacoff, C. Bertrán & I. Arismendi, 2017. Macroinvertebrates and Fish as Bioindicators of Stream Water Pollution in H. Tutu, Water Quality. Intech, DOI: 10.5772/65084.
• Pablo Fierro, L. Quilodrán, C. Bertrán, I. Arismendi, J. Tapia, F. Peña-Cortés, E. Hauenstein, R. Arriagada, E. Fernández & L. Vargas-Chacoff, 2016. Rainbow Trout diets and macroinvertebrates assemblages responses from watersheds dominated by native and exotic plantations. Ecological Indicators, 60: 655-667.
• Carlos Bertrán, P. Fierro, E. Encalada, F. Peña-Cortés, J. Tapia, E. Hauenstein & L. Vargas-Chacoff, 2016. Macrobenthos of the coastal Budi Lagoon, southern Chile: Changes associated with seasonal environmental variation. Brazilian Journal of Oceanography, 64: 239-248.
• Marcos Ferrú & Pablo Fierro, 2015. Estructura de macroinvertebrados acuáticos y grupos funcionales tróficos en la cuenca del río LLuta desierto de Atacama, Arica y Parinacota, Chile. IDESIA (Chile), 33: 47-54. 
• Pablo Fierro, C. Bertrán, M. Mercado, F. Peña-Cortés, J. Tapia, E. Hauenstein, L. Caputo & L. Vargas-Chacoff, 2015. Landscape composition as a determinant of diversity and functional feeding groups of aquatic macroinvertebrates in southern South American rivers. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 43: 186-200.
• María Fernanda Cornejo-Acevedo, P. Fierro, C. Bertrán & L. Vargas-Chacoff, 2014. Composición y sobreposición dietaria de Pinguipes chilensis (Perciformes: Pinguipedidae), Cheilodactylus variegatus (Perciformes: Cheilodactylidae) y Aplodactylus punctatus (Perciformes: Aplodactylidae) en el litoral costero valdiviano, Chile. Gayana, 78: 98-108.
• Jaime Tapia, L. Vargas-Chacoff, C. Bertrán, F. Peña-Cortés, E. Hauenstein, R. Schlatter, A. Valderrama, C. Lizama & P. Fierro, 2014. Accumulation of potentially toxic elements in sediments in Budi Lagoon, Araucania Region, Chile. Environmental Earth Sciences, 72: 4283-4290.
• Pablo Fierro, C. Bertrán, D. Martínez, C. Valdovinos & L. Vargas-Chacoff, 2014. Ontogenetic and temporal changes in the diet of the Chilean silverside Odontesthes regia (Atherinidae) in southern Chile. CBM-Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 55: 323-332.
• Carlos Bertrán, P. Fierro, F. Peña-Cortés, J. Tapia, E. Hauenstein & L. Vargas-Chacoff, 2013. Alimentación de Micropogonias furnieri (Osteichthyes: Sciaenidae) en el lago costero Budi, Sur de Chile. Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía, 48: 193-197.
• Pablo Fierro, C. Bertrán, M. Mercado, F. Peña-Cortés, J. Tapia, E. Hauenstein & L. Vargas-Chacoff, 2012. Benthic macroinvertebrates assemblages as indicates of water quality thorough application of a modified biotic index in a spatio-seasonal context in a coastal basin in southern Chile. Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía, 47: 23-33.
• Chapter 4. Food of rainbow trout and changes in soil use: The Chilean example. Vargas-Chacoff L., L. Quilodrán, C. Bertrán, I. Arismendi, P. Fierro, J. Tapia, F. Peña-Cortés & E. Hauenstein in Polakof S. & T. Moon, 2012. Trout: From Physiology to Conservation. Series: Animal Science, Issues and Professions Marine Biology.

Proyecto RIO: Ríos Influenciando al Oceano

Participación en el programa EXPLORA. Laboratorios abiertos

Equipo de trabajo

Asistente Laboratorio: Sara Montiel

Asistente Laboratorio: Erwin Lienlaf 

Tesistas de pregrado

© Biol. Mar. Patricio Barrientos

© Biol. Mar. Vicente Letelier

Ing. Cons. Rec. Nat. Alexa Maldonado, 2021

Biol. Mar. Carlos Vega, 2021

Biol. Mar. Antonia Hernandez, 2019

Biol. Mar. María Antonieta Lobos, 2014

Tesistas de postgrado

© Mg. Recursos Hidricos. Jorge Sandoval

© Mg. Recursos Hidricos. Alexa Maldonado

© Mg. Recursos Hidricos. Cristobal Garcés