On March 15, Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra, in a message to the nation, announced that, with 71 positive cases, he was declaring a state of emergency, just 9 days after announcing on national television the presence of the first positive case, a worker of a well-known airline. In hindsight, we all forget that it was considered at the time a very drastic decision, even a hasty one; but the Head of the Nation was definitely already completely soaked in the world's reality, just four days away from the late declaration by the WHO, on March 11, 2020, of COVID-19, as a Pandemic.

On March 15, Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra, in a message to the nation, announced that, with 71 positive cases, he was declaring a state of emergency, just 9 days after announcing on national television the presence of the first positive case, a worker of a well-known airline. In hindsight, we all forget that it was considered at the time a very drastic decision, even a hasty one; but the Head of the Nation was definitely already completely soaked in the world's reality, just four days away from the late declaration by the WHO, on March 11, 2020, of COVID-19, as a Pandemic.

Los bosques estacionalmente secos en el Perú constituyen un conjunto de ecosistemas que incluye tres grandes grupos florísticos: bosques costeros, interandinos y orientales. Con la excepción de los bosques estacionalmente secos de las llanuras costeras del norte del país, hasta hace poco la ausencia de datos hacía difícil describir adecua-damente estos grupos en base a su florística. En los últimos 20 años, en estos bosques se han generado diversos estudios florísticos e inventarios botánicos enfocados en plantas leñosas, que han llenado vacíos de conocimiento en áreas críticas. Con estos estudios hemos generado la base de datos DRYFLOR Perú que a la fecha incluye 526 inventarios cuantitativos (listas de especies en áreas discretas incluyendo registros de sus abundancias) y que nos permiten confirmar la distinción florística de los tres grandes grupos. Adicionalmente l...