A5030619573- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Forest ecology and management
- Bamboo properties and applications
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Banana Cultivation and Research
- Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Plant Ecology and Soil Science
- Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
- Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
- Forest Management and Policy
- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Avian ecology and behavior
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Plant and soil sciences
- Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Climate change and permafrost
- Genetics and Physical Performance
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
University of Leeds
2021-2023
University of Miami
2017-2023
Florida International University
2016-2022
Real Jardín Botánico
2016
The long-term survival of Andean forest landscapes (AFL) and their capacity to contribute sustainable development in a context global change requires integrated adaptation mitigation responses informed by thorough understanding the dynamic complex interactions between ecological social components. This article proposes research agenda that can help guide AFL efforts for next 15 years. was developed July 2015 June 2016 through series workshops Ecuador, Peru, Switzerland involved 48...
Understanding variation in tree functional traits along topographic gradients and through time provides insights into the processes that will shape community composition determine ecosystem functioning. In montane environments, complex topography is known to affect forest structure composition, yet its role determining trait indices on climatic tolerances, responses changing environmental conditions has not been fully explored. This study investigates how (characterized as community-weighted...
Climate change is altering species’ distributions globally. Increasing frequency of extreme weather and climate events (EWCEs), including heat waves, droughts, storms, floods, fires, one the hallmarks change. These can trigger rapid shifts in by impacting dispersal, establishment, survival organisms. Despite species redistribution being widely studied response to longer-term trends change, few studies consider contribution EWCEs range shifts. With ecologically, economically, culturally...
Widespread changes in temperature and precipitation patterns present plant species with new combined stresses that affect their performance distribution. Functional traits are indicators of resource use–acquisition strategies thus they commonly used to understand the geographic distributions species' potential responses climate change. To date, most studies have targeted a few easy‐to‐measure leaf even though other traits, such as climatic tolerances, could provide valuable information...
Abstract Questions How does the structure of liana communities (diameter, density and biomass) in tropical montane forests vary along elevation topographic gradients? do patterns tree infestation with elevation? Is diameter growth reduced by lianas forest? Location Tropical Andean (1000–3000 m a.s.l.) San Francisco Reserve Podocarpus National Park, southern Ecuador. Methods All ( DBH ≥ 1 cm) were censused 54 permanent plots (20 × 20 m) equally distributed between three study sites (1000,...
Abstract We introduce the FunAndes database, a compilation of functional trait data for Andean flora spanning six countries. contains on 24 traits across 2,694 taxa, total 105,466 entries. The database features plant-morphological attributes including growth form, and leaf, stem, wood measured at species or individual level, together with geographic metadata (i.e., coordinates elevation). follows field names, descriptions units measurement TRY database. It is currently available in open...
Abstract Bamboos are a diverse and ecologically important group of plants that have the potential to modulate structure, composition, function forests. With aim increasing visibility representation bamboo in forest surveys, standardize techniques across ecosystems, we present protocol for monitoring permanent research plots. A is necessary because measurements sampling schemes well‐suited trees inadequate most species populations. Our suggests counting all culms (stems) study plot...
Abstract Bamboo‐dominated forests (BDF) extend over large areas in the drought‐prone Southwestern Amazon, yet little is known about dynamics of these ecosystems. Here, we investigate hypothesis that bamboo modulates large‐scale ecosystem through competition with coexisting trees for water. We examined spatio‐temporal patterns remotely sensed metrics (Enhanced Vegetation Index [EVI], Normalized Difference Moisture [NDMI]) >300 Landsat images as proxies canopy leaf phenology and water...
Synthesising trait observations and knowledge across the Tree of Life remains a grand challenge for biodiversity science. Despite well-recognised importance traits addressing ecological evolutionary questions, trait-based approaches still struggle with several basic data requirements to deliver openly accessible, reproducible, transparent Here, we introduce Open Traits Network (OTN) – decentralised alliance international researchers institutions focused on collaborative integration...
The Arctic is warming four times faster than the global average, and plant communities are responding through shifts in species abundance, composition distribution. However, direction magnitude of local diversity changes have not been explored thus far at a pan-Arctic scale. Using compilation 42,234 records 490 vascular from 2,174 plots 45 study areas across Arctic, we quantified how richness changed over time during period up to decades (1981 – 2022), identified geographic, climatic biotic...
Abstract The “hierarchy of factors” hypothesis states that decomposition rates are controlled primarily by climatic, followed biological and soil variables. Tropical montane forests (TMF) globally important ecosystems, yet there have been limited efforts to provide a biome‐scale characterization litter decomposition. We designed common experiment replicated in 23 tropical sites across the Americas, Asia, Africa combined these results with previous study lowland (TLF). Specifically, we...
GENERAL COMMENTARY article Front. Ecol. Evol., 12 April 2016Sec. Biogeography and Macroecology Volume 4 - 2016 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2016.00033
Bamboos of the Neotropical Chusquea subg. Swallenochloa are characteristic high elevation grasslands from Mexico to Argentina and in Brazil, with a few species occurring montane or other forests. The central Andean diversity remains poorly studied, but recent field work revealed existence additional within sect. Peru. We here present preliminary revision eight named for Peru, including description two new endemic species, C. gamarrae intipaqariy, resurrection simplicissima weberbaueri, which...
Climate change is already leaving a broad footprint of impacts on biodiversity, from an individual caterpillar emerging earlier in spring to entire plant community migrating poleward. Despite the various modes how species are move, we primarily document shifting along only one gradient (e.g., latitude or phenology) and dimension (space time). Here present unifying framework for integrating study move over space time micro macro scales. Future conservation planning natural resource management...
Abstract Functional traits have gained scientific support as a tool for understanding forests ecosystems and the goods services they provide to human populations. Investigating how humans use interact with plants based on their functional is crucial long-term provision of plant-based ecosystem services. Here, we adopted large-scale approach encompassing nine different Indigenous communities across latitudinal gradient 1800 km in western Amazonia. We study associations between plant belonging...
Abstract Functional traits have gained scientific support as a tool for understanding forests ecosystems and the goods services they provide to human populations. Investigating how humans use interact with plants based on their functional is crucial long-term provision of plant-based ecosystem services. Here, we adopted large-scale approach encompassing nine different Indigenous communities across latitudinal gradient 1800 km in western Amazonia. We study associations between plant belonging...