A5049992095- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Forest Management and Policy
- Environmental and Ecological Studies
- Water Resource Management and Quality
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Marine animal studies overview
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Indigenous Health and Education
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Public Health and Environmental Issues
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2016-2025
Amazon (United States)
2024
Birds Canada
2021
Stony Brook University
2016
Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca
2008-2012
Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute
2003-2009
King's College London
2005
Abstract Humanity is on a deeply unsustainable trajectory. We are exceeding planetary boundaries and unlikely to meet many international sustainable development goals global environmental targets. Until recently, there was no broadly accepted framework of interventions that could ignite the transformations needed achieve these desired targets goals. As component IPBES Global Assessment, we conducted an iterative expert deliberation process with extensive review scenarios pathways...
Abstract Protected areas (PAs) are a foundational and essential strategy for reducing biodiversity loss. However, many PAs around the world exist on paper only; thus, while logging habitat conversion may be banned in these areas, illegal activities often continue to cause alarming destruction. In such cases, presence of armed conflict ultimately prevent incursions greater extent than absence conflict. Although there several reports destruction following cessation conflict, has never been...
ABSTRACT Biodiversity faces many threats and these can interact to produce outcomes that may not be predicted by considering their effects in isolation. Habitat loss fragmentation (hereafter ‘fragmentation’) altered fire regimes are important biodiversity, but interactions have been systematically evaluated across the globe. In this comprehensive synthesis, including 162 papers which provided 274 cases, we offer a framework for understanding how interacts with fragmentation. Fire three main...
Abstract Background ‘Megafire’ is an emerging concept commonly used to describe fires that are extreme in terms of size, behaviour, and/or impacts, but the term’s meaning remains ambiguous. Approach We sought resolve ambiguity surrounding ‘megafire’ by conducting a structured review use and definition term several languages peer‐reviewed scientific literature. collated definitions descriptions megafire identified criteria frequently invoked define megafire. recorded size location megafires...
Abstract. Climate change contributes to the increased frequency and intensity of wildfires globally, with significant impacts on society environment. However, our understanding global distribution extreme fires remains skewed, primarily influenced by media coverage regionalised research efforts. This inaugural State Wildfires report systematically analyses fire activity worldwide, identifying events from March 2023–February 2024 season. We assess causes, predictability, attribution these...
Novel fire regimes are emerging worldwide and pose substantial challenges to biodiversity conservation. Addressing these mitigating their impacts on will require developing a wide range of management practices. In this paper, we leverage research across taxa, ecosystems continents highlight strategies for applying knowledge in First, define novel outline different practices contemporary landscapes from parts the world. Next, synthesize recent use biodiversity, provide decision-making...
Land use and land cover changes (LUCC) are recognized as one of the most relevant drivers biodiversity loss in ecosystems. Through analysis satellite images, this article quantifies LUCC that occurred between 1985 2008 Colombian Andes. Four submodels were analyzed: deforestation, crop intensification, conversion to pastures, abandonment. We associated these with demographic, socioeconomic, abiotic variables some attractors landscape change, finally we have considered three scenarios change:...
Most of the world's coca—the source cocaine—is grown in Amazonian forests Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. As cultivation continues despite eradication, a shift to giving farmers more incentives abandon coca is currently proposed. Assuming an important cause migration deforestation, new alternative development projects also aim conserve forests. We show strongly increases near never-completed 1960s–1970s state-sponsored settle Amazon. Improved roads colonization opened western Amazon frontier...
Changes in land use and cover (LULC) are important drivers of environmental changes the tropics. Amazônia Legal has showed some declines deforestation rates, but NW Amazonia become one most recent/new hotspots forest loss Amazon basin. Regional models change tools that support analysis causes consequences dynamics critical construction scenarios for planning future territory conserving Amazonian forests. The neural networks implemented Terrset Land Change Modeler (LCM) module were used to...
The quantitative signal for the association of fires and land cover change is strong impact frequent vast.
Abstract The Amazon biome, spanning nine countries, has one of the highest rates deforestation worldwide. This contributes to biodiversity loss, climate change, spread infectious diseases, and damage rural indigenous livelihoods. Hundreds articles have been published on topic across Amazonia, yet there no recent synthesis drivers deforestation-control policy effectiveness in region. Here we undertook first systematic review papers between 2000 2021 that causally linked proximate underlying...
Strengthening participation of Global South researchers in tropical ecology and conservation is a target our scientific community, but strategies for fostering increased engagement are mostly directed at North institutions researchers. Whereas such approaches crucial, there unique challenges to addressing diversity, equity inclusion (DEI) within the given its socio-economic, cultural contexts. Sustainable solutions protecting biodiversity tropics depend on leadership communities, therefore...
To halt further destruction of the biosphere, most people and societies around globe need to transform their relationships with nature. The internationally agreed vision under Convention Biological Diversity-Living in harmony nature-is that "By 2050, biodiversity is valued, conserved, restored wisely used, maintaining ecosystem services, sustaining a healthy planet delivering benefits essential for all people". In this context, there are variety debates between alternative perspectives on...
In the fire-prone tropical savanna landscapes of northern South America, forest edge effects significantly shape tree structural integrity and functional traits, with implications for ecosystem resilience, carbon storage, biodiversity. This study examines how effect, intensified by fire, affects species dominance, structure, trait distributions in this region. Using non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs), we analyzed changes abundance variables...