Area of research
Nature and Landscape Conservation · Global and Planetary Change
Research interest
Research interests include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest ecology and management, and Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems.
Tropical forest succession increases tree taxonomic and functional richness but decreases evenness
Tree demographic strategies largely overlap across succession in Neotropical wet and dry forest communities.
A common framework to model recovery in disturbed tropical forests
Soil resistance and recovery during neotropical forest succession
Strong floristic distinctiveness across Neotropical successional forests
Strong floristic distinctiveness across Neotropical successional forests.
Multidimensional tropical forest recovery
Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests
Multidimensional tropical forest recovery.
Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests.
Forest cover mediates large and medium-sized mammal occurrence in a critical link of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor
Altitude and community traits explain rain forest stand dynamics over a 2370‐m altitudinal gradient in Costa Rica
Bosques tropicales estacionalmente secos son importantes para ganaderos en el noroeste costarricense
Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests
Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time
Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time.
Soil is the main predictor of secondary rain forest estimated aboveground biomass across a Neotropical landscape
Disturbance and the elevation ranges of woody plant species in the mountains of Costa Rica.
Legume abundance along successional and rainfall gradients in Neotropical forests
Potential pollinators of understory populations of <i>Symphonia globulifera</i> in the Neotropics.
Biodiversity and climate determine the functioning of Neotropical forests
Comparative landscape genetics of two frugivorous bats in a biological corridor undergoing agricultural intensification
Potential trajectories of old‐growth Neotropical forest functional composition under climate change
Agricultural intensification alters bat assemblage composition and abundance in a dynamic Neotropical landscape
Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests
Successional dynamics in Neotropical forests are as uncertain as they are predictable
Environmental gradients and the evolution of successional habitat specialization: a test case with 14 Neotropical forest sites
Coupled social and ecological outcomes of agricultural intensification in Costa Rica and the future of biodiversity conservation in tropical agricultural regions
Throughfall heterogeneity in tropical forested landscapes as a focal mechanism for deep percolation