Welcome!

Thank you for visiting my site. I am a forest ecology researcher focused on the study of tropical forest community ecology and dynamics. I am currently working as part of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, as a postdoc of the Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment – Tropics (NGEE-Tropics). I focus on the implementation of a standardized protocol to evaluate mortality each year in several of the plots that are part of the Center for Tropical Forest Science - ForestGEO. In general, I analyze mortality data using dataset from all around the tropics.

I keep a great interests on community ecology of Neotropical forests, particularly on dominance / rarity patterns, community assembly, and beta-diversity determinants. I am also interested in comparing tropical and temperate forests, maybe in the near future. Most of my fieldwork and efforts were invested in the unexplored, beautiful and merciless Andean forests in Madidi, where a piece of my soul still remains.

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