Project period: 2012-2015
Main funding Institution: Inter American Institute for Global Change Research
Research team
Principal Investigator: Sandra Díaz
Co-Principal Investigators and partner institutions:
M. Syndonia Bret-Harte (Co-PI), Institute of Arctic Ecology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA
Daniel Cáceres (Co-PI)- Departamento de Desarrollo Rural, Facultad C. Agropecuarias, Universidad Nac. Córdoba), Argentina
Fernando Casanoves (Co-PI) – Biometry Unit, Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, Turrialba, Costa Rica
Bryan Finegan (Co-PI) – Cátedra Latinoamericana de Ecología en el Manejo de Bosques Tropicales, Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, Turrialba, Costa Rica
Marielos Peña-Claros (Co-PI) – Instituto Boliviano de Investigaciones Forestales, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
Natalia Pérez-Harguindeguy (Co-PI), Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, CONICET – Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
Other members of the project
Investigators
Nataly Ascarrunz (Investigator – Ecology – Director of IBIF, Bolivia)
Luis Diego Delgado (Investigator – Ecology – CATIE, Costa Rica)
Julio Di Rienzo (Investigator – Biometry, FDiversity – Fac. C. Agropecuarias, Argentina)
Lucas Enrico (Investigator – Ecology – IMBIV, Argentina)
Esteban Kowaljow (Investigator – Soil science– IMBIV, Argentina)
Laura Pla (Investigator – Biometry, FDiversity – Univ. Francisco de Miranda, Coro, Venezuela)
Lourens Poorter (Investigator – Ecology – IBIF Bolivia and Forest Ecology and Management Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
Fabien Quetier (Postdoc – Interdisciplinary – associated to the first stage of CRN 2015, now in France)
Peter Ray (Investigator – Plant physiology – Institute of Arctic Ecology, Univ. Alaska, Fairbanks, USA)
Marlene Soriano (Investigator – Social forestry – IBIF, Bolivia)
Paula A. Tecco (Investigator – Invasion ecology – IMBIV, Argentina)
Sarah Trainor (Investigator – Social sciences – University of Alaska, USA)
Carlos Urcelay (Investigator – Plant-microbe interactions- IMBIV, Argentina)
Postdocs and postgrads (at present)
Marcel Carita Vaz (Postgrad – Ecology – Universidade de Sao Paulo and INPA Manaus, Brazil); Geovana Carreño (Postgrad – Ecology – IBIF Bolivia & Univ. Wageningen, The Netherlands); Georgina Conti (Postgrad – Ecology – IMBIV, Argentina); Aníbal Cuchietti (Postgrad – Ecology – IMBIV, Argentina); Pedro Jaureguiberry (Postgrad – Ecology – IMBIV, Argentina); Leda Lorenzo (Postdoc – Ecology – Universidade de Sao Paulo and INPA Manaus, Brazil); Carolina Polanias (Postgrad – Ecology – CATIE, Costa Rica); Felicitas Silvetti (Postdoc – Sociology – Fac. C. Agropecuarias, Argentina); Daniela Tamburini (Postgrad – Social science – FCA); Esteban Tapella (Postgrad – Sociology – University of San Juan, Argentina); Marisol Toledo (Postdoc – Forestry – IBIF, Bolivia); María Victoria Vaieretti (Postdoc – Soil science- IMBIV, Argentina); Sergio Vilches (Postgrad – Biometry – CATIE, Costa Rica)
Technicians
Alfredo Alarcon (IBIF, Bolivia); Valeria Falczuk (IMBIV, Argentina); Andrea Pérez (IMBIV, Argentina)
Associated scientists Anthony Bebbington (Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales, Peru); Roberto Benencia (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina); Marcelo Cabido (IMBIV, Argentina); F. Stuart Chapin (University of Alaska); Hans Cornelissen (Amsterdam Free University); Sandra Lavorel (Grenoble University – CNRS); Yadvinder Malhi (Oxford Unviersity, England); Maria Julia Mazzarino (Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina); Andy Purvis (Imperial College, England); Edward Rastetter (Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, USA); Philip Woodhouse (Manchester University)
Project summary
General objective
Review and synthesize existing products of CRN 2015 in a larger interdisciplinary and international context, identifying key knowledge gaps, and locating potential additional scientific partners. These will allow us to gain, through new projects, a deeper understanding of the interplay between biodiversity ecosystem services and social actors in major land-use trajectories in the region.