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54
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10738
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 1992 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1992 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1986 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1968 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Ernesto Medina is affiliated with the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas in Venezuela. Their research primarily spans Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, focusing notably on subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Soil Science, and Plant Science.

The main themes in their work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics, Plant and animal studies, Botany and Geology in Latin America and Caribbean, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, and Marine and coastal plant biology.

Medina has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications, including:

  • Global Plant Ecology of Tropical Ultramafic Ecosystems (2022) in The Botanical Review
  • A Multiyear Record of Rainfall and Ionic Composition along an Elevation Gradient in Northeastern Puerto Rico (2021) in Aerosol and Air Quality Research
  • Rhizophora zonation, salinity, and nutrients in the western atlantic (2021) in Biotropica
  • Thin segmented silicon detectors for single ion tracking in carbon ion beam therapy: Performance insights (2025) in Physica Medica
  • Rainfall and ion composition data from multiple weather stations along an elevation gradient in northeastern Puerto Rico (2009-2018) (2021) in Forest Service Research Data Archive

They have authored a book titled Psammic Peinobiomes, published by Springer Nature in 2023.

Frequent collaborators of Ernesto Medina include J. A. Zinck, Elvis Torres-Delgado, Grizelle González, María M. Rivera, and Diango Montalvan Olivares.

Their work has been published in various venues with recurring appearances in The Botanical Review, Aerosol and Air Quality Research, Biotropica, Physica Medica, and Forest Service Research Data Archive.

Ernesto Medina has received multiple fellowships and memberships from notable scientific organizations, including:

  • Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), 2012
  • Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences, 1992
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1992
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1992
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1986
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1968

Best Publications

  • Seasonally dry tropical forests

    Stephen H. Bullock;Harold A. Mooney;Ernesto Medina

  • The canopy effect, carbon isotope ratios and foodwebs in Amazonia

    Nikolaas J. van der Merwe;Nikolaas J. van der Merwe;Ernesto Medina

  • Stratification of δ13C values of leaves in Amazonian rain forests.

    E. Medina;P. Minchin

  • Amazon ecosystems: their structure and functioning with particular emphasis on nutrients

    R. Herrera;C.F. Jordan;H. Klinge;E. Medina

  • Physiological ecology of plants of the wet tropics

    E. Medina;H. A. Mooney;C. Vázquez-Yánes

  • Photosynthesis and 13C12C ratios in Amazonian rain forests

    Nikolaas J van der Merwe;Ernesto Medina

  • Nutrient dynamics within amazonian forest ecosystems : I. Nutrient flux in fine litter fall and efficiency of nutrient utilization.

    E Cuevas;E Medina

  • Savannas of northern South America: a steady state regulated by water-fire interactions on a background of low nutrient availability.

    Ernesto Medina;Juan F. Silva

  • Tropical Ecological Systems

    Frank B. Golley;Ernesto Medina

  • Biodiversity and agroecosystem function.

    M. J. Swift;J. Vandermeer;P. S. Ramakrishnan;J. M. Anderson

  • Functional roles of biodiversity: a global perspective

    H. A. Mooney;J. H. Cushman;E. Medina;O. E. Sala

  • Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests: Acknowledgements

    Stephen H. Bullock;Harold A. Mooney;Ernesto Medina

  • Nitrogen cycling in tropical and temperate savannas

    M.M.C. Bustamante;E. Medina;G.P. Asner;G.B. Nardoto

  • Patterns of nutrient accumulation and release in Amazonian forests of the upper Rio Negro basin

    E. Medina;E. Cuevas

  • Determinants of Tropical Savannas

    Otto T. Solbrig;Ernesto Medina;Juan F. Silva

  • General morphology, anatomical structure, and nutrient content of sclerophyllous leaves of the 'bana' vegetation of amazonas.

    M. A. Sobrado;E. Medina

  • NUTRIENT BALANCE AND PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES AT THE LEAF LEVEL.

    Ernesto Medina

  • Profiles of CO2 concentration and δ13C values in tropical rain forests of the upper Rio Negro basin, Venezuela

    Ernesto Medina;Gustavo Montes;Elvira Cuevas;Zarko Rokzandic

  • Conversion and recovery of Puerto Rican mangroves : 200 years of change

    Sebastián Martinuzzi;Sebastián Martinuzzi;William A. Gould;Ariel E. Lugo;Ernesto Medina

  • DARK CO2 FIXATION, HABITAT PREFERENCE AND EVOLUTION WITHIN THE BROMELIACEAE.

    Ernesto Medina

  • Osmolality and δ13C of Leaf Tissues of Mangrove Species from Environments of Contrasting Rainfall and Salinity

    E. Medina;M. Francisco

  • Tropical Ecological Systems; Trends in Terrestrial and Aquatic Research.

    Frank B. Golley;Ernesto Medina

  • Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests: Introduction

    Harold A. Mooney;Stephen H. Bullock;Ernesto Medina

  • Physiological ecology of plants of the wet tropics : proceedings of an international symposium held in Oxatepec and Los Tuxtlas, Mexico, June 29 to July 6, 1983

    Ernesto Medina;Harold A. Mooney;Carlos Vázquez Yanes

  • Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests.

    Kamal Bawa;Stephen H. Bullock;Harold A. Mooney;Ernesto Medina

Frequent Co-Authors

Harold A. Mooney
Harold A. Mooney Stanford University
Ariel E. Lugo
Ariel E. Lugo US Forest Service
Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Ernst-Detlef Schulze Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Osvaldo E. Sala
Osvaldo E. Sala Arizona State University
Marinus J. A. Werger
Marinus J. A. Werger Utrecht University
Patrick Lavelle
Patrick Lavelle Sorbonne University
Niels P. R. Anten
Niels P. R. Anten Wageningen University & Research
Augusto C. Franco
Augusto C. Franco University of Brasília
Guillermo Goldstein
Guillermo Goldstein University of Miami
Christian Körner
Christian Körner University of Basel

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