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  • 2020 - William S. Cooper Award, The Ecological Society of America Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition. Science 355(6328): 925-931. DOI: 10.1126/science.aal0157

Overview

Marielos Peña-Claros is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, and History.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics related to Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Ecology and Management, Plant and Animal Studies, Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, as well as Forest Management and Policy.

Marielos Peña-Claros has published papers in several prominent venues including Forest Ecology and Management, SSRN Electronic Journal, Nature Communications, Remote Sensing of Environment, and Science.

Recent significant publications include:

  • Multidimensional tropical forest recovery (2021, Science)
  • The role of land-use history in driving successional pathways and its implications for the restoration of tropical forests (2021, Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society)
  • Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots (2021, Biological Conservation)
  • Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Successional theories (2023, Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society)

Frequent collaborators include Frans Bongers, Lourens Poorter, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Danilo Roberti Alves de Almeida, and Jorge A. Meave, indicating active research partnerships within the field of tropical forest ecology and restoration.

Marielos Peña-Claros has been recognized with the William S. Cooper Award from The Ecological Society of America in 2020 for work on the persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition, published in Science.

Best Publications

  • Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

    R J W Brienen;O L Phillips;T R Feldpausch;T R Feldpausch;E Gloor

  • Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

    Lourens Poorter;Frans Bongers;T. Mitchell Aide;Angélica M. Almeyda Zambrano

  • ARE FUNCTIONAL TRAITS GOOD PREDICTORS OF DEMOGRAPHIC RATES? EVIDENCE FROM FIVE NEOTROPICAL FORESTS

    L. Poorter;S. J. Wright;H. Paz;D. D. Ackerly

  • The importance of wood traits and hydraulic conductance for the performance and life history strategies of 42 rainforest tree species.

    Lourens Poorter;Imole McDonald;Alfredo Alarcón;Esther Fichtler

  • Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics

    Robin L. Chazdon;Robin L. Chazdon;Eben N. Broadbent;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Frans Bongers

  • Sustaining conservation values in selectively logged tropical forests: the attained and the attainable

    Francis E. Putz;Francis E. Putz;Pieter A. Zuidema;Pieter A. Zuidema;Timothy Synnott;Marielos Peña-Claros

  • Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

    C. Levis;F. R. C. Costa;F. Bongers;M. Peña-Claros

  • Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests

    L. Poorter;M. T. van der Sande;J. Thompson;E. J. M. M. Arets

  • Multidimensional tropical forest recovery

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  • Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

    Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert;Timothy R. Baker;Kyle G. Dexter;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests

    Danaë Rozendaal;Frans Bongers;T. Mitchell Aide;Esteban Álvarez-Dávila

  • Does functional trait diversity predict above‐ground biomass and productivity of tropical forests? Testing three alternative hypotheses

    Bryan Finegan;Marielos Peña-Claros;Alexandre de Oliveira;Nataly Ascarrunz

  • Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

    Martin J. P. Sullivan;Joey Talbot;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips

  • Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites

    Edward T.A. Mitchard;Ted R. Feldpausch;Ted R. Feldpausch;Roel J.W. Brienen;Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez

  • Climate is a stronger driver of tree and forest growth rates than soil and disturbance

    Marisol Toledo;Lourens Poorter;Marielos Peña-Claros;Alfredo Alarcón

  • Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling

    Sophie Fauset;Michelle O Johnson;Manuel Gloor;Timothy R Baker

  • How people domesticated Amazonian forests

    Carolina Levis;Carolina Levis;Bernardo M. Flores;Priscila A. Moreira;Bruno G. Luize

  • Linking functional diversity and social actor strategies in a framework for interdisciplinary analysis of nature's benefits to society.

    S. Diaz;F. Quétier;D.M. Cáceres;S.F. Trainor

  • Ecosystem services research in Latin America: The state of the art

    Patricia Balvanera;María Uriarte;Lucía Almeida-Leñero;Alice Altesor

  • Changes in Forest Structure and Species Composition during Secondary Forest Succession in the Bolivian Amazon1

    Marielos Pena-Claros

  • Beyond reduced-impact logging: silvicultural treatments to increase growth rates of tropical trees

    M. Peña-Claros;T.S. Fredericksen;A. Alarcón;G.M. Blate

  • Plot Data from: "Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink."

    Roel J. W. Brienen;Oliver L. Phillips;Ted R. Feldpausch;Emanuel Gloor

Frequent Co-Authors

Lourens Poorter
Lourens Poorter Wageningen University & Research
Frans Bongers
Frans Bongers Wageningen University & Research
Marisol Toledo
Marisol Toledo Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University
Francis E. Putz
Francis E. Putz University of Florida
Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Christopher Baraloto
Christopher Baraloto Florida International University
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado
Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado University of St Andrews
Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira
Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi

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