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CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

· Catastrophic Forest Disturbance and Regrowth in Puerto Rico Following Hurricane Maria: Benchmarks for Earth System Models from Forest Inventory and Remote Sensing Measurements.

· RAPID: Hurricane Maria: Assessing landscape resilience to a changing disturbance regime.

· A neighborhood approach to the biogeography of Puerto Rican trees.

· Interactive effects of droughts and hurricanes on long-term community dynamics in subtropical wet forests.

· Effects of land cover change and climate variability on water delivery services in Puerto Rico

· Ensuring sustainable water provision in the face of extreme precipitation events and human land use in the watersheds of the Cantareira system, Brazil

PAST RESEARCH PROJECTS

· Impacts of landscape configuration on plant recruitment in Amazonia

· Fires in Western Amazonia: Understanding the roles of climatic, social, demographic, and land use change

· Successional vegetation dynamics in wet tropical forests at multiple scales: integrating neighbourhood effects, functional traits, and phylogeny

· Climate change impacts on forest biodiversity: individual risk to sub-continental impacts