Reforestation Incentive
Economic Complexities of Forest Restoration: What’s in it for landowners?
Diciembre 29, 2023
A steady income stream incentivizes tropical landowners to reforest.
A steady income stream incentivizes tropical landowners to reforest.
A massive coral bleaching event in Panama’s Guna Yala islands along the eastern Caribbean coast signals a major problem with rising ocean temperatures and their long-term effects.
We use social science and interdisciplinary research methods to study the links between people and natural resource use, and access. Broadly, our work encompasses three themes: the future of ocean governance, human dimensions of coupled natural human systems, and the links between development,...
Timber plantations near urbanized areas support the movement of small and medium-sized terrestrial mammals between patches of natural forest.
An improved method of identifying manatees by their vocalizations makes it easier to tell them apart, to better estimate their populations and help efforts for their conservation.
Regrowing tropical forests emit significantly lower soil carbon dioxide than cattle pastures.
Blue whales, the largest animals on Earth, travel hidden ocean highways.
A groundbreaking study of 7000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: as sharks declined by 75% and fish preferred by humans became smaller, prey fish species flourished —doubling in numbers and growing larger. This unprecedented look into prehistoric reef communities shows how the loss of top predators cascaded through the entire food web, shifting the balance amongst coral reefs.
In one of the wildest places
in Central America
My research interests span a broad range of subjects from conservation biology and restoration ecology to collaborations with social scientist and economists on subjects related to human behavior and land management. The common theme is the applied nature of my work and the effort to provide...