ORCiD: 0000-0001-9493-0038

PEER- REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

1. Herrera-Alvarez Ximena, Portillo-Indurain Adrián, Rodriguez-Perez et al., Does thermal stress shape resource selection? Thermoregulation strategies of pyrenean cattle and burguete horses during the 2024–2025 summers in Navarre, Spain (in preparation).
2. Herrera-Alvarez, X; Rivas-Torres, G; Phillips, OL; Guadalupe, V; Blanco, JA (2026). Research trends related to tropical timber species for the last four decades through scientometric analyses. Forest Systems, Volume 35, Issue 1, 21091.  https://doi.org/10.5424/fs/2026351-21091    
3. Herrera-Alvarez, X., Rivas-Torres, G., Phillips, O.L. et al. 2025. Are tropical forest science and policy disconnected? Assessing the common understanding of the concept of "timber species" among different forest stakeholders in the Amazon. Ecosistemas 34(3): 3047. https://doi.org/10.7818/ECOS.3047   
4. Herrera-Alvarez X., Blanco J.A., Phillips O.L. et al. 2025. Defining Amazon timber. Tropical Forest Update 34(2), 4-9. ISSN: 1022-5439.    
5. Herrera-Alvarez, X., J. A. Blanco, O. L. Phillips et al. 2023. First-Ever Complete List of Amazonian Timber Tree Species. Bull Ecol Soc Am 104(4): e02104. https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.2104   
6. Herrera-Alvarez X., Blanco JA, Phillips OL, et al. 2023. MADERA: A Standardized Pan-Amazonian Dataset for Tropical Timber Species. Ecology 104(9): e4135.  https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4135 
7. Herrera-Alvarez, X.; Blanco, J.A.; Imbert, J.B. et al. 2020. Coarse Woody Debris’ Invertebrate Community is Affected Directly by Canopy Type and Indirectly by Thinning in Mixed Scots Pine - European Beech Forests. Forests, 11, 975. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11090975 
8. J. Bosco Imbert, Juan A. Blanco, David Candel-Pérez, Yueh-Hsin Lo, Ester González de Andrés, Antonio Yeste, Ximena Herrera- Alvarez. 2021. Synergies Between Climate Change, Biodiversity, Ecosystem Function and Services, Indirect Drivers of Change and Human Well-Being in Forests. In: Venkatramanan, V., Shah, S., Prasad, R. (eds) Exploring Synergies and Trade-offs between Climate Change and the Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7301-9_12 
9. Herrera - Alvarez Ximena, García Katic, Saransing Cristina, et al. 2018. Hacia un mejor manejo de los bosques de eucalipto (Eucalyptus globulus) naturalizados: Resultados de caso de una investigación interdisciplinaria sobre incendios forestales en los Andes ecuatorianos. In: Echeverría Julio (ed) Cuestiones Urbanas, Volumen 6. N°. 1 (book in Spanish). 
10. de la Torre, S., Villarruel, I., Córdova-Páez, A., Herrera-Alvarez, X. 2018. Interactions Among Exotics: Guava and Its Associated Fauna in the Highlands of San Cristobal. In: Torres, M., Mena, C. (eds) Understanding Invasive Species in the Galapagos Islands. Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67177-2_3 
11. Erazo - Daniela, Herrera - Alvarez Ximena, Laspina Gabriel. 2016. Caso de Ecuador. In: Calle, Isabel y Ryan, Daniel (coord). La participación ciudadana en los procesos de evaluación de impacto ambiental: análisis de casos en 6 países de Latinoamérica. Lima: SPDA (book in Spanish).

CONFERENCE PAPERS

1. Herrera-Alvarez X., Blanco JA., Ortega-López L, et al. 2025. Amazonian timber species show distinctive ecological attributes. 8th European Conference of Tropical Ecology. Oral presentation
2. Rivadeneira - Barba G., Herrera-Alvarez X., Blanco Juan A., et al. 2025. Community composition of invertebrates associated to coarse woody debris and leaf litter substrates in the Western Amazon, a case study in Ecuador. 8th European Conference of Tropical Ecology. Poster
3. Herrera-Alvarez X, Blanco JA, Ortega-López L, et al. 2025. Amazonian timber species show distinctive ecological characteristics compared to non-timber species. 9°Congreso Forestal Español. Poster
4. Herrera-Alvarez X, Rivas-Torres G, Phillips OL., et al. 2025. Trends in scientific research related to tropical timber species (1983-2023). 9° Congreso Forestal Español. Poster
5. Herrera - Alvarez X, Blanco JA, Phillips OL et al. 2023. What is the current conceptualization of timber species? A literature review of this definition and its evolution during the last decade (2010 - 2020). XVI Congreso Nacional de la Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre. Poster
6. Yeste A, Blanco J.A., Imbert J.B., Zozaya - Vela H., Elizalde - Arbilla M., Candel - Perez D., Lo Y.H., Herrera - Alvarez X., Seely B. 2023. Understanding the importance of fine root biomass esimates when projecting long - term growth under climate change. The International Society for Ecological Modelling Global Conference 2023.
7. Herrera-Alvarez, X., J. A. Blanco, O. L. Phillips, V. et al. 2022. A consensus pan-Amazonian timber species database: a call for harmonization and conservation efforts. British Ecological Society Annual Meeting 2022. Poster   
8. Herrera-Alvarez, X.; Blanco, J.A.; Imbert, J.B. et al. 2021. Invertebrate Community of Scots Pine Coarse Woody Debris in the Southwestern Pyrenees under Different Thinning Intensities and Tree Species. The 1st International Electronic Conference on Forests - Forests for a Better Future: Sustainability, Innovation, Interdisciplinarity. Oral presentation 
9. Herrera - Alvarez Ximena, García Katic, Saransing Cristina, Torres Ana, Ortega - López Leonardo, Celi. Jorge E (2019). Post-Fire Vegetation Regeneration in a Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus globulus) Forest of the Ecuadorian Andes. Biodiversidade Brasileira - BioBrasil. Wildfire Conference. Book of abstracts 
10. Herrera - Alvarez Ximena, García Katic, Saransing Cristina, et al. 2018. Eucalyptus Forests (w): Interdisciplinary Research on Wildfires in the Ecuadorian Andes. Presented at the VI Congress of the Ecuadorian Network of Universities for Research and Postgraduate Studies (REDU) and the Technical University of the North, Ecuador. Oral presentation
11. Celi Jorge E., Cabrera J., Guerra Nereida, Gómez Laporta Miguel, Herrera - Alvarez Ximena, Pereira Leonardo A., Rodes Marina, Villacrés Ernesto (2017). Distribución de escarabajos del estiércol (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) en paisajes de montaña de la Amazonía ecuatoriana. I Congreso Latinoamericano de Biogeografía (conference in spanish). 
12. Herrera - Alvarez Ximena and de la Torre Stella.2015. Potential seed dispersers of the invasive plant Psidium guajava on San Cristóbal Island, Galapagos. Science +. CERFA, UPV/EHU. Poster
13. Herrera - Alvarez Ximena, Intriago - Baldeón Dámaris, Ortega - López Leonardo, Grijalva Jaime. 2012. 1st International Conference on Dog Population Management, York. Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera) - WSPA.  Poster
14. Katic García, Samir Valencia Vélez, Josefina Vasquez Pazmiño, Florencio Delgado Espinoza, Ximena Herrera - Alvarez. Book of abstracts I National Meeting of Ethnobiology. 2016. Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador - CIPACUNA (conference in spanish).