PROJECTS
1. 2025 - 2026. Impact assessment of productive sectors in the Amazon region and opportunities for sustainable practices with a territorial, gender, and inclusion approach. AMAZONIA + Program. EU – COOPI. Universidad San Francisco de Quito $20.000. PI and administrative coordinator.
2. 2022 - 2025. Regional development models based on pyric herbivory as a tool for environmental conservation and for supporting population stabilization and protection. TED/1014/2021. MCIN-EU/PRTR. PI: Rosa María Canals. €1.363.222,57. Researcher.
3. 2025. Free-Roaming Dog and Cat Surveys in the buffer zones of Llanganates and Sangay National Parks, Ecuador. Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Funding is being sought, though the first phase requires no external financial support. Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Co- PI with Stella de la Torre PhD.
4. 2023 – 2027. Using nutrient stoichiometry to assess and predict effects of nutrient limitation and forest management on competition, resistance to drought and growth dynamics in two contrasting pine-beech forests: NUTRIENTLIMIT. MICIN. Project PID2022-141248OB-I00. € 200,000. PI: J. Bosco Imbert & JA Blanco. Researcher.
5. 2022 – 2025. Silvicultural adaptation to climate change in Meso - Mediterranean forests: Identifying challenges through an ensamble process - Based Models. TED2021 - 131081B -C21. MCIN-EU/PRTR. PI: Juan A. Blanco. € 113,160. Researcher.
6. 2019 – 2024. A modern approach to the concept of timber species from an Amazonian perspective. PhD fellowship. UPNA and Gobierno de Navarra. €75.869. PI.
7. 2017 – 2019. Carbon stock in three forest types in the Ecuadorian Amazon. PI Byron Maza. SENESCYT. $50.000. Researcher.
8. 2016 – 2017. Evaluación de la regeneración natural post incendio en un bosque de eucalipto en el Distrito Metropolitano de Quito, Ecuador: Implicaciones para su manejo. Instituto de la Ciudad de Quito, Ecuador. $4000. PI.
9. 2013 – 2016. Integration of ecological processes in forest models to assess long-term effects of management and global change on forests in southwestern Europe. European Commission, MSCA action. ECOPYREN3. €100,000. PI JA Blanco, FJ. Castillo. Researcher.
10. 2013 – 2015. Interactions between climate, forest management and interspecific competition in mixed forests of Scots pine and beech in the north of the Iberian Peninsula. MINECO. Project AGL2012-33465. € 105,300. PI JA Blanco & J. Bosco Imbert. Researcher.
11. 2012 – 2013. Posibles dispersores de la planta invasora Psidium guajava en la isla San Cristóbal, Galápagos, Ecuador. Galapagos Science Center. $1000. Co- PI with Stella de la Torre PhD.
12. 2011 – 2012. Population structure of introduced dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) and cats (Felis silvestris catus) in Isabela Island– Galapagos, Ecuador. Co- PI with Stella de la Torre PhD.
RESEARCH VISITS
- International research visit. The Plant Ecology Lab, Gonzalo Rivas Torres PhD. Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador. 2021 (PhD program and thesis).
- International research visit. ForestPlots offices, Oliver L. Phillips PhD. School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK. 2019 - 2020 (PhD program and thesis).
Photo credit: Gonzalo Rivas - Torres. Tiputini Research Station, Yasuní National Park, Ecuador.