Marielos Peña-Claros

Datos Biográficos

ID1864451
NOMBREMarielos Peña-Claros
NOMBRESMarielos
APELLIDOPeña-Claros
FIRMAPEÑA-CLAROS M
AFILIACIONESWageningen University & Research
ORCID0000-0001-9134-6733
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS16
TOTAL DE CITAS9
TOTAL COMO AUTOR16
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2012
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Understanding forest transitions and lock-ins in Latin American agro-forest frontiers

    Open AccessMadelon Lohbeck, Thomas W Kuyper et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2026

    The agro-forest frontier is the dynamic border between agricultural and forested lands. Drawing on results from an interdisciplinary research programme, we synthesise and compare social-ecological dynamics in three Latin American agro-forest frontiers: Marqués de Comillas and La Sepultura in Mexico, and Zona da Mata in Brazil. Each includes extensive livestock grazing, rain-fed agriculture, secondary vegetation, and state-protected areas. Forest …

  • Towards the use of satellite-based tropical forest disturbance alerts to assess selective logging intensities

    Open AccessAnne-Juul Welsink, Johannes Reiche et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Illegal logging is an important driver of tropical forest loss. A wide range of organizations and interested parties wish to track selective logging activities and verify logging intensities as reported by timber companies. Recently, free availability of 10 m scale optical and radar Sentinel data has resulted in several satellite-based alert systems that can detect increasingly small-scale forest disturbances in near-real time. This paper provide…

  • An Assessment of Soil Phytolith Analysis as a Palaeoecological Tool for Identifying Pre-Columbian Land Use in Amazonian Rainforests

    Open AccessJames Hill, Stuart Black et al.ARTICLEQuaternary2023Citada por: 1Referencias: 45

    Phytolith analysis is a well-established archaeobotanical tool, having provided important insights into pre-Columbian crop cultivation and domestication across Amazonia through the Holocene. Yet, its use as a palaeoecological tool is in its infancy in Amazonia and its effectiveness for reconstructing pre-Columbian land-use beyond archaeological sites (i.e., ‘off-site’) has so far received little critical attention. This paper examines both new an…

  • Sustainable palm fruit harvesting as a pathway to conserve Amazon peatland forests

    Open AccessGabriel Hidalgo Pizango, Eurídice N Honorio Coronado et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2022Referencias: 4

  • Modelling carbon stock and carbon sequestration ecosystem services for policy design

    Open AccessSandra Quijas, Alice Boit et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2019

    Ecosystem service (ES) models can only inform policy design adequately if they incorporate ecological processes. We used the Lund-Potsdam-Jena managed Land (LPJmL) model, to address following questions for Mexico, Bolivia and Brazilian Amazon: (i) How different are C stocks and C sequestration quantifications under standard (when soil and litter C and heterotrophic respiration are not considered) and comprehensive (including all C stock and heter…

  • Can timber provision from Amazonian production forests be sustainable

    Open AccessCamille Piponiot, Edna Rödig et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    Around 30 Mm 3 of sawlogs are extracted annually by selective logging of natural production forests in Amazonia, Earth’s most extensive tropical forest. Decisions concerning the management of these production forests will be of major importance for Amazonian forests’ fate. To date, no regional assessment of selective logging sustainability supports decision-making. Based on data from 3500 ha of forest inventory plots, our modelling results show t…

  • Optimal strategies for ecosystem services provision in Amazonian production forests

    Open AccessCamille Piponiot, Ervan Rutishauser et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    Although tropical forests harbour most of the terrestrial carbon and biological diversity on Earth they continue to be deforested or degraded at high rates. In Amazonia, the largest tropical forest on Earth, a sixth of the remaining natural forests is formally dedicated to timber extraction through selective logging. Reconciling timber extraction with the provision of other ecosystem services (ES) remains a major challenge for forest managers and…

  • Twenty years of forest management certification in the tropics

    Open AccessFrancisco Ehrenberg-Azcárate, Marielos Peña-ClarosARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2019Citada por: 2

  • How People Domesticated Amazonian Forests

    Open AccessCarolina Levis, Bernardo M Flores et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution2018

    For millennia, Amazonian peoples have managed forest resources, modifying the natural environment in subtle and persistent ways. Legacies of past human occupation are striking near archaeological sites, yet we still lack a clear picture of how human management practices resulted in the domestication of Amazonian forests. The general view is that domesticated forests are recognizable by the presence of forest patches dominated by one or a few usef…

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

    Open AccessCarolina Levis, Flavia R C Costa et al.ARTICLEScience2017

    Past human influences on Amazonian forest The marks of prehistoric human societies on tropical forests can still be detected today. Levis et al. performed a basin-wide comparison of plant distributions, archaeological sites, and environmental data. Plants domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples are much more likely to be dominant in Amazonian forests than other species. Furthermore, forests close to archaeological sites often have a higher abundanc…

  • Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

    Open AccessLourens Poorter, Frans Bongers et al.ARTICLENature2016

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

    Open AccessRobin L Chazdon, Eben N Broadbent et al.ARTICLEScience Advances2016

    Models reveal the high carbon mitigation potential of tropical forest regeneration.

  • Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

    Open AccessRoel Brienen, R J W Brienen et al.ARTICLENature2015

  • Tracing forest resource development in Ghana through forest transition pathways

    Open AccessKwame Antwi Oduro, Godefridus M J Mohren et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2015Citada por: 3Referencias: 24

  • Will Redd+ work? The need for interdisciplinary research to address key challenges

    Open AccessI J Visseren-Hamakers, Aarti Gupta et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2012Citada por: 3Referencias: 19

    In this article, we draw on the contributions to this issue to address the question ‘Will REDD+ work?’. We do so by differentiating between how, where and when REDD+ might work. The article shows how issues of scope, scale and pace of REDD+ are related, and how interdisciplinary research can help to distill the lessons learned from REDD+ efforts currently underway. Important research areas include the drivers of deforestation and forest degradati…

  • Interdisciplinary perspectives on Redd

    Open AccessI J Visseren-Hamakers, Aarti Gupta et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2012