Margarita Del Aguila Villacorta
Biographic Data
| ID | 888581 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margarita Del Aguila Villacorta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margarita Del Aguila |
| FAMILY NAME | Villacorta |
| SIGNATURE | VILLACORTA M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9205-6586 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Long‐term interventions by conservation and development projects support successful recovery of tropical peatlands in Amazonia
Rural communities in Amazonia rely on harvesting Mauritia flexuosa fruit, a dominant peatland palm, for their subsistence and income. However, these palms are felled to harvest the fruits, which has led to reduced resource availability due to the pressure exerted by the increasing fruit demand. As a result, climbing has been proposed as a means to harvest the fruits sustainably. However, the long‐term ecological and socio‐economic impacts of clim…
Spatiotemporal Impacts of Drug Crop and Commodity Agriculture on Cultural Ecosystem Services: The Case of Ischnosiphon in Ticuna Communities of Loreto, Peru
In recent decades, drug crop eradication and drug trafficking interdiction have pushed drug crop cultivation into new areas of the Amazonian rain forest. The presence of the drug industries in these regions—followed by alternative development programs that aim to substitute illicit drug crops with commodity crops like cacao—has transformed forest ecologies, risking loss to both biodiversity and cultural ecosystem services (CES) for surrounding co…
Navigating shifting waters: Subjectivity, oil extraction, and Urarina territorial strategies in the Peruvian Amazon
This paper examines the relationships between extractive infrastructure, changing territorial strategies, and contemporary processes of subject formation among the Urarina, an indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon. We first introduce the uneven and combined character of oil extraction in the Loreto region in north-eastern Peru, and how its racialised spatial contradictions are expressed in the ethnopolitical field that gives political form to …
Ticuna Ceramics Amidst the Expansion of Illicit Coca: Rendering New Relations
In Ticuna communities across Amazonia, ceramics are useful objects employed for cooking and storage. Their practical importance, however, does not describe the extent of their significance. In the following article, we consider Ticuna ceramics and ceramic-making practices as a means of studying the changes set in motion by the transformation of Ticuna ancestral lands in Peru’s lowland Amazonian region into zones of illicit coca cultivation. Drawi…
Intensive field sampling increases the known extent of carbon-rich Amazonian peatland pole forests
Peatland pole forest is the most carbon-dense ecosystem in Amazonia, but its spatial distribution and species composition are poorly known. To address this knowledge gap, we quantified variation in the floristic composition, peat thickness, and the amount of carbon stored above and below ground of 102 forest plots and 53 transects in northern Peruvian Amazonia. This large dataset includes 571 ground reference points of peat thickness measurements…
Peatland and wetland ecosystems in Peruvian Amazonia: Indigenous Classifications and Perspectives
Schulz, C., M. Martín Brañas, C. Núñez Pérez, M. Del Aguila Villacorta, N. Laurie, I. T. Lawson, and K. H. Roucoux. 2019. Peatland and wetland ecosystems in Peruvian Amazonia: indigenous classifications and perspectives. Ecology and Society 24(2):12. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10886-240212
Peatland and wetland ecosystems in Peruvian Amazonia: Indigenous Classifications and Perspectives
Schulz, C., M. Martín Brañas, C. Núñez Pérez, M. Del Aguila Villacorta, N. Laurie, I. T. Lawson, and K. H. Roucoux. 2019. Peatland and wetland ecosystems in Peruvian Amazonia: indigenous classifications and perspectives. Ecology and Society 24(2):12. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10886-240212
Peatland and wetland ecosystems in Peruvian Amazonia: Indigenous Classifications and Perspectives
Schulz, C., M. Martín Brañas, C. Núñez Pérez, M. Del Aguila Villacorta, N. Laurie, I. T. Lawson, and K. H. Roucoux. 2019. Peatland and wetland ecosystems in Peruvian Amazonia: indigenous classifications and perspectives. Ecology and Society 24(2):12. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10886-240212
Intensive field sampling increases the known extent of carbon-rich Amazonian peatland pole forests
Peatland pole forest is the most carbon-dense ecosystem in Amazonia, but its spatial distribution and species composition are poorly known. To address this knowledge gap, we quantified variation in the floristic composition, peat thickness, and the amount of carbon stored above and below ground of 102 forest plots and 53 transects in northern Peruvian Amazonia. This large dataset includes 571 ground reference points of peat thickness measurements…
Ticuna Ceramics Amidst the Expansion of Illicit Coca: Rendering New Relations
In Ticuna communities across Amazonia, ceramics are useful objects employed for cooking and storage. Their practical importance, however, does not describe the extent of their significance. In the following article, we consider Ticuna ceramics and ceramic-making practices as a means of studying the changes set in motion by the transformation of Ticuna ancestral lands in Peru’s lowland Amazonian region into zones of illicit coca cultivation. Drawi…
Navigating shifting waters: Subjectivity, oil extraction, and Urarina territorial strategies in the Peruvian Amazon
This paper examines the relationships between extractive infrastructure, changing territorial strategies, and contemporary processes of subject formation among the Urarina, an indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon. We first introduce the uneven and combined character of oil extraction in the Loreto region in north-eastern Peru, and how its racialised spatial contradictions are expressed in the ethnopolitical field that gives political form to …
Spatiotemporal Impacts of Drug Crop and Commodity Agriculture on Cultural Ecosystem Services: The Case of Ischnosiphon in Ticuna Communities of Loreto, Peru
In recent decades, drug crop eradication and drug trafficking interdiction have pushed drug crop cultivation into new areas of the Amazonian rain forest. The presence of the drug industries in these regions—followed by alternative development programs that aim to substitute illicit drug crops with commodity crops like cacao—has transformed forest ecologies, risking loss to both biodiversity and cultural ecosystem services (CES) for surrounding co…
Long‐term interventions by conservation and development projects support successful recovery of tropical peatlands in Amazonia
Rural communities in Amazonia rely on harvesting Mauritia flexuosa fruit, a dominant peatland palm, for their subsistence and income. However, these palms are felled to harvest the fruits, which has led to reduced resource availability due to the pressure exerted by the increasing fruit demand. As a result, climbing has been proposed as a means to harvest the fruits sustainably. However, the long‐term ecological and socio‐economic impacts of clim…
Geography (6 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Amazon rainforest (4 works) · Biology (4 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (3 works) · Environmental Science (3 works) · Forestry (3 works) · Peat (3 works) · Agroforestry (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works)