Biography:
Dr. Mariana Alvarez completed her PhD in Sciencies at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in 2012. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Minnesota, USA, she joined to UNAM, where she now serves as a Full-time Professor. Her research primarily explores the functional ecology of tropical forests, with a particular focus on the responses of tropical communities to disturbance, fragmentation, and climate change. Additionally, she is interested in developing new monitoring techniques to assess the functional performance of tropical vegetation.
Title : Linking Anthropogenic Landscape Perturbation to Herbivory and Pathogen Leaf Damage in Tropical Tree Communities