Education

• B.S. Biology. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 2001.
• Ph.D. University of Cambridge. 2006.
• Post-doctoral fellow. Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán. 2007.

Current research

• Global Change In Neotropical Ecosystems.
• Plant ecophysiological strategies in seasonally dry systems; comparing similarities and divergence of physiological processes in trees and epiphytes that subsist in tropical communities exposed to long periods of drought.
• Ecosystem environmental services; analysis of the capacity of natural systems to provide ecosystem services, from trees in cities to assessments of forests throughout the Yucatan Peninsula.

ONGOING RESEARCH

• Monitoring effects of climate change on coastal dune scrub, mangroves and seasonally dry forests using epiphytic bromeliads as indicators.
• Strategic environmental assessment of Yucatan State and current development projects.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• osado‐Calderón, A. T., Tamayo‐Chim, M., de la Barrera, E., Ramírez‐Morillo, I. M., Andrade, J. L., Briones, O., y Reyes‐García, C. (2020) High resilience to extreme climatic changes in the CAM epiphyte Tillandsia utriculata L.(Bromeliaceae). Physiologia plantarum. 168: 547-562. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppl.12805.
• Espadas Manrique C., Linares M, Orellana R., Peniche Aké S. y Reyes-García C. (2020) Evaluation of the extinction risk of Beaucarnea pliabilis (Asparagaceae) (despeinada or tsiipil), an endemic species of the Yucatan Peninsula. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad. 91, 913428. https://doi.org/10.22201/ib.20078706e.2020.91.3428.
• Chávez-Sahagún, E., Andrade, J. L., Zotz, G., y Reyes-García, C. (2019). Dew Can Prolong Photosynthesis and Water Status During Drought in Some Epiphytic Bromeliads From a Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest. Tropical Conservation Science, 12, 1940082919870054. https://doi.org/10.1177/1940082919870054.
• Reyes-García C, Espadas-Manrique C, García Quintanilla A, Tamayo Chim M (2019) The Maya Train: Why are biologists so concerned? Desde el herbario CICY. 11:119-125. https://www.cicy.mx/Documentos/CICY/Desde_Herbario/2019/2019-06-20-Reyes-et-al.-El-Tren-maya.pdf.
• Chilpa-Galván, N., Márquez-Guzmán, J., Zotz, G., Echevarría-Machado, I., Andrade, J. L., Espadas-Manrique, C., & Reyes-García, C. (2018) Seed traits favouring dispersal and establishment of six epiphytic Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae) species. Seed Science Research, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960258518000247.

RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS

• 2011. Level I. Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. CONACyT
• 2020. Member. Academia Mexicana de Ciencias.
• 2020. Level II. Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. CONACyT