Education

• B.S. Biology. Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. 1991.
• M.S. Ecology. University of Connecticut, USA. 1997.
• Ph.D. Ecology. University of Connecticut, USA. 2000.
• Post-doctoral fellow. Ecology of Tropical Communities. Universidad Autónoma de México. 2002.

Current research

• Global Change In Neotropical Ecosystems.

ONGOING RESEARCH

• Estimation of aerial biomass in tropical forests of the Yucatan Peninsula, using field data and remote sensing. (Ecometrica LTD, British Spatial Agency).
• Biogeochemical recovery of tropical dry forests after land use change. (CONACYT, Ciencia de Frontera)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Reyes-Palomeque G., Dupuy J.M., Portillo-Quintero C.A., Andrade J.L., Tun-Dzul F.J., Hernández-Stefanoni J.L. 2021. Mapping forest age and characterizing vegetation structure and species composition in tropical dry forests. Ecological Indicators 120 106955 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106955
• Saenz-Pedroza I., Feldman R., Reyes-García C., Meave J.A., Calvo-Irabien L.M., May-Pat F., Dupuy J.M. 2020. Seasonal and successional dynamics of size-dependent plant demographic rates in a tropical dry forest. PeerJ 8:e9636 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9636.
• Morffi-Mestre H., Ángeles-Pérez, G., Powers, J.S., Andrade, J.L., Huechacona-Ruiz A.H., May-Pat, F., Chi-May, F., Dupuy, J.M. 2020. Multiple Factors Influence Seasonal and Interannual Litterfall Production in a Tropical Dry Forest in Mexico. Forests 11, 1241; https://doi.org/10.3390/f11121241.
• Huechacona-Ruiz A.H., Dupuy, J.M., Schwartz N.B., Powers J.S., Reyes-García C., Tun-Dzul F., Hernández-Stefanoni J.L. 2020. Mapping Tree Species Deciduousness of Tropical Dry Forests Combining Reflectance, Spectral Unmixing, and Texture Data from High-Resolution Imagery. Forests 11, 1234. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11111234.
• Rozendaal D. M. A., N. Ascarrunz, F. Bongers, T. M. Aide, E. Alvarez-Dávila, P. H. S. Brancalion, P. Balvanera, J. M. Becknell, T. V. Bentos, R. G. César, G. A. L. Cabral, S. Calvo-Rodriguez, J. Chave, J. S. Almeida-Cortez, R. L. Chazdon, R. Condit, J. S. Dallinga, D. H. Dent, B. de Jong, A. de Oliveira, J. S. Denslow, M. M. Espírito-Santo, Saara J. DeWalt, J. M. Dupuy, … L. Poorter. 2019. Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests. Science Advances 5: eaau3114. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau3114

RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS

• Associate Editor. Tropical Conservation Science (ISSN 1940-0829). 2011.
• Associate Editor. Tropical Ecology (ISSN 0564-3295). 2013-2018.
• Fulbright-García Robles (COMEXUS) Sabbatical scholarship – Fulbright Visiting Scholar – Senior Researcher. 2017-2018.
• CONACYT Sabbatical scholarship. 2017-2018.
• Regional President, Yucatan Peninsula. Sociedad Científica Mexicana de Ecología. 2014-2016.

RECOMMENDED WEB PAGES

• Full Curriculum Vitae.

RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES

• Resilience of tropical forests to land use change and climate change, focused on succession and woody vegetation dynamics. Plant functional strategies along ecological gradients. Monitoring forest carbon as a basis for mitigating climate change.