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Bárbara Ayala Orozco

Ph.D. 2008, Environmental Studies
Barbara Ayala   Tropical Restoration Ecology

My dissertation research focused on understanding the effects of habitat fragmentation and microclimate variation on the ecological mechanisms that maintain plant diversity in tropical forests. My overall goal was to understand how human impacts disrupt ecological processes and to use that scientific knowledge to inform conservation policy and the design of effective management actions. more research interests...
Email: barbaraaya <at> gmail.com     
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratorio de Análisis Espaciales, Instituto de Biología, UNAM		  

 

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Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae

Bárbara Ayala Orozco

Education
University of California Santa Cruz (Ph.D. 2008) Environmental Studies
University of California Santa Cruz (M.S. 2004) Environmental Studies: Tropical Ecology and Conservation)
Tropical Biology (2003) Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica and Panama
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (B.S. in Biology, 2001)

Honors
Miguel Velez Fellowship, University of California 2007
Teaching Assistant Award, Environmental Studies Department, UCSC 2007
Award in Tropical Biology, Garden Club of America 2006
Jean H. Langenheim Graduate Fellowship, UCSC 2006
STEPS Institute Graduate Research Grant 2006
UC MEXUS Research Grant and Mildred Mathias Award 2004
CenTREAD Tropical Research Grant 2004
Graduate Research Award, Environmental Studies Department, UCSC 2004-2007
Beca UC MEXUS-CONACYT 2004-2006
FULBRIGHT Fellowship 2001-2004

Select Recent Publications
Ayala-Orozco, B and GS Gilbert (in review). Effects of soil pathogens on seed germination of tropical forest plant species. Biotropica.

Gilbert, G, E Howard, B Ayala-Orozco, M Bonilla, J Cummings, SM Langridge, IM Parker, J Pasari, D Schweizer, and S Swope. (in review). Beyond the tropics: forest structure in a mapped temperate forest plot. Journal of Vegetation Science.

Garcia-Frapolli, E, B Ayala-Orozco, M Bonilla-Moheno, C Espadas-Manrique, and G Ramos-Fernandez. 2007. Biodiversity conservation, traditional agriculture and ecotourism: Land cover/land use change projections for a natural protected area in the northeastern Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Landscape and Urban Planning 83:137-153.

CenTREAD Working Group. 2007. Book Review: Zimmerer, KS (Ed) (2006) Globalization & New Geographies of Conservation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 357 pp., Journal of Environment Development 16:345-346.

Bonilla-Moheno, M, B Ayala-Orozco, E García-Frapolli, and G Ramos-Fernández. 2006. La casa del mono araña. Biodiversitas 66. CONABIO.

CenTREAD Working Group. 2005. Making Parks Work: a thought-provoking argument, but not a guide. Conservation Biology 19:279-281.

Ramos-Fernandez, G, JL Mateos, O Miramontes, G Cocho, H Larralde, and B Ayala-Orozco. 2004. Levy walk patterns in the foraging movements of spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 55:223-230.

Ramos-Fernandez, G and B Ayala-Orozco. 2003. Population size and habitat use in spider monkeys at Punta Laguna, Mexico. In: LK

Marsh, Editor, Primates in Fragments: Ecology and Conservation, Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York.

Ayala-Orozco, B. 2001. Estudio del uso de hábitat de dos grupos de monos araña (Ateles geoffroyi yucatanensis) en la localidad de Punta Laguna, en la Península de Yucatán. Tesis de Licenciatura. Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM. México.

Select professional experience
Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratorio de Análisis Espaciales, Instituto de Biología, UNAM

Global Conservation Network Fellow. RARE conservation, Washington DC Sep 2008 - Feb 2009

Select teaching experience
Environmental Studies Department, teaching assistant: Tropical Ecology and Conservation, Ecology, Plant Disease Ecology.

Escuela Secundaria Logos, México DF. Biology Teacher
   

 

 

Expanded Research Interests.

Biodiversity conservation, tropical ecology, forest dynamics, global change and deforestation, resilience and vulnerability of socio-ecological systems, community-based conservation, Latin America.