Arthur Cruz Silva (Zona da Mata-UFV) Diversidade, uso e características funcionais de espécies arbóreas em sistemas agroflorestais
Alvaro Cubilos Buitrago (Marqués de Comillas) Modeling forest regeneration potential and persistence in agricultural landscapes in Marqués de Comillas, Mexico
Yoeri A de Vries (Marqués de Comillas) Contingencies in Land Use Change – An Ethnography of Local Landscape Dynamics in an Ejido in Marqués de Comillas, Mexico
Marcos Della Nina Gambi (Marqués de Comillas) Participatory mapping of ecosystem services at Marqués de Comillas, Chiapas, Mexico
Philip Egloff (La Sepultura) Tapping Pinus oocarpa Assessing drivers of resin yield in natural stands of Pinus oocarpa in La Sepultura, Mexico.
Lisa Freitag (Zona da Mata) The effect of land-use type on species diversity on farming systems in Zona da Mata, Brazil.
Tom Grandjean (Marqués de Comillas) Seed rain during succession in a wet lowland neotropical forest
Julia Hacklander (La Sepultura) Land-use dynamics in an agro-forest frontier in La Sepultura, Mexico.
Jeroen Heyvaert (Marqués de Comillas) Early successional dynamics and functional composition in abandoned pastures and maize fields in Chiapas, South-Eastern Mexico – Implications for restoration
Delphin Jamme (Zona da Mata) Soil-based ecosystem services along a forest succession gradient
Matthew Kyriakides (La Sepultura) Litter Quality, not Nutrient Quantity: Towards an Understanding of Decomposition and Nutrient Cycling in an Agro-Forest Frontier
Kieran Leigh-Moy (La Sepultura) Sustainability of pine resin and fuelwood production in Mexican rangelands
Nalini Mahesh (Marqués de Comillas) Rural household decision making in land use transitions in two Mexican ejidos of the municipality Marqués de Comillas, Chiapas.
Kimberly Merten & Jean Marc Pace Ricci Verifying People’s Contribution to Nature: synergistic ecological change in the INREF FOREFRONT program. Case-Study.
Jean Marc Pace Ricci & Kimberly Merten Reviewing People’s Contribution to Nature: a synthesis of synergies and their biocultural values.
Anais Passera (Marqués de Comillas) Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and land use change
Niara Ruth (Zona da Mata) The fragmented landscape of Zona da Mata: secondary forest recovery in relation to agricultural management intensities
Tijmen Scholten (Marqués de Comillas) Grassland use intensity and ecosystem services.
Elsbeth Smit (La Sepultura) Exploring Land Use Intensity and indicators of Soil Ecosystem Services in Mexican agro-forest rangelands.
Donna Stolwijk (Marqués de Comillas) A palliative against deforestation: a process evaluation of Payments for Environmental Services in Marqués de Comillas, Mexico
Dana van Bentum (Marqués de Comillas) Impact of management intensity on vegetation and soil quality of the rangelands in Marques de Comillas, Mexico
Roos van der Logt (Marqués de Comillas) Dimensionality of the root economic spectrum in the Lacandon rainforest, Mexico
Lei van Haperen (Marqués de Comillas) Unravelling the role of nature's contribution to people for land-use decisions by ejidatarios in the Lacandon rainforest, Mexico.
Ardjan Vermue (Zona da Mata) Farmers perceptions and management of ecosystem services in the Atlantic Rainforest biome.
MSc internships
Tom Grandjean. Tree species identification in Marqués de Comillas.
BSc theses
Esther Salinas Arroyo (IIES) Recolonisation, land tenure and forest cover change in Marqués de Comillas, Chiapas, Mexico.
Laura van Gilst (WUR) Landscape approaches in practice A literature review on ten projects
Talita Guarçoni (UFV) Estudo funcional comparativo para implementação de espécies arbóreas nativas da Mata Atlântica em Sistemas Agroflorestais com café, na Zona da Mata – MG
Tales Theodoro (UFV) Carbono da Biomassa Microbiana em Solos Sob Diferentes Manejos.
News and agenda
June 22, 2021 Roundtable at the 13th Congress of the Mexican Association of Rural Studies, Challenges and tensions between conservation and development within natural protected areas (Amayrani Meza Jiménez, Alan Heinze Yothers, Juana Cruz Morales, Alejandra Hernández Guzmán)
September 3, 2021, 4pm: Public defence Alan Heinze Yothers
