PUBLICATIONS

  1. Fernandez Barrancos, E.P., Marquis, R.J., Leighton Reid, J., 2022. Restoration plantations accelerate dead wood accumulation in tropical premontane forests. For. Ecol. Manag. 508, 120015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120015
  2. Fernandez Barrancos, E.P., Reid, J.L., Hall, J.S., 2019. Lack of Araceae in Young Forests Highlights the Importance of Mature Forest Conservation. Trop. Conserv. Sci. 12, 1940082919849504. https://doi.org/10.1177/1940082919849504
  3. Fernandez Barrancos, E.P., Reid, J.L., Aronson, J., 2017. Tank bromeliad transplants as an enrichment strategy in southern Costa Rica. Ecol. 25, 569–576. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.12463

EXTERNAL BLOG POSTS

  1. Planting Trees Recovers 70 year’s worth of dead wood carbon pools in less than two decades (link)- Natural History of Ecological Restoration Blog, Missouri Botanical Garden (2022)
  2. Hard times for hemiepiphytes: Aroids have trouble making a comeback in second-growth forests (link) – Natural History of Ecological Restoration Blog, Missouri Botanical Garden (2019)
  3. Vascular epiphyte restoration using bromeliad transplants in Southern Costa Rica (link) – Natural History of Ecological Restoration Blog, Missouri Botanical Garden (2016)
  4. Transplanted Bromeliads Improve Microclimate and Facilitate Arthropods in Restored Forests (link) – Natural History of Ecological Restoration Blog, Missouri Botanical Garden (2015)
  5. Featured, In Defense of Plants Podcast 95, Epiphyte Restoration

PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES

1.        Impacts of Forest Restoration on Dead Wood Decomposition and Associated Arthropod CommunitiesInvited,  Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (2022)

2.       Restoration plantations recover 40% of forest dead wood in 17 years – University of Missouri-St. Louis Graduate Research fair (2022)

3.       Pitfall Traps 101: insect sampling in restored tropical forests Invited, Michigan State University, Dr. Catherine Lindell

4.       Restoration plantations accelerate the recovery of dead wood in tropical premontane forests – Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Virtual (2021)

5.       Tank bromeliad transplants as an enrichment strategy in southern Costa Rica – Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, France (2016)

6.       Lack of Araceae in young forests highlights the importance of mature forest conservation (poster) – St. Louis Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Symposium, United States (2018)