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Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Botucatu. Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas (FCA) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Vera Lex Engel has a degree in Forest Engineering by University of São Paulo (USP), MSc in Forestry by the same University and PhD degree in Ecology by the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Associate Professor at São Paulo State University-UNESP, teaching in the undergraduate and graduate (MSc and PhD) programs in Forestry since 1989, currently retired and active as a volunteer senior professor. Coordination of the Forest Ecology and Restoration Laboratory from 1997 to 2022. Research themes include several aspects of ecology, restoration and management of tropical forests, including tropical forestry and agroforestry. Besides the academic researcher role, she is an environmental activist, supporting public and private organizations and NGOs. Member of national and international research organizations as IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organizations), with the role of Deputy (for Latin America) at the Unit 1.06.00- Restoration of Degraded Lands, from 2001-2014, and member of the Task Force on Forest Adaptation and Restoration Under Global Change, from 2015 to 2019. Member of SER (Society of Ecological Restoration), where she was a member of the Board of Directors, 2015-2018, representing Latin America and the Caribbean. Founder member of REBRE- Brazilian Ecological Restoration Network and SOBRE- Brazilian Society of Ecological Restoration (Board of Directors, 2016-2018; Consultive Council, 2018-2020; Board of Directors, 2025-2027). Adviser of several research cooperative programs, research institutes and NGOs as a tropical forestry and forest ecologist expert. Visiting academic at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 2012-2013. Experinced in FSC certification, she was Member of the FSC-Technical Working Committee that discussed the procedures for remediation of converted areas within the scope of FSC certification, 2019-2022. Scientific Referee of high-level national and international scientific journals. ORCID ID 0000-0001-5806-2544. Scopus Author ID 7005055542. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Among the ecosystems of tropical and subtropical forests, the Atlantic Forest is one of the most affected by land use change, remaining only 7.26% of its original vegetation cover. Currently, Atlantic Forest restoration has driven an increasing importance. Several public and private programs to promote this activity aim at aggregating values, particularly carbon sequestration. One questio…
Basic wood density is an important predictor variable in biomass and carbon estimation protocols of forest ecosystems. However, wood density data for young trees, which is the case of forests in restoration, are still scarce, affecting the accuracy of estimates. We aimed to evaluate the error contained in biomass estimates when differences in basic wood density between young and adult tre…
Leaf-cutting ants are dominant herbivorous insects in Neotropics and have high potential for modifying and structuring plant communities, being considered as ecosystem engineers. Most damages caused by ants of the genus Atta and Acromyrmex are associated with the leaves of the trees and seedlings, through their herbivorous habits. In the case of areas undergoing restoration, ants have bee…
One of the goals of ecology is to understand the mechanism that controls abundance and distribution of organisms. Functional traits provide generalizations and prediction of species compositions in different habitats. The aim of this study is to explain some distribution patterns found in previous surveys of the liana community in restored areas versus reference systems. We will compare t…
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Today there's an unquestionable consensus that biodiversity loss decreases the ecosystems capacity of providing society's services by the biological communities efficiency loss in capturing essential resources, decomposing and recycling material. The relationship between biodiversity and function (BEF theory) has emerged as an important area of Ecology in the last few decades and has been…
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