Peru
In Peru, DRYFLOR’s core collaborators come from several institutions covering most of the seasonally dry forest distribution in the country.
Reynaldo Linares-Palomino, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute & Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina
Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad del Cusco
María de los Ángeles La Torre Cuadros, Universidad Científica del Sur, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina & A Rocha Perú
José Luis Marcelo Peña, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina
Sonia Palacios Ramos, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina
The Peruvian National Forest Herbarium (MOL-Forestal), based at the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina is leading the data gathering and cleaning for the DRYFLOR Peru inventories. MOL has carried out intensive vegetation inventories, taxonomic studies and conservation activities in Peruvian seasonally dry ecosystems during the past 15 years.
Network partner Dr. Linares Palomino is an expert in the floristics of Andean seasonally dry forests, having studied this ecosystem since 1999 with extensive fieldwork in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. Together with in-country collaborators they aim to increase our understanding of the still poorly known Peruvian seasonally dry forests in terms of floristics, biogeography and ecology. This information will be valuable to highlight their national and regional relevance and provide tools to strengthen management and conservation actions.
In addition to the overall continental wide aims of the DryFlor Network, the Peruvian partners are striving to:
1. encourage increased collaboration in the use and management of the collated data among local scientists,
2. increase the training opportunities in data analysis and management of students and junior scientists,
3. make the results of our analyses and publications available to governmental institutions in a non-technical language to encourage the knowledge and conservation of the seasonally dry forests in Peru.
Reynaldo Linares-Palomino, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute & Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina
Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad del Cusco
María de los Ángeles La Torre Cuadros, Universidad Científica del Sur, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina & A Rocha Perú
José Luis Marcelo Peña, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina
Sonia Palacios Ramos, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina
The Peruvian National Forest Herbarium (MOL-Forestal), based at the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina is leading the data gathering and cleaning for the DRYFLOR Peru inventories. MOL has carried out intensive vegetation inventories, taxonomic studies and conservation activities in Peruvian seasonally dry ecosystems during the past 15 years.
Network partner Dr. Linares Palomino is an expert in the floristics of Andean seasonally dry forests, having studied this ecosystem since 1999 with extensive fieldwork in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. Together with in-country collaborators they aim to increase our understanding of the still poorly known Peruvian seasonally dry forests in terms of floristics, biogeography and ecology. This information will be valuable to highlight their national and regional relevance and provide tools to strengthen management and conservation actions.
In addition to the overall continental wide aims of the DryFlor Network, the Peruvian partners are striving to:
1. encourage increased collaboration in the use and management of the collated data among local scientists,
2. increase the training opportunities in data analysis and management of students and junior scientists,
3. make the results of our analyses and publications available to governmental institutions in a non-technical language to encourage the knowledge and conservation of the seasonally dry forests in Peru.