Current Institution
Polo de Ecología Fluvial
CENUR Litoral Norte - Universidad de la República
EEMAC, km. 363, Rta. 3
Paysandú
URUGUAY
+598 4722 7950 int 136
Education
Ph.D., 2011, Dept. of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida
B.A., 2001, Biology, Vassar College
School of International Training - Ecuador, 2000
Peer-reviewed Publications
Artículos científicos (Arbitrados)
- Lucas, C.M., Ceroni, M., Baeza, S., Brazeiro, A. & Muñoz, A.A. 2017. Time-scale dependent effects of climate variability on productivity of riparian and upland woodlands in Uruguay. 2o Journal of Vegetation Science 28: 192-205.
- Lucas, C.M., P. Sheikh, P.R. Gagnon, & D.G. McGrath. 2016. How livestock and flooding mediate the ecological integrity of working forests in Amazon River floodplains. Ecological Applications 26(1): 190–202.
- Lucas, C.M. 2014. Second Growth: The Promise of Tropical Forest Regeneration in an Age of Deforestation, Robin L. Chazdon. Book Review Biotropica 46(6):771. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/btp.12164/abstract
- Lucas, C.M. REPRINT: 2014 (2008). Within flood season variation in fruit consumption and seed dispersal by two characin fishes of the Amazon. Biotropica Virtual Issue: Brazil. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1744-7429/homepage/climate_change_articles.htm?campaign=wlytk-41800.3255555556
- Lucas, C.M., J. Schöngart, P. Sheikh, F. Wittmann, M.T.F. Piedade, & D.G. McGrath. 2014. Effects of land-use and hydroperiod on aboveground biomass storage and accumulation in secondary Amazonian floodplain forests. Forest Ecology and Management 319:116-127.
- Lucas, C.M., Bruna, E., C.N. Nascimento. 2013. Seedling co-tolerance of multiple stressors in a disturbed tropical floodplain forest. Ecosphere 4(1): art3. www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/ES12-00287.1
- Lucas, C.M. F. Mekdeçe, C.N. Nascimento, A.S. Holanda, J. Braga, S. Dias, S. Sousa, P.S. Rosa, C. Suemitsu. 2012. The effects of waterlogging and prolonged submergence on seed germination of Amazonian floodplain species. Aquatic Botany 99: 49-55.
- Horn, M., S.B. Correa, P. Parolin, B.J.A. Pollux, J.T. Anderson, C. Lucas, P. Widmann, A. Tiju, M. Galetti, and M. Goulding. 2011. Seed dispersal by fishes in tropical and temperate waters: the growing evidence. Acta Oecologia 37:561-577.
- 9.Parolin P, C. Lucas, M.T.F. Piedade, & F. Wittmann. 2010. Drought responses of flood-tolerant trees in Amazonian Floodplains. Special Feature: Plant distribution in wetlands in relation to flooding tolerance and microbial processes. Annals of Botany 105(1): 129-139
- Lucas, C.M. 2008. Within flood season variation in fruit consumption and seed dispersal by two characin fishes of the Amazon. Biotropica 40(5): 581–589.
- Hartter, J., C. Lucas, A. Gaughan, and L.L. Aranda. 2008. Detecting tropical dry forest succession in a shifting cultivation mosaic of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. Applied Geography 28(2): 134-149.
Professional Experience:
2015-
Adjunct Professor / Coordinadora, Polo de Desarrollo Universitario "Ecología Fluvial", Universidad de la República, CENUR Litoral Norte, Sede Paysandú, Uruguay.
2013-2015
ANII Post-doctoral fellow "Fondo Profesor Dr. Roberto Caldeyro Barcia", Instituto de Ecología y Ciencias Ambientales, Universidad de la República del Uruguay (A. Brazeiro)
2012-14
Editorial Consultant, FAO, Organization and editing of FAO FIRF documents on Fisher's Knowledge and the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries in Latin America
2009-11
Graduate Assistant, University of Florida, USA
Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), U.S.-Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program: Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development Exchange Program for undergraduate students from Brazil & U.S. (E. Bruna)
2003-04
Clark Research Fellow, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM), Brazil. Forest Inventories & Frugivorous Fish Ecology (D. McGrath)
2003
Project Assistant, Institute of Ecosystem Studies (IES), NY, USA
Field research for Biodiversity, fragmentation, and Lyme disease risk (R. Ostfeld)
2003
Consultant, NY Department of Environmental Conservation, NY, USA
Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve & Tivoli Bays Visitors Center.
2001-02
Curatorial Assistant, New York Botanical Garden, NY, USA
International Plant Science Center, Herbarim, Amazon and Mata Atlântica collections.
