Expertise:
Forest, landscape, and urban ecology, land cover/land use change, ecosystem services, place-based and citizen science, sustainability science and natural resource management. Research lab name: Integrative Forest Ecology Laboratory (IFEL)
Ongoing projects:
El Yunque National Forest vegetation monitoring project; tropical tree community demography in the Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot, vegetative biodiversity and carbon dynamics in tropical forest and agroforestry systems.
Research and training programs:
- Institute for INnovation in Sustainability Training, Applications and Research in Agri-Environmental Sciences (IINSTAR-AS)
- Luquillo Long-Term Ecological Research Program (LUQ-LTER)
- Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce Through Atmospheric Research at The University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras (RENEW-AR-UPRRP)
- RCE Puerto Rico-Red de Educación para el Desarrollo Sostenible (REDeS)
Links:
- @iinstaras & @rcepr_redes
- luquillo.lter.network
- https://natsci.uprrp.edu/tropiecology/research/renew-fellowship/
Contact information: christopher.nytch@upr.edu/ (787) 764-0000 Ext. 88202