Áreas de Investigación

• Conservación biológica
• Restauración ecológica
• Gobernanza forestal

Líneas de Investigación

• Restauración participativa
• Valoración socio-cultural
• Percepciones sociales
• Servicios ecosistémicos

Áreas de Investigación

• 2019-2022. FONDECYT. Investigador Responsable. Ecological and social aspects of the forest-water relationship: Implications for land planning in the temperate ecosystems of South-Central Chile.
• 2021-2023. CONAF – Fondo de Investigación del Bosque Nativo. Co-Investigador. Áreas productoras de semillas y técnicas de viverización de plantas de alta calidad de Pitra y Temu para el repoblamiento de humedales forestales.
• 2022-2024. CONAF – Fondo de Investigación del Bosque Nativo. Co-Investigador. Restauración ecológica en vegetación xerofítica: uso de bioindicadores clave para evaluar el éxito de proyectos a corto plazo.

Últimas Publicaciones

Hua F, LA Bruijnzeel, P Meli, PA Martin, J Zhang, S Nakagawa, X Miao, W Wang, C McEvoy, JL Peña-Arancibia, PHS Brancalion, P Smith, DP Edwards, A Balmford. 2022. The ecosystem service and biodiversity contributions
and trade-offs of contrasting forest restoration approaches. Science, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abl4649

Aguiar S, M Mastrángelo, PHS Brancalion, P Meli. 2021. Transformative governance for linking forest and landscape restoration to human well-being in Latin America. Ecosystems and People, https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2021.1976838

Siqueira LP, AM Tedesco, P Meli, A Diederichsen, PHS Brancalion. 2021 Gender inclusion: Why ecological restoration cannot be neutral. Restoration Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13497

Borda-Niño M, E Ceccon, P Meli, D Hernández-Muciño, JF Mas, PHS Brancalion. 2021. Integrating farmers’ decisions on the assessment of forest regeneration drivers in a rural landscape of Southeastern Brazil. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pecon.2021.04.001

Meli P, PHS Brancalion, JM Rey Benayas. 2019. Balancing land sharing and sparing approaches to promote forest landscape restoration. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, 17:201-205, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pecon.2019.09.002

Meli P, A Calle, Z Calle, CI Ortiz Arrona, M Sirombra, PHS Brancalion. 2019. Riparian-forest buffers: Bridging the gap between top-down and bottom-up restoration approaches in Latin America. Land Use Policy 87:104085, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104085

Jones HP, PC Jones, EB Barbier, RC Blackburn, JM Rey Benayas, KD Holl, M McCrackin, P Meli, D Montoya, D Moreno Mateos. 2019. We agree with Larkin et al. 2019: restoration is context specific. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1179

Jones HP, PC Jones, EB Barbier, RC Blackburn, JM Rey Benayas, KD Holl, M McCrackin, P Meli, D Montoya, D Moreno Mateos. 2018. Restoration and repair of Earth’s damaged ecosystems. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285: 20172577, https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.2577

Meli P, K Holl, JM Rey Benayas, H Jones, P Jones, D Montoya, D Moreno-Mateos. 2017. A global review of past land use, climate, and active vs. passive restoration effects on forest recovery. PLoS ONE 12(2): e0171368, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0171368