Cristian Echeverria
Forest Engineer, M.Sc. (Universidad Austral de Chile)
M.Phil., Ph.D. (University of Cambridge, UK)
Full Professor
Director of Landscape Ecology Lab
Director of Campus Naturaleza Project
Co-director Foresta Nativa Initiative
Faculty of Forest Sciences
University of Concepción
Postal address:
Victoria 631, Barrio Universitario
Concepción
cristian.echeverria@udec.cl
X @cristian_Eche7
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6456-6431News:
NEW GUIDE ON ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION IN ECOSYSTEMS INVADED BY EXOTIC TREE SPECIES
Research topics:
- Cause and impacts of land use and cover change
- Assessment and spatial modelling of ecosystem services
- Planning and assessment for biodiversity conservation
- Restoration of ecosystem and landscape
- Landscape sustainability science
I'm focused on:
- evaluating and implementing conservation actions of threatened species through multi-scale approaches,
- assessing the impacts of land use change on multiple ecosystem services and forest biodiversity,
- restoring degraded ecosystems in south-central Chile,
- researching landscape restoration and planning through integrated approaches and landscape sustainability science, and
- modeling landscape scenarios using spatial databases and GIS tools to understand potential impacts of global change.
Afiliations/membership:
- Vice-president for International Association for Landscape Ecology - global 2017-2021 and 2021-2025 (IALE)
- Tree specialist for IUCN Species Survival Commission
- Society for Ecological Restoration (SER)
- Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI)
- Associate Researcher for Millennium Nucleus Center for the Socioeconomic Impact of Environmental Policies (until 2020)
Editor for scientific journals/book:
- Landscape Ecology journal- associate editor
- Perspective in Ecology and Conservation- editorial board
- Socio-ecological Practice Research - editorial board
- Springer Landscape Series- Editor-in-Chief