In progress:

 

• 2015-2018. Using the forest fires of the China Muerta National Reserve (CMNR) as a natural laboratory for assessing their ecological impacts. Proyecto FONDECYT Iniciation into Research No. 11150487. Pricipal  Investigator Dr. Andres Fuentes.

 

• 2015-2018. A growth model for Nothofagus second-growth forests: merging and statistical modeling approaches for quantifying forest dynamics. FONDECYT No. 1151495. Pricipal investigator Dr. Christian Salas.

 

• 2015-2018. Variable-density thinning to enhance growth, heterogeneity and biodiversity: a stepping stone to achieving sustainable forest management in second-growth forests? FONDECYT Project No. 1150496. Co-researcher Dr. Christian Salas.

 

• 2014-2016. Development management diagrams density to second growth forests of evergreen forest type. FIBN project No. 038/2014. Co-researcher Dr. Christian Salas.

 

• 2014-2015. Foreign diversity-invasiveness of coastal forests in central Chile and post restoration resilience. CONICYT project PAI No. # 821320069. Principal investigator Dr. Rodrigo Vargas.

 

 Finished:

 

• 2011-2015. Promote silviculture to old-growth forest attributes: ecological effects of thinnings on second growth forests in south-central Chile. FONDECYT Project No. 1110744, Co-Investigator Dr. Christian Salas.

 

• 2011-2014. Hybrid growth modeling: Integrating Processes and physiological conditions with tree growth forest Within a changing climate framework. FONDECYT Project No. 11110270. Principal investigator Dr. Christian Salas.

 

• 2011-2012. Spatial and temporal analysis of the growth and mortality of trees in a mature forest of oak-laurel-lingual-olivillo. Project No. DI11-0018 DIUFRO. Principal investigator Dr. Christian Salas.

 

• 2010-2012. Remeasurement and systematization of quantitative information from permanent plots in second-growth forests of oak and coigüe, raulí. FIBN project No. 068/2010. Principal investigator Dr. Christian Salas.