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PUBLICATIONS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Current or former lab members in bold<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lim Y, Pinedo-Vazquez M, Gutierrez-Velez<\/strong> V, Fernandes K, DeFries R, Uriarte M. Under review. 2025. Socioeconomic and land use drivers of invasive grass infestation in the Peruvian Amazon. Regional environmental Change<\/em>. 25:145.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marcus, M.<\/strong> Hergoulac\u2019h K. Gutierrez-Velez VH.<\/strong>\u00a0 2025. To climb or to fell? Identification of social-ecological conditions that promote sustainable fruit harvesting in lowland Amazon palm swamps. \u00a0Environmental Research: Food Systems.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guti\u00e9rrez-V\u00e9lez, V.H., Rodriguez-Escobar, J., Mej\u00eda, A<\/strong>., Espejo, J., Anaya, J.A. and Blair, M.E., 2024. Mapping forest cover and change as continuous variables is essential to advance consistency across forest monitoring products. GIScience & Remote Sensing<\/em>, 61<\/em>(1), p.2427305.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calder\u00f3n-Caro, J., Morales-G\u00f3mez, L.M., Guti\u00e9rrez-V\u00e9lez,<\/strong> V.H., Gonz\u00e1lez-Caro, S., Benavides, A.M., 2024. Modeling proximate causes of deforestation in Antioquia, Colombia. Regional Environmental Change 24, 1\u201314.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>Marcus, MS<\/strong>, Hergoualc’h, K, Coronado, ENH and Guti\u00e9rrez-V\u00e9lez<\/strong>, VH. 2024. Spatial distribution of degradation and deforestation of palm swamp peatlands and associated carbon emissions in the Peruvian Amazon.\u202fJournal of Environmental Management<\/em>,\u202f351<\/em>, p.119665.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lapola D. et al..<\/sub> <\/sub>2023. The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation. Science.<\/em>379:6630. 11p.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lara Henao W<\/strong>, Londo\u00f1o-Murcia MC, Gonzalez Garz\u00f3n, I; Gutierrez Velez,VH***<\/strong>. 2022. ecochange: An R-package to derive biodiversity indicators processing spatial ecosystem variables. Methods in Ecology and Evolution<\/em>. <\/em>13:11, 2379-2388<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gutierrez-Velez VH<\/strong>, Gilbert MR, Kinsey D, Behm JE. 2022. Beyond the urban and the rural: conceptualizing a new generation of infrastructure systems to enable rural-urban sustainability. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability<\/em>. 56, 101177.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karkun SS,<\/strong> Pearsall H, Gutierrez-Velez VH<\/strong>, Gilbert MR. 2021. Measuring Equity through Spatial Variability of Infrastructure Systems across the Urban-Rural Gradient. Land<\/em> 10. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gutierrez-Velez VH<\/strong>, Rodriguez J,<\/strong> Lara W,<\/strong> Sarmiento V<\/strong>. 2021. Probabilistic approximation to change and no change in multispectral remote sensing. International Journal of Remote Sensing.<\/em>42:19,\u202f7428-7453<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Estupinan-Suarez LM, Gans F, Brenning A, Gutierrez\u2013Velez VH,<\/strong> Londono MC, Pabon\u2013Moreno, DE, Poveda G, Reichstein M, Reu B, Sierra CA. 2021. A regional Earth system data lab for understanding ecosystem dynamics: An example from northern South America. Frontiers in Earth Science<\/em> 9, 574.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pearsall H, Gutierrez-Velez VH<\/strong>, Gilbert MR, Hoque S, Eakin H, Brondizio ES, Solecki W, Toran L, Baka JE, Behm JE. 2021. Advancing equitable health and well-being across urban\u2013rural sustainable infrastructure systems. npj Urban Sustainability 1, 1\u20136. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wiese D<\/strong>, Stroup AM, Maiti A, Harris G, Lynch S, Vucetic S, Gutierrez-Velez VH<\/strong>, Henry KA. 2021. Measuring Neighborhood Landscapes: Associations between neighborhood\u2019s landscape characteristics and colon cancer survival. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health<\/em>. 18. 4728.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gutierrez-Velez VH<\/strong> & Wiese D<\/strong>. 2020. Sampling bias mitigation for species occurrence modeling using Machine Learning Methods. Ecological informatics<\/em>. 58. 101091.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anaya JA, Guti\u00e9rrez-V\u00e9lez VH<\/strong>, Pacheco-Pascagaza AM, Palomino-\u00c1ngel S, Han N, Balzter H. 2020. Drivers of forest loss in a megadiverse hotspot on the Pacific Coast of Colombia. Remote Sensing. <\/em>12(1235).<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mahecha MD, Gans F, Brandt, G, Christiansen R, Cornell SE, Fomferra N, Kraemer G, Peters J, Bodesheim P, Camps-Valls G, Donges JF, Dorigo W, Estupinan-Suarez LM, Gutierrez-Velez VH,<\/strong> Gutwin M, Jung M, Londo\u00f1o MC, Miralles DG, Papastefanou P, Reichstein M. 2020. Earth system data cubes unravel global multivariate dynamics. Earth System Dynamics 11, 201\u2013234.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wiese D<\/strong>, Escalante A, Murphy H, Henry K, Gutierrez-Velez, VH***<\/strong>. 2019. Integrating environmental and neighborhood factors in MaxEnt modeling to predict species distributions: A case study of Aedes albopictus in southeastern Pennsylvania. PLOS ONE. 14(10): e0223821.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glinskis E\u2020<\/sup><\/em>, Gutierrez-Velez VH.<\/strong> 2019 Quantifying and understanding carbon emissions from land cover changes between large and small oil palm expansion regimes in the Peruvian Amazon. Land Use Policy<\/em>. 80<\/strong>: 95-106<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Croog R, Hayes-Conroy A, Gutierrez-Velez VH<\/strong>, Saenz-Montoya A. 2018. Real world food justice and the enigma of the scholar-activist label: A reflection on research values. ACME<\/em>. 17<\/strong>(4): 1024:1044.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bolivar JM., Gutierrez-Velez VH, ,<\/strong>and Sierra CA. 2018. Carbon stocks in aboveground biomass for Colombian mangroves with associated uncertainties. Regional Studies in Marine Science<\/em> 18<\/strong>:145-155.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schwartz NB, Uriarte M, DeFries R, Bedka K., Fernandes K., Gutierrez-Velez V<\/strong>., Pinedo-V\u00e1squez M. 2017. Fragmentation increases wind disturbance impacts on forest structure and carbon stocks in a western Amazonian landscape”. Ecological applications<\/em>. 27: 1901\u20131915.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schwartz, NB, Uriarte, M, DeFries., Gutierrez-Velez, V.<\/strong>, Pinedo-V\u00e1squez, M. 2017. Land-use dynamics influence estimates of carbon sequestration potential in tropical second-growth forest. Environmental Research Letters<\/em> 12<\/strong>(7).<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sierra CA, Mahecha M, Poveda G, \u00c1lvarez-D\u00e1vila E, Gutierrez-Velez VH<\/strong>, Reu B, Feilhauer H, An\u00e1ya J, Armenteras D, Benavides AM, Buendia C, Duque \u00c1, Estupi\u00f1an-Suarez LM, Gonz\u00e1lez C, Gonzalez-Caro S, Jimenez R, Kraemer G, Londo\u00f1o MC, Orrego S.A, Posada JM, Ruiz-Carrascal D, Skowronek S. 2017. Monitoring ecological change during rapid socio-economic and political transitions: Colombian ecosystems in the post-conflict era. Environmental Science & Policy<\/em> 76<\/strong>:40-49.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fernandes, K, Verchot, L., Baethgen, W, Gutierrez-Velez, V<\/strong>, Pinedo-Vasquez, M. Martius, C. 2017. Heightened fire probability in Indonesia in non-drought conditions: the effect of increasing temperatures. Environmental research letters<\/em>. 12(5): 054002<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hergoualc\u2019h K, Gutierrez-Velez VH<\/strong>, Menton M, Verchot LV. 2017. Characterizing peat palm forest degradation in the Peruvian Amazon from space and on the ground: An exploratory study in the Peruvian Amazon. Forest Ecology and Management<\/em>. 393<\/strong>: 63-73<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baptiste B, Pinedo-Vasquez M, Gutierrez-Velez V<\/strong>, Andrade GI, Vieira P, Ming Lee T, Estupi\u00f1\u00e1n L. 2017. Greening Peace in Colombia. Nature Ecology and Evolution<\/em>. 2<\/strong>: 0102.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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