Women in Science and Engineering at Yale (2020 Edition)

Florencia Montagnini, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist, School of the Environment; Director, Program

in Tropical Forestry and Agroforestry, Yale Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry

Florencia Montagnini’s research focuses on variables controlling the sustainability of managed ecosystems in the tropics, such as forest, tree plantations, and agroforestry systems, with a special emphasis in Latin America; sustainable land use systems that integrate ecological principles with economic, social, and political factors; the principles and applications of forest landscape restoration; the reforestation of degraded lands with native species; identification and quantification of ecosystem services; payments for environmental services as tools to promote restoration, conservation, and rural development. She has written ten books on agroforestry systems, ecological restoration, and tropic forest ecology and management and about 200 scientific articles. Several of her publications are in Spanish to ensure dissemination and as a contribution to the host countries.

(Springer, 2017)