Sara Pineda Zapata
Grant-funded Researcher
School of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology
I am a forestry engineer from Colombia, interested in landscape management, fragmentation, and connectivity. For my master’s thesis, I identified potential ecological corridors for the national system of protected areas in Colombia, based on species’ ecological profiles. Currently, my research is mainly focused on the study of plantations at the landscape level in Europe, the ecosystem services they can provide, as well as the possible impacts derived from their location and management. The final goal of my research is to propose optimized distributions of land uses to obtain more sustainable and multifunctional landscapes.
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PDO Dynamics Shape the Fire Regime of Boreal Subarctic Landscapes in the Northwest Territories, Canada
Ryzhkova, Nina; Asselin, Hugo; Ali, Adam A; Kryshen, Alexander; Bergeron, Yves; Robles, Daniela; Pineda-Zapata, Sara; Drobyshev, Igor. 2025. Journal of geophysical research : biogeosciences. 130: . e2024JG008178 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Mapping the way: identifying priority potential corridors for protected areas connectivity in Colombia
Pineda-Zapata, Sara; González-Ávila, Sergio; Armenteras, Dolors; González-Delgado, Tania Marisol; Morán-Ordoñez, Alejandra. 2024. Perspectives in ecology and conservation. 22: 156-166 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research