Professional background

• BSc Biology, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1995-2000)
• MSc Forest and Nature Conservation, Wageningen  University (2002-2004)
• PhD student, Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University (2004 – 2009).

Professional fields of interest
Forest Ecology, Natural Resource Management, Nature Conservation, Plant Ecophysiology, Forest Succesion

News

6 Oct 2008	In press: tree rings can be used to study secondary succession in Mexico
	Tree rings are associated with temperate trees. Dry forests in the tropics also have a lean growth period and tree rings are thus expected. In their study "The Potential of Tree Rings for the Study... more

19 Jun 2008	In press: Paper on secondary succession and forest resilience
	In the article Succesional change and resilience of a very dry tropical deciduous forest following shifting agriculture Lebrija Trejos, Bongers and Meave analyzed successional patterns in a very dry... more

Completed research project

• Dry Forest Secondary Succession in Mexico: Mechanisms and Differential Species Performance 

Publications

• Lebrija Trejos, E.E. (2009) Tropical dry forest recovery: processes and causes of change. PhD thesis Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.  ISBN: 978-90-8585-322-0; 189 pp (with summary in Dutch) 
• Brienen, R.J.W.; Lebrija Trejos, E.E.; Breugel, M. van; Bongers, F.; Meave, J.; Martinez-Ramos, M. (2009) The Potential of Tree Rings for the Study of Forest Succession in Southern Mexico. Biotropica 41 (2). - p. 186 - 195
• Lebrija Trejos, E.E.; Bongers, F.J.J.M.; Pérez-García, E.; Meave, J. (2008)
  Succesional change and resilience of a very dry tropical deciduous forest following shifting agriculture, Biotropica 40 (4). - p. 422 - 431. Including Spanish resumen.
• Lebrija Trejos, E.(2006). Secondary succession in a tropical dry forest of Southern Mexico. MSc thesis Wageningen University. Summary
• Lebrija Trejos, E.(2001). Composición y estructura de la vegetación ribereña de la región de Nizanda, Oaxaca, México. Biology thesis, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.