Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford

• erika.berenguer@ouce.ox.ac.uk

• Ecosystems Theme

Erika Berenguer is a Senior Research Associate at the Ecosystems Lab and a Visiting Research Associate at Lancaster University. She works in the ECOFOR, BIORED and PELD-RAS projects. All of those are Brazil-UK consortiums looking at the impacts of human-induced disturbance, such as selective logging and understory fires, in ecosystems functions and processes in the Amazon. Her interests lie in developing a better understanding of how human-modified tropical forests function, assessing the resilience of these forests in the face of climate change. In addition, she is passionate about finding ways of effectively communicating scientific results to relevant stakeholders and policy makers.

2021

• Aguirre-Gutierrez, J., Rifai, S., Shenkin, A., Oliveras, I., Bentley, L.P., Svatek, M., Girardin, C.A.J., Both, S., Riutta, T., Berenguer, E., Kissling, W.D., Bauman, D., Raab, N., Moore, S., Farfan-Rios, W., Figueiredo, A.E.S., Reis, S.M., Ndong, J.E., Ondo, F.E., N'ssi Bengone, N., Mihindou, V., Moraes de Seixas, M.M., Adu-Bredu, S., Abernethy, K., Asner, G.P., Barlow, J., Burslem, D.F.R.P., Coomes, D.A., Cernusak, L.A., Dargie, G.C., Enquist, B.J., Ewers, R.M., Ferreira, J., Jeffery, K.J., Joly, C.A., Lewis, S.L., Marimon-Junior, B.H., Martin, R.E., Morandi, P.S., Phillips, O.L., Quesada, C.A., Salinas, N., Schwantes Marimon, B., Silman, M., Teh, Y.A., White, L.J.T. and Malhi, Y. (2021) Pantropical modelling of canopy functional traits using Sentinel-2 remote sensing data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 252. 112122.
• Malhi, Y., Girardin, C., Metcalfe, D.B., Doughty, C.E., Aragão, L.E.O.C., Rifai, S.W., Oliveras, I., Shenkin, A., Aguirre-Gutiérrez, J., Dahlsjö, C.A.L., Riutta, T., Berenguer, E., Moore, S., Huaraca Huasco, W., Salinas, N., da Costa, A.C.L., Bentley, L.P., Adu-Bredu, S., Marthews, T.R., Meir, P. and Phillips, O.L. (2021) The Global Ecosystems Monitoring network: Monitoring ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling across the tropics. Biological Conservation, 253. 108889.

2020

• Aragao, L.E.O.C., Anderson, L.O., Fonseca, M.G., Rosan, T.M., Vedovato, L.B., Wagner, F.H., Silva, C.V.J., Silva Junior, C.H.L., Arai, E., Aguiar, A.P., Barlow, J., Berenguer, E., Deeter, M.N., Domingues, L.G., Gatti, L., Gloor, M., Malhi, Y., Marengo, J.A., Miller, J.B., Phillips, O.L. Saatchi, S. (2020) 21st Century drought-related fires counteract the decline of Amazon deforestation carbon emissions. Nature Communications, 9(536).
• França, F.M., Benkwitt, C.E., Peralta, G., Robinson, J.P.W., Graham, N.A.J., Tylianakis, J.M., Berenguer, E., Lees, A.C., Ferreira, J., Louzada, J. and Barlow, J. (2020) Climatic and local stressor interactions threaten tropical forests and coral reefs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375(1794).
• Franca, F.M., Ferreira, J., Vaz de Mello, F.Z., Maia, L.F., Berenguer, E., Ferraz Palmeira, A., Fadini, R., Louzada, J., Braga, R., Oliveira, V.H. and Barlow, J. (2020) El Nino impacts on human modified tropical forests: Consequences for dung beetle diversity and associated ecological processes. Biotropica, 52(2): 252-262.
• Leal, C.G., Lennox, G.D., et al. (2020) Integrated terrestrial-freshwater planning doubles conservation of tropical aquatic species. Science, 370(6512): 117-121.

2019

• Barlow, J., Berenguer, E., Carmenta, R. and França, F. (2019) Clarifying Amazonia's burning crisis. Global Change Biology.
• Elias, F., Ferreira, J., Lennox, G.D., Berenguer, E., et al. (2019) Assessing the growth and climate sensitivity of secondary forests in highly deforested Amazonian landscapes. Ecology.

2018

• Barlow, J., Franca, F., Gardner, T.A., Hicks, C.C., Lennox, G.D., Berenguer, E., Castello, L., Economo, E.P., Ferreira, J., Guenard, B., Leal, C.G., Isaac, V., Lees, A.C., Parr, C.L., Wilson, S.K., Young, P.J. and Graham, N.A. (2018) The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems. Nature, 559: 517-526.
• Berenguer, E., Garder, T.A., Ferreira, J., Aragao, L.E.O.C., MacNally, R., Thomson, J.R., Vieira, I.C.G. and Barlow, J. (2018) Seeing the woods through the saplings: Using wood density to assess the recovery of human‐modified Amazonian forests. Journal of Ecology.
• Ferreira, J., Lennox, G.D., Gardner, T., Thomson, J.R., Berenguer, E., Lees, A.C., MacNally, R., Aragao, L.E.O.C., Ferraz, S.F.B., Louzada, J., Moura, N.G., Oliveira, V.H.F., Pardini, R., Solar, R.R.C., Vieira, G. and Barlow, J. (2018) Carbon-focused conservation may fail to protect the most biodiverse tropical forests. Nature Climate Change.
• Rifai, S.W., Girardin, C.A.J., Berenguer, E., del Aguila-Pasquel, J., Dahlsjo, C.A.L., Doughty, C.E., Jeffery, K.J., Moore, S., Oliveras, I., Riutta, T., Rowland, L.M., Murakami, A.A., Addo-Danso, S.D., Brando, P., Burton, C., Ondo, F.E., Duah-Gyamfi, A., Amezquita, F.F., Freitag, R., Pacha, F.H., Huasco, W.H., Ibrahim, F., Mbou, A.T., Mihindou, V.M., Peixoto, K.S., Rocha, W., Rossi, L.C., Seixas, M., Silva-Espejo, J.E., Abernethy, K.A., Adu-Bredu, S., Barlow, J., da Costa, A.C.L., Marimon, B.S., Marimon, B., Meir, P., Metcalfe, D.B., Phillips, O.L., White, L.J.T. and Malhi, Y. (2018) ENSO drives interannual variation of forest woody growth across the tropics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 373(1760).

2017

• Bustamante, M., Riotman, I., Aide, T.M., Alencar, A., Anderson, L.O., Aragao, L., Asner, G.P., Barlow, J., Berenguer, E., Chambers, J., Costa, M.H., Fanin, T., Ferreira, L.G., Keller, M., Magnusson, W.E., Morales-Barquero, L., Morton, D., Ometto, J., Palace, M., Peres, C.A., Silverio, D., Trumbore, S. and Vieira, I.C.G. (2017) Toward an integrated monitoring framework to assess the effects of tropical forest degradation and recovery on carbon stocks and biodiversity. Global Change Biology.
• Durigan, M.R. Cherubin, M.R., Barbosa de Camargo, P., Ferreira, J.N., Berenguer, E., Gardner, T.A., Barlow, J., Tadeu dos Santos Dias, C., Signor, D., Cosme de Oliveira Junior, R. and Pellegrino Cerri, C.E. (2017) Soil Organic Matter Responses to Anthropogenic Forest Disturbance and Land Use Change in the Eastern Brazilian Amazon. Sustainability, 9(3).

2016

• Barlow, J., Lennox, G.D., Ferreira, J., Berenguer, E., Lees, A., MacNally, R., Thomson, J.R., Ferraz, S., Louzada, J., Oliveira, V.H.F., Parry, L., de Castro, R.R., Vieira, I., Aragao, L., Begotti, R., Braga, R., Cardoso, T., de Oliveira, R., Souza Jr, C., Moura, N., Nunes, S.S., Siqueira, J., Pardini, R., Silveira, J., Vaz-de-Mello, F., Veiga, R.C., Venturieri, A. and Gardner, T. (2016) Anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests can double biodiversity loss from deforestation. Nature, 535: 144-147.
• de Castro Solar, R.R., Barlow, J., Andersen, A.N., Schoereder, J.H., Berenguer, E., Ferreira, J.N. and Gardner, T.A. (2016) Biodiversity consequences of land-use change and forest disturbance in the Amazon: A multi-scale assessment using ant communities. Biological Conservation, 197: 98-107.

2015

• Anderson, L., Aragao, L.E.O.C., Gloor, M., Arai, E., Adami, M., Saatchi, S.S., Malhi, Y., Shimabukuro, Y.E., Barlow, J., Berenguer, E. and Duarte, V. (2015) Disentangling the contribution of multiple land covers to fire-mediated carbon emissions in Amazonia during the 2010 drought. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 29(10): 1739-1753.
• Berenguer, E., Gardner, T.A., Ferreira, J., Aragao, L., Camargo, P., Cerri, C.E., Durigan, M., Oliveira Junior, R., Vieira, I. and Barlow, J. (2015) Developing Cost-Effective Field Assessments of Carbon Stocks in Human-Modified Tropical Forests. PLOS One.
• Bustamante, M., Riotman, I., Aide, T., Alencar, A., Anderson, L., Aragao, L., Asner, G.P., Barlow, J., Berenguer, E., Chambers, J., Costa, M.H., Fanin, T., Ferreira, L.G., Ferreira, J., Keller, M., Magnusson, W.E., Morales-Barquero, L., Morton, D., Ometto, J., Palace, M., Peres, C.A., Dilverio, D., Trumbore, S. and Vieira, I.C.G. (2015) Toward an integrated monitoring framework to assess the effects of tropical forest degradation and recovery on carbon stocks and biodiversity. Global Change Biology.
• de Castro Solar, R.R., Barlow, J., Ferreira, J., Berenguer, E., Lees, A.C., Thomson, J.R., Louzada, J., Maues, M., Moura, N.G., Oliveira, V., Chaul, J., Schoereder, J.H., Vieira, I., MacNally, R. and Gardner, T.A. (2015) How pervasive is biotic homogenization in human-modified tropical forest landscapes? Ecology Letters.
• Moura, N.G., Lees, A.C., Aleiixo, A., Barlow, J., Berenguer, E. Ferreira, J., MacNally, R., Thompson, J.R. and Gardner, T.A. (2015) Idiosyncratic responses of Amazonian birds to primary forest disturbance. Oecologia, 180(3): 903-916.

2014

• Berenguer, E., Ferreira, J., Gardner, T.A., Aragao, L., Camargo, P., Cerri, C., Durigan, M., de Oliveira Junior, R., Vieira, I. and Barlow, J. (2014) A large-scale field assessment of carbon stocks in human-modified tropical forests. Global Change Biology.
• Ferreira, J., Aragao, L.E.O.C., Barlow, J., Barreto, P., Berenguer, E., Bustamante, M., Gardner, T.A., Lees, A.C., Lima, A., Louzada, J., Pardini, R., Parry, L., Peres, C.A., Pompeu, P.S., Tabarelli, M. and Zuanon, J. (2014) Brazil's environmental leadership at risk. Science, 346(6210): 706-707.

2012

• Barlow, J., Parry, L., Gardner, T.A., Ferreira, J., Aragao, L.E.O.C., Carmenta, R., Berenguer, E., Vieira, I., Souza, C. and Cochrane, M.A. (2012) The critical importance of considering fire in REDD+ programs. Biological Conservation, 154: 1-8.