Jose David Urquiza-Munoz, MSc.

Doctoral Researcher
Department of Biogeochemical Processes (BGP)
Intern. Max Planck Research School for Global Biogeochemical Cycles (IMPRS-gBGC)
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Main Focus

Geospatial ecology, space-time variations of forest ecosystem attributes in the Amazon.

Curriculum Vitae


Education

Currently PhD Researcher in Geography, MPI-BGC, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
2021 Research Stay- Earth&Envmntal Sciences - Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab., Berkeley, US
2015-2017 MSc. Environmental management, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana.
2015 Specialist of Remote sensing applied to forest resource. Rakuno Gakuen University - Japan.
2005-2009 B.Sc./Ing Ecology of the Tropical Rainforests, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana



Current projects

Windthrows Inventory Data Base (WInD)


Selected Publications

Urquiza-Muñoz, J. D., Trumbore, S., Negrón-Juárez, R. I., Feng, Y., Brenning, A., Vasquez-Parana, C. M., & Magnabosco Marra, D. (2024). Increased occurrence of large-scale windthrows across the Amazon basin. AGU Advances, 5, e2023AV001030. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023AV001030 - Research spotlight : https://wiley.altmetric.com/details/170028925/news 

Pärn, J.; Soosaar, K.; Schindler, T.; Machacova, K.; Muñoz, W. A.; Fachín, L.; Aspajo, J. L. J.; Negron‑Juarez, R. I.; Maddison, M.; Rengifo, J. et al.: Effects of water table fluctuation on greenhouse gas emissions from wetland soils in the Peruvian Amazon. Wetlands: Journal of the Society of Wetland Scientists 43, 62 https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13157-023-01709-z (2023)

Negron-Juarez, R.; Marra, D. M.; Feng, Y.; Urquiza-Muñoz, J. D.; Riley, W. J.; Chambers, J. Q.: Windthrow characteristics and their regional association with rainfall, soil, and surface elevation in the Amazon. Environmental Research Letters 18 (1), 014030 https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acaf10  (2023)

Urquiza Munoz, J. D.; Magnabosco Marra, D.; Negron-Juarez, R.I.; Tello-Espinoza, R.; Alegria-Munoz, W.; Pacheco-Gomez, T.; Rifai, S.W.; Chambers, J.Q.; Jenkins, H.S.; Brenning, A.; Trumbore, S.E.: Recovery of Forest Structure Following Large-Scale Windthrows in the Northwestern Amazon. Forest, DOI: 10.3390/f12060667, (2021).

Damien Robert Finn, Michal Ziv-El, Joost van Haren, Jin Gyoon Park, Jhon del Aguila-Pasquel, J. Urquiza-Munoz,Hinsby Cadillo-Quiroz : Methanogens and Methanotrophs Show Nutrient-Dependent Community Assemblage Patterns Across Tropical Peatlands of the Pastaza-Maranon Basin, Peruvian Amazonia. Frontiers in Microbiology, DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00746, (2020).

R. I. Negron-Juarez, J. A. Holm, D. M. Marra, S. W. Rifai, W. J. Riley, J. Q. Chambers, C. D. Koven, R. G. Knox, M. E. McGroddy, A. V. Di Vittorio, J. D. Urquiza-Munoz , R. TelloEspinoza, W. Alegria-Munoz, G. H. P. M. Ribeiro, N. Higuchi: Vulnerability of Amazon rainforest to convective storms. Environmental Research Letters, DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aabe9f, (2018).

S. W. Rifai, J. D. Urquiza-Munoz, R. I. Negron-Juarez, F. Ramirez-Arevalo, R. TelloEspinoza, M. C. Vanderwel, J. W. Lichstein, J. Q. Chambers, S. A. Bohlman: Landscape scale consequences of differential tree mortality from catastrophic wind disturbance in the Amazon. Ecological Applications, DOI: 10.1002/eap.1368, (2016).



Peer reviews

International journal of biometeorology

Forest Ecology and Management

Folia Amazonica


Conferences

AGU 2020: B127-08 - Forest structure and biomass recovery from windthrows in the Northwestern Amazon.

AGU 2020: EP037-0004 - Understanding Methane Production across Diverse Tropical Peatlands.

AGU 2020: B129-02 - Intensive greenhouse gas fluxes from Peruvian peatlands under various environmental drivers.

AGU 2020: B077-0001 - A novel coupled cycling of abiotic denitrification and N2O-reduction is frequent across tropical peatlands.

AGU 2019: B33J-2604 - Geospatial Forest Patterns in Northwestern and Central Amazon Forests Affected by Wind Disturbances.

AGU 2019: B24B-05 - Methane Emissions and Isotopic Composition along a Peatland Gradient in the Amazon.

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