Giselda Durigan

I am an ecologist working on tropical grasslands, savannas and forests. My researches have been mostly about ecological applications aiming at conservation and restoration of those ecosystems. That includes fire ecology and management, ecology and control of plant invasions, drivers of changes in structure and composition of plant communities, hydrological processes related to vegetation, adaptive management of ecosystems undergoing restoration, and restoration ecology. Recently, tropical grasslands have been my major interest, because I believe they are the most threatened and poorly known among the tropical ecosystems.