PROF. DR. LUIS DANIEL LLAMBI

Areas of Expertise

Plant Community Ecology; Applied Ecology; Alpine Ecology; Vegetation Dynamics; Impacts of Climate and Land Use Change on Alpine Ecosystems; Environmental Monitoring; Restoration and Sustainable Management of Tropical Mountain Ecosystems; Environmental Governance and Participatory Research; Plant Succession; Plant-Plant Interactions; Tree-line Dynamics; Invasive Species

Brief Bio

Biologist (Universidad Simón Boliviar, Venezuela) with a PhD in Ecology from the University of York (UK). Coordinator of the Adaptation at Altitude Programme in the Andes (CONDESAN-Swiss Development and Cooperation) and Full Professor at Universidad de Los Andes (Venezuela). With more than 80 publications, his research has focused on the analysis of ecosystem dynamics in the Tropical Andes, studying changes in vegetation diversity, structure and resilience in response to land use and climate change. He also works in the implementation of integrated strategies for climate change adaptation, monitoring, conservation and ecological restoration, emphasizing the use of transdisciplinary and participatory approaches. Regional Facilitator and Coordinator in Venezuela of the GLORIA-Andes and the Andean Forests Monitoring Networks and National Geographic Explorer.

Publications (Weblink only), if any:

Selected Publications (last 5 years):

• Cuesta, F., Carilla, J., Llambí, L.D. et al. 2023. Compositional shifts of alpine plant communities across the high Andes. Global Ecology and Biogeography. doi.org/10.1111/geb.13721
• Carilla, J., Araoz, E, Osinaga O, Malizia A, Malizia M, Jiménez J, Peralvo, M, Garcés A, Lasso G and Llambí, LD. 2023. Long-term environmental and social monitoring in the Andes: state of the art, knowledge gaps and priorities for an integrated agenda. Mountain Research and Development 43(2):A1-A9.
• Llambí, LD., et al. 2022. Species, growth form, and biogeographic diversity of summit vegetation along an elevation gradient in the tropical Andes: a baseline for climate change monitoring. Journal of Mountain Science 19(12):3441-3457. doi.org/10.1007/s11629-022-7473-8.
• Cáceres-Mago, K., Llambí, L.D., Cáceres, A. 2022. Positive community effects of nurse-plant shrubs along a tropical alpine elevation gradient: are they linked with plant water relations? Plant Ecology 224:137-155. doi.org/10.1007/s11258-022-01285-y.
• Ramírez, L.A., Llambí L.D., et al 2022. Patterns in climate and seedling establishment at a dry tropical treeline. Plant Ecology doi.org/10.1007/s11258-022-01257-2.
• Dupuits E, Llambí LD, Peralvo M. 2022. Implementing climate change adaptation policies across scales: challenges for knowledge coproduction in Andean mountain socio-ecosystems. Mountain Research and Development 42(2):A1-A11.
• Llambí LD, et al. 2021. Vegetation assembly, adaptive strategies and positive interactions during primary succession in the forefield of the last Venezuelan glacier. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9. 657755.
• doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.657755.
• Cáceres-Mago, K., Cáceres, A., Llambí LD. 2021. Effects of nurse shrubs on symbioses between soil fungi and associated plants along a tropical alpine elevation gradient. Alpine Botany 132:285-300. doi.org/10.1007/s00035-021-00275-6
• Pelayo R, Llambí LD, et al. 2021. Plant phenology dynamics and pollination networks in summits of the high tropical Andes: a baseline for monitoring climate change impacts. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9 (679045):1-15. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2021.679045.
• Llambi LD, et al. 2020. Interaction mechanisms between nurse-plants and an exotic invader along a tropical alpine elevation gradient: growth-form matters. Alpine Botany 130:59-73. doi.org/10.1007/s00035-020-00235-6.
• Bader M, Llambí LD, et al. 2020. A global framework for linking alpine-treeline ecotone patterns to underlying processes. Ecography 43: 1–28. doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05285.
• Ramírez, N., Melfo, A., Resler, L. and Llambí L.D. 2020. The end of the eternal snows: integrative mapping of 100 years of glacier retreat in the Venezuelan Andes. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research. 52(1):563-581.
• Melfo A, Callaway R, Llambí LD. 2020. Interactions between nurse plants and parasitic beneficiaries: a theoretical approach to indirect facilitation. Journal of Theoretical Biology 494: 1-14. doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2020.110238.
• Cuesta F, Tovar C, Llambí LD, et al. 2020. Thermal niche traits of high alpine plant species and communities across the tropical Andes and their vulnerability to global warming. Journal of Biogeography 47(2):408-420. doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13759.
• Llambí LD, Becerra MT, Peralvo M, Avella A, Baruffol M, Díaz LJ. 2019. Monitoring Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Colombia´s High Andean Ecosystems: towards an integrated strategy. Mountain Research and Development 39(3) A8-A20. doi.org/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-19-00020.1.
• Llambí LD, Rada F. 2019. Ecological research in tropical alpine ecosystems of the Venezuelan páramo: past, present and future. Plant Ecology and Diversity 12(6): 519-538. doi.org10.1080/17550874.2019.1680762