Carla Restrepo

Carla Restrepo is a professor in the Biology department of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. Her research focuses on the study of tropical landscapes, including the processes underlying their large-scale dynamics.
Education.
Restrepo received her B.S. in Biology at the University of Valle in Cali, Colombia, in 1984. In 1990, she received her M.S. in Zoology at the University of Florida, where she also received her Ph.D. in 1995.
Awards.
Restrepo has received a number of prizes, honors, and grants in the course of her career.
Research.
Her main areas of research are landscape ecology, ecosystems, landslides and their impact on ecosystem diversity, changes in land cover and carbon budgets, forest fragmentation and phenotypic plasticity, and seed dispersal in fragmented landscapes.