Biography
Research Interests
Reynaldo Linares-Palomino is a tropical biologist at the Smithsonian Conservation and Biology Institute's Center for Conservation and Sustainability. His current work focuses on implementing, monitoring and assessing ecosystem restoration methodologies and activities in Andean landscapes under the influence of a trans-Andean gas pipeline. He leads the implementation of studies on selected plants and animals, from the eastern humid Andes to the drier western slopes and the Pacific desert in Central Peru.
Along with fellow CCS ecologists, Linares-Palomino has helped to enhance knowledge about the biological diversity of southern Andean Peru. In parallel, medium to long-term ecological studies are generating exciting information about ecosystem restoration, which is being shared with stakeholders (government, private industry, local communities, academia) to improve management practices, especially when they are performed by oil and gas development projects.