Meredith Martin

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My broad research interests lie in the ecology of economically important forest species and community forest management. Currently I am particularly interested in the resiliency of linked social-ecological systems, and how these systems react to changing market and environmental pressures. I have also conducted research on non-timber forest products in Mexico and Peru. In Mexico, I examined impacts of both management and biophysical factors on a wild-harvested Agave species that is used to make mescal, a traditional liquor. In Peru, I studied a berry called camu-camu (Myrciaria dubia) that has been commercially harvested from ox-bow lakes for over 25 years by local communities, and compared changes in population structure to an ecologically similar but un-harvested species in the same lake.