Geovana Profile

Consulting reports:

• GIZ-Bolivia (2025). Análisis multi-escala de las contribuciones y beneficios de la agroecología para la adaptación y mitigación al cambio climático basada en evidencia, en Bolivia [Multi-scale analysis of agroecology’s contributions and benefits for climate change adaptation and mitigation in Bolivia, based on evidence]. Prepared by G. Carreño-Rocabado. Consultancy report ProResiliente project (56 pages).

• GIZ-Bolivia (2023). Memorias del encuentro Seguridad productiva en la región norte de la Chiquitania: consolidando la ganadería regenerativa y sostenible. Prepared by G. Carreño-Rocabado. Consultancy report PaisajesResilientes project (31 pages).

• ARMONIA (2024). Estrategia y Plan de Educación Ambiental y Desarrollo Sostenible EdADeS. Reserva Laney Rickman 2025-2029. Prepared by G. Carreño-Rocabado. Consultancy report (53 pages).

• Worl Bank (2023). Incentivos financieros para promover la agroecología y desarrollo de capacidades comunitarias para el manejo sostenible de la tierra para la región de la Chiquitania. Prepared by G. Carreño-Rocabado. Consultancy report. (146 pages).

Peer review papers

• van der Sande M., N. Boxem, A. Kool, and Carreño-Rocabado (submitted to Annals of Botany) Size- and bark-dependent fire survival and resprouting of tropical trees and lianas
• Hartung, M., Carreño-Rocabado, G., Peña-Claros, M., & van der Sande, M. T. (2021). Tropical Dry Forest Resilience to Fire Depends on Fire Frequency and Climate. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 4. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2021.755104. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2021.755104
• Djukic, I., et al. 2018. Early-stage litter decomposition across biomes. Science of the total environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.01.012 
• Carreño-Rocabado G., M. Peña-Claros, F.Bongers, S. Díaz, F. Quétier, J. Chuviña, y L. Poorter. Response of community functional properties to land-use intensification in tropical ecosystems. Ecological Application 26: 174-189. https://doi.org/10.1890/14-0340
• Finegan, B., M. Peña-Claros, A. de Oliveira, N. Ascarrunz, M. S. Bret-Harte, G. Carreño-Rocabado, F. Casanoves, S. Díaz, P. Eguiguren Velepucha, F. Fernandez, J. C. Licona, L. Lorenzo, B. Salgado Negret, M. Vaz, y L. Poorter. Does functional trait diversity predict above-ground biomass and productivity of tropical forests? Testing three alternative hypotheses. Journal of Ecology 103:191-201. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12346
• Carreño-Rocabado G. 2013. Linking land-use intensification, plant communities and ecosystem processes in lowland Bolivia. PhD thesis. Wageningen University.
• Carreño-Rocabado G., M. Peña-Claros, F. Bongers, A. Alarcón, J.-C. Licona, and L. Poorter. Effects of disturbance intensity on species and functional diversity in a tropical forest. Journal of Ecology 100:1453-1463. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2012.02015.x
• Bakker, M. A., G. Carreño-Rocabado, and L. Poorter. 2011. Leaf economics traits predict litter decomposition of tropical plants and differ among land use types. Functional Ecology 25:473-483. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01802.x

 Book and book chapters

• Cerda R., L. Orozco-Aguilar L., N. Sepúlveda, J. Ordoñez, Carreño-Rocabado, F. Amores, W. Caidedo, S. Oblitas, and E. Somarriba. 2019. Tropical agroforestry and ecosystem services: trade-off analysis for better design strategies. Page in Mosquera-Losada M. R and Prabhu R., editors. Agroforestry for sustainable agriculture. Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK
• Somarriba, E., Carreño-Rocabado, F. Amores, W. Caicedo, S de Pélichy, R. Cerda y J. Ordóñez, J.C., 2018. Trees on farms for livelihoods, conservation of biodiversity and carbon storage: evidence from Nicaragua on this “invisible” resource. In Integrating Landscapes: Agroforestry for Biodiversity Conservation and Food Sovereignty (pp. 369-393). Springer, Cham.
• Carreño-Rocabado, G. 2013. Linking land use intensification, plant functional and ecosystem processes in lowland Bolivia. PhD thesis. Wageningen University. ISBN: 978-94-6173-533-1
• Feinsinger, P., S. Álvarez, Carreño, E. Rivera, R. L. Cuellar, A. Roldán, L. García, M. Cañizares A. Alegre, F. Daza, M. Figuer. 2007. The key word is “local”: place-based research by local people as a potential tool in Latin American conservation.