Research Associate & Field Research Botanist, Andes to Amazon Botany Program
B.S., La Molina University, 1990
Fernando Cornejo-Valverde, of Madre de Dios, Peru, is a Research Associate and Field Research Botanist. He is Co-P.I. of the Andes to Amazon Botany Program and shares responsibilities for directing activities in the field. He was born in Arequipa, Peru, and studied Forestry and Tropical Botany. He has been published in numerous scientific articles - the result of 20 years of studying tropical forest, including four years of research in Panama. His interests lie in ecology and botany of tropical forests, as well as conservation and sustainable use and management of natural resources. One of his most recent and important projects has involved studies of the biology and economic botany of Brazil nuts (Bertholettia excelsa- Lecythidaceae) in Madre de Dios, Peru. Fernando is well-known for his expertise in the tropical fruits and seeds, especially of the western Amazon and is working with Dr. John Janovec of BRIT to finish the following book that will be published by Princeton University Press in 2005:
Cornejo, F. and J. P. Janovec. A Guide to Seeds of Amazonian Plants. 426 pages, ca. 1000 color images. Princeton University Press (scheduled for submission and publication in 2005).
Email: fcornejo@brit.org
Publications
Trivedi, M. R., F. H. Cornejo, and A. R. Watkinson. 2004. Seed predation on Brazil Nuts (Bertholletia excelsa) by Macaws (Psittacidae) in Madre de Dios, Peru. Biotropica 36(1): 118-122. Download PDF of this article.
Peres, C.A., C. Baider, P.A. Zuidema, L.H. O. Wadt, K.A. Kainer, D.A.P. Gomes-Silva, R.P. Salomão, L.L. Simões, E.R. N. Franciosi, F. Cornejo Valverde, R. Gribel, G.H. Shepard Jr., M. Kanashiro, P. Coventry, D.W. Yu, A.R. Watkinson, and R.P. Freckleton. 2003. Demographic Threats to the Sustainability of Brazil Nut Exploitation. Science 302: 2112-2114. Download PDF of this article.
Cornejo, F. 2003. Historia natural de Castaña (Bertholletia excelsa: Lecythidaceae) y tecnicas para su manejo. 50 pages. Published by Asociación para Conservación de la Cuenca Amazonica, Lima, Peru, and The Amazon Conservation Association, Washington, DC. Download PDF of this article.
Dolanc, C., D. Gorchov, & F. Cornejo. 2003. Effect of thinning on natural regeneration in strip clearings in Amazon forests. Forest Ecology and Management: 182: 103-116.
Notman, E., D.L. Gorchov & F. Cornejo. 1996. Effect of density, distance and habitat on levels of seed predation for seeds of two mammal dispersal neotropical rain forest tree species. Oecología 106: 221-227.
Gorchov, D.L., F. Cornejo, C. Ascorra & M. Jaramillo. 1995. Dietary overlap between frugivorous birds and bats in the Peruvian Amazon. OIKOS 74: 235-250
Cornejo, F., A. Varela & S.J. Wright. 1994. Tropical forest litter decomposition under seasonal drought: Nutrient release, fungi and bacteria. Oikos 70: 183-190.
Cornejo, F. & I. Lombardi. 1993. Estimación de la producción de hojarrasca en un bosque sucesional en el Parque Nacional Manu (Estimation of the litterfall production in a successional forest in Manu National Park). Revista Forestal del Perú 20 (1) : 23-34
Cornejo, F. & D.L. Gorchov. 1993. La tala rasa en fajas, el aprovechamiento integral del recurso y su rendimiento económico (The strip clear-cut system, the integral use and its costs and yields). Revista Forestal del Perú 20 (2) : 21-37
Gorchov, D.L., F. Cornejo, C. Ascorra & M. Jaramillo. 1993. The role of seed dispersal in the natural regeneration of rain forest after strip-cutting in the Peruvian Amazon.
Vegetatio 107/108 : 339-349
Ascorra, C., D.L. Gorchov, & F. Cornejo. 1991. The bats from Jenaro Herrera, Loreto, Perú. Mammalia 3: 64-83
Cornejo, F. 1991. Estimacion de la produccion de hojarrasca en un bosque sucesional en el Parque Nacional Manu (Estimation of the litterfall production in a successional forest in Manu National Park). Thesis. Universidad Nacional Agraria. 139 pags.
Wright, S.J. & F. Cornejo. 1990. Seasonal drought and leaf fall in a tropical forest.
Ecology 71 (3) : 1165-1175
Wright, S.J. & F. Cornejo. 1990. Seasonal drought and the timing of flowering and leaf fall in a neotropical forest. En: Reproductive Ecology of Tropical Forest Plants. Man and the Biosphere Series. Editores K.S. Bawa & M. Hadley.
Ascorra, C., D.L. Gorchov, & F. Cornejo. 1989. Observaciones en aves y murciélagos relacionadas con la dispersión de semillas en el Valle del Palcazu, selva central del Perú (Observations of birds and bats related with seed dispersal in Palcazu Valley, Central Selva of Perú). Boletín de Lima 62: 91-95
Goldizen, A.W., J.Terborgh, F. Cornejo, T. Porras & R. Evans. 1988. Seasonal food storage, weight-loss and the timing of births in Saddle-back Tamarins (Saguinus fuscicollis). Journal Animal Ecology . 57 : 893-901
