El estudio de la evolución del clima y de los ecosistemas forestales de México y Centro América durante el Cuaternario tardío facilita el entendimiento de los procesos climáticos modernos. La investigación desarrollada integra registros palinológicos fósiles y modernos para reconstruir cuantitativamente los climas del pasado. Adicionalmente, se busca aplicar y probar el marco conceptual de la ecología moderna a las dinámicas de los ecosistemas en escalas de entre cientos y miles de años. Así, en términos generales se utiliza información derivada de registros sedimentarios para identificar los factores endógenos y exógenos que intervienen en la evolución de los ecosistemas.
Departamento: Departamento de Dinámica Terrestre Superficial
Dirección: Edificio Principal, Cubículo o laboratorio: 132 Circuito de la Investigación Cientifíca s/n Ciudad Universitaria Delegación Coyoacán, C.P. 02376, Ciudad de México, México
Email: acorrea@geologia.unam.mx
Teléfono: +52 (55) 5556224280 ext 130
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Doctorado en Biología, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology
Maestría en Geomorfología y Suelos, Escuela de Geociencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Ingeniería Forestal, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Paleoclimatología
Paleoecología
Estadística aplicada
Biogeografía
De Gracia, C., A. Correa-Metrio, M. Carvalho, J. Velez-Juarbe, T. Přikryl, C. Jaramillo, and J. Kriwet, Towards a unifying systematic scheme of fossil and living billfishes (Teleostei, Istiophoridae), Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, agosto de 2022; 20(1), 2091959
Correa-Metrio, A., J. Escobar, B.W. Bird, D. Caballero-Rodríguez, B.A. Steinman, P.A. Rodríguez-Zorro, J. Curtis , A millennium of climatic and floristic dynamics in the Eastern Cordillera of the Colombian Andes, Journal of Biogeography, mayo de 2022; 49(5), 853-865
Castañeda-Posadas, C., A. Correa-Metrio, J. Escobar, J.E. Moreno, J.H. Curtis, M. Blaauw, C. Jaramillo, Mid to late Holocene sea-level rise and precipitation variability recorded in the fringe mangroves of the Caribbean coast of Panama, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, abril de 2022; 592, 110918
Hoyos, N., A. Correa-Metrio, C. Jaramillo, J.C. Villegas, J. Escobar, Effects of consecutive dry and wet days on the forest–savanna boundary in north-west South America, Global Ecology and Biogeography, febrero de 2022; 31(2), 347-361
Obrist-Farner, J., M. Brenner, J.R. Stone, M. Wojewódka-Przybył, T. Bauersachs, A. Eckert, M. Locmelis, J.H. Curtis, S.R.H. Zimmerman, A. Correa-Metrio, L. Schwark, E. Duarte, A. Schwalb, E. Niewerth; P.G. Echeverría-Galindo, L. Pérez, New estimates of the magnitude of the sea-level jump during the 8.2 ka event , Geology, enero de 2022; 50(1), 86-90
Orejarena-Rondón, A.F. J.C. Restrepo, A. Correa-Metrio, A. Orfila, Wave energy flux in the Caribbean Sea: Trends and variability, Renewable Energy , enero de 2022; 181, 616-629
Muñoz-Salinas, E., Castillo, M., Romero, F., Correa-Metrio, A, Understanding sedimentation at the El Molinito reservoir (NW Mexico) before and after dam construction using physical sediment analyses, Jorunal of South American Earth Sciences, noviembre de 2021; 111, 103421
Rozas-Davila, A., Correa-Metrio, A., McMichael, C.N.H., Bush, M.B, When the grass wasn't greener: Megafaunal ecology and paleodroughts, Quaternary Science Reviews, agosto de 2021; 266, 107073
Duarte, E., J. Obrist-Farner, A. Correa-Metrio, B.A. Steinman, A progressively wetter early through middle Holocene climate in the eastern lowlands of Guatemala, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, mayo de 2021; 561, 116807
Pérez, L., A. Correa-Metrio, S. Cohuo, L. Macario González, P. Echeverría-Galindo, M. Brenner, J. Curtis, S. Kutterolf, M. Stockhecke, F. Schenk, T. Bauersachs, andA. Schwalb, Ecological turnover in neotropical freshwater and terrestrial communities during episodes of abrupt climate change, Quaternary Research, mayo de 2021; 101, 26-36
Bush M.B., M.N. Nascimento, C.M. Åkesson, G.M. Cárdenes-Sandí, S.Y. Maezumi, H. Behling, A. Correa-Metrio, W. Church, S.N. Huisman, T. Kelly, F.E. Mayle, C.N.H. McMichael, Widespread reforestation before European influence on Amazonia, Science, abril de 2021; 372, 484-487
Olivares-Casillas, G., Alex Correa-Metrio, E. Zawisza, M. Wojewódka-Przybył, M. Blaauw, and F. Romero, Environmental variability during the last three millennia in the rain shadows of central Mexico, Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica de México, abril de 2021; 73(1), A171220
Bush, M.B., A. Correa-Metrio, R. van Woesik, A. Collins, J. Hanselman, P. Martínez, C.N.H McMichael, Modern pollen assemblages of the Neotropics, Journal of Biogeography, enero de 2021; 48, 231-241
Jaramillo, C., P. Sepulchre, D. Cardenas, A. Correa‐Metrio, J.E. Moreno, R. Trejos, D. Vallejos, N. Hoyos, C. Martínez, D. Carvalho, J. Escobar, F. Oboh‐Ikuenobe, M.B. Prámparo, and D. Pinzón, Drastic Vegetation Change in the Guajira Peninsula (Colombia) During the Neogene, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, noviembre de 2020; 35(11), e2020PA003933
Martínez, C., C. Jaramillo, A. Correa-Metrío, W. Crepet, J.E. Moreno, A. Aliaga, F. Moreno, M. Ibañez-Mejia, and M.B. Bush, Neogene precipitation, vegetation, and elevation history of the Central Andean Plateau, Science Advances, agosto de 2020; 6(35), eaaz4724
Escobar, J. Y. Serna, N. Hoyos, M.I. Velez, and Alex Correa-Metrio , Why we need more paleolimnology studies in the tropics , Journal of Paleolimnology, junio de 2020; 64, 47-53
Franco‐Gaviria, F., A. Correa‐Metrio, F. Núñez‐Useche, E. Zawisza, M. Caballero, B. Prado, M. Wojewódka, G. Olivares, Millennial‐to‐centennial scale lake system development in the mountains of tropical Mexico, Boreas, abril de 2020; 49(2), 363-374
Torregroza-Espinosa, A.C., J.C. Restrepo, A. Correa-Metrio, N. Hoyos, J. Escobar, J. Pierini, and J.-M. Martínez, Fluvial and oceanographic influences on suspended sediment dispersal in the Magdalena River Estuary, Journal of Marine Systems, abril de 2020; 204, 103282
Serna, Y., A. Correa-Metrio, W.F. Kenney, J.H. Curtis, M.I. Velez, M. Brenner, N. Hoyos, J.C. Restrepo, C. Cordero-Oviedo, D. Buck, N. Suarez, and J. Escobar, Post-colonial pollution of the Bay of Cartagena, Colombia, Journal of Paleolimnology, enero de 2020; 63(1), 21-35
Esperon-Rodriguez, M. L.J. Beaumont, J. Lenoir, J.B. Baumgartner, J. McGowanb, A. Correa-Metrio, and J.S. Camac, Climate change threatens the most biodiverse regions of Mexico, Biological Conservation, noviembre de 2019; 240, 108215
Cordero-Oviedo, C., A.Correa-Metrio, L.E. Urrego, G.Vázquez, M.Blaauw, J.Escobar, and J.H.Curtis, Holocene establishment of mangrove forests in the western coast of the Gulf of Mexico, Catena, septiembre de 2019; 180, 212-223
Echeverría Galindo, P.G., L. Pérez, A. Correa-Metrio, C.E. Avendaño, B. Moguel, M. Brenner, S. Cohuo, L. Macario6, M. Caballero, and A. Schwalb, Tropical freshwater ostracodes as environmental indicators across an altitude gradient in Guatemala and Mexico, Revista de Biología Tropical, septiembre de 2019; 67(4), 1037-1058
van der Sande, M.T., W. Gosling, A. Correa‐Metrio, J. Prado‐Junior, L. Poorter, R.S. Oliveira, L. Mazzei, M.B. Bush , A 7000‐year history of changing plant trait composition in an Amazonian landscape; the role of humans and climate, Ecology Letters, junio de 2019; 22(6), 925-935
Arellano-Torres, E., A. Alexander Correa-Metrio, D. López-Dávila, J. Escobar, J.H. Curtis, M.C. Cordero-Oviedo, Mid to late Holocene hydrological and sea-level change reconstructions from La Mancha coastal lagoon, Veracruz, Mexico, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, abril de 2019; 520, 150-162
Pompeani, D.P., A.L. Hillman, M.S. Finkenbinder, D.J. Baina, A. Correa-Metrio, K.M. Pompeani, and M.B. Abbott, The environmental impact of a pre-Columbian city based on geochemical insights from lake sediment cores recovered near Cahokia, Quaternary Research, marzo de 2019; 91(2), 714-728
Caballero, M., S. Lozano-García, B. Ortega-Guerrero, A. Correa-Metrio, Quantitative estimates of orbital and millennial scale climatic variability in central Mexico during the last ~40,000 years, Quaternary Science Reviews, febrero de 2019; 205, 62-75
Cárdenes-Sandí, G., C.R. Shadik, A. Correa-Metrio, W.D. Gosling, R. Cheddadi, and M.B. Bush., Central American climate and microrefugia: A view from the last interglacial, Quaternary Science Reviews, febrero de 2019; 205, 224-233
Zawisza, E., I. Zawiska, K. Szeroczyńska, A. Correa-Metrio, J. Mirosław-Grabowska, M. Obremska, M. Rzodkiewicz, M. Słowiński, and M. Woszczyk4 , Dystrophication of lake Suchar IV (NE Poland): an alternative way of lake development , Limnetica, febrero de 2019; 38(1), 391-416
Hoyos, N., A. Correa-Metrio, S.M. Jepsen, B. Wemple, S. Valencia, M. Marsik, R. Doria, J. Escobar, J.C. Restrepo, and M.I. Vélez , Modeling streamflow response to persistent drought in a coastal tropical mountainous watershed, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, Water, enero de 2019; 11, 94
Massaferro, J. A. Correa-Metrio, F. Montes de Oca, and M. Mauad , Contrasting responses of lake ecosystems tomenvironmental disturbance: a paleoecological perspective from northern Patagonia (Argentina), Hydrobiologia, julio de 2018; 816(1), 79-89
Correa-Metrio, A. Caballero-Rodríguez, D., The Anthropocene: Modern and fossil evidence, Boletin de la Sociedad Geologica Mexicana, junio de 2018; 70(1), 0-0
Esperón‐Rodríguez, M., T.J. Curran, J.S. Camac, R.W. Hofmann, A. Correa‐Metrio, and Víctor L. Barradas, Correlation of drought traits and the predictability of osmotic potential at full leaf turgor in vegetation from New Zealand, Austral Ecology, junio de 2018; 43(4), 397-408
Franco-Gaviria, F., A. Correa-Metrio, C. Cordero-Oviedo, M. Lopez-Perez, G.M. Cardenes-Sandí, and F.M. Romero , Effects of late Holocene climate variability and anthropogenic stressors on the vegetation of the Maya highlands, Quaternary Science Review, junio de 2018; 189, 76-90
Franco-Gaviria, F., D. Caballero-Rodríguez, A. Correa-Metrio, L. Pérez, A. Schwalb, S. Cohuo, L. Macario-González, The human impact imprint on modern pollen spectra of the Maya lands, Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, abril de 2018; 70(1), 61-78
Urrego, L.E., A. Correa-Metrio, C. González-Arango, Colombian Caribbean mangrove dynamics: anthropogenic and environmental drivers, Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, abril de 2018; 70(1), 133-145
Caballero-Rodríguez, D., A. Correa-Metrio, S. Lozano-García, S. Sosa-Nájera, B. Ortega, Y. Sanchez-Dzib, K. Aguirre-Navarro, A. Sandoval-Montaño, Late-Quaternary spatiotemporal dynamics of vegetation in Central Mexico, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, marzo de 2018; 250, 44-52
Bird, B.W., O. Rudloff, J. Escobar, W.P. Gilhooly III, A. Correa-Metrio, M. Vélez, and P.J. Polissar6, Paleoclimate support for a persistent dry island effect in the Colombian Andes during the last 4700 years, The Holocene, febrero de 2018; 28(2), 217-228
Shadik, C.R., G. M. Cárdenes-Sandí, A. Correa-Metrio, R.L. Edwards, M. B. Bush, Glacial and interglacials in the Neotropics: a 130,000-year diatom record from central Panama, Journal of Paleolimnology, diciembre de 2017; 58(4), 497-510
Hoyos, N., A. Correa-Metrio, A. Sisa,, M.A. Ramos-Fabiel, J.M. Espinosa, J.C. Restrepo, J. Escobar, The environmental envelope of fires in the Colombian Caribbean, Applied Geography, julio de 2017; 84, 42-54
Sigala, I., M. Caballero, A. Correa-Metrio, S. Lozano-García, G. Vázquez, L. Pérez, E. Zawisza, Basic limnology of 30 continental waterbodies of the Transmexican Volcanic Belt across climatic and environmental gradients, Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, julio de 2017; 69(2), 313 ‒ 370
Bush, M., A. Correa-Metrio, R. van Woesik,C. Shadik, and C. McMichael, Human disturbance amplifies Amazonian ENSO signal, Global Change Biology, marzo de 2017
Mays, J.L., M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, K.V. Curtis, D.A. Hodell, A. Correa-Metrio, J. Escobar, A.L. Dutton, A.R. Zimmerman, and T.P. Guilderson, Stable carbon isotopes (d13C) of total organic carbon and long-chain n-alkanes as proxies for climate and environmental change in a sediment core from Lake Petén-Itzá, Guatemala, Journal of Paleolimnology, febrero de 2017
Caballero-Rodríguez, D., M.S. Lozano-García, A. Correa-Metrio, Vegetation assemblages of central Mexico through the late Quaternary: modern analogs and compositional turnover, Journal of Vegetation Science, enero de 2017
Díaz, K.A., L. Pérez, A. Correa-Metrio, J.F. Franco-Gaviria, P. Echeverría Galindo, J. Curtis, M. Brenner., Holocene environmental history of tropical, mid-altitude Lake Ocotalito, Mexico, inferred from ostracodes and non-biological indicators, The Holocene, enero de 2017
Vázquez-Molina, Y., A. Correa-Metrio, E. Zawisza, J.F. Franco-Gaviria, L. Pérez, F. Romero, B. Prado, F. Charqueño-Célis, and M. Esperón-Rodríguez, Decoupled lake history and regional moisture availability in the middle elevations of tropical Mexico, Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, diciembre de 2016; 33(3), 355-364
Zawisza, E., A. Filbrandt-Czaja, A. Correa-Metrio, Subfossil Cladocera and pollen as indicators of natural and anthropogenic trophic changes of Lake Jelonek (Tuchola Forest, N Poland) during the Holocene, Advances in Oceanography and Limnology, diciembre de 2016; 7(2), 157-170
Correa-Metrio, A., M.I. Vélez, J. Escobar, J.-M. St-Jacques, M. López-Pérez, J. Curtis, J. Cosford, Mid-elevation ecosystems of Panama: future uncertainties in light of past global climatic variability, Journal of Quaternary Science, octubre de 2016
Zawisza, E., Zawiska, I., Correa-Metrio, A. , Cladocera Community Composition as a Function of Physicochemical and Morphological Parameters of Dystrophic Lakes in NE Poland, Wetlands, octubre de 2016
Bush, M., A. Correa-Metrio, C.H. McMichael, S. Sully, C.R. Shadik, B.G. Valencia, T. Guilderson, M. Steinitz-Kannan, J.T. Overpeck, A 6900-year history of landscape modification by humans in lowland Amazonia, Quaternary Science Review, junio de 2016; 141(1), 52-64
Hoogakker, B.A.A., R.S. Smith, J.S. Singarayer, R. Marchant, I.C. Prentice, J.R.M. Allen, R.S. Anderson, S.A. Bhagwat, H. Behling, O. Borisova, M. Bush, A. Correa-Metrio14, A. de Vernal, J.M. Finch, B. Fréchette, S. Lozano-Garcia, W.D. Gosling, W. Granoszewski, E.C. Grimm, E. Grüger, J. Hanselman20, S. P. Harrison, T.R. Hill, B. Huntley, G. Jiménez-Moreno, P. Kershaw, M.-P. Ledru, D. Magri, M. McKenzie, U. Müller T. Nakagawa, E. Novenko, D. Penny, L. Sadori, L. Scott, J. Stevenson, P. J. Valdes, M. Vandergoes, A. Velichko, C. Whitlock, and C. Tzedakis, Terrestrial biosphere changes over the last 120 kyr, Climate of the Past Discussions, enero de 2016; 12(2), 51-73
Bush, M.B., A.M. Alfonso-Reynolds, D.H. Urrego, B.G. Valencia, A. Correa-Metrio, M. Zimmermann, Miles R. Silman, Fire and climate: contrasting pressures on tropical Andean timberline species, Journal of Biogeography, mayo de 2015; 42(5), 938–950
Zawiska, I., M. Słowiński, A. Correa-Metrio, M. Obremska, T. Luoto, L. Nevalainen, M. Woszczyk, and K. Milecka, The response of a shallow lake and its catchment to Late Glacial climate changes - A case study from eastern Poland, Catena, marzo de 2015; 126, 1-10
Torres-Rodríguez, E. , S. Lozano-García, P. Roy, B. Ortega, L. Beramendi-Orozco, A. Correa-Metrio, and M. Caballero. , Last Glacial droughts and fire regimes in the central Mexican highlands, Journal of Quaternary Science, enero de 2015; 30(1), 88-99
Lorenschat, J., L. Pérez, A. Correa-Metrio, M. Brenner, U. von Bramann, and A. Schwalb, Diversity and spatial distribution of extant freshwater ostracodes (Crustacea) in ancient Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania), Diversity, julio de 2014; 6(3), 524-550
Correa-Metrio, A., Y. Dechnik, S. Lozano-García, and M. Caballero, Detrended Correspondence Analysis: A useful tool to quantify ecological changes from fossil data sets, Boletín de la Sociedad Geoógica Mexicana, febrero de 2014; 66(1), 135-143
Correa-Metrio, A. J.A. Meave, S. Lozano-García, M.B. Bush, Environmental determinism and neutrality in vegetation at millennial time scales, Journal of Vegetation Science, enero de 2014; 25(3), 627-635
Lozano-García S., A. Correa-Metrio, L. Luna, Análisis de la lluvia de polen moderna de la cuenca de México: una herramienta para la interpretación del registro fósil, Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica de México, enero de 2014; 66(1), 1-10
Correa-Metrio, A., M.B. Bush, M.S. Lozano-García, S. Sosa-Nájera, Millennial-scale temperature change velocity in the continental northern Neotropics, PLOS One, diciembre de 2013; 8(12), e81958
Urrego, L.E., A. Correa-Metrio, C. González, A.R. Castaño, Y. Yokoyama, Contrasting responses of two Caribbean mangroves to sea-level rise in the Guajira Peninsula (Colombian Caribbean), Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, diciembre de 2013; 370, 92-102
Zawiska I, Zawisza E, Woszczyk M, Szeroczyńska K, Spychalski W, Correa-Metrio A, Cladocera and geochemical evidence from sediment cores show trophic changes in Polish dystrophic lakes, Hydrobiologia, diciembre de 2013; 715(1), 181-193
Correa-Metrio, A., M.B. Bush, D. Hodell, M. Brenner, J. Escobar, J., and T. Guilderson, The influence of abrupt climate change on the ice-age vegetation of the Central American lowlands, Journal of Biogeography, diciembre de 2012; 39(3), 497-509
Correa-Metrio, A., M.B. Bush, K.R. Cabrera, S. Sully, M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, J. Escobar, and T. Guilderson, Rapid climate change and no-analog vegetation in lowlands Central America during the last 86,000 years, Quaternary Science Review, diciembre de 2012; 38, 63-75
Correa-Metrio, A., S. Lozano-García, S. Xelhuantzi-López, S. Sosa-Najera, and S. Metcalfe, Correa-Metrio, A., S. Lozano-García, S. Xelhuantzi-López, S. Sosa-Najera, and S. Metcalfe, Journal of Quaternary Science, diciembre de 2012; 27(5), 509-518
McMichael, C.H., A. Correa-Metrio, M.B. Bush, Pre-Columbian fire regimes in lowland tropical rainforests of southeastern Peru, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, diciembre de 2012; 73, 342-343
Mosblech N.A.S., M.B. Bush, W.D. Gosling, D. Hodell, L. Thomas, P. van Calsteren P, A. Correa-Metrio, B.G. Valencia, J. Curtis, and R. van Woesik, North Atlantic forcing of Amazonian precipitation during the last ice age, NATURE GEOSCIENCE, diciembre de 2012; 5, 817-820
Restrepo, A., P. Colinvaux, M. Bush, A. Correa-Metrio, J. Conroy, M.R. Gardener, P. Jaramillo, M. Steinitz-Kannan, J. Overpeck, Impacts of climate variability and human colonization on the vegetation of the Galapagos Islands, Ecology, diciembre de 2012; 93, 1853-1866
Correa-Metrio, A., M. B. Bush, L. Pérez, A. Schwalb, and K. R. Cabrera, Pollen distribution along climatic and biogeographic gradients in northern Central America, The Holocene, diciembre de 2011; 24(4), 687-698
Urrego, D.H., M.R. Silman, A. Correa-Metrio, M.B. Bush, Pollen-vegetation relationships along steep climatic gradients in western Amazonia, Journal of Vegetation Science, diciembre de 2011; 22(3), 795-806
Correa-Metrio, A., K. Cabrera and M. Bush, Quantifying ecological change through Discriminant Analysis: a paleoecological example from the Peruvian Amazon, Journal of Vegetation Science, diciembre de 2010; 21(4), 695-704
Hodell D:A., F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, A. Gilli, D.A. Grzesik, T., J. Guildersond, A.D. Müllerb, M.B. Bush, A. Correa-Metrio, J. Escobar, and S. Kutterolf, An 85-ka Record of Climate Change in Lowland Central America, Quaternary Science Review, diciembre de 2008; 27(11-12), 1152-1165