Elvia Meléndez-Ackerman

Full Professor

Ph.D., Ecology, University of California, Irvine, 1995. UPR Delegate to the Organization for Tropical Studies and member of UPR’s GK-12 Task Force and advisor of AKKA SEEDS .  Plant ecology;Bioconservation of tropical dry forest ecosystems with focus on Mona Island Puerto Rico, Species responses to climate variability, effects of exotics on plant communities; biodiversity drivers within urban systems; plant-animal interactions; evolution of floral traits; metapopulation dynamics in orchids; genetic variation in natural populations;

Email : elmelend@gmail.com

Courses Taught: Evolution Seminar, (Grad) Plant Reproductive Ecology (Grad), BioConservation (Grad), Introduction to Ecology, Introduction to Environmental Sciences, Botany

Research : Evolution and Bioconservation of Terrestrial Ecosystems