Humfredo Marcano-Vega

Treesearch Publications

• Samjhana Wagle, Sheng-I Yang, Thomas Brandeis, Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Bronson Bullock. 2026. Developing Species-Specific Height-Diameter Relationship Models for Different Forest Types in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands
• Nafiseh Haghtalab, Tamara Heartsill Scalley, Tana E. Wood, J. Aaron Hogan, Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Thomas Brandeis, Thomas Ruzycki, Eileen Helmer. 2026. Multi-Resolution Mapping of Aboveground Biomass and Change in Puerto Rico’s Forests with Remote Sensing and Machine Learning
• Jimena Forero-Montaña, Andrés Rúa, Luis E. Santiago, Sheila Ward, Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Jess K. Zimmerman, William A. Gould, Oscar J. Abelleira-Martínez, Elvia J. Meléndez-Ackerman. 2025. Strategic guidelines for the sustainable management of forest resources in Puerto Rico. Opportunities, challenges and stakeholders in the production chain of the forestry sector
• Charles A. Price, Todd A. Schroeder, Benjamin Branoff, Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Nicole Pillot-Torres, Morgan Chaudry, Michael Ross, Monica Papeș, Skip Van Bloem. 2025. Evaluating tree biomass estimation in trans-Atlantic mangrove species: Comparing bole diameter measurements for improved accuracy
• Charles A. Price, Todd A. Schroeder, Benjamin Branoff, Skip J. Van Bloem, Nicole Pillot-Torres, Morgan H. Chaudry, Monica Papeş, Humfredo Marcano-Vega. 2025. Allometric relationships for the linear dimensions and biomass of Puerto Rican mangroves
• Humfredo Marcano-Vega. 2025. Los Bosques de Puerto Rico, 2019
• German Vargas G., Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Tom Ruzycki, Tana E. Wood, William R. L. Anderegg, Jennifer S. Powers, Eileen Helmer. 2025. Aridity and forest age mediate landscape scale patterns of tropical forest resistance to cyclonic storms
• Sheng-I Yang, Thomas Brandeis, Eileen Helmer, Humfredo Marcano-Vega. 2025. Predicting species-specific diameter growth rate for Caribbean trees using mixed-effects extreme gradient boosting
• Sakar Jha, Sheng-I Yang, Thomas Brandeis, Olaf Kuegler, Humfredo Marcano-Vega. 2023. Evaluation of regression methods and competition indices in characterizing height-diameter relationships for temperate and pantropical tree species
• Humfredo Marcano-Vega. 2023. Puerto Rico Forests 2019
• Eileen Helmer, Shannon Kay, Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Jennifer S. Powers, Tana E. Wood, Xiaolin Zhu, David Gwenzi, Thomas S. Ruzycki. 2023. Multiscale predictors of small tree survival across a heterogeneous tropical landscape
• Thomas Brandeis, Humfredo Marcano-Vega. 2022. Forest inventories of Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands
• Thomas Brandeis, Joberto Veloso de Freitas, Rubí Angélica Cuenca Lara, Alexs Arana, Mariana Boscana, Anibal Cuchietti, Rafael Mayorga Saucedo, Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Carlo Paredes Valiente, Carla Ramírez, Sergio Villela, Iciar Alberdi. 2022. Challenges and opportunities for national forest inventories
• Mariana Boscana, Carlo Paredes Valiente, Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Sergio Vilella, Iciar Alberdi, Joberto Veloso de Freitas, Carla Ramírez. 2022. Future prospects for national forest inventories in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Sheng-I Yang, Thomas Brandeis, Eileen Helmer, Michael P. Oatham, Tamara Heartsill Scalley, Humfredo Marcano-Vega. 2022. Characterizing height-diameter relationships for Caribbean trees using mixed-effects random forest algorithm
• Sebastián Martinuzzi, Bruce D. Cook, Eileen Helmer, Michael Keller, Dexter H. Locke, Humfredo Marcano-Vega, María Uriarte, Douglas C. Morton. 2022. Patterns and controls on island‐wide aboveground biomass accumulation in second‐growth forests of Puerto Rico
• Ariel Lugo, James Smith, Kevin M. Potter, Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Cassandra Kurtz. 2022. The contribution of nonnative tree species to the structure and composition of forests in the conterminous United States in comparison with tropical islands in the Pacific and Caribbean
• Thomas Brandeis, Humfredo Marcano-Vega. 2021. Inventarios forestales de Puerto Rico y las Islas Virgenes de los Estados Unidos
• Xiaolin Zhu, Eileen Helmer, David Gwenzi, Melissa Collin, Sean Fleming, Jiaqi Tian, Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Elvia J. Meléndez-Ackerman, Jess K. Zimmerman. 2021. Characterization of Dry-Season Phenology in Tropical Forests by Reconstructing Cloud-Free Landsat Time Series
• Albert (Bud) E. Mayfield, Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Ariel Lugo. 2021. Regional Summaries: Southeast and Caribbean
• Humfredo Marcano-Vega. 2020. U.S. Virgin Islands’ forests, 2014.
• Humfredo Marcano-Vega. 2019. Los bosques de Puerto Rico, 2014
• Michelle Lazaro, Sharon Stanton, Humfredo Marcano-Vega. 2019. U.S.-Affiliated jurisdictions of the insular Caribbean and Pacific
• Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Lemuel Familia. 2019. Nota del XII Congreso Latinoamericano de Botánica, Quito, Ecuador, 2018 [Note of the XII Latin American Congress of Botany, Quito, Ecuador, 2018]
• Jimena Forero-Montaña, Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Jess K. Zimmerman, Thomas Brandeis. 2019. Potential of second-growth Neotropical forests for forestry: the example of Puerto Rico
• James L. Chamberlain, Jeanine Davis, Marlyse Duguid, Dave Ellum, Mike Farrell, J.B. Friday, Dave Fuller, Steve Kruger, Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Joe-Ann McCoy, Doug Page, Steven Prisley, Johanna Young, John Zasada. 2018. Chapter 2 - Nontimber forest products and production.
• Eileen Helmer, Thomas Ruzycki, Barry T. (Ty) Wilson, Kirk Sherrill, Michael Lefsky, Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Thomas Brandeis, Heather Erickson, Bonnie Ruefenacht. 2018. Tropical Deforestation and Recolonization by Exotic and Native Trees: Spatial Patterns of Tropical Forest Biomass, Functional Groups, and Species Counts and Links to Stand Age, Geoclimate, and Sustainability Goals
• Janet Franklin, Riley Andrade, Mark L. Daniels, Patrick Fairbairn, Maria C. Fandino, Thomas W. Gillespie, Grizelle Gonzalez, Otto Gonzalez, Daniel Imbert, Valerie Kapos, Daniel L. Kelly, Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Elvia J. Meléndez-Ackerman, Kurt P. McLaren, Morag A. McDonald, Julie Ripplinger, Julissa Rojas-Sandoval, Michael S. Ross, Jorge Ruiz, David W. Steadman, Edmund V. J. Tanner, Inge Terrill, Michel Vennetier. 2018. Geographical ecology of dry forest tree communities in the West Indies
• Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Joe R. Williamson. 2017. Forests of U.S.Virgin Islands, 2014
• David Gwenzi, Eileen Helmer, Xiaolin Zhu, Michael Lefsky, Humfredo Marcano-Vega. 2017. Predictions of Tropical Forest Biomass and Biomass Growth Based on Stand Height or Canopy Area Are Improved by Landsat-Scale Phenology across Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
• Humfredo Marcano-Vega. 2017. Forests of Puerto Rico, 2014
• Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Andrew J. Lister, Kevin Megown, Charles Scott. 2016. Applicability of the Design Tool for Inventory and Monitoring (DTIM) and the Explore Sample Data Tool for the Assessment of Caribbean Forest Dynamics
• Thomas Brandeis, Joe McCollum, Andy Hartsell, Consuelo Brandeis, Anita K. Rose, Sonja Oswalt, James T. (JT) Vogt, Humfredo Marcano-Vega. 2016. Georgia’s forests, 2014
• Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Carlton Roberts, Henri Valles, Jacqueline Andre, Kevin Boswell, Dennis Lemen, Floyd Liburd, Christian López. 2016. Communication from the National Forest Inventories Working Group of the 16th Caribbean Foresters meeting: proposal for a regional workshop
• Janet Franklin, Julie Ripplinger, Ethan H. Freid, Humfredo Marcano-Vega, David W. Steadman. 2015. Regional variation in Caribbean dry forest tree species composition
• Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Thomas Brandeis, Jeffery Turner. 2015. Los bosques de Puerto Rico, 2009
• E. Medina, Eileen Helmer, E. Melendez-Ackerman, Humfredo Marcano-Vega. 2014. Natural vegetation groups and canopy chemical markers in a dry subtropical forest on calcareous substrate: the vegetation of Mona Island, Puerto Rico
• Thomas Brandeis, Eileen Helmer, Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Ariel Lugo. 2009. Climate shapes the novel plant communities that form after deforestation in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
• Eileen Helmer, T.A. Kennaway, D.H. Pedreros, M.L. Clark, Humfredo Marcano-Vega, L.L. Tieszen, S.R. Schill, C.M.S. Carrington. 2008. Land cover and forest formation distributions for St. Kitts, Nevis, St. Eustatius, Grenada and Barbados from decision tree classification of cloud-cleared satellite imagery. Caribbean Journal of Science. 44(2):175-198.
• E. Román Nunci, Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Ivan Vicens, G. Bortolamedi, Ariel Lugo. 2005. El bosque del parque central de la urbanización El Paraíso: estructura, composición de especies y crecimiento de árboles
• Ariel Lugo, E. Román Nunci, Maya Quinones, Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Ivan Vicens. 2005. El bosque estatal del nuevo milenio antes y después del huracán Georges

Data and Tools

• Dataset
  

  Silvics of North America

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/dataandtools/silvics-north-america

• Project
  

  Caribbean Foresters

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/iitf/projects/caribbean-foresters
  Station

  International Institute of Tropical Forestry

• Department of Ecology, School of Biological Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain., Ecology, 2002
• Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, Biology, 1992