EDUCATION

2002-2006 PhD. Plant Science. University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom.

1998-2001 MSc. Ecology and Management of Natural Resources. Instituto de Ecología A.C.

1992-1995 BSc. Honours Biology. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

EMPLOYMENT

2010-present Research Scientist. Department of Functional Ecology, INECOL A.C., Mexico.

2008 - 2009 Postdoc Instituto de Ciencias Sociales, UNAM, Mexico.

2007-2008 Project Coordinador ARK 2010. CONABIO, Mexico.

2006-2007 Postdoc Instituto de Ecología A.C.

2006-2007 Field coordinator for the evaluation of tree regeneration People and Plants International / Sociedad de Productores Forestales y Ejidales de Quintana Roo.

2001 - 2002 Consultant for forest certification SMART WOOD/ CCMSS.

AWARDS

2009-2011 Kleinhans Fellowship – Rain Forest Alliance.

2021-2022 Georg-Föster Fellowship – Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Profiles:

Google scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uQs5t1sAAAA

Research gate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tarin_Toledo-Aceves

Instituto de Ecología A.C. http://www.inecol.mx/personal/index.php/funcional/86-mariana-tarin-toledo-aceves

Selected Publications

  • García-Hernández MA, Toledo-Aceves T. 2020. Is there potential in elevational assisted migration for the endangered Magnolia vovidesii? Journal for Nature Conservation 53: 125782. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2019.125782

  • Trujillo-Miranda AL, Toledo-Aceves T, López-Barrera F, Günter S. 2020. Tree diversity and timber productivity in planted forests: Pinus patula versus mixed cloud forest species. New Forests, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11056-020-09787-1

  • Toledo-Aceves T, de los Ángeles García-Hernández M, Paz H. 2019. Leaf functional traits predict cloud forest tree seedling survival along an elevation gradient. Annals of Forest Science, 76(4), 111. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-019-0900-5

  • MA García-hernández, T Toledo-Aceves, F López-Barrera, V Sosa, H Paz. 2019. Effects of environmental filters on early establishment of cloud forest trees along elevation gradients: implications for assisted migration. Forest Ecology and Management 432: 427-435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.09.042

  • Mendoza-Hernández M, Gerez-Fernández P, Purata-Velarde S & Toledo-Aceves T. 2019. Growth rates of valuable tree species in secondary tropical montane cloud forests in Mexico: influence of tree size, crown position and competition. Madera y Bosques, 25(3). doi: 10.21829/myb.2019.2531824

  • AL Trujillo-Miranda, T Toledo-Aceves, F López-Barrera, Patricia Gerez-Fernández. 2018. Active versus passive restoration: Recovery of cloud forest structure, diversity and soil condition in abandoned pastures. Ecological Engineering 117: 50-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2018.03.011

  • T Toledo-Aceves. 2017. Germination rate of endangered cloud forest trees: potential for ex situ propagation. Journal of Forest Research 22: 61-64.

  • T Toledo-Aceves, J García-Franco, A Flores-Palacios. 2017. Do cloud forest tree species differ in their suitability as a substrate for epiphytic bromeliads? Plant Ecology 218: 541-546. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-017-0709-y

  • Ortiz-Colín P, T Toledo-Aceves, López-Barrera F, Gerez P. 2017. Can traditional selective logging secure tree regeneration in cloud forest? Iforest 10: 369-375. https://doi.org/10.3832/ifor1937-009

  • T Toledo‐Aceves. 2015. Above‐and belowground competition between lianas and trees. Ecology of lianas, 147-163. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118392409.ch12

  • M Acuña-Tarazona, T Toledo-Aceves, A Flores-Palacios, V Soza, M Martínez. 2015. Recolonization of vascular epiphytes poststripping in cloud forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 31: 499-508. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467415000395

  • T Toledo-Aceves, García-Franco J, López-Barrera F. 2014. Bromeliad rain: An opportunity for cloud forest management. Forest Ecology and Management 329: 129-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2014.06.022

  • T Toledo-Aceves, Hernández-Apolinar M, Valverde T. 2014. Potential impact of harvesting on the population dynamics of two epiphytic bromeliads. Acta Oecologica 59: 52-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2014.05.009

  • T Toledo-Aceves, K Mehltreter, J García Franco, A Hernández-Rojas, V Sosa. 2013. Benefits and costs of epiphyte management in shaded coffee plantations. Agriculture, Ecosystems and the Environment 181: 149-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2013.09.026

  • T Toledo Aceves, JA Meave, M González-Espinoza, N Ramírez-Marcial. 2011. Tropical montane cloud forests: current threats and opportunities for their conservation and sustainable management in Mexico. Journal of Environmental Management 92: 974- 981. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.11.007

  • CONABIO. 2010. El bosque mesófilo de montaña en México: Amenazas y Oportunidades para su conservación y manejo sustentable. T Toledo Aceves (Ed.). 196 pp. México, D.F., México. ISBN 978-607-7607-35-9. http://bioteca.biodiversidad.gob.mx/janium/Documentos/6529.pdf

  • T Toledo Aceves, S Purata Velarde, Ch Peters. 2009. Regeneration of commercial tree species in a logged forest in Selva Maya, Mexico. Forest Ecology and Management 258: 2481-2489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2009.08.033

  • T Toledo Aceves, MD Swaine. 2008. Effect of lianas on tree regeneration in canopy gaps and forest understorey in tropical forest in Ghana. Journal of Vegetation Science 19: 717–728. https://doi.org/10.3170/2008-8-18444

  • T Toledo Aceves, JH Wolf. 2008. Germination and establishment of Tillandsia eizii (Bromeliaceae) in the canopy of an oak forest in Chiapas, Mexico. Biotropica 40: 246-250. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7429.2007.00344.x

  • T Toledo Aceves, MD Swaine. 2007. Effect of three climbers on the performance of Ceiba pentandra seedlings in gaps in a tropical forest in Ghana. Journal of Tropical Ecology 23: 45-52. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467406003725