Alma Mendoza Ponce
Guest Research Scholar
Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
Biography
Alma Mendoza graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She earned her MSc in Environmental Sciences from UNAM in 2008, and a further MSc in Management and Conservation of Species in Trade: The International Framework from the International University of Andalusia, Spain in 2011. She received her PhD in Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences from the University of Edinburgh (UK). Her thesis research was focused on the effects of land use cover change on biodiversity under different scenarios in Mexico.Dr. Mendoza has previously worked on environmental impact assessments, forest management assessments and conservation planning in Mexico. With the Ecosystems Services and Management Program (ESM), she will be working on an updated model of land use changes in Mexico through the integration of new IPCC scenarios data. The outputs will be used to analyze the effects of the land use cover change on some ecosystem services in Mexico.
Last update: 08 FEB 2017
Publications
Mendoza Ponce, A. , Corona-Núñez, R.O., Kraxner, F., & Estrada, F. (2020). Spatial prioritization for biodiversity conservation in a megadiverse country. Anthropocene 32 e100267. 10.1016/j.ancene.2020.100267.
Gyamfi-Ampadu, E., Gebreslasie, M., & Mendoza Ponce, A. (2020). Mapping natural forest cover using satellite imagery of Nkandla forest reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment 18 p. 100302. 10.1016/j.rsase.2020.100302.
Mendoza Ponce, A. , Corona-Núñez, R., Galicia-Sarmiento, L., & García-Guerrero, V. (2019). Proyecciones poblacionales y económicas bajo diferentes escenarios para México [Population and economic projections under different scenarios for Mexico]. Papeles de Población 25 (99) 9-44.
Patrizio, P., Leduc, S., Kraxner, F., Fuß, S., Kindermann, G. , Mesfun, S. , Spokas, K., Mendoza Ponce, A. , MacDowell, N., Wetterlund, E., Lundgren, J., Dotzauer, E., Yowargana, P., & Obersteiner, M. (2018). Reducing US coal emissions can boost employment. Joule 2 (12) 2633-2648. 10.1016/j.joule.2018.10.004.
Mesfun, S. , Leduc, S., Patrizio, P., Wetterlund, E., Mendoza Ponce, A. , Lammens, T., Staritsky, I., Elbersen, B., Lundgren, J., & Kraxner, F. (2018). Spatio-temporal assessment of integrating intermittent electricity in the EU and Western Balkans power sector under ambitious CO2 emission policies. Energy 164 676-693. 10.1016/j.energy.2018.09.034.