Dr Diego Felipe Correa Gómez
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of the Environment
Reef Catchments Science Partnership
Researcher biography
I am an environmental scientist with an interest in the conservation of biological diversity and the understanding of ecosystem functioning under increasing anthropogenic threats. I aim at applying geographic information systems to develop spatially explicit solutions for the conservation and management of biodiversity while balancing human needs. I also aim at applying statistical tools to unravel the determinants of tropical biodiversity.
My current main research project deals with the understanding of water quality treatment methods for reducing nitrogen pollution in the Australian Great Barrier Reef, as well as the development of GIS analyses for proposing feasible areas to offset nitrogen pollution affecting marine ecosystems.
PhD in environmental management. The University of Queensland, Australia. 2019
MSc in Biological Sciences. Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. 2010
UQ research profile: http://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/28070
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=PwJM1sMAAAAJ&hl=en
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Diego_Correa13
Book Chapter
Umaña, María Natalia, Correa, Diego F., Cano, Ángela, Casas, Luisa F., Cárdenas, Sasha, Villanueva, Boris and Stevenson, Pablo (2018). Diversity of dispersal systems in Igapó forests: an analysis of local tree diversity, species turnover, and dispersal systems. Igapó (Black-water flooded forests) of the Amazon Basin. (pp. 23-35) edited by Randall W. Myster. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-90122-0_2
Journal Articles
McMahon, J.M., Turner, R.D.R., Smart, J.C.R., Shortle, J.S., Ramsay, I., Correa, D.F., Chamberlain, D., Mao, Y. and Warne, M.St.J. (2024). Offset integrity reduces environmental risk: Using lessons from biodiversity and carbon offsetting to inform water quality offsetting in the catchments of the Great Barrier Reef. Science of the Total Environment, 951 175786, 175786. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.175786
Mao, Yongjing, Turner, Ryan D. R., McMahon, Joseph M., Correa, Diego F., Chamberlain, Debbie A. and Warne, Michael St. J. (2024). Predicting ground cover with deep learning models—an application of spatio-temporal prediction methods to satellite-derived ground cover maps in the great barrier reef catchments. Remote Sensing, 16 (17) 3193, 3193. doi: 10.3390/rs16173193
Householder, John Ethan, Wittmann, Florian, Schöngart, Jochen, Piedade, Maria Teresa Fernandez, Junk, Wolfgang J., Latrubesse, Edgardo Manuel, Quaresma, Adriano Costa, Demarchi, Layon O., de S. Lobo, Guilherme, Aguiar, Daniel P. P. de, Assis, Rafael L., Lopes, Aline, Parolin, Pia, Leão do Amaral, Iêda, Coelho, Luiz de Souza, de Almeida Matos, Francisca Dionízia, Lima Filho, Diógenes de Andrade, Salomão, Rafael P., Castilho, Carolina V., Guevara-Andino, Juan Ernesto, Carim, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga, Phillips, Oliver L., Cárdenas López, Dairon, Magnusson, William E., Sabatier, Daniel, Revilla, Juan David Cardenas, Molino, Jean-François, Irume, Mariana Victória, Martins, Maria Pires ... ter Steege, Hans (2024). One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 8 (5), 1-11. doi: 10.1038/s41559-024-02364-1
Cooper, Declan L. M., Lewis, Simon L., Sullivan, Martin J. P., Prado, Paulo I., ter Steege, Hans, Barbier, Nicolas, Slik, Ferry, Sonké, Bonaventure, Ewango, Corneille E. N., Adu-Bredu, Stephen, Affum-Baffoe, Kofi, de Aguiar, Daniel P. P., Ahuite Reategui, Manuel Augusto, Aiba, Shin-Ichiro, Albuquerque, Bianca Weiss, de Almeida Matos, Francisca Dionízia, Alonso, Alfonso, Amani, Christian A., do Amaral, Dário Dantas, do Amaral, Iêda Leão, Andrade, Ana, de Andrade Miranda, Ires Paula, Angoboy, Ilondea B., Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro, Arboleda, Nicolás Castaño, Arroyo, Luzmila, Ashton, Peter, Aymard C, Gerardo A., Baider, Cláudia ... Zent, Stanford (2024). Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities. Nature, 625 (7996), 1-10. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06820-z
Householder, John Ethan, Wittmann, Florian, Schöngart, Jochen, Piedade, Maria Teresa Fernandez, Junk, Wolfgang J., Latrubesse, Edgardo Manuel, Quaresma, Adriano Costa, Demarchi, Layon O., de S. Lobo, Guilherme, Aguiar, Daniel P. P. de, Assis, Rafael L., Lopes, Aline, Parolin, Pia, Leão do Amaral, Iêda, Coelho, Luiz de Souza, de Almeida Matos, Francisca Dionízia, Lima Filho, Diógenes de Andrade, Salomão, Rafael P., Castilho, Carolina V., Guevara-Andino, Juan Ernesto, Carim, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga, Phillips, Oliver L., Cárdenas López, Dairon, Magnusson, William E., Sabatier, Daniel, Revilla, Juan David Cardenas, Molino, Jean-François, Irume, Mariana Victória, Martins, Maria Pires ... ter Steege, Hans (2024). Correction to: One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains (Nature Ecology & Evolution, (2024), 10.1038/s41559-024-02364-1). Nature Ecology and Evolution, 8 (5), 1046-1047. doi: 10.1038/s41559-024-02400-0
Luize, Bruno Garcia, Bauman, David, ter Steege, Hans, Palma-Silva, Clarisse, do Amaral, Iêda Leão, de Souza Coelho, Luiz, de Almeida Matos, Francisca Dionízia, de Andrade Lima Filho, Diógenes, Salomão, Rafael P., Wittmann, Florian, Castilho, Carolina V., de Jesus Veiga Carim, Marcelo, Guevara, Juan Ernesto, Phillips, Oliver L., Magnusson, William E., Sabatier, Daniel, Revilla, Juan David Cardenas, Molino, Jean-François, Irume, Mariana Victória, Martins, Maria Pires, da Silva Guimarães, José Renan, Ramos, José Ferreira, Bánki, Olaf S., Piedade, Maria Teresa Fernandez, López, Dairon Cárdenas, Pitman, Nigel C. A., Demarchi, Layon O., Schöngart, Jochen, de Leão Novo, Evlyn Márcia Moraes ... Dexter, Kyle G. (2024). Geography and ecology shape the phylogenetic composition of Amazonian tree communities. Journal of Biogeography, 51 (7), 1163-1184. doi: 10.1111/jbi.14816
ter Steege, Hans, Pitman, Nigel C. A., do Amaral, Iêda Leão, de Souza Coelho, Luiz, de Almeida Matos, Francisca Dionízia, de Andrade Lima Filho, Diógenes, Salomão, Rafael P., Wittmann, Florian, Castilho, Carolina V., Guevara, Juan Ernesto, Veiga Carim, Marcelo de Jesus, Phillips, Oliver L., Magnusson, William E., Sabatier, Daniel, Revilla, Juan David Cardenas, Molino, Jean-François, Irume, Mariana Victória, Martins, Maria Pires, da Silva Guimarães, José Renan, Ramos, José Ferreira, Bánki, Olaf S., Piedade, Maria Teresa Fernandez, Cárdenas López, Dairon, Rodrigues, Domingos de Jesus, Demarchi, Layon O., Schöngart, Jochen, Almeida, Everton José, Barbosa, Luciane Ferreira, Cavalheiro, Larissa ... Melgaço, Karina (2023). Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora. Communications Biology, 6 (1) 1130, 1-14. doi: 10.1038/s42003-023-05514-6
Peripato, Vinicius, Levis, Carolina, Moreira, Guido A., Gamerman, Dani, ter Steege, Hans, Pitman, Nigel C. A., de Souza, Jonas G., Iriarte, José, Robinson, Mark, Junqueira, André Braga, Trindade, Thiago B., de Almeida, Fernando O., Moraes, Claide de Paula, Lombardo, Umberto, Tamanaha, Eduardo K., Maezumi, Shira Y., Ometto, Jean P. H. B., Braga, José R. G., Campanharo, Wesley A., Cassol, Henrique L. G., Leal, Philipe R., de Assis, Mauro L. R., da Silva, Adriana M., Phillips, Oliver L., Costa, Flávia R. C., Flores, Bernardo Monteiro, Hoffman, Bruce, Henkel, Terry W., Umaña, Maria Natalia ... Aragão, Luiz E. O. C. (2023). More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia. Science, 382 (6666), 103-109. doi: 10.1126/science.ade2541
Tedesco, Anazélia M., López-Cubillos, Sofía, Chazdon, Robin, Rhodes, Jonathan R., Archibald, Carla L., Pérez-Hämmerle, Katharina-Victoria, Brancalion, Pedro H.S., Wilson, Kerrie A., Oliveira, Mariana, Correa, Diego F., Ota, Liz, Morrison, Tiffany H., Possingham, Hugh P., Mills, Morena, Santos, Fabiane C. and Dean, Angela J. (2023). Beyond ecology: ecosystem restoration as a process for social-ecological transformation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 38 (7), 643-653. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.02.007
Tulloch, Ayesha I.T., Jackson, Micha V., Bayraktarov, Elisa, Carey, Alexander R., Correa‐Gomez, Diego F., Driessen, Michael, Gynther, Ian C., Hardie, Mel, Moseby, Katherine, Joseph, Liana, Preece, Harriet, Suarez‐Castro, Andrés Felipe, Stuart, Stephanie, Woinarski, John C.Z. and Possingham, Hugh P. (2023). Effects of different management strategies on long‐term trends of Australian threatened and near‐threatened mammals. Conservation Biology, 37 (2) e14032, e14032. doi: 10.1111/cobi.14032
Pos, Edwin, de Souza Coelho, Luiz, de Andrade Lima Filho, Diogenes, Salomão, Rafael P., Amaral, Iêda Leão, de Almeida Matos, Francisca Dionízia, Castilho, Carolina V., Phillips, Oliver L., Guevara, Juan Ernesto, de Jesus Veiga Carim, Marcelo, López, Dairon Cárdenas, Magnusson, William E., Wittmann, Florian, Irume, Mariana Victória, Martins, Maria Pires, Sabatier, Daniel, da Silva Guimarães, José Renan, Molino, Jean-François, Bánki, Olaf S., Piedade, Maria Teresa Fernandez, Pitman, Nigel C A, Mendoza, Abel Monteagudo, Ramos, José Ferreira, Hawes, Joseph E., Almeida, Everton José, Barbosa, Luciane Ferreira, Cavalheiro, Larissa, Dos Santos, Márcia Cléia Vilela, Luize, Bruno Garcia ... Ter Steege, Hans (2023). Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology. Scientific Reports, 13 (1) 2859, 1-11. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-28132-y
Correa, Diego F., Stevenson, Pablo R., Umaña, Maria Natalia, Coelho, Luiz de Souza, Lima Filho, Diógenes de Andrade, Salomão, Rafael P., Amaral, Iêda Leão do, Wittmann, Florian, Matos, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida, Castilho, Carolina V., Phillips, Oliver L., Guevara, Juan Ernesto, Carim, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga, Magnusson, William E., Sabatier, Daniel, Molino, Jean‐François, Irume, Mariana Victória, Martins, Maria Pires, Guimarães, José Renan da Silva, Bánki, Olaf S., Piedade, Maria Teresa Fernandez, Pitman, Nigel C. A., Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel, Ramos, José Ferreira, Luize, Bruno Garcia, Novo, Evlyn Márcia Moraes de Leão, Núñez Vargas, Percy, Silva, Thiago Sanna Freire, Venticinque, Eduardo Martins ... ter Steege, Hans (2023). Geographic patterns of tree dispersal modes in Amazonia and their ecological correlates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32 (1), 49-69. doi: 10.1111/geb.13596
Estrada-Villegas, Sergio, Rivas, Luz Dary, Barrera, John Fredy, Rivas, Steven Barrera, Correa, Diego F., Bernal, Laura Sofía Argüello, Aldana, Ana María, Casa, Luisa Fernanda, Lozano-Balcázar, Alejandro, Gómez-Bahamón, Valentina, Castro, Francisco and Stevenson, Pablo (2022). Plant, bird, and mammal diversity of the Tomogrande field station, Vichada, Colombia. Biota Colombiana, 23 (2) e1027, 1-14. doi: 10.21068/2539200X.1027
González-Abella, Juan S., Aldana, Ana M., Correa, Diego F., Casas, Luisa Fernanda and Stevenson, Pablo R. (2021). Forest structure, diversity and dynamics in terra firme and Igapó Gallery Forests in the Colombian Orinoco Basin. Forests, 12 (11) 1568, 1568. doi: 10.3390/f12111568
Bayraktarov, Elisa, Correa, Diego F., Suarez‐Castro, Andrés F., Garnett, Stephen T., Macgregor, Nicholas A., Possingham, Hugh P. and Tulloch, Ayesha I. T. (2021). Variable effects of protected areas on long‐term multispecies trends for Australia's imperiled birds. Conservation Science and Practice, 3 (7) e443, 1-17. doi: 10.1111/csp2.443
Correa, Diego F., Beyer, Hawthorne L., Possingham, Hugh P., Fargione, Joseph E., Hill, Jason D. and Schenk, Peer M. (2021). Microalgal biofuel production at national scales: reducing conflicts with agricultural lands and biodiversity within countries. Energy, 215 (Part A) 119033, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.energy.2020.119033
ter Steege, Hans, Prado, Paulo I., Lima, Renato A. F. de, Pos, Edwin, de Souza Coelho, Luiz, de Andrade Lima Filho, Diogenes, Salomão, Rafael P., Amaral, Iêda Leão, de Almeida Matos, Francisca Dionízia, Castilho, Carolina V., Phillips, Oliver L., Guevara, Juan Ernesto, de Jesus Veiga Carim, Marcelo, Cárdenas López, Dairon, Magnusson, William E., Wittmann, Florian, Martins, Maria Pires, Sabatier, Daniel, Irume, Mariana Victória, da Silva Guimarães, José Renan, Molino, Jean-François, Bánki, Olaf S., Piedade, Maria Teresa Fernandez, Pitman, Nigel C. A., Ramos, José Ferreira, Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel, Venticinque, Eduardo Martins, Luize, Bruno Garcia, Núñez Vargas, Percy ... Pickavance, Georgia (2020). Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora. Scientific Reports, 10 (1) 10130, 10130. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-66686-3
Correa, Diego F, Beyer, Hawthorne L, Possingham, Hugh P, García-Ulloa, John, Ghazoul, Jaboury and Schenk, Peer M (2020). Freeing land from biofuel production through microalgal cultivation in the Neotropical region. Environmental Research Letters, 15 (9) 094094, 094094. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab8d7f
Ter Steege, Hans, Henkel, Terry W., Helal, Nora, Marimon, Beatriz S., Marimon-Junior, Ben Hur, Huth, Andreas, Groeneveld, Jürgen, Sabatier, Daniel, Coelho, Luiz de Souza, Filho, Diogenes de Andrade Lima, Salomão, Rafael P., Amaral, Iêda Leão, Matos, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida, Castilho, Carolina V., Phillips, Oliver L., Guevara, Juan Ernesto, Carim, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga, Cárdenas López, Dairon, Magnusson, William E., Wittmann, Florian, Irume, Mariana Victória, Martins, Maria Pires, Guimarães, José Renan da Silva, Molino, Jean-François, Bánki, Olaf S., Piedade, Maria Teresa Fernandez, Pitman, Nigel C A, Mendoza, Abel Monteagudo, Ramos, José Ferreira ... Melgaço, Karina (2019). Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests. Scientific Reports, 9 (1) 13822, 13822. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-50323-9
Correa, Diego F., Beyer, Hawthorne L., Possingham, Hugh P., Thomas‐Hall, Skye R. and Schenk, Peer M. (2019). Global mapping of cost‐effective microalgal biofuel production areas with minimal environmental impact. GCB Bioenergy, 11 (8) gcbb.12619, 914-929. doi: 10.1111/gcbb.12619
Correa, Diego F., Beyer, Hawthorne L., Fargione, Joseph E., Hill, Jason D., Possingham, Hugh P., Thomas-Hall, Skye R. and Schenk, Peer M. (2019). Towards the implementation of sustainable biofuel production systems. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 107, 250-263. doi: 10.1016/j.rser.2019.03.005
Gomes, Vitor H F, IJff, Stéphanie D, Raes, Niels, Amaral, Iêda Leão, Salomão, Rafael P, de Souza Coelho, Luiz, de Almeida Matos, Francisca Dionízia, Castilho, Carolina V, de Andrade Lima Filho, Diogenes, López, Dairon Cárdenas, Guevara, Juan Ernesto, Magnusson, William E, Phillips, Oliver L, Wittmann, Florian, de Jesus Veiga Carim, Marcelo, Martins, Maria Pires, Irume, Mariana Victória, Sabatier, Daniel, Molino, Jean-François, Bánki, Olaf S, da Silva Guimarães, José Renan, Pitman, Nigel C A, Piedade, Maria Teresa Fernandez, Mendoza, Abel Monteagudo, Luize, Bruno Garcia, Venticinque, Eduardo Martins, de Leão Novo, Evlyn Márcia Moraes, Vargas, Percy Núñez, Silva, Thiago Sanna Freire ... Ter Steege, Hans (2018). Species Distribution Modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data. Scientific Reports, 8 (1) 18927, 1003. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-18927-1
González-González, Lina María, Correa, Diego F., Ryan, Stephen, Jensen, Paul D., Pratt, Steven and Schenk, Peer M. (2017). Integrated biodiesel and biogas production from microalgae: Towards a sustainable closed loop through nutrient recycling. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 82, 1137-1148. doi: 10.1016/j.rser.2017.09.091
Correa, Diego F., Beyer, Hawthorne L., Possingham, Hugh P., Thomas-Hall, Skye R. and Schenk, Peer M. (2017). Biodiversity impacts of bioenergy production: microalgae vs. first generation biofuels. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 74, 1131-1146. doi: 10.1016/j.rser.2017.02.068
Aldana, Ana M., Villanueva, Boris, Cano, Angela, Correa, Diego F., Natalia Umana, Maria, Fernanda Casas, Luisa, Cardenas, Sasha, Francisco Henao-Diaz, Luis and Stevenson, Pablo R. (2017). Drivers of biomass stocks in Northwestern South American forests: contributing new information on the Neotropics. Forest Ecology and Management, 389, 86-95. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.12.023
Correa, Diego F., Álvarez, Esteban and Stevenson, Pablo R. (2015). Plant dispersal systems in Neotropical forests: availability of dispersal agents or availability of resources for constructing zoochorous fruits?. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24 (2), 203-214. doi: 10.1111/geb.12248
Gomez, Diego Felipe Correa (2013). Patrones de frecuencia y abundancia de sistemas de dispersión de plantas en bosques colombianos y su relación con las regiones geográficas del país. Colombia Forestal, 16 (1), 33-51. doi: 10.14483/udistrital.jour.colomb.for.2013.1.a03
Correa-Gómez, Diego F. and Vargas-Ríos, Orlando (2009). Regeneración de palmas en bosques nativos y plantaciones del Santuario de Fauna y Flora Otún - Quimbaya (Risaralda, Colombia). Caldasia, 31 (2), 195-212.
Conference Paper
Correa, Diego F., Beyer, Hawthorne L., Possingham, Hugh P., Fargione, Joseph E., Hill, Jason, Thomas-Hall, Skye R. and Schenk, Peer M. (2018). Potential conflicts between microalgal biodiesel production and areas of high ecological importance at national scales. European Congress of Conservation Biology, Jyväskylä, Finland, 12-15 June 2018. Jyväskylä, Finland: Jyvaskyla University Open Science Centre. doi: 10.17011/conference/eccb2018/109047
Thesis
Correa Gomez, Diego Felipe (2019). Microalgal biofuel production systems: environmental aspects and impacts on biodiversity. PhD Thesis, School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.647