Elvira Cuevas | |
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| Born | August 20, 1950 San Juan, Puerto Rico, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus (B.S., M.S.) Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (Ph.D.) |
| Children | 1 |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2000) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Tropical ecology, ecophysiology |
| Institutions | University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus |
| Thesis | Crecimiento de raices finas y su relacion con los procesos de descomposicion de materia organica y liberacion de nutrientes en bosques del alto Rio Negro en el territorio federal Amazonas (1983) |
Elvira Cuevas Viera is a Puerto Rican ecologist. She is a professor in the department of biology at University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus where she serves as director of the Center for Applied Tropical Ecology and Conservation.[1]