Education

PhD 2014	University of Melbourne, Australia, Urban Ecology
MSc 2009	University of Florida, Urban Forestry
Ing. For. 2005	Universidad de Chile, Chile Forest Engineering
BS 2003	Universidad de Chile, Forestry

Professional Experience

2022- Present	Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut
2018 – 2022	Associate Professor, Universidad Mayor, Chile
2017-2018	Assistant Professor, Universidad de Chile
2017 – 2022	Adjunct Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
2014-2017	Postdoctoral Researcher, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
2010-2014	Senior Urban Forester, City of Melbourne, Asutralia
2005-2007	Environmental Consultant , ARA-Worley Parsons, Chile

Courses Taught (undergraduate)

NRE 3265	Sustainable Urban Ecosystems
NRE 4425 and SANR 425	Urban and Community Forestry

Courses Taught (graduate)

NRE 5461

Landscape Ecology

Research Interests

My research is focus in Urban forestry and urban ecology by studying the dynamics of urban socio-ecological systems drawing on ecosystem services assessment and spatial analysis as primary methods. Her interests center on the quantitative monitoring of ecosystem services of nature-based solutions and understanding how this relates to social drivers and impacts such as planning policies, community participation and human well-being.

 

Publications

Publications

1. Dobbs C., Cifuentes-Ibarra M., Hernández-Moreno A., Vásquez A., Melendez-Ackermann E., Eleuterio A.A., Devisscher T., Dias-Baptista M., Navarro M.N. Are we promoting green cities in Latin America and the Caribbean? Exploring the patterns and drivers of change for urban vegetation. Major Revision. Land Use Policy

2. Van der Jagt A., Buijs A., Dobbs C., van Lierop M., Pauleit S., Randrup T., Skiba A., Wild T. With the process comes the progress: a systematic review to advance indicators of urban nature-based solutions governance. Urban forestry & Urban Greening.

3. Mercado G., Wild T., Hernandez Garcia J., Dias Baptista M., van Lierop M., Bina O., Inch A., Ode Sang A., Buijs A., Dobbs C., Vasquez A., van der Jagt A., Salbitano F., Falanga R., Amaya-

Espinel J.D., de Matos Pereira M., Ranrup T.B. Supporting nature-based solutions via nature-based thinking across European and Latin American cities. AMBIO

4. Miranda A., Syphard A., Berdugo M., Carrasco J., Gomez Gonzalez S., Ovalle J., Delpiano C., Vargas S., Squeo F., Miranda M., Dobbs C., Mentler R., Lara A., Garreaud R. Widespread synchronous decline of Mediterranean-type forest driven by accelerated aridity. Nature Plants

5. Dobbs C., Vásquez A., Alegria V., Cifuentes M. Assessing multiple dimensions of distributional justice: access, biodiversity and landscape structure of green spaces for multiple social groups of the Metropolitan Region of Santiago de Chile. Accepted. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2023.127948

6. Ordonez-Barona C., Eleuterio A.A., Vasquez A., Devisscher T., Dias Baptista M., Dobbs C., Orozco-Aguilar L., Melendez-Ackerman E. 2023. Views of government and non-government actors on urban forest management in ten Latina-American capital cities. Land Use Policy 129, 106635

7. Escobedo F., Dobbs C., Tovar Y., Cariñanos P. 2023. Neotropical urban forest allergenicity and ecosystem disservices can affect vulnerable neighborhoods in Bogota, Colombia. Sustainable Cities and Society In Press https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2022.104343

8. Fernandez I., Dobbs C., de la Barrera F. 2022. Editorial: Urban greening for ecosystem service provision: A Latin-American outlook. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2022.1101406

9. Van der Jagt A.P.N., Buijs A., Dobbs C., van Lierop M., Pauleit S., Randrup T.B., Wild T. 2022. An action for the participatory assessment of nature-based solutions in cities. Ambio 52, 54-67 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-022-01772-6

10. Ugolini, F., Massetti, L., Calaza-Martinez, P., Carinanos, P., Dobbs, C., Krajter Ostoic, S., Marin, A. M., Pearlmutter, D., Saroni, H., Sauliene, I., & Sanesi, G. (2022). Understanding the benefits of public urban green space: How do perceptions vary between professionals and users? Landscape and Urban Planning, vol. 228, pp. 104575. Elsevier

11. Isbell F, Balvanera P, Mori A.S, He J, Bullock J.M, …………, Dobbs C, Palmer M.S. (65 authors) 2022. Expert estimates of biodiversity loss and its drivers and consequences. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. Early View https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2536

12. Devisscher T., Ordoñez-Barona C., Dobbs C., Dias Baptista M., Navarro N.M., Orozco Aguilar L.A., Cercas Perez J.F., Rojas Mancebo Y., Escobedo F.J. 2022. Urban forest management and governance in Latin America and the Caribbean: a baseline study of stakeholder’s view. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 67, 127441

13. Esperón Rodriguez M., Rymer P.D., Power S.A., Barton D., Cariñanos P., Dobbs C., Eleuterio A.A., Escobedo F.J., Hauer R., Hermy M., Jahani A., Onyekwelu J.C., Östberg J., Pataki D., Randrup T.B., Rasmussen T., Roman L.A., Russio A., Schackleton C., Solfjeld I., van Doorn N.S., Wells M.J., Wiström B., Yan P., Yang J., Tjoelker M.G. In review. Are urban forests ready for climate change? People & Nature Accepted

14. Lin B.B, Ossola A, Alberti M, Andersson E, Bai X, Dobbs C, Elmqvist T, Evans K.L., Frantzeskaki N., Fuller R.A., Gaston K J., Haase D, Jim CY, Konijnendijk C, Nagendra H, Niemelä J, McPhearson T, Moomaw W.R., Parnell S, Pataki D, Ripple W.J., Tan P.Y. 2021. Integrating solutions to adapt cities for climate change. The Lancet Planetary Health 5, E479-E486

15. Goddard, M.A., Davies, Z.G., Guenat, S. et al. 2021. A global horizon scan of the future impacts of robotics and autonomous systems on urban ecosystems. Nat Ecol Evol 5, 219–230.

16. Ugolini F, Massetti L, Calaza-Martínez P, Cariñanos P, Dobbs C, Krajter Ostoic S, Marin A.A, Pearlmutter D, Saaroni H, Šaulienė I, Simoneti M, Verlič A, Vuletić D, Sanesi G. 2020. Effects of

the COVID-19 pandemic on the use and perceptions of urban green space: An international exploratory study. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 56, 126888.

17. Acevedo J., Luque S., Dobbs C., Sanesi G., Sunderland T. 2020. The ethics of isolation, the spread of pandemics and landscape ecology. Landscape Ecology 35, 2133-2140

18. Ordonez-Barona C, Devisscher T, Dobbs C, Aguilar L, Dias Baptista M, Navarro N, da Silva Filho D, Escobedo F. 2020. Trends in urban forestry research in Latin America & the Caribbean: a systematic literature review and synthesis. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening 47, 1-10

19. Dobbs C., Escobedo F., Clerici N., de la Barrera F., Eleuterio AA., MacGregor-Fors I., Reyes-Paecke S., Vasquez A., Zea Camano JD., Hernandez HJ. 2020. Urban ecosystem services in Latin America: mismatch between global concepts and local realities. Urban Ecosystems 22, 173 – 187

20. de la Barrera F., Henríquez C., Coulombié F., Dobbs C. 2019. Periurbanization and conservation pressures over remnants of native vegetation: impact on ecosystem services for a Latin-American capital city. Change and Adaptation in Socio-Ecological Systems 4, 21-32

21. Viecco M., Vera S., Jorquera H., Bustamante W., Gironás J., Dobbs C., Leiva E. 2018. Potential of particle matter dry deposition on Green roofs and living walls vegetation for mitigating urban atmospheric pollution in semiarid climates. Sustainability 10(7), 2431

22. Martinez-Harms M.J., Bryan B.B., Wood S.A., Fisher D.M., Law E., Rhodes J.R., Dobbs C., Biggs D., Wilson K.A. 2018. Equity and accessibility of cultural ecosystem services from protected areas. Science of the Total Environment 636, 1128-1138

23. Kendal D., Dobbs C., Gallagher RV., Beaumont LJ., Baumann J., Williams NSG., Livesley SJ. 2018. A global natural experiment comparing the climatic niches of urban and native tree population. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27(5), 629-637

24. Dobbs C., Hernandez A., Reyes-Paecke S., Miranda M. 2017. Exploring temporal dynamics of urban ecosystem services in Latin America: the case of Bogota (Colombia) and Santiago (Chile). Ecological Indicators 85, 1068-1080

25. Nitschke, C., Nichols S., Dobbs C., Livesley S.J., Baker P., Lynch Y. 2017. Are urban forests vulnerable to climate change? Linking the effect of climate, drought, and ENSO on tree growth to climate change in an urban forest in southeast Australia. Landsc. Urban Plan. 167,275–287

26. Dobbs, C., Nitschke, C., Kendal, D. 2017. Assessing the drivers shaping global patterns of urban vegetation landscape structure. Science of the Total Environment 592, 171-177

27. Nilon, C., Aronson, M., Cilliers, S., Dobbs C., Frazee, L., Goddard, M., O’Neill, K., Roberts, D., Stander, E., Werner, P., Winter, M. 2017. Planning for the future of urban biodiversity: a global review of city-scale initiatives. BioScience, 67(4), 332-342

28. Lohr, V., Kendal D., Dobbs, C. 2016. Urban trees worldwide have low species and genetic diversity, posing high risks of tree loss as stresses from climate change increase. Acta horticulturae 1108, 263-270

29. Escobedo F.J., Palmas-Perez S., Dobbs C., Gezan S. 2016. Spatio-temporal changes in structure for a Mediterranean urban forest: Santiago, Chile 2002 to 2014. Forests 7, 121

30. Hernández, A., Miranda M., Arellano, E., Dobbs, C. 2016. Landscape trajectories and their effect on fragmentation for a Mediterranean semi-arid ecosystem in Central Chile. Journal of Arid Environments 127, 74-81

31. Dobbs C., Nitschke C., Kendal D. 2014. Global drivers and tradeoffs of three urban vegetation ecosystem services. PLOS One 9(11), e113000

32. Kendal D., Dobbs C., Lohr V. 2014. Global patterns of diversity in the urban forest. Is there evidence to support the 10/20/30 rule? Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 13, 411-417

33. Dobbs C., Kendal D., Nitschke C. 2014. Multiple ecosystem services and disservices in the urban landscape establishing their connections with landscape structure and sociodemographics. Ecological Indicators 43, 44-55.

34. Dobbs C., Kendal D., Nitschke C, 2013. The effects of land tenure and land use on the urban forest structure and composition in Melbourne. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 12, 417-425

35. Aronson M., LaSorte F., Nilon C., Katti M.,....2012. A global analysis of the impacts of urbanization on bird and plant diversity reveals key anthropogenic drivers. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281 (1780), 20133330

*Selected as the preferred publication by the community “more seen publications on science” in Nature, April 2014 Vol 508.

*Available in several science media

36. Hagan D., Dobbs C., Timilsina N., Escobedo F., Toor G.S., Andreu M. 2012. Anthropogenic effects on the physical and chemical properties of subtropical coastal urban soils. Soil and Use Management 28(1) 78-88.

37. Dobbs C., Hernández J., Escobedo F. 2011. Aboveground biomass and leaf area models based on a non-destructive method for urban trees of two communes in Central Chile. Bosque 32(3): 287-296

38. Dobbs C., Escobedo F., Zipperer W., 2011. A framework for developing urban forest ecosystem services and goods indicators. Landscape and Urban Planning 99(3-4), 196-206.

*Selected for the 40 years Special Issue (1974-2014)

*Ranked 246 among ecology publications in the 2010-2016 period