I grew up in Colombia, where ever since I was a kid I accompanied my father in his biology field trips. I was amazed with all the life and diversity you could discover everywhere and the complexity of life interactions in this ecosystems. This inspired me to study biology and then do a masters in tropical ecology.

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My master’s project aimed to disentangle the relations between altitudinal changes, fruit production and frugivorous bird’s diversity and abundance in one of the most diverse places on earth, the Amazon-Andes foothills. To fulfil this goal I spent one year in this amazing area gathering field information. During this period I also gathered information on an almost unknown subspecies of an endangered bird. Being able to report the subspecies status.

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After finishing my master’s, I worked in different ecology and conservation projects, including assisted nesting of Arrau and yellow-spotted river turtles, camera trapping and vegetation plots in the Yasuní national park in Ecuador and big cat conservation and ecology with Panthera in Colombia.

 

I am now a PhD student interested in ecology and biodiversity conservation, particularly understanding how different biological and anthropic factors affect biodiversity patterns and conservation outcomes in the South American tropics.