Recent News
May 2023
Congratulations to Sergio for this fantastic contrbuition to the knwoledge of a charismatic endemic bird species Atlapetes blancae. Check the publication here.
March 2023

Great collaboration with Dr. Gustavo Londoño understanding changing patterns of predation and predator along an elevational gradients featured on the cover of Ecology letters. See the publication here.
January 2023
We are very happy to finally anounce the publication of our recensus of the Cocha Cashu Biological Station Bird plot. See the recent publication in Ecology Letters!
August 2022
Its been a while, but we are back on track! Congratulations to Juanita for her paper on nature and human well-being in Barranquilla!
Sergio continues contributing to the knowledge of the distribution of Colombian Avifauna with two great papers!
Check all out in our publications webpage.
Congratulations to Meriele Rebolledo for defending her Master's thesis succesfully! She will stay with us as a PhD student.
Sergio continues contributing to the knowledge of the distribution of Colombian Avifauna with two great papers!
Check all out in our publications webpage.
Congratulations to Meriele Rebolledo for defending her Master's thesis succesfully! She will stay with us as a PhD student.
September 2021
Huge shout out to Sergio and Camilo for their contributions! Check out their latest publications on Manacus manacus morphological differentiation patterns and on natural history notes of the endemic Antioquia Brush finch!
Also, see our paper resulting from our latest collaboration with Dr. Ari Martinez' group at CSULB. Interspecific communication between Antbirds and Tamarin Monkeys!
Links are on our publications site
Also, see our paper resulting from our latest collaboration with Dr. Ari Martinez' group at CSULB. Interspecific communication between Antbirds and Tamarin Monkeys!
Links are on our publications site
July 2021
It's been a while but July came right on with great news! We got two new papers out on Antbird Interspecific aggression and Culicoides abundance modeling and two more accepted on Morphological diversity of Manacus manacus and interspecific alarm call eavesdropping between Tamarin monkeys and Antbirds in the Amazon! Links are on our publications site.
January 2021
1. A great paper on Phaeiris (Iris) hexagona just came out in Ecospehere! Available here.
December 2020
1. Juanita has published a new book chapter on the importance of ecosystems for human well being using Barranquilla as a case study. Available here.
2. New records of owl species for Colombia! Available here.
3. Download a data set for 1317 bird and 270 mammal species from Colombia. Available here.
2. New records of owl species for Colombia! Available here.
3. Download a data set for 1317 bird and 270 mammal species from Colombia. Available here.
November 2020
1. Juanita's latest paper on wetland trends in Chile, Colombia and Peru is out! Rojas et al 2020. Wetland Science & Practice.
2. Check out our latest paper with notes on the distribution of the River Tyrannulet in Colombia. Ramirez W et al. 2020 Checklist.
2. Check out our latest paper with notes on the distribution of the River Tyrannulet in Colombia. Ramirez W et al. 2020 Checklist.
September 2020
1. Elena's most recent paper on butterfly color evolution is out! Ortiz, E. et al. 2020 Ecology and Evolution.
July 2020
- Find Sergio's most recent paper on the avifauna of the eastern slope of the eastern Andes in Colombia here.
June 2020
- José Miguel and Juan Ponciano developed this amazing app where they use the models in our COVID-19 preprint to model infection in fourteen Latin American countries. Check it out! https://jp-square.shinyapps.io/CoViD/
- Check out our latest preprint under review in ecology and evolution led by Dr. Elena Ortiz investigating the role of color patterns and biogeography on the evolution of neotropical butterflies. https://doi.org/10.22541/au.159164735.56272252
May 2020
- Congratulations to Meriele Rebolledo who was recently awarded one fo the Bicentenario Fellowships by MinCiencias. She will be joining our lab as a PhD student soon.
- Check out our most recent preprint modeling COVID-19 dynamics in Latin America. https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11201
- We welcome Dr. Elena Ortiz who will be joining our lab as a PostDoc funded by MinCiencias to work on an exciting project about butterfly mimetism and coevolution.