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The international commercial trade of live turtles and tortoises: exploring export patterns in captive-bred and wild-caught individuals. (In progress) |
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Submitted and under review |
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Submitted |
A decision framework to integrate in-situ and ex-situ management for species in the European Union. (Submitted) |
Ageing varies greatly within a single genus: evidence from Rhododendrons in botanic gardens. (Submitted) |
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Methods to study wildlife cancer. Methods in Ecology and Evolution (Under review) |
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Published or forthcoming |
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2022 |
Slow and negligible senescence among testudines challenge evolutionary theories of senescence. Science (Accepted) |
Cancer risk across mammals. Nature 601(7892):263-267 (2022) Featured: Anna Dart. Peto's paradox put to the test. Nature Reviews Cancer. Research Highlights (2022) |
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2021 |
The long lives of primates and the "invariant rate of aging" hypothesis. Nature Communications 12:3666 (2021) Outreach: EureKalert!, The Guardian, Daily Mail, Neurosicence News, Science Daily, SDU, Duke University, University of Oxford, The Late Show |
Evidence of demographic buffering in an endangered great ape: social buffering on immature survival and the role of refined sex-age-classes on population fitness. |
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Social groups buffer maternal loss in mountain gorillas. Outreach: Science Share |
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2020 |
Social relationships, social status, and survival in wild baboons: A tale of two sexes. |
Sex differences in longevity and aging rates across wild mammals. |
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Sexual dimorphism in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) and human age-specific fertility. |
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Beyond the proportional frailty model: Bayesian estimation of individual heterogeneity in mortality parameters. |
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2019 |
Data gaps and opportunities for comparative and conservation biology. |
Performance of generation time approximations for extinction risk assessments. |
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The diversity of population responses to environmental change. Ecology Letters 22(2): 342-353 (2019) Outreach: Phys.org, EureKalert!, Tendencias, Scitech Europa, Sciency Daily, SDU |
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2017 |
Individual heterogeneity determines sex differences in mortality in a monogamous bird with reversed sexual dimorphism. Journal of Animal Ecology 86: 899-907 (2017) Outreach: DR.dk, EureKalert!, SDU |
Better the devil you know: common terns stay with a familiar partner although pair duration does not affect breeding output. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284:2016.1424 (2017) Outreach: Smithsonian, Science Daily, Eureka Alert, Videnskab |
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2016 |
The emergence of longevous populations. PNAS 113 (48): E7681-E7690 (2016) Featured: 2016 PNAS Cozzarelli prize for Behavioral and Social Sciences Outreach: EurekAlert, BBC Mundo, Science Daily, Le Scienze, Clarín |
Actuarial senescence in a long-lived orchid challenges our current understanding of ageing. |
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Dead or gone? Bayesian inference on mortality for the dispersing sex. |
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Bayesian estimates of male and female African lion mortality for future use in population management. Journal of Applied Ecology 53: 295-304 (2016) Outreach: EurekAlert! |
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Age and sex-specific mortality of wild and captive populations of a monogamous pair-bonded primate (Aotus azarae). |
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2015 |
Opportunities and costs for preventing vertebrate extinctions. Current Biology 25(6): R219-R221 (2015) Outreach: Le Monde |
Disentangling the effects of climate, density dependence, and harvest on the population dynamics of North America’s most iconic large herbivore. |
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The COMPADRE Plant Matrix Database an Open Online Repository for Plant Demography. |
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2014 |
Mortality as a bivariate function of age and size in indeterminate growers. |
Bayesian inference on the effect of density dependence and weather on a guanaco population from Chile. |
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Foraging strategy of a Neotropical primate: how intrinsic and extrinsic factors influence destination and residence time. |
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Aging differently: diet- and sex-dependent late-life mortality patterns in Drosophila melanogaster. |
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2013 |
Zoos through the lens of the IUCN Red List: a global metapopulation approach to support conservation breeding programs. Outreach: Conservation, EurekAlert!, Science Daily |
The Pace and Shape of Senescence in Angiosperms. |
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2012 |
BaSTA: an R package for Bayesian estimation of age-specific survival from incomplete mark-recapture/recovery data with covariates. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 3: 466-470 (2012) Outreach: the Guardian |
Bayesian inference on age-specific survival for censored and truncated data. Journal of Animal Ecology 81: 139-149 (2012) Featured: Faculty of 1000 |
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Neighbouring parthenogenetic populations of Chara canescens differ in their capacity to acclimate to irradiance and salinity. |
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2011 |
Zoos and captive breeding: response. |
An emerging role of zoos to conserve biodiversity. |
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Jaguars on the move: modeling movement to mitigate fragmentation from road expansion in the Mayan Forests. Animal Conservation 14(2): 158-166 (2011) Outreach: BBC News |
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2010 |
Sex matters: modeling male and female jaguar habitat for conservation. Biological Conservation 143: 1980-1988 (2010) Outreach: Conservation Maven |
Clustered nesting and vegetation thresholds reduce egg predation in sooty tern. |
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2009 |
Predicting population survival under future climate change: density dependence, drought and extraction in an insular bighorn sheep. Journal of Animal Ecology 78(3): 666-673 (2009) Featured: JAE Editor's comment, Faculty 1000 Outreach: Science Daily |
2008 |
Understanding movement data and movement processes. Current and emerging directions. |
Books and book chapters |
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Pallares, E., C. Manterola, D. A. Conde and F. Colchero (2015) Roads and jaguars in the Mayan Forests. In van der Ree, R., Smith, D. J., and Grilo, C. (eds). Handbook of Road Ecology. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford. Manterola, C., D. A. Conde, F. Colchero, A. Rivera, E. Huerta, A. Soler and E. Pallares (2011) El jaguar como elemento estratégico para la conservación. Corredor Biológico Mesoamericano México Serie Acciones / Número 8 Colchero, F., L. Leon-Paniagua, and A. G. Navarro-Siguenza (2006) Hábitat del berrendo en México. In El Berrendo en México, Acciones de Conservación. Instituto Nacional de Ecología, eds. México. (publication) Colchero, F., G. O’Farrill, and R. A. Medellín (2005) Didelphis marsupialis. In G. Ceballos and G. Oliva eds. Los Mamíferos Silvestres de México. CONABIO-CFE. México. Medellín, R. A. and F. Colchero (2001) Los borregos cimarrones de la Isla Tiburón: conservación y desarrollo sustentable. Recuadro XVII.3. Pages 510-512 In Primack, R., R. Rozzi, P. Feinsinger, R. Dirzo, y F. Massardo eds. Fundamentos de conservación biológica Perspectivas Latinoamericanas. Fondo de Cultura Económica. México. Colchero, F., R. A. Medellín, R. Lee, C. Manterola, and G. Ceballos (1999) The Tiburon Island desert bighorn sheep: a conservation and sustainable development program in Mexico. Pages 77-82 In A. E. Thomas and H. L. Thomas, eds. Proceedings of the Second North American Wild Sheep Conference. Reno, Nevada, USA. (publication) |
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