RESEARCHERS
Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia
PhD King's College, London
Office: Darwin, DW-105, USFQ
Phone: 297-1700 ext 1446
E-mail: dcisneros@usfq.edu.ec
Interests
My research goals are to contribute to nature conservation and sustainable development, to increase knowledge on biodiversity evolution and natural history, and to promote discussions about complex social-environmental systems across space, time and social dimensions.
Projects
- Biodiversity, culture and gastronomy of Afro communities of Esmeraldas and the Chota Valley
- Galapagos terrestrial invertebrates: Diversity, natural history, invasion biology and urban-rural-natural ecology
- Political Ecology and Violence in the Galapagos Islands
- Physiological and molecular stress in amphibians of the high tropical Andes
- Terrestrial birds of San Cristobal island, Galapagos: Natural history, distribution and population situation
- Snakes and geckoes of San Cristobal and Española islands, Galapagos
- Stress on birds in urban-rural matrices in the tropical Andes
- Impact of habitat changes on the biological diversity of the northern tropical Andes
- Diversity and classification of Spiders of Ecuador
- Taxonomy, Biogeography and Conservation of Amphibians and Reptiles
- Study of biodiversity in urban and rural areas
- Diversity, natural history, biogeography and conservation of Ecuador's birds
Publications
| Year | Title | Authors | Document |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Successful xenotransfusion from a domestic dog (Canis familiaris) to an Andean fox (Lycalopex culpaeus) | Eduardo Alfonso Díaz, Carolina Sáenz, Erika Latorre, Diego Francisco Cisneros-Heredia, Ivette Dueñas | Download |
| 2020 | Glassfrogs of Ecuador: Diversity, Evolution, and Conservation | Juan M Guayasamin, Diego F Cisneros-Heredia, Roy W McDiarmid, Paula Peña, Carl R Hutter | Download |
| 2020 | New records of four reptile species (Lepidosauria, Squamata) from the province of Guayas, southwestern Ecuador | Keyko Cruz-García, Diego F Cisneros-Heredia, Juan C Sánchez-Nivicela, Luis Amador | Download |
| 2020 | Two extremely rare new species of fossorial salamanders of the genus Oedipina (Plethodontidae) from northwestern Ecuador | Carolina Reyes-Puig, David B Wake, Ramachandran Kotharambath, Jeffrey W Streicher, Claudia Koch, Diego F Cisneros-Heredia, Mario H Yánez-Muñoz, Santiago Ron | Download |
| 2020 | Invasion history of Harmonia axyridis (Pallas, 1773)(Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in Ecuador | Diego F Cisneros-Heredia, Emilia Peñaherrera-Romero | Download |
| 2019 | A new species of terrestrial frog Pristimantis (Strabomantidae) from the upper basin of the Pastaza River, Ecuador | Carolina Reyes-Puig, Juan Pablo Reyes-Puig, Daniel A Velarde-Garcéz, Nicolás Dávalos, Emilio Mancero, María José Navarrete, Mario H Yánez-Muñoz, Diego F Cisneros-Heredia, Santiago R Ron | Download |
| 2019 | Rediscovery of the Endangered Carchi Andean Toad, Rhaebo colomai (Hoogmoed, 1985), in Ecuador, with Comments on Its Conservation Status and Extinction … | Carolina Reyes-Puig, Gabriela B Bittencourt-Silva, María Torres-Sánchez, Mark Wilkinson, Jeffrey W Streicher, Simon T Maddock, Ramachandran Kotharambath, Hendrik Müller, Francesca Nicole Angiolani Larrera, Diego Amieda-Reinoso, Santiago R Ron, Diego Francisco Cisneros-Heredia | Download |
| 2019 | A new giant Pristimantis (Anura, Craugastoridae) from the paramos of the Podocarpus National Park, southern Ecuador | Mario H Yánez-Muñoz, David Veintimilla-Yánez, Diego Batallas, Diego F Cisneros-Heredia | Download |
| 2019 | Lista roja de las aves del Ecuador | JF Freile, T Santander, G Jimenez-Uzcátegui, L Carrasco, D Cisneros-Heredia, EA Guevara, M Sánchez-Nivicela, BA Tinoco | Download |
| 2019 | A new glassfrog (Centrolenidae) from the Chocó-Andean Río Manduriacu Reserve, Ecuador, endangered by mining | Juan M Guayasamin, Diego F Cisneros-Heredia, José Vieira, Sebastián Kohn, Gabriela Gavilanes, Ryan L Lynch, Paul S Hamilton, Ross J Maynard | Download |
| 2019 | Memorias de la VI Reunión Ecuatoriana de Ornitología | Juan Freile, Esteban Guevara, Diego Cisneros-Heredia, Xavier Amigo, Tatiana Santander | Download |
| 2019 | Atlas of Brazilian snakes: verified point-locality maps to mitigate the Wallacean shortfall in a megadiverse snake fauna | Cristiano C Nogueira, Antonio JS Argôlo, Vanesa Arzamendia, Josué A Azevedo, Fausto E Barbo, Renato S Bérnils, Bruna E Bolochio, Marcio Borges-Martins, Marcela Brasil-Godinho, Henrique Braz, Marcus A Buononato, Diego F Cisneros-Heredia, Guarino R Colli, Henrique C Costa, Francisco L Franco, Alejandro Giraudo, Rodrigo C Gonzalez, Thaís Guedes, Marinus S Hoogmoed, Otavio AV Marques, Giovanna G Montingelli, Paulo Passos, Ana LC Prudente, Gilson A Rivas, Paola M Sanchez, Filipe C Serrano, Nelson J Silva Jr, Christine Strüssmann, João Paulo S Vieira-Alencar, Hussam Zaher, Ricardo J Sawaya, Marcio Martins | Download |
| 2018 | Patterns, biases and prospects in the distribution and diversity of Neotropical snakes | Thaís B Guedes, Ricardo J Sawaya, Alexander Zizka, Shawn Laffan, Søren Faurby, R Alexander Pyron, Renato S Bernils, Martin Jansen, Paulo Passos, Ana LC Prudente, Diego F Cisneros‐Heredia, Henrique B Braz, Cristiano de C Nogueira, Alexandre Antonelli | Download |
| 2018 | The hitchhiker wave: Non-native small terrestrial vertebrates in the Galapagos | Diego F Cisneros-Heredia | Download |
| 2018 | A new species of Pristimantis (Anura, Craugastoridae) from the Cajas Massif, southern Ecuador | Juan C Sánchez-Nivicela, Elvis Celi-Piedra, Valentina Posse-Sarmiento, Verónica L Urgiles, Mario Yánez-Muñoz, Diego F Cisneros-Heredia | Download |
| 2018 | Systematics of South American snail-eating snakes (Serpentes, Dipsadini), with the description of five new species from Ecuador and Peru | Alejandro Arteaga, David Salazar-Valenzuela, Konrad Mebert, Nicolás Peñafiel, Gabriela Aguiar, Juan C Sánchez-Nivicela, R Alexander Pyron, Timothy J Colston, Diego F Cisneros-Heredia, Mario H Yánez-Muñoz, Pablo J Venegas, Juan M Guayasamin, Omar Torres-Carvajal | Download |
| 2018 | Predation of the teiid lizard Dicrodon guttulatum Duméril and Bibron, 1839 by the pitviper Porthidium arcosae Schätti and Kramer, 1993 | Nicole Acosta-Vásconez, Martín Carrera, Emilia Peñaherrera, Diego F Cisneros-Heredia | Download |
