Diego Brizuela-Torres
Department of Conservation Biology and Social-Ecological Systems
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ
Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Phone +49 341 235 1650
diego.brizuela-torres@ufz.de
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CV / Scientific Career
| 2020 – 2021 | Research Assistant. National Environmental Science Programme, Post bushfire recovery support. School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne, Australia. |
| 2020 – 2021 | Research Assistant. Review, synthesis and outlook of open-source conservation hardware. School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne, Australia. |
| 2020 | Master of Philosophy. The University of Melbourne, Australia. |
| 2019 | Academic tutor. Newman College, University of Melbourne, Australia. |
| 2018 | Field team leader. Agro-Foresterya y Desarrollo S.C. consultancy, México. |
| 2017 | B.S. in Biology, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico. |
| 2017 | Junior environmental data analyst. South Pole Group, México. |
| 2016-2018 | Research Assistant. Botany Institute of the Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico. |
Research interests
• Socio-ecological systems and environmental governance.
• Land use planning and land use/cover change.
• Quantitative and applied ecology.
• Species distribution modelling.
Publications
Brizuela‐Torres, D., Elith, J., Guillera‐Arroita, G. and Briscoe, N.J., 2024. Dealing with sampling bias and inferring absence data to improve distribution models of a widely distributed vulnerable marsupial. Austral Ecology, 49(1), p.e13474.
Brizuela-Torres, D., Villavicencio-García, R., Ruíz-Corral, J.A. and Cuervo-Robayo, A.P., 2023. Effects of climate change on the potential distribution of a dominant, widely distributed oak species, Quercus candicans, in Mexico. Atmósfera, 37.
Legge, S., Rumpff, L., Woinarski, J.C., Whiterod, N.S., Ward, M., Southwell, ... Brizuela-Torres, D., … & Zukowski, S. 2022. The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time‐bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31(10), pp.2085-2104.
Tena Meza, M., Navarro-Cerrillo, R.M. and Brizuela Torres, D., 2021. Distribution of Malpighia mexicana in Mexico and its implications for Barranca del Río Santiago. Journal of Forestry Research, 32, pp.1095-1103.