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
Legge, S., Indigo, N., Southwell, D. M., Skroblin, A., Nou, T., Young, A. R., Brizuela‐Torres, D., ... & Newsome, T. M. (2024). The Arid Zone Monitoring Project: combining Indigenous ecological expertise with scientific data analysis to assess the potential of using sign-based surveys to monitor vertebrates in the Australian deserts. Wildlife Research, 51(9), WR24070.WR24070.
Ellssel, P., Küstner, G., Kaczorowska-Dolowy, M., Vázquez, E., Di Bene, C., Li, H., Brizuela‐Torres, D., ... & Avila-Ortega, D. I. (2024). Building a solid foundation: advancing evidence synthesis in agri-food systems science. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 8, 1410205.
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.