Catalina Chaparro Pedraza

Welcome to my webpage! I am an evolutionary ecologist with a lifelong fascination with the natural world. My research aims to advance our understanding of the processes underlying the origin, resilience and adaptability of biodiversity to be able to predict how biodiversity will respond to future changes. To do so, my research integrates and synthesizes knowledge across multiple fields, drawing on, and contributing to, evolutionary biology, community ecology, ecosystem ecology, metabolic ecology, and ecological stoichiometry.

I am a Marie Curie Fellow, an SNSF Ambizione fellow, and a recipient of the 2022 John Maynard Smith Prize in Evolutionary Biology. I am currently setting up my research group as Principal Investigator in the Department Systems Analysis, Integrated Assessment and Modelling at Eawag.

selected publications

Adaptive evolution can both prevent ecosystem collapse and delay ecosystem recovery

P. Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza , Blake Matthews , Luc De Meester , and Vasilis Dakos

The American Naturalist, 2021

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@article{Chaparroetal2021,
  title = {Adaptive evolution can both prevent ecosystem collapse and delay ecosystem recovery},
  author = {Chaparro-Pedraza, P. Catalina and Matthews, Blake and De Meester, Luc and Dakos, Vasilis},
  journal = {The American Naturalist},
  volume = {198},
  number = {6},
  pages = {E185--E197},
  year = {2021},
}

Marine reserves promote cycles in fish populations on ecological and evolutionary time scales

Renfei Chen* , P. Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza* , S. Xiao , P. Jia , Q. Liu , and 1 more author

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023

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@article{Chaparroetal2023,
  title = {Marine reserves promote cycles in fish populations on ecological and evolutionary time scales},
  author = {Chen*, Renfei and Chaparro-Pedraza*, P. Catalina and Xiao, S. and Jia, P. and Liu, Q. and de Roos, Andr\'{e} M},
  journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
  volume = {120},
  pages = {e2307529120},
  year = {2023},
}

Differential stage-specific mortality as a mechanism for diversification

P. Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza

The American Naturalist, 2024

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@article{Chaparro2024,
  title = {Differential stage-specific mortality as a mechanism for diversification},
  author = {Chaparro-Pedraza, P. Catalina},
  journal = {The American Naturalist},
  volume = {204(2)},
  pages = {},
  year = {2024},
}

Evolution alters ecological resilience

P. Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza

Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2024

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@article{Chaparro20242,
  title = {Evolution alters ecological resilience},
  author = {Chaparro-Pedraza, P. Catalina},
  journal = {Nature Ecology and Evolution},
  volume = {},
  pages = {},
  year = {2024},
}