Catalina Chaparro Pedraza

Institute of Ecology and Evolution. University of Bern.

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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 genetics, community ecology, ecosystem ecology, metabolic ecology, and ecological stoichiometry

I am a Marie Curie Fellow and a recipient of the 2022 John Maynard Smith Prize in Evolutionary Biology. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the division of Theoretical Ecology and Evolution at the University of Bern.

selected publications

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Differential stage-specific mortality as a mechanism for diversification
    P. Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza
    (in press) The American Naturalist, 2024