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 do so, I use a broad conceptual and empirical toolkit, working across various disciplines and combining theoretical and empirical approaches.

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

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

(in press) 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 = {(in press) The American Naturalist},
  volume = {},
  pages = {},
  year = {2024},
}