Patricia Calderón

DAAD scholarship holder, PhD student

Department of Ecological Dynamics

Tel: 0049 (0) 30 5168 - 722
E-Mail: calderon@izw-berlin.de

Short curriculum vitae

  • 10/2018-present: DAAD fellow and Doctoral candidate, ‘Universität Potsdam’, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH UFZ & Leibniz-IZW
  • 2013-2018: Country Director, Jaguar Corridor Initiative, Panthera Inc., Guatemala
  • 02/2015-09/2015: Postgraduate Diploma Wildlife Conservation Practice, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  • 2011-2013: MSc Conservation Biology,SUNY-ESF/Syracuse University. Syracuse, USA
  • 2003-2009: BSc biology, San Carlos University of Guatemala, Guatemala
Projects
Research interests
  • Connectivity
  • Population viability
  • Ecology
  • Carnivores
Selected publications

Kraker-Castañeda C, Calderon AP, & Cabrera A (Eds.). (2019): Perspectivas de investigación sobre los mamíferos silvestres de Guatemala [Research perspectives on the wild mammals of Guatemala] (1 Edition). Guatemala: Asociación Guatemalteca de Mastozoólogos.

Figel JJ, et al. (2018): Threatened amphibians sheltered under the big cat’s umbrella: a conservation evaluation of jaguars Panthera onca (Carnivora: Felidae) and endemic herpetofauna in Nuclear Central America. REV BIOL TROP 66(4). doi:10.15517/rbt.v66i4.32544.

Petracca LS, et al. (2018): Robust inference on large-scale species habitat use with interview data: The status of jaguars outside protected areas in Central America. J APPL ECOL 55(2), 723-734. doi:10.1111/1365-2664.12972.