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«Después de todo, ¿qué es un científico entonces? Es un hombre curioso que mira a través del ojo de una cerradura, la cerradura de la naturaleza, tratando de saber qué es lo que sucede».

                                             Jacques Yves Cousteau

2020-2025

  • Remolina-Figueroa, D., D.A. Prieto-Torres, W. Dáttilo, E. Salgado Díaz, L.E. Nuñez Rosas, C. Rodríguez-Flores, A.G. Navarro-Sigüenza & M.C. Arizmendi. (2022). Together forever? Hummingbird-plant relationships in the face of climate warming. Climatic Change 175(1): 1-21. PDF

  • Sánchez-González, L.A., H. Cayetano, D.A. Prieto-Torres, O.R. Rojas-Soto & A.G. Navarro-Sigüenza. (2022). The role of ecological and geographical drivers of lineage diversification in the Squirrel cuckoo Piaya cayana in Mexico: a mitochondrial DNA perspective. Journal of Ornithology, 1-17. PDF

  • Prieto-Torres, D. A., S. Díaz, J.M. Cordier, R. Torres, M. Caron & J. Nori. (2022). Analyzing individual drivers of global changes promotes inaccurate long-term policies in deforestation hotspots: The case of Gran Chaco. Biological Conservation 269: 109536. PDF

  • Prieto-Torres, D.A., L.E. Nuñez-Rosas, D. Figueroa & M.C. Arizmendi. (2021). Most Mexican hummingbirds lose under climate and land-use change: Long-term conservation implications. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation 19(4): 487-499. PDF

  • Andrade-Díaz, M.S., A.R. Giraudo, G.A Marás, K. Didier, J.A. Sarquis, J.M. Díaz-Gómez & D.A. Prieto-Torres. (2021). Austral Yungas under future climate and land-use changes scenarios: the importance of protected areas for long-term amphibian conservation. Biodiversity and Conservation 30: 3335-3357. PDF

  • Kiere, L.M., M. Osorio-Beristain, V. Sorani, D.A. Prieto-Torres, A.G. Navarro-Sigüenza & L.A. Sánchez-González. (2021). Do metal mines and their runoff affect plumage color? Streak-backed Orioles in Mexico show unexpected patterns. Ornithological Applications 123(3): duab023. PDF

  • Sánchez-González, L., D.A. Prieto-Torres, I. Méndez & A.G. Navarro-Sigüenza. (2021). Environmental correlates for the evolution of the leapfrog plumage pattern in Andean birds. Evolutionary Ecology Research 20: 1–18. PDF

  • Prieto-Torres, D.A., L.A. Sánchez-González, M.F. Ortiz-Ramírez, J.E. Ramírez-Albores, E.A. García-Trejo & A.G. Navarro-Sigüenza. (2021). Climate warming affects spatio-temporal biodiversity patterns of a highly vulnerable Neotropical avifauna. Climatic Change 165(3): 1-20. PDF

  • Castillo-Chora, V., L.A. Sánchez-González, A. Mastretta-Yanes, D.A. Prieto-Torres & A.G. Navarro-Sigüenza. (2021). Insights into the importance of areas of climatic stability in the diversification and maintenance of avian diversity in the Mesoamerican Dry Forests. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 132 (4): 741–758. PDF

  • Prieto-Torres, D.A., J. Nori, O.R. Rojas-Soto & A.G. Navarro-Sigüenza. (2021). Challenges and opportunities in planning for the conservation of Neotropical seasonally dry forests into the future. Biological Conservation 257: 109083. PDF

  • Arango, A., F. Villalobos, D.A. Prieto‐Torres & R. Guevara. (2021). The phylogenetic diversity and structure of the seasonally dry forests in the Neotropics. Journal of Biogeography 48(1): 176-186. PDF

  • Ramírez-Albores, J.E., D.A. Prieto-Torres, A. Gordillo-Martínez, L.E. Sánchez-Ramos & A.G. Navarro-Sigüenza (2021). Insights for protection of high species-richness areas for the conservation of Mesoamerican endemic birds. Diversity and Distribution 27(1):18-33. PDF

  • Atauchi, P.J., C. Aucca-Chutas, G. Ferro & D.A. Prieto-Torres. (2020). Present and future potential distribution of the endangered Anairetes alpinus (Passeriformes: Tyrannidae) under global climate change scenarios. Journal of Ornithology 161(3): 723-738. PDF

  • Mercado-Gómez, J., D.A. Prieto-Torres, M. González, M. Morales, T. Escalante & O. Rojas-Soto. (2020). Climatic affinities of the Neotropical species of Capparaceae: an approach from ecological niche Modelling and numerical ecology. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 93(2): 263-275. PDF

  • Moreno-Contreras, I., L.A. Sánchez-González, M.C. Arizmendi, D.A. Prieto-Torres & A.G. Navarro-Sigüenza. (2020). Climatic niche evolution in the Arremon brunneinucha complex (Aves: Passerellidae) in a Mesoamerican landscape. Evolutionary Biology 47(2): 123-132. PDF

  • Prieto-Torres, D.A., A. Lira-Noriega & A.G. Navarro-Sigüenza. (2020). Climate change promotes species loss and uneven modification of richness patterns in the avifauna associated to Neotropical seasonally dry forests. Perspective in Ecology and Conservation 18 (1): 19-30. PDF

  • Prieto-Torres, D.A., O.R. Rojas-Soto & A. Lira-Noriega. (2020). Chapter 7: Ecological niche modelling and other tools for the study of avian malaria distribution in the Neotropics: a short literature review. En: Santiago-Alarcon, D. & A. Marzal (Editores). Avian malaria and related parasites in the Neotropical region: ecology, evolution, and systematics. Springer International Publishing. pp. 251-280. PDF

2015-2019

  • García, F., E. Sánchez-González, M. Machado, G. Flores Montero, D. Araujo-Reyes, O. Vásquez-Parra & D.A. Prieto-Torres. (2019). First record of the Santa Marta mouse, Nephelomys maculiventer (Mammalia, Rodentia, Cricetidae), for Venezuela. Mammalia 83(2): 203-207. PDF

  • Mota-Vargas, C., A. Encarnación-Luévano, H.M. Ortega-Andrade, D.A. Prieto-Torres, A. Peña-Peniche & O.R. Rojas-Soto. (2019). Capítulo 3: Una breve introducción a los modelos de nicho ecológico. En: Moreno, C. (Editores). La biodiversidad en un mundo cambiante: Fundamentos teóricos y metodológicos para su estudio. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo y Editorial Libermex. pp. 39-64. PDF

  • Pearson, R.G., E. Martínez-Meyer, M. Andrade-Velázquez, M. Caron, R.O. Corona-Núñez, K. Davis, A. Paz Durán, R. García Morales, T.D. Hackett, D.J. Ingram, R. Loyola Díaz, J. Lescano, A. Lira-Noriega, Y. López-Maldonado, D. Manuschevich, A. Mendoza, B. Milligan, S.C. Mills, D. Moreira-Arce, L.F. Nava, V. Oostra, N. Owen, D.A. Prieto-Torres, C. Rodríguez Soto, T. Smith, A.J. Suggitt, C. Tejo Haristoy, V. Velásquez-Tibatá, S. Díaz, S. & P.A. Marquet. (2019). Research priorities for maintaining biodiversity’s contributions to people in Latin America. Environment from UCL Press 1(1): 02. PDF​

  • Prieto-Torres, D.A., O. Rojas-Soto, E. Bonaccorso, D. Santiago-Alarcón & A.G. Navarro-Sigüenza. (2019). Distributional patterns of Neotropical seasonally dry forest birds: a biogeographical regionalization. Cladistics 35(4): 446-460. PDF
  • Prieto-Torres, D.A., O. Rojas-Soto, E. Bonaccorso, D. Santiago-Alarcón & A. Navarro-Sigüenza (2019). Diversity, endemism, species turnover and relationships among avifauna of the Neotropical Seasonally Dry Forests. Ardeola: International Journal of Ornithology 66(2): 257-277. PD
  • Hernández-Romero, P., C. Gutierrez-Rodríguez, C. Valdespino & D. Prieto-Torres. (2018). The role of geographical and ecological factors on population divergence of the Neotropical otter Lontra longicaudis (Carnivora, Mustelidae). Evolutionary Biology 45(1): 37-55. PDF
  • Prieto-Torres, D., J. Nori & O. Rojas-Soto. (2018). Identifying priority conservation areas for birds associated to endangered Neotropical dry forests. Biological Conservation 228: 205-214. PDF
  • Prieto-Torres, D., A.M. Cuervo & E. Bonaccorso. (2018). On geographic barriers and Pleistocene glaciations: Tracing the diversification of the Russet-crowned Warbler (Myiothlypis coronata) along the Andes. PLoS One 13(3): e0191598. PDF
  • Rivas, B., A. Ferrer-Pérez, O. Herrera-Trujillo & D. Prieto-Torres. (2018). Rapid ecological assessment of mammals’ community from a locality of middle basin at Palmar River, Zulia state, Venezuela. Mammology notes 4(2): 22-33. PDF
  • Escalona, M., D.A. Prieto-Torres & F. Rojas-Runjaic. (2017). Unveiling the geographic distribution of Boana pugnax (Schmidt, 1857) (Anura: Hylidae) in Venezuela: New state records, range extension and potential distribution. CheckList 13 (5): 671–681. PDF
  • Prieto-Torres, D.A. & G. Pinilla-Buitrago. (2017). Estimating the potential distribution and conservation priorities of Chironectes minimus (Zimmermann, 1780) (Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae). Therya 8(2): 131-144. PDF
  • Prieto-Torres, D.A. & O. Rojas-Soto (2016). Reconstructing the Mexican Tropical Dry Forests via an autoecological niche approach: Reconsidering the ecosystem boundaries. PLoS One 11(3): e0150932. PDF
  • Prieto-Torres, D.A., A.G. Navarro-Sigüenza, D. Santiago-Alarcón & O. Rojas-Soto. (2016). Response of the endangered tropical dry forests to climate change and the role of Mexican Protected Areas for their conservation. Global Change Biology 22(1): 364–379. PDF
  • Lizcano, D.J., D.A. Prieto-Torres & H.M. Ortega-Andrade. (2015). Capítulo 6: Distribución de la danta de montaña (Tapirus pinchaque) en Colombia: importancia de las Áreas no protegidas para la conservación en escenarios de cambio climático. En: E. Payán, C.A. Lasso, C. Castaño-Uribe (Editores). I. Conservación de grandes vertebrados en áreas no protegidas de Colombia, Venezuela y Brasil. Editorial Serie Fauna Silvestre Neotropical. pp. 115-132. PDF
  • Ortega-Andrade, H.M., D.A Prieto-Torres, I. Gómez-Lora & D.J. Lizcano. (2015). Ecological and Geographical Analysis of the Distribution of the Mountain Tapir (Tapirus pinchaque) in Ecuador: Importance of Protected Areas in Future Scenarios of Global Warming. Plos One10: e0121137. PDF
  • Prieto-Torres, D. & J.L. Hernández. (2015). Breeding biology and hatching success of Chelonia mydas (Testudines: Cheloniidae) in Aves Island Wildlife Refuge, Venezuela, during the 2010 reproductive season. Revista de Biología Tropical 63(4): 1059–1070. PDF
  • Prieto-Torres, D., O. Herrera-Trujillo & A. Ferrer-Pérez (2015). First record of Nasua nasua (Linnaeus, 1766) (Mammalia: Carnivora: Procyonidae) for the Zulia state, western Venezuela. CheckList 11 (6): 1790. PDF
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