Giovanny Perez Zuleta
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
Qualifications
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PhD Animal and Plant Sciences University of Sheffield, (2025)
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MsC Ecology Universidad Complutense de Madrid, (2021)
Research and professional activities
Current research
Biodiversity modelling for freshwater system restoration
Develop freshwater biodiversity models to guide the ecological restoration of the war‑impacted Cauca River, Colombia. Work in partnership with specialist Rights of Nature lawyers to create a framework for assessing environmental war reparations. Produce concrete, evidence‑based restoration plans for the Cauca River and generate a scalable blueprint for operationalising the Rights of Nature in future conservation and post‑conflict contexts
Publications
Journal articles (4)
Pérez, G., Mills, SC., Socolar, JB., Ochoa Quintero, JM., Freckleton, RP., Haugaasen, T., Gilroy, JJ. and Edwards, DP., (2026). Strong Variation in Land‐Use Change Impacts on Tropical Avian Phylogenetic Diversity Between Ecoregions Highlights the Need to Sample Large Spatial Scales. Global Change Biology. 32 (1), e70702-
Socolar, JB., Mills, SC., Gilroy, JJ., Martínez-Revelo, DE., Medina-Uribe, CA., Parra-Sanchez, E., Ramirez-Gutierrez, M., Sand Sæbø, J., Meneses, HS., Pérez, G., Barlow, J., Ochoa Quintero, JM., Freckleton, RP., Haugaasen, T. and Edwards, DP., (2025). Tropical biodiversity loss from land-use change is severely underestimated by local-scale assessments. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9 (9), 1643-1655
Pérez, G., Mills, SC., Socolar, JB., Martínez‐Revelo, DE., Haugaasen, T., Gilroy, JJ. and Edwards, DP., (2024). Avian phylogenetic and functional diversity are better conserved by land‐sparing than land‐sharing farming in lowland tropical forests. Journal of Applied Ecology. 61 (10), 2497-2509
Pérez, G., Vilà, M. and Gallardo, B., (2022). Potential impact of four invasive alien plants on the provision of ecosystem services in Europe under present and future climatic scenarios. Ecosystem Services. 56, 101459-101459