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Rodrigo Ramos Jiliberto

Full Professor

Universidad Mayor de Chile

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Theoretical ecology; population and community ecology; ecological networks; aquatic ecology

Educación

  •  Natural Science, LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAT MUNCHEN. Alemania, 1999
  •  Biological Sciences majoring in Ecology and Systematic, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO. Chile, 1996
  •  Biology, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO. Chile, 1992

Experiencia Académica

  •   Associate Professor Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

    Ciencias

    Santiago, Chile

    2009 - 2018

  •   Associate Professor Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

    Ciencias

    Santiago, Chile

    2008 - 2009

  •   Assistant Professor Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

    Ciencias

    Santiago, Chile

    2005 - 2008

  •   Instructor Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

    Ciencias

    Santiago, Chile

    2004 - 2005

  •   Postdoc Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO

    Ciencias básicas y matemáticas

    Valparaíso, Chile

    2003 - 2004

  •   Postdoc Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Ciencias Biológicas

    Santiago, Chile

    2000 - 2003

  •   Lecturer Part Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO

    Ciencias

    Valparaíso, Chile

    1997 - 1999

  •   Professor Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAISO

    Ciencias del Mar

    Valparaíso, Chile

    1994 - 2002

  •   Lecturer Part Time

    Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

    Artes Liberales

    Santiago, Chile

    2014 - 2017

  •   Full Professor Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

    Ciencias

    Santiago, Chile

    2018 - 2018

  •   Full Professor Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR

    Estudios Interdisciplinarios

    Santiago, Chile

    2018 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Head of Biodiversity unit Full Time

    Centro Nacional del Medio Ambiente

    Chile

    2009 - 2017

  •   Researcher Full Time

    Instituto de Filosofía y Ciencias de la Complejidad

    Santiago, Chile

    2009 - A la fecha

Formación de Capital Humano


Postgraduate
• 2014-2015: Mauricio Franco, M.Sc. Biology. Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Chile. Thesis: "Desacoplamientos fenológicos en redes de planta-polinizador".
• 2013-2015: Pasquinell Urbani, Ph.D. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Chile. Thesis: Rol de la diapausa en la estabilidad de las redes tróficas.
• 2013-2014: Claudio Reyes, M.Sc. Biology. Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Chile. Thesis: Rol modulador de la estructura poblacional sobre los efectos de la contaminación en la dinámica poblacional de Daphnia ambigua.
• 2011-2014: Fernanda Valdovinos Urrutia, Ph.D. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Chile. Thesis: Relación estructura-dinámica en redes de polinización: El rol modulador de la topología y del forrajeo adaptativo. Completed
• 2010-2012: Inger Heine Fuster, M.Sc. Biology. Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Chile. Thesis: Enfrentando amenazas simultáneas: respuestas demográficas de Brachionus calyciflorus frente al riesgo de depredación y exposición a pesticida. Completed.
• 2010-2012: Leslie Garay Narváez, Ph.D. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Chile. Thesis: Desarrollo del debate complejidad-estabilidad en comunidades amenazadas: Contaminantes como agentes de perturbación. Completed.
• 2009-2011: Javier González Barrientos, M.Sc. Biology. Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Chile. Thesis: Efectos directos e indirectos del cobre en una comunidad límnica experimental. Completed.
• 2008-2012: José Luis Carvajal Salamanca, Ph.D. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Chile. Thesis: Inducción de reproducción sexual en Brachionus calyciflorus (Rotifera): respuestas fenotípicas, costos y consecuencias poblacionales. Completed.
• 2007-2009: Mauricio Carter Montecinos, Ph.D. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Chile. Thesis: Phenotypic plasticity of inducible defenses in Daphnia pulex: Responses on multiple traits, micro-evolutionary potential and phenotypic integration. Completed.
• 2006-2009: Adriana Aránguiz Acuña, Ph.D. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Chile. Thesis: Interaction modifications mediated by inducible defenses: an experimental approach with zooplankton. Completed.
• 2005-2006: Pablo Valdés del Canto, M.Sc. Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Thesis: Modelos ecológicos con defensa inducida. Completed.
• 2004: Victor Cepeda Liendo, M.Sc. Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Cyclic population models. Completed.

Undergraduate
• 2010 Maricarmen Fernández. Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Research: Análisis de modularidad en una red planta-polinizador de Chiloé.
• 2010: Claudio Reyes Reyes, Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Chile. Thesis: Interaction between resource fluctuation and exposure to Deltametrine on the fitness of Daphnia magna.
• 2010: Mauricio Fernández, Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Thesis: Immediate and transgenerational effects of copper stress on metabolic rate, growth and fertility of Daphnia pulex:”. Completed.
• 2009: Abraham Albornoz, Forestry Ingeneering, Universidad de Chile. Thesis: Plant-pollinator networks in a rain forest of Chiloé. Completed
• 2007-2008: Verónica Toledo, Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Chile. Thesis: ecotoxicological responses of rotifers at individual and population levels. Paused.
• 2009. Fernanda Valdovinos, Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Chile. Thesis: Structure and dynamics of pollination networks: the role of alien plants. Completed.
• 2008-2009: Inger Heine. Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Thesis: Osmoregulatory and demographic responses to salinity of the exotic cladoceran Daphnia exilis. Completed.
• 2007-2009: Patricia Silva. Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Thesis: Plasticity of morphological and life-historical traits in Daphnia exilis Herrick, 1895: Responses to predation risk and food availability. Completed.
• 2006-2007: Leslie Garay Narváez, Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Thesis: Interaction modifications in qualitative community models. Completed.
• 2005-2006: Marjorie Correa, Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Thesis: Effects of food concentration and crowding on life-history traits of Daphnia ambigua. Completed.
• 2003-2004: José Luis Carvajal Salamanca, Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Thesis: Phenotypic plasticity and population regulation: life-history changes in Daphnia ambigua in response to conspecific cues. Completed.
• 2001-2002: Adriana Aránguiz Acuña, Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Sciences, Universidad de Valparaíso. Thesis: Modeling population dynamics of the resource Congrio Dorado Genypterus blacodes SCHNEIDER (1801). Completed.


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Excelence in research

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

    Chile, 2013

    Award for publishing in top rate journals during 2012.

  •   Best graduated of the year - MASTER

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO

    Chile, 1996

    Best graduated of the MSc in the year.

  •   Best graduated of the year -- BIOLOGY

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO

    Chile, 1992

    Best graduated of Biology in the year.

  •   Tonolli Award

    International society for Limnology

    Suiza, 1993

    Award to young scientist in developing countries.


 

Article (67)

How to feed the cities? Co-creating inclusive, healthy and sustainable city region food systems
The environmental framework of temporary ponds: A tropical-mediterranean comparison
Avoiding artifacts when varying the number of species in ecological models
Evaluating Social Policy Scenarios for Tourism Development of Baru Island (Colombia) Using Structural Qualitative Modeling
Modeling and analysis of intervention scenarios in socio-natural systems: The case of energy-territory sustainability system of the Coquimbo Region, Chile
Core-periphery dynamics in a plant-pollinator network
Geographical origin determines responses to salinity of Mediterranean caddisflies
Pollinator declines and the stability of plant-pollinator networks
Structure and vulnerability of the multi-interaction network in macrophyte-dominated lakes
Disentangling demographic co-effects of predation and pollution on population dynamics
Non-trophic interactions strengthen the diversity-functioning relationship in an ecological bioenergetic network model
Phenology determines the robustness of plant-pollinator networks
Species traits and network structure predict the success and impacts of pollinator invasions
The process of connectivity loss during habitat fragmentation and their consequences on population dynamics
Multiple stable states in a model based on predator-induced defenses
Pesticide increases transgenerational cost of inducible defenses in a freshwater rotifer
Ontogenetic shift in Daphnia-algae interaction strength altered by stressors=> revisiting Jensen’s inequality
Temporal variability of food determines the outcome of pesticide exposure in Daphnia
Zooplankton competition promotes trade-offs affecting diapause in rotifers
Decadal trends in the pollinator assemblage of Eucryphia cordifolia in Chilean rainforests
Diapause may promote coexistence between zooplankton competitors
Diapause may promote coexistence between zooplankton competitors
Food web modularity and biodiversity promote species persistence in polluted environments
Adaptive foraging allows the maintenance of biodiversity of pollination networks
Bidimensional transfer of effects among organisms: An overlooked concept in community ecology
Biodiversity and community structure of rivers from the arid, semi-arid and north-mediterranean zones of Chile
Erratum: Multiple stability and uniqueness of the limit cycle in a Gause-type predator-prey model considering the Allee effect on prey (Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications (2011) 12 (2931-2942))
Identification of ecologically relevant species for Ecological Risk Assessment: A proposal from theoretical ecology
Morphological and life-history shifts of the exotic cladoceran Daphnia exilis in response to predation risk and food availability
The more polluted the environment, the more important biodiversity is for food web stability
Retrospective qualitative analysis of ecological networks under environmental perturbation: a copper-polluted intertidal community as a case study
Topological plasticity increases robustness of mutualistic networks
A network-based approach to the analysis of ontogenetic diet shifts: An example with an endangered, small-sized
Experimental assessment of interaction costs of inducible defenses in plankton
Experimental evidence that induced defenses promote coexistence of zooplanktonic populations
Multiple stability and uniqueness of the limit cycle in a Gause-type predator-prey model considering the Allee effect on prey
Multiple stability and uniqueness of the limit cycle in a Gause-type predatorprey model considering the Allee effect on prey
Parent-to-offspring transfer of sublethal effects of copper exposure: Metabolic rate and life-history traits of Daphnia
Adaptive prey behavior and the dynamics of intraguild predation systems
Benefits, costs and reactivity of inducible defences: an experimental test with rotifers
Osmoregulatory and demographic responses to salinity of the exotic cladoceran Daphnia exilis
Topological change of Andean plant-pollinator networks along an altitudinal gradient
A network analysis of plant-pollinator interactions in temperate rain forests of Chiloe Island, Chile
Demographical analysis of the pink ling Genypterus blacodes (Schneider 1801) in the austral demersal fishery: A matrix approach evaluating harvest and non-harvest states
Future directions of Chilean ecotoxicology: Implications for the environmental risk assessment of veterinary products used in aquaculture Direcciones futuras de la ecotoxicología en Chile: Implicancias para la evaluación de riesgo ambiental de productos veterinarios utilizados en acuicultura
Induced defenses within food webs: The role of community trade-offs, delayed responses, and defense specificity
Nested structure of plankton communities from Chilean freshwaters
Structure and dynamics of pollination networks: the role of alien plants
Dynamic effects of inducible defenses in a one-prey two-predators system
Finding patterns of distribution for freshwater phytoplankton, zooplankton and fish, by means of parsimony analysis of endemicity
Immediate and delayed life-history responses of Daphnia ambigua to conspecific cues
Modelling the management of fragmented forests: Is it possible to recover the original tree composition? The case of the Maulino forest in Central Chile
Non-lethal effects of invertebrate predators on Daphnia: morphological and life-history consequences of water mite kairomone
Role of inducible defenses in the stability of a tritrophic system
Between-species differences in demographic responses to temperature of coexisting cladocerans
Pre-encounter versus post-encounter inducible defenses in predator-prey model systems
Qualitative effects of inducible defenses in trophic chains
Vigilance and collective detection of predators in degus (Octodon degus)
Resource - consumer models and the biomass conversion principle
Diel vertical migration patterns of three zooplankton populations in a Chilean lake
Differential tolerance to ultraviolet-B light and photoenzymatic repair in cladocerans from a Chilean lake
Dynamic consequences of prey refuges in a simple model system: more prey, fewer predators and enhanced stability
Population dynamics of prey exhibiting inducible defenses: the role of associated costs and density-dependence
Population-level consequences of antipredator behavior. A metaphysiological model based on the functional ecology of the leaf-eared mouse
Depth-selection patterns and diel vertical migration of Daphnia ambigua (Crustacea: Cladocera) in lake El Plateado
Relating behavior to population dynamics: a predator-prey metaphysiological model emphasizing zooplankton diel vertical migration as an inducible response
Corrigendum to "Multiple stability and uniqueness of the limit cycle in a Gause-type predator–prey model considering the Allee effect on prey" [Nonlinear Anal. RWA 12 (2011) 2931–2942]

BookReview (1)

Identificación de especies ecológicamente relevantes para la Evaluación de Riesgo Ecológico: Una propuesta desde la ecología teórica

BookWhole (1)

Deja a la estructura hablar. Modelización y análisis de sistemas naturales, sociales y socioecológicos

Comentario (2)

Análisis de las consecuencias del comportamiento adaptativo individual sobre la estabilidad poblacional: El caso del forrajeo óptimo
Direcciones futuras de la ecotoxicología en Chile: implicancias para la evaluación de riesgo ambiental de productos veterinarios utilizados en acuicultura

ConferencePaper (1)

Sensitivity matrix of an ecological network with periodic dynamics

EditorialMaterial (2)

Analysis of the consequences of individual adaptive behavior on population stability: The case of optimal foraging
Future directions of Chilean ecotoxicology: Implications for the environmental risk assessment of veterinary products used in aquaculture

Errata (2)

Identification of ecologically-relevant species through Ecological Risk Evaluation: A proposal from theoretical ecology Chilean Journal of Natural History vol 86, pg 21, 2013
Multiple stability and uniqueness of the limit cycle in a Gause-type predator-prey model considering the Allee effect on prey (vol 12, pg 2931, 2011)

Letter (1)

Comments to "The effect of prey refuge in a simple predator-prey model" [Ecol. Model. 222 (September(18)) (2011) 3453-3454]

Proyecto (9)

Ilustrando las insólitas formas de cooperación natural
SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL STRUCTURE AS DETERMINANTS OF THE COMPLEXITY-STABILITY RELATION IN ECOLOGICAL META-NETWORKS
THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN PHENOLOGICAL, ADAPTIVE AND LONG-TERM DYNAMICS OF ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS
Life cycles, phenology, and the dynamics of ecological networks
PLANKTON COEXISTENCE AND DORMANT STAGES=> DEMOGRAPHIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL DRIVERS
Plasticity of interactions and its consequences for the robustness of ecological communities to ecological disruptions
Estructura de redes mutualistas en bosques fragmentados
Defensas antidepredatorias inducibles en poblaciones formando redes tróficas simples. Una aproximación teórica
Desarrollo de modelos biomatemáticos=> vinculando la ecofisiología y la dinámica poblacional

Review (6)

A conceptual framework for studying the strength of plant-animal mutualistic interactions
Biodiversidad y estructura comunitaria de ríos en las zonas árida, semiárida y mediterránea-norte de Chile
Analysis of the consequences of individual adaptive behavior on population stability: The case of optimal foraging Análisis de las consecuencias del comportamiento adaptativo individual sobre la estabilidad poblacional: El caso del forrajeo óptimo
Consequences of adaptive behaviour for the structure and dynamics of food webs
Understanding and predicting effects of modified interactions through a qualitative analysis of community structure
Why the dimension matters in ecological models?
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Rodrigo Ramos

Full Professor

Universidad Mayor de Chile

Santiago, Chile

8
Eduardo González

Professor

Matematica

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALPARAÍSO

Valparaiso, Chile

8
Adriana Aránguiz

Académico

Química

Universidad Católica del Norte

Antofagasta, Chile

4
Caren Vega

Profesor Asistente

Departamento Ciencias Ecológicas

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

4
Mauricio Carter

Profesor asistente

Universidad Andres Bello

Santiago, Chile

3
Pablo Sabat

Full Professor

Ciencias Ecologicas

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

SANTIAGO, Chile

3
RAMIRO BUSTAMANTE

PROFESOR TITULAR

CIENCIAS ECOLOGICAS

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE, FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS

SANTIAGO, Chile

3
Betsabe González

PROFESOR

MATEMATICAS

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALPARAISO

VALPARAISO, Chile

2
Rodrigo Jiliberto

Colaborador

Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial

Universiad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

2
Pablo Moisset de Espanés

Investigador asociado

FCFM

CeBiB, Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Luis Hinojosa

Full Professor

Ecological Sciences

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Francisco Encina

Academico

Cencias Ambientales

Universidad católica de Temuco

Temuco, Chile

1
Veronica Toledo

Directora de conservación

Area Conservación

Fundación Huilo Huilo

Santiago, Chile

1
Pablo Marquet

Full Professor

Ecology

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
Pablo Razeto

Researcher

CENTRO NACIONAL DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE

Santiago, Chile

1
Patricia Silva

Profesor Auxiliar (Asistente)

Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Postgrado

Universidad Católica del Maule

Talca, Chile

1
Alejandro Rojas

Associate professor

Matemáticas, Física y Estadística

Universidad Católica del Maule

Talca, Chile

1
Juan Armesto

Full Professor

Departamento de Ecología

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
Javier Simonetti

Professor

Ciencias Ecológicas

FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
Sergio Scott

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
Francisco Bozinovic

Full professor

Ecology

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Santiago, Chile