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Luis Alberto Ebensperger Pesce

Full Professor

PUC, FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS BIOLÓGICAS, DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


My students, colleagues and I aim to understand the function and evolution of animal sociality and communal rearing. We use ecological, behavioral, and physiological approaches on natural populations to examine costs and benefits in social caviomorp

Educación

  •  Biology, BOSTON UNIVERSITY. Estados Unidos, 1997
  •  Ecology, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 1992
  •  Biology, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 1988

Experiencia Académica

  •   Full Professor Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Biological Sciences

    Santiago, Chile

    2015 - A la fecha

  •   Associate professor Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Biological Sciences

    Santiago, Chile

    2007 - 2014

  •   Assistant Professor Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Biological Sciences

    Santiago, Chile

    2003 - 2006

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Full Professor Full Time

    Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile

    Santaigo, Chile

    2015 - A la fecha

Formación de Capital Humano


Number of undergraduate students: 33
Number of graduate students – Master: 1
Number of graduate students – Ph.D.: 10
Number of postdoctorates: 2



 

Article (38)

Effects of radio-collars are not contingent on socioecological conditions in degus
Parental care in male degus (Octodon degus) is flexible and contingent upon female care
Socially unstable conditions experienced during development prime female Octodon degus to shape the phenotype of their own offspring
Socioecological conditions predict degu social instability and provide limited cues to forecast subsequent breeding conditions
Male group members are costly to plurally breeding Octodon degus females
Multiple mating is linked to social setting and benefits the males in a communally rearing mammal
Spatial relationships among free-living cururos (Spalacopus cyanus) demonstrate burrow sharing and communal nesting
Highly masculinized and younger males attain higher reproductive success in a social rodent
Evidence for a behavioural syndrome and negative social assortment by exploratory personality in the communally nesting rodent, Octodon degus
Long-term field studies on rodents
Social instability decreases alloparental care and quality of weaned offspring in a communally rearing rodent
The ecological value of long-term studies of birds and mammals in Central America, South America and Antarctica
Effects of Habitat and Social Complexity on Brain Size, Brain Asymmetry and Dentate Gyrus Morphology in Two Octodontid Rodents
Limited and fitness-neutral effects of resource heterogeneity on sociality in a communally rearing rodent
Masculinized females produce heavier offspring in a group living rodent
Octodon degus kin and social structure
Phylogeography and demographic history of the Andean degu, Octodontomys gliroides (Rodentia: Octodontidae)
Postnatal Development of the Degu (Octodon degus) Endocrine Stress Response Is Affected by Maternal Care
The modulating role of group stability on fitness effects of group size is different in females and males of a communally rearing rodent
Immunocompetence of breeding females is sensitive to cortisol levels but not to communal rearing in the degu (Octodon degus)
Livetrapping is not biased by the endocrine stress response: a preliminary study in the degu (Octodon degus)
Maternal stress and plural breeding with communal care affect development of the endocrine stress response in a wild rodent
Phylogeny modulates the effects of ecological conditions on group living across hystricognath rodents
Seasonal variation in the degu (Octodon degus) endocrine stress response
Small mammals as indicators of cryptic plant species diversity in the central Chilean plant endemicity hotspot
Sociality of Octodontomys gliroides and other octodontid rodents reflects the influence of phylogeny
Avian ecosystem functions are influenced by small mammal ecosystem engineering
Meta-analysis of the effects of small mammal disturbances on species diversity, richness and plant biomass
Relatedness does not predict vigilance in a population of the social rodent Octodon degus
Ecological drivers of group living in two populations of the communally rearing rodent, Octodon degus
Sociality, exotic ectoparasites, and fitness in the plural breeding rodent Octodon degus
Burrow limitations and group living in the communally rearing rodent, Octodon degus
Towards an integrative model of sociality in caviomorph rodents
Octomys mimax (Rodentia: Octodontidae)
A case of allosuckling in wild guanacos (Lama guanicoe)
No infanticide in the hystricognath rodent, Octodon degus: Does ecology play a role?
Conducta y densidad poblacional de Lutra felina en Isla Pan de Azúcar (III Región), Chile
Foraging, activity budget, and social behavior of the South American marine otter, Lutra felina

BookSection (3)

An integrative view of caviomorph social behavior
Causes and evolution of group‐living
Fitness consequences of social systems

BookWhole (2)

Comportamiento social de la fauna nativa de Chile
Sociobiology of caviomorph rodents: an integrative approach

EditorialMaterial (1)

Caviomorph rodent social systems: an introduction

Proyecto (2)

Fitness effects of matching conditions of social instability during early and late life in plural breeding Octodon degus
Behavioral Ecology of the South American marine otter (Lutra felina)

Review (2)

Stress, sleep, and sex: A review of endocrinological research in Octodon degus
Direct fitness of group living mammals varies with breeding strategy, climate and fitness estimates
8
Sebastián Abades

Profesor Asociado

Universidad Mayor

Santiago, Chile

1
Jorge Mpodozis

Profesor Titular

DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOLOGÍA, FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
Sylvain Faugeron

Profesor Asociado

ecologia

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
Cristian Hernandez

Full Professor

Universidad San Sebastián

Concepción, Chile

2
Juan Armesto

Full Professor

Departamento de Ecología

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

2
Rodrigo Vásquez

profesor titular

Ciencias Ecológicas

IEB, DEPTO. CS. ECOL., FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

48
Luis Ebensperger

Full Professor

Ecology

PUC, FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS BIOLÓGICAS, DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA

Santiago, Chile

2
Mauricio Soto

Director

Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas

INSITUTO DE CIENCIAS AMBIENTALES Y EVOLUTIVAS, UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE

Valdivia, Chile

1
María Becker

Scientific Director, President

Research and Development

FUNDACIÓN CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGÍA PARA EL DESARROLLLO

Santiago, Chile

1
Elie Poulin

Profesor Titular

Ciencias Ecologicas

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
Benito González

Académico

Gestión Forestal y su Medio Ambiente

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE, FC CS FORESTALES Y DE LA CONSERVACION DE LA NATURALEZA

Santiago, Chile

3
Meredith Root-bernstein

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE, DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA

Santiago, Chile

8
Loreto Correa

Profesor Asistente

Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria

Universidad Mayor de Chile

Santiago, Chile

2
Daniela Rivera

Profesora Asociada

Universidad Mayor de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Rene Quispe

Jefe de PRODESAL

INDAP

1
Fernando Alfaro

Director

Center for Genomics, Ecology and Environment

Universidad Mayor

Santiago, Chile

1
Cristian Fierro

Asistente de Investigación

Ciencias Agrarias

Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Santiago de Chile, Chile

1
Pamela Muñoz

Académico

Universidad Austral de Chile

Valdivia, Chile

1
Fabian Salazar

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Biosciences

MRC Centre for Medical Mycology, University of Exeter

Exeter, Reino Unido

1
Pedro Fernández

Postdoctorado

INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGIA Y BIODIVERSIDAD

Nunoa, Chile

1
Scarlett Delgado

Postdoctoral researcher

Biología

Universidad de Chile

Ñuñoa, Chile