Mauricio Núñez -Regueiro - Mauricio Nunez

Mauricio Núñez -Regueiro - Mauricio Nunez

Mauricio Núñez-Regueiro
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EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy. August 2016. Interdisciplinary Ecology Program. Concentration: Food
and Resource Economics. University of Florida. Project: “On Biofuels, Biodiversity Tradeoffs,
and a Market-Based Strategy to Potentially Reduce Deforestation”.
Master of Science. December 2011. Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Master of Science
program. Concentration: Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD). College of
Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Florida. Project Title: “Conserving biodiversity in
the face of forest loss with agricultural expansion: Does current forest policy maintain wildlife?”
Licenciado in Biological Sciences. 2009. Universidad Nacional de Salta (National University
of Salta). Thesis Title: Resource partitioning by two sympatric Histiotus species (Chiroptera:
Vespertilionidae): A coexistence study.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE – Eight years of experience in both local and
international institutions.
Adjunct Lecturer. Center for Latin American Studies and Tropical Conservation and
Development program, University of Florida. 2016-present.
Member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature in the Commission for
Ecosystem Management. United Nations. 2012- present.
Project Manager. From selective logging to sustainable tourism: using economic tools to
decrease degradation in the cloud forest ecosystem of Argentina. 2010-2014.
Advisor to the Minister of Environment of Salta Province. Argentina. 2010-2011.
Environmental Assessment Analyst. Secretary of Environmental Policies. Ministry of
Environment and Sustainable Development. Salta Provincial Government. Salta, Argentina.
March 2008- November 2008.
ADDITIONAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE – Three projects outside personal research
projects.
Project Participant. Economic tools for private environmental management of forested and
grassland ecosystems in Salta province, Argentina. 2012-2014.
Project Director. “Vertebrate communities’ assessment in the ecosystems of Salta province”
(Forest, shrublands, and grasslands). May 2010-2013.
Project Participant. “Migration and population trends of Andean Flamingos” (high-altitude
grasslands and lakes). Project director: Dr Enrique Derlindatti. February 2009-February 2010.
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS – Three since 2013 (five more in prep).
Trigo, C., Talamo, A., Nunez-Regueiro, M. M., Derlindatti, E., Maras, G., Barchuk, A. Woody
plant community, grazing refuges, and livestock: a piosphere pattern in the endangered Chaco
forest, Argentina. The Rangeland Journal, accepted with minor reviews.
Nunez-Regueiro, M. M., L. Branch, R. J. Fletcher, Jr., G. A. Maras, E. Derlindatti, and A.
Talamo. 2015. Spatial patterns of mammal occurrence in forest strips surrounded by agricultural
crops of the Chaco region, Argentina. Biological Conservation 187:19-26.
Talamo, A., Lopez de Casenave, J., Nunez-Regueiro, M. M., et al. Regeneración de plantas
leñosas en el Chaco semiárido argentino: relación con factores bióticos y abióticos en micrositios
creados por el aprovechamiento forestal. Bosque (Valdivia), 2013, vol.34, no.1, p.45-51
EXTENTION PUBLICATIONS, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND TECHNICAL REPORTS –
Six since 2011.
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Leus, K., Altrichter, M., Desbiez, A., Camino, M., Giordano, A., Campos Krauer, E., Brooks, D,
Thompon, J., Nunez-Regueiro, M. M. 2016. A vortex Population Viability Analysis models for
the Chacoan Peccary (Catagonus wagneri), developed as a component of the species’
conservation planning workshop. Suiform Soundings, IUCN.
Creator of Conservacion de Ecosistemas del Cono Sur Americano. Facebook page with 20
administrators and over 1100 followers from 32 countries.
https://www.facebook.com/Conservación-de-Ecosistemas-del-Cono-Sur-Americano297197627010303/
Bitacora del Chaco: Biodiversidad y cortinas forestales en el chaco seco. June 2012.
Conservation Blog: http://conservacionhoy.blogspot.com/
Derlindati E.J., M. Nuñez Regueiro, A. Tálamo, D. Vazquez, G. Marás, A. Palavecino, C.
Trigo, R. López Morales y N. Cruz. 2012. Biodiversity baseline for “El Paraiso”, Chaco forest of
Salta. Catholic University of Salta.
M. Núñez Regueiro. 2011. Challenges and opportunities for conservation in agricultural
landscapes. Argentine Rural Society Magazine. Vol 42.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS- Eleven since 2011.
• Nuñez Regueiro, M. M., Fletcher, R, Pienaar, E, Rifai, S. Large-scale payments for ecosystem
services attract important land for biodiversity conservation and changes deforestation patterns
in the endangered Chaco forest. Binational Ecology Meeting Argentina-Chile. September 2016.
• Dain, J., Canavelli S., Cooper, N., Mello, D., Nunez-Regueiro, M. M. Poisoned birds and four
slashed tires: Building capacity to manage biodiversity conflict in South America. Association for
Tropical Biology and Conservation Congress. France 2016.
• Fletcher, R., Nuñez Regueiro M., McCleery, R., Greene D. The best of both worlds:
integrating data sets across scales to predict species distributions and scenarios of landscape
change. Landscape Ecology Conference. USA. June 2015.
• de Bustos S., Thompson J.J, Alveira M., Nuñez Regueiro M. Variations in the mammal
assemblage under different forestry management conditions in Yugas forest of Salta. Jornadas
Argentinas de Mastozoologia (SAREM), La Plata, Argentina. November 2012.
• Nuñez Regueiro M., Branch L., Fletcher R., Marás G., Derlindati, E. J. y Tálamo A. Do forest
strips conserve biodiversity? Using hierarchical Bayesian models for mammal conservation in
Chaco forest. X International Wildlife Management Conference for the Amazon and Latin
America. Salta. May 2012.
• Marás G.A, Nuñez Regueiro M., Andrade Díaz M.S., Bracamonte J.C., Bonduri Y. V., Suarez
A. F., Palavecino A.A., Alonso N. Adaptive management and planning for urban bat
conservation of the city of Salta. Invited speaker at the symposium for alternative approaches for
wildlife management and for reducing human-related conflicts. X International Wildlife
Management Conference for the Amazon and Latin America. Salta. May 2012
• Trigo C., Tálamo A., Núñez-Regueiro M, Palavecino E., Derlindati E. 2011.
Regeneración, estructura y diversidad de la vegetación leñosa en relación a la ganadería en un sector
del Chaco salteño. XXXIII Jornadas Argentinas de Botánica. Posadas-Misiones. 7 al 10 de
noviembre de 2011.
• Marás G., R. López Morales, M. Nuñez-Regueiro, E. J. Derlindati, A. Tálamo, A.
Palavecino, N. Cruz y C. Trigo. Comunidad de Mamíferos Medianos y Grandes de la Finca El
Paraíso, Departamento de Rivadavia, Salta, Argentina. III Congreso Boliviano de Ecología, Sucre
- Bolivia. November 2011.
• Trigo C., A. Tálamo, M. Nuñez-Regueiro, A. Palavecino, E. Derlindati, G. Marás, N. Cruz y R.
López. Asociaciones Espaciales Entre Plantas en un Gradiente de Herbivoría. III Congreso
Boliviano de Ecología, Sucre - Bolivia. November 2011.
• Derlindati, E. J., N. Cruz, M. Nuñez-Regueiro, A. Tálamo, D. E. Vázquez, G. Marás, A.
Palavecino, C. Trigo y R. López Morales. Diversidad de Aves en un Bosque de Echinopsis sp.,
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un Bosque de Bulnesia sp. y un Área de Peripuesto en el Chaco Aluvional del Norte de
Argentina. III Congreso Boliviano de Ecología, Sucre - Bolivia. November 2011.
Trigo C., Talamo A., Núñez Regueiro M., Palavecino A., Derlindati E. Woody plant diversity,
structure and regeneration in relation with livestock grazing in a Chaco forest of Salta province.
XXXIII Argentine congress of Botany. Misiones, Argentina. November 2011.
LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT – Eight project involvements
since 2003.
Board member for creating a chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology for the Southern
Cone of South America. July 2016 – present.
Round-table co-organizer and main facilitator. Challenges and solutions for filling the sciencepractice gap in natural resources conservation in the Southern Cone. Binational Ecology Meeting
Argentina-Chile, Misiones Argentina, 2016.
Conference Organization. Member of the organizing committee for the 64th Center for Latin
American Studies Annual Conference “Envisioning a Sustainable Tropics”. Gainesville, Fl. 2015.
Steering Committee Representative of TCD program. University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl.
2014-2015.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the SNRE Graduate Student Council – representing
over 100 graduate students and creating a long-term vision for the Council. Gainesville, FL.
2012-2013.
Founding member of the Southern Cone Leadership Initiative. University of Florida. 2010present. https://www.facebook.com/Conservaci%C3%B3n-de-Ecosistemas-del-Cono-SurAmericano-297197627010303/?fref=ts
Volunteer as a teacher of biological sciences in the “Study Support Program” for marginal
primary and high school students of northern Salta. National University of Salta. 2006-2007.
Founding member of the “Family Orchard Program” designed to maintain basic feeding needs
of low-income families. National University of Tucuman. 2003.
AWARDS, HONORS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
Outstanding Research Award. University of Florida, 2015.
Outstanding Student Award recipient. University of Florida 2013.
University of Florida Graduate School Fellowship. 2012-2016.
Tropical Conservation and Development Program. PhD graduate Assistantship. 2012-2013.
Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD) Program Graduate Assistantship (University of
Florida). 2010-2011.
Jennings Scholarship. University of Florida, USA. 2009.
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) Graduate Assistantship (Wildlife Ecology and
Conservation department, University of Florida). 2009-2010.
GRANTS FOR RESEARCH: ~US$ 31 000 total
The Second Rufford Small Grant Foundation, U.K. £5 997. June 2014
The Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant, USA. US$ 2 000. April 2014.
Tropical Conservation and Development Practitioners Experience Grant, USA. US$ 1 000. April
2014.
Tropical Conservation and Development Working Group Grant, USA. US$ 1 000. October
2013.
The Rufford Small Grants Foundation, U.K. £6 000. July 2010
Scott Neotropical Fund of Cleveland Metroparks and Zoo, and Cleveland Zoological Society,
USA. US$ 5 000. July 2010.
Tropical Conservation and Development Field Research Grant, USA. US$ 2 000. April 2010.
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE – Over ten years of experience
Course Co-Instructor. Conservation planning for biodiversity projects (graduate). University of
Florida, 2016.
Course Instructor. Conflict management and facilitation for natural sciences. INTA Parana, 2014
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Landscape Ecology. University of Florida, 2013
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Systematic Planning for Conservation Projects. University of
Florida, 2011.
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Conservation Biology. University of Florida, 2009.
Teaching Assistant. National University of Salta. Genetics Department. Subject: Introduction to
Genetics. February 2006-February 2008.
Teaching Assistant. National University of Salta. Subject: Introduction to Biology. Salta,
Argentina. June 2004-June 2005.
MENTORING STUDENTS- Worked with two students.
Research mentor for Shar Siddiqui (undergraduate). University of Florida. 2014-2016.
Co-advisor of Carolina Trigo (Licenciatura Thesis). Universidad Nacional de Salta. 2011- 2012.
ADITIONAL TRAINING – Quantitative and qualitative training.
Course: “Spatially explicit mark-recapture models”. Richard Chandler and Andrew Royle.
Athens, GA. 2016.
Course: “Design of studies in conservation biology and related fields II”. Peter Feinsinger, Ph.D.
September 2010
Course: “Modeling Patterns and Dynamics of Species Occurrence”. James Nichols and Darryl
MacKenzie. August 2010. USGS, USA.
Course/seminar: “Environmental Territorial Arrangement of Salta Province” Salta Provincial
Government. Salta, Argentina. August 2008.
Course: “Ecology and Conservation of Bolivian bats”. Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. October
2007.
LANGUAGES.
Spanish: Native speaker
English: Fluent
Portuguese, Italian, and French: Basic understanding/fluent reading
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