Education

Ph.D. (c) Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 2020 - ongoing
The University of Tennessee - Knoxville, TN

M.Sc. Modeling of Ecological Systems 2016 - 2018
University of Toulouse III Paul Sabatier - Toulouse, France

B.Sc. Biology 2011-2015
Pontifical Javeriana University - Bogotá, Colombia

Publications

• Echeverri, A., Batista, N., Wolny, S., Herrera-R, G. A., Andrade-Rivas, F., Bailey, A., Cárdenas-Navarrete, A., Dávila Arenas, A., Díaz Salazar, A., Hernández, K., Langhans, K., Mateus Aguilar, B., Levey, D., Neill, A., Nguyen, O., Suarez-Castro, A., Zapata, F., & Ocampo-Peñuela, N. (In press). Toward sustainable biocultural ecotourism: An integrated spatial analysis of cultural and biodiversity richness in Colombia. People and Nature.

• Hernandez, K. V., Andrade-Rivas, F., Batista, N., Cárdenas-Navarrete, A., Dávila Arenas, A., Herrera-R, G. A., Langhans, K. E., Levey, D., Neill, A., Nguyen, O., Norzin, T., Ocampo-Peñuela, N., Sánchez Lopez, S., Wolny, S., Zapata, F., & Echeverri, A. (In press). Disparity in publicized national and international vulnerability status for Colombian artisan craft plant species. Ecosystems and People.

• Couto, T. B. A., Jenkins, C. N., Beveridge, C. F., Heilpern, S. A., Herrera-R, G. A., Piland, N. C., Leal, C. G., Zuanon, J., Doria, C. R. C., Montoya, M., Varese, M., Correa, S. B., Goulding, M., & Anderson, E. P. (2024). Translating science into actions to conserve Amazonian freshwaters. Conservation Science and Practice, e13241. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.13241.

• Herrera-R, G. A., Heilpern, S., Couto, T. B. A., Victoria-Lacy, L., Duponchelle, F., Correa, S. B., Farah-Pérez, A., López-Casas, S., Cañas-Alva, C. M., Doria, C. R. C., & Anderson, E. P. (2024). A synthesis of the diversity of freshwater fish migrations in the Amazon basin. Fish and Fisheries, 25(1), 114–133. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12795.

• Shen, M., Klink, R. van, Sagouis, A., Petsch, D., Abong’o, D., Alahuhta, J., Al-Shami, S., Armendáriz, L., Bae, M.-J., Begot, T., Belliard, J., Benstead, J., Bomfim, F., Bredenhand, E., Budnick, W., Callisto, M., Calvão, L., Camacho-Rozo, C., Cañedo-Argüelles, M., Carvalho, F., Chapman, J., Chapman, L., Chen, Q., Chernoff, B., Cibils-Martina, L., et al. (2024). FreshLanDiv: A global database of freshwater biodiversity across different land uses. Global Ecology and Biogeography. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13917.

• Heilpern, S., Herrera-R, G. A., Fiorella, K., Moya, L., Flecker, A., & McIntyre, P. B. (2023). Functional diversity sustains multiple dietary nutrients supplied by freshwater fisheries. Ecology Letters, 26(12), 1887–1897. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14299.

• Herrera-R, G. A., Tedesco, P., DoNascimiento, C., Jézéquel, C., & Giam, X. (2023). Accessibility and appeal jointly bias the inventory of Neotropical freshwater fish fauna. Biological Conservation, 284. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110186.

• Brosse, S., Charpin, N., Su, G., Toussaint, A., Herrera-R, G. A., Tedesco, P. A., & Villéger, S. (2021). FISHMORPH: A global database on morphological traits of freshwater fishes. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30(12), 2330–2336. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13395.

• Duponchelle, F., Isaac, V. J., Rodrigues Da Costa Doria, C., Van Damme, P. A., Herrera-R, G. A., Anderson, E. P., Cruz, R. E. A., Hauser, M., Hermann, T. W., Agudelo, E., et al. (2021). Conservation of migratory fishes in the Amazon basin. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 31(5), 1087–1105. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3550.

• Gibson, N., Green, E., Herrera-R, G. A., Love, S., Turner, S., Weatherton, M., Faidiga, A., Luo, A., Ngoh, M., Shershen, E., et al. (2021). Toward an ecology of disasters: A primer for the pursuit of ecological research on disasters. Ecology and Society, 26(4). doi: https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12707-260422.

• Herrera-R, G. A., Oberdorff, T., Anderson, E. P., Brosse, S., Carvajal-Vallejos, F. M., Frederico, R. G., Hidalgo, M., Jézéquel, C., Maldonado, M., Maldonado-Ocampo, J. A., et al. (2020). The combined effects of climate change and river fragmentation on the distribution of Andean Amazon fishes. Global Change Biology, 26(10), 5509–5523. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15285.

• Encalada, A. C., Flecker, A. S., Poff, N. L., Suárez, E., Herrera-R, G. A., Ríos-Touma, B., Jumani, S., Larson, E. I., & Anderson, E. P. (2019). A global perspective on tropical montane rivers. Science, 365(6458), 1124–1129. doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax1682.

• Angarita, H., Wickel, A. J., Sieber, J., Chavarro, J., Maldonado-Ocampo, J. A., Herrera-R, G. A., Delgado, J., & Purkey, D. (2018). Basin-scale impacts of hydropower development on the Mompós Depression wetlands, Colombia. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 22(5), 2839. doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-2839-2018.

• Urbano-Bonilla, A., Ballen, G. A., Herrera-R, G. A., Zamudio, J., Herrera-Collazos, E. E., DoNascimiento, C., Prada-Pedreros, S., & Maldonado-Ocampo, J. A. (2018). Fishes of the Cusiana River (Meta River basin, Colombia), with an identification key to its species. ZooKeys, 733, 65. doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.733.20159.

• DoNascimiento, C., Herrera-Collazos, E. E., Herrera-R, G. A., Ortega-Lara, A., Villa-Navarro, F. A., Oviedo, J. S. U., & Maldonado-Ocampo, J. A. (2017). Checklist of the freshwater fishes of Colombia: A Darwin Core alternative to the updating problem. ZooKeys, 708, 25. doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.708.13897.

• Herrera-R, G. A., Murcia-Castillo, M. A., & Prada-Pedreros, S. (2016). First record of Amatitlania nigrofasciata (Günther, 1867)(Cichliformes: Cichlidae) as introduced species in natural freshwaters of Colombia. Check List, 12(4), 1932. doi: https://doi.org/10.15560/12.4.1932.