Current appointment

Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Department of Natural Resources and the Environment
Cornell University – Ithaca, NY

Education

Ph.D. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 2020 - 2025
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

• Jenkins, C.N., Athayde, S., Beveridge, C.F., Correa, S.B., Espinoza, J.-C., Heilpern, S.A., Herrera-R, G.A., Victoria-Lacy, L., Olivas, P., Oliveira, A., Piland, N.C., Utsunomiya, R., & Anderson, E.P. (2025). Global importance of Amazonian freshwaters. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2868

• Anderson, E.P., Encalada, A.C., Couto, T.B.A., Beveridge, C.F., Herrera-R, G.A., Heilpern, S.A., Almeida, R.M., Cañas-Alva, C., Correa, S.B., de Souza, L.S., Duponchelle, F., Garcia-Davila, C., Goulding, M., López-Casas, S., Maldonado-Ocampo, J.A., Miranda-Chumacero, G., Montoya, M., Piland, N.C., Victoria-Lacy, L., Varese, M., & Jenkins, C.N. (2025). A baseline for assessing the ecological integrity of Western Amazon rivers. Communications Earth & Environment, 6, 623. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-01024-2

• Mateus-Aguilar, B., Díaz-Salazar, A.F., Andrade-Rivas, F., Batista, N.M., Cárdenas-Navarrete, A., Dávila Arenas, A., Hernandez, K.V., Herrera-R, G.A., Langhans, K.E., Levey, D.R., Neill, A., Nguyen, O., Ocampo-Peñuela, N., Suárez-Castro, A.F., Zapata, F., & Echeverri, A. (2025). Assessing biocultural diversity across scales using ecological indicators. Ecological Indicators. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113616

• Echeverri, A., Batista, N.M., Wolny, S., Herrera-R, G.A., Andrade-Rivas, F., Bailey, A., Cárdenas-Navarrete, A., Dávila Arenas, A., Díaz-Salazar, A.F., Hernandez, K.V., Langhans, K.E., Mateus-Aguilar, B.E., Levey, D., Neill, A., Nguyen, O., Suárez-Castro, A.F., Zapata, F., & Ocampo-Peñuela, N. (2025). Toward sustainable biocultural ecotourism: An integrated spatial analysis of cultural and biodiversity richness in Colombia. People and Nature, 7, 194–214. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10755

• 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. (2024). Disparity in publicized national and international vulnerability status for Colombian artisan craft plant species. Ecosystems and People. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2024.xxxxx

• 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. 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. 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. 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. 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, 110186. 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. 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. 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), 22. 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. 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. 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), 2839–2855. 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, 65–97. 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, 25–138. 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. https://doi.org/10.15560/12.4.1932