Dirección de Tesis y Patrocinio Postdoctoral

2023- : Director of undergraduate thesis: 

The effect of interannual variation in precipitation on the size and isotopic niche overlap in a passerine bird assemblage in Central Chile. Environmental Biology, University of Chile. Candidate: Pablo Arancibia. 

2022- : Director of undergraduate thesis: 

Long-term effects of temperature and precipitation on shrub phenology in the semi-arid ecosystem of Fray Jorge National Park”. Environmental Biology, University of Chile. Candidate: Javiera Cartes. 

2020 – 2024. Postdoctoral sponsorship:

“Ecological drivers of individual specialization in a stochastic Mediterranean ecosystem under a global change scenario”. Dr: Natalia Ricote. 

2020 – 2024. Postdoctoral sponsorship:

“Ecological opportunity and levels of individual diet specialization in an assembly of small mammals in a changing environment in north central Chile “. Dr: Mara Inés Espinosa. 

2020-2024: Co-director of Doctoral thesis:

“Individual specialization and trophic niche variation in two sympatric cormorants of northwestern Patagonia”. Doctorate in Science with mention in Conservation and Management of Natural Resources. Los Lagos University. Dr. Candidate: Gabriela Píriz. 

2021–2022: Director of undergraduate thesis:

“Trophic niche overlap and individual specialization in juvenile and adult individuals of Zonotrichia Capensis“. Environmental Biology, University of Chile. Candidate: Sara Bustamante. 

2021–2022: Director of undergraduate thesis:

“Trophic niche overlap and individual specialization in juvenile and adult individuals of Zonotrichia Capensis”. Environmental Biology, University of Chile. Candidate: Maria Lucia Malaga 

2021–2022: Director of undergraduate thesis:

“Integrating physiology into correlative models: estimating the distribution of Phyllotis darwini in a context of climate change”. Environmental Biology, University of Chile. Candidate: Alejandro Paredes. 

2015-2019. Director of undergraduate thesis:

“Trade-off between physiological tolerance and phenotypic plasticity in the metabolic rates of a native rodent, Phyllotis darwini“. Environmental Biology, University of Chile. Candidate: Josefina Cruz. 

2016-2019: Director of Master thesis:

“Effect of high and variable ambient temperatures during ontogeny on the physiological tolerance of Phyllotis darwini (Rodentia, Cricetidae)”. Master of Biological Sciences, University of Chile. 

Candidate: Gabriela Píriz. 

2015-2016: Director of undergraduate thesis:

“Metabolic expansibility in two populations of rodents (Phyllotis darwini) inhabiting the northern and southern limits of their geographical distribution in Chile”. Environmental Biology, University of Chile.

Candidate: Gabriela Píriz.