Fernando Machado-Stredel

Photo: Fernando Machado Stredel

-Post-doc-

he/him
Email: 
fmachadostredel@unm.edu
Faculty Advisor: 
Michael J. Andersen

Education:
University of Kansas, Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 2023, Advisor: A. Townsend Peterson
Universidad Central de Venezuela, Licentiate in Biology, 2015, Advisor: Jorge L. Pérez-Emán

 
Curriculum vitae
 
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Other Links: 
https://github.com/fmachados/grinnell

Research Area(s)

Animal Ecology,  Computational Biology & Genomics,  Evolutionary Biology,  Global Change Biology,  Historic Ecology,  Paleoecology,  Population Genetics & Phylogenetics,  Systematics/Phylogenetics,  Vertebrate Biology

Research Interests:

I am an evolutionary biologist using quantitative approaches to study the ecology and evolution of animals at different spatiotemporal scales, with a focus on avian radiations. I work on testing hypotheses about abiotic niche conservatism over evolutionary time and developing methods to estimate niche evolution and species dispersal. I aim to integrate information from biodiversity science, phylogenetics, population genomics, ecological niche modeling, movement ecology, behavior, macroecology, and macroevolution. Statistics, bioinformatics, and geographic information systems (GIS) are also relevant to my research and teaching.

Selected Publications:

Machado-Stredel F, PJ Atauchi, C Nuñez-Penichet, ME Cobos, L Osorio-Olvera, A Khalighifar, AT Peterson, RJ Fletcher Jr. 2024. The roles of abiotic and biotic factors in driving range shifts: An invasive Pomacea snail facilitates Rostrhamus sociabilis (Snail Kite) northward range expansion. Ornithology 141 (3), ukae022. https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithology/ukae022 

Cobos ME, C Nuñez-Penichet, PD Campbell, JC Cooper, F Machado-Stredel, N Barve, U Ashraf, AA Alkishe, E Ng'eno, RR Nair, PJ Atauchi, A Adeboje, AT Peterson. 2023. Effects of occurrence data density on conservation prioritization strategies. Biological Conservation 284, 110207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110207 

Machado-Stredel F, B Freeman, D Jiménez-Garcia, ME Cobos, C Nuñez-Penichet, L Jiménez, E Komp, U Perktas, A Khalighifar, K Ingenloff, W Tapondjou, T de Silva, S Fernando, L Osorio-Olvera, AT Peterson. 2022. On the potential of documenting decadal-scale avifaunal change from before-and-after comparisons of museum and observational data across North America. Avian Research 13, 100005. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2022.100005 

Machado-Stredel F, ME Cobos, AT Peterson. 2021. A simulation-based method for selecting calibration areas for ecological niche models and species distribution models. Frontiers of Biogeography 13 (4), e48814. https://doi.org/10.21425/F5FBG48814 

Machado-Stredel F, AM Fernandes, F Riera, JL Pérez-Emán. 2021. A city of oropendolas: nesting colonies of Crested Oropendola (Psarocolius decumanus) in Caracas. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 132 (2), 259–270. https://doi.org/10.1676/1559-4491-132.2.259 

Gang S, R Zhang, F Machado-Stredel, P Alström, U Johansson, M Irestedt, HL Mays, BD McKay, I Nishiumi, Y Cheng, Y Qu, PGP Ericson, J Fjeldså, AT Peterson, F Lei. 2020. Great journey of Great Tits (Parus major group): Origin, diversification, and historical demographics of a broadly-distributed bird lineage. Journal of Biogeography 47 (7), 1585–1598. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13863