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Patricia Landaverde

Country of origin: Guatemala Currently in: Guatemala, Guatemala General field of specialization: Biological Systems and Organisms
Academic Background

Degrees

2017 Doctorate Biological Systems and Organisms
Research and Profession

Current Research Activities

Biological Systems and Organisms

Investigating the effect of land use and landscape on the community composition, interaction network and virus presence of wild bees pollinating coffee in Guatemala.

Research Keywords: 
conservation genetic
landscape genetics
population genetics
pollination ecology
Evidence-based restoration; ecosystem services; socio-ecological systems
virus disease
Biodiversity

Publications resulting from Research: 


Para más públicaciones / For more publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Patricia-Landaverde

1. Escobar, D.D, Landaverde-Gonzalez, P., Casiá Ajché, Q.B., Morales, X., Cardona, E., Mejía, A., Enríquez, E. 2024. Fruit production in coffee (Coffea arabica L.) crops is enhanced by the behaviour of wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Austral Entomol 63(1):83-95. https://doi.org/10.1111/aen.12673
2. Calderón, Ana Patricia., Landaverde-González, Patricia., Wultsch, Claudia., Foster, Rebecca., Harmsen, Bart., Figueroa, Omar., García-Anleu, Rony., Castañeda, Franklin., Amato, George., Grimm, Volker., Kramer-Schadt, Stephanie., Zeller, Katherine A. 2024. Modelling jaguar gene flow in fragmented landscapes offers insights into functional population connectivity. Landscape ecology. 39, 12. DOI: 10.1007/s10980-024-01795-2.
3. Solís-Montero, L., Landaverde-González P., Zamora-Gutierrez V., Xuequin H. 2023. The Forgotten Pollinators: The Importance and Conservation of Wild Pollinators. Front. Sustain. Food syst. 7:1323557. DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2023.1323557.
4. Ludewig, M.J.; Götz, K.-P.; Romero-Oliva, C.S.; Landaverde, P.; Chmielewski, F.M. (2023) Response of Superoxide Dismutase (SOD) to Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Food Sources in Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) and Honeybees (Apis mellifera). Physiologia, 3, 272–280. https://doi.org/10.3390/ physiologia3020019
5. Ludewig, MJ., Landaverde-González, P., Götz, KP., Chmielewski. F.M. 2023. Initial assessment to understand the effect of air temperature on bees as floral visitors in urban orchards. Journal of insect conservation. 27: 1013-1022. DOI: 10.1007/s10841-023-00516-5
6. Landaverde-González, P., Gardner, J., Moo-Valle, H., Quezada-Euán, J.J.G., Ayala, R., Husemann, M. (2022) Seven new species of Lasioglossum (Dialictus) Robertson, 1902 (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Halictini) from the Yucatán Peninsula, México. European Journal of taxonomy. 862: 1-65. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.862.2079
7. Escobedo-Kenefic, N., Casiá-Ajché, Q.B., Cardona, E., Escobar, D.D., Mejía, A., Enríquez, E., Landaverde, P. (2022). Landscape or local? Distinct responses of flower-visitor diversity and interaction networks to different land use scales in agricultural tropical highlands. Frontier in Sustainable Food Systems. 6:974215. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2022.974215
8. Ollerton, J., Trunschke, J., Havens, K., Landaverde-González, P. et al., (2022). Pollinator-flower interactions in gardens during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of 2020. Journal of Pollination Ecology, 31, 87–96. https://doi.org/10.26786/1920-7603(2022)695
9. Landaverde Gonzalez, P., Osgood, J., Montenegro Quiñonez, CA., Monzon, V., Rodas, AG., Monroy, C. (2022) The effect of landscape and human settlements on the genetic differentiation and presence of Paragonimus species in Mesoamerica. International Journal of parasitology. 52(1):13-21 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2021.05.010
10. Ostermann J., Landaverde P., Avrech O., Bevk D., Cole LJ., Eeraerts M., Garratt M., Gee M., Koltowski Z., Langowska A., Mandelik Y., Miñarro M., Paxton RJ., Trujillo-Elisea FI, Howlett BG. (2021). On-farm experiences shape farmer knowledge, perceptions of pollinators, and management practices. Global ecology and conservation. 32: e01949. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01949
11. Landaverde González, P., Enríquez, E., Núñez-Farfán, J. (2021) The effect of landscape on Cucurbita pepo-pollinator interaction networks varies depending on plants’ genetic diversity. Arthropod-Plant Interactions. 15(6), 917-928. DOI: 10.1007/s11829-021-09872-y
12. Theodorou, P., Herbst, S., Kahnt, B., Landaverde-González, P., Baltz, L., Osterman, J., Paxton, R. (2020). Urban fragmentation leads to lower floral diversity, with knock-on impacts on bee biodiversity. Scientific reports. 10:21756. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78736-x
13. Escobedo-Kenefic, N., Landaverde-González, P., Theodorus, P., Dominguez, Cesar. (2020). Disentangling the effects of local resources, landscape and climatic seasonality on bee biodiversity and plant-pollinator networks in tropical highlands. Oecologia. 194(3):333-344. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-020-04715-8
14. Dardon, Maria Jose, Landaverde-Gonzalez, Patricia, Yurrita, Carmen. Vasquez, Mabel. Ayala, Ricardo. (2020). Rediscovering the diversity of Guatemalan bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Bombus Latreille 1802). International Journal of Scientific Research in Biological Sciences. 7(2):1-14. DOI: 10.26438/ijsrbs/v7i6.113
15. Landaverde, P., Menes, M., Melgar, S., Bustamante, D., Monroy, C. (2020) Common pattern of distribution for Mesoamerican Triatoma dimidiata suggest geological and ecological association. Acta tropica. 204: 105329. DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2020.105329
16. Landaverde-González, P., Baltz, L., Escobedo, N., Mérida, J., Paxton, R., and Husemann, M. (2018) Recent low levels of differentiation in the native Bombus ephippiatus (Hymenoptera: Apidae) along two Neotropical mountain-ranges in Guatemala. Biodiversity and conservation. 27(13)3513-3531. DOI: 10.1007/s10531-018-1612-0
17. Enríquez, Eunice. Landaverde, Patricia. Lima, Raquel. Núñez-Farfán, Juan. Solórzano, Elizabeth. Tapia-López, Rosalinda. (2018) Population genetics of traditional landraces of Cucurbita pepo L,.1753 in the cloud foret in Baja Verapaz, Guatemala. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution. 65(3):979-991. DOI: 10.1007/s10722-017-0589-y
18. Ziv, G., Hassall, C., Bartkowski, B., Cord, A.F., Kaim, A., Kalamandeen, M., Landaverde-González, P., Melo, J.L.B., Seppelt, R., Shannon, C., Václavík, T., Zoderer, B.M., Beckmann, M. (2018) A bird’s eye view over ecosystem services in Natura 2000 sites across Europe. Ecosystem Services. 30B:287-298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.08.011
19. Landaverde-González, P., Quezada-Euán, J.J.G., Theodorou, P., Murray, T.E., Theodorou, P., Ayala, R., Moo-Valle, J.H., Husemann, M., Vandame, R., and Paxton, R.J. (2017) Sweat bees on hot chillies: provision of pollination services by native bees in traditional slash-and-burn agriculture in the Yucatan Peninsula of tropical Mexico. Journal of Applied Ecology. 54(6):1814-1824. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12860
20. Landaverde-González, P., Moo-Valle, J.H., Murray, T.E., Paxton, R.J., Quezada-Euán, J.J.G., Husemann, M. (2017) Sympatric lineage divergence in cryptic Neotropical sweat bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Lasioglossum). Organism diversity and evolution. 17(1):251-265. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-016-0307-1
21. Landaverde-González, P., Enríquez, E., Ariza, M.A., Murray, T., Paxton, R.J., Husemann, M. (2017) Fragmentation in the clouds? The population genetics of the native bee Partamona bilineata (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) in the cloud forests of Guatemala. Conservation Genetics. 18:631–643. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-017-0950-x
22. Landaverde, P., Escobedo, N., Calderón, C., Enríquez, E., and Monroy, C. (2012) The incidence of three honey bee viruses in collapsing colonies in Guatemala. Journal of Apicultural Research. 51(1):133 – 135. https://doi.org/10.3896/IBRA.1.51.1.16
23. Melgar, S., Chávez, J.J., Landaverde, P., Herrera, F., Rodas, A., Enríquez, E., Dorn, P., Monroy C. (2007) The number of families of Triatoma dimidiata in a Guatemalan house. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 102(2):221-223. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0074-02762007005000001

NON-PEER REVIEW and reports
1. Landaverde, P. (2018) The 2017 Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB). Genetic Society Newsletter. Travel grants for junior scientists. 78:27
2. Landaverde-Gonzalez, P. Murray, Tomás. Paxton, Robert. (2013). Biodiversity loss in Central America: what is the impact of habitat fragmentation on bees? Partamona bilineata in the cloud forests of Guatemala. Genetic Society Newsletter. Heredity fieldwork grant report. 69:43-44
3. Landaverde, P., Enríquez, E., Vásquez, M., y Escobedo, N. (2010). Native bees of Guatemala and its importance in the pollination of wild and cultivated plants. Final Technical and Financial Report of the Project for the Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN-OEA). Center for Conservationist Studies -CECON. San Carlos University of Guatemala.
4. Dardón ,MJ, Yurrita, CL., Landaverde, P. Escobedo, N. 2014. Evaluación e implementación en Guatemala del Código de Barras de la Vida para resolver conflictos taxonómicos en abejorros (Bombus). Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología. Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. 102 pp.
5. Landaverde, P, Calderón, P, Solorzano, E y Ariza, M. 2012. Efecto de la fragmentación sobre el flujo génico de Artibeus jamaicensis en el Biotopo San Miguel La Palotada, El Zotz y su Zona de amortiguamiento, Petén. Proyecto DIGI. Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. 85pp.
6. Landaverde , P., Enríquez, E., Vasquez , M., & Escobedo , N. (2010). Informe final técnico y financiero de proyecto: Abejas nativas de Guatemala y su importancia en la polinización de plantas silvestres y cultivadas. Guatemala : USAC-CECÓN
7. Landaverde, P. 2009. Systematics of Triatoma dimidiata Latreille 1811 (Reduviidae: Hemiptera) in Mesoamérica using ITS2 and DNA mitochondrial genes. pp. 84, Ecology and evolution. Master thesis. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México -UNAM-, México.
8. Landaverde, P. 2009. Detection of bee viruses in Honey bee in the Southwest Guatemala by RT-PCR. AGROCYT, pp. 54, Lenap, Escuela de Biología. Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. Fondo Competitivo de Desarrollo Tecnológico Agroalimentario -AGROCYT-, National Secretary of Science and Technology -SENACYT- Guatemala.



Affiliations

Genetic society
British ecological societt

Presentation given

Event:
Prizes, Grants and Awards

Other Awards

Nov 2024
Mejor tesis escuela de Biología. Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. 2004.
Premio ofrecido a la mejor tesis de la Escuela de Biología.
Nov 2024
Mejor tesis de la Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacia. Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. 2004.
Premio ofrecido a la mejor tesis de todas las escuelas de la Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacia
Nov 2024
Magna Cum Laude disertación doctoral 2017 en Universidad Martin Lutero.
Premio otorgado a las excelentes tesis y defensa de trabajo doctoral.

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