Member Profile
Membership type: full
Patricia Landaverde
Country of origin: Guatemala Currently in: Guatemala, Guatemala General field of specialization: Biological Systems and Organisms-
Degrees
2017 Doctorate Biological Systems and Organisms -
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.
Publications resulting from Research:
1. Escobedo-Kenefic, N., Landaverde-González, P., Theodorou, P. et al. Disentangling the effects of local resources, landscape heterogeneity and climatic seasonality on bee diversity and plant-pollinator networks in tropical highlands. Oecologia 194, 333–344 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-020-04715-8
2. Theodorou, P., Herbst, SC., Kahnt, B. et al. Urban fragmentation leads to lower floral diversity, with knock-on impacts on bee biodiversity. Sci Rep 10, 21756 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78736-x
3. Dardon, Maria Jose, Yurrita, Carmen. Landaverde-Gonzalez, Patricia. 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):
4. 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
5. 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
6. Enríquez, E., Landaverde, P., Lima, R., Núñez-Farfán, J., Solórzano, E., & Tapia-López, R. (2018). Population genetics of traditional landraces of Cucurbita pepo L., 1753 in the cloud forest in Baja Verapaz, Guatemala. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 65(3), 979-991. doi: 10.1007/s10722-017-0589-y
7. 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. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.08.011
8. Landaverde-González, P., Quezada-Euán, J., Theodorou, P., Murray, T., Ayala, R., Moo-Valle, J., Husemann, M. Vandame, R. Paxton, R. (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. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12860
9. Landaverde-González, P., Moo-Valle, J.H., Murray, T.E., Paxton, R.J., Quezada-Euán, J.J.G., Husemann, M. 2017 Cryptic sympatric lineage divergence in Neotropical sweat bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Lasioglossum (Dialictus)). Organism diversity and evolution. 17(1):251-265.
10. 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.
11. 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. Vol. 51 (1) pp. 133 - 135
12. 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.
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.
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