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Melissa Rodríguez

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

Degrees

2018 Master Biological Systems and Organisms
Research and Profession

Current Research Activities

Biological Systems and Organisms

I am currently coordinating the Spider Monkey Conservation Program in which we are developing a small project with the Ministry of the Environment in El Salvador to establish the Conservation Program of Spider Monkey in El Salvador. I am in charge of the Research Committee for the Bat Conservation Program of El Salvador, in which we have three projects in process: 1. Large seed dispersal by bats in two alluvial forests of El Salvador 2. Citizen science: knowing the frequency of bats in the roof in the city 3. Population status of the Fringe-lipped bat (Trachops cirrhosus) in El Salvador


Publications resulting from Research: 


Girón, L. y M. E. Rodríguez. 2020. Murciélagos insectívoros (Mammalia: Chiroptera) en bosque de mangle y bosque ripario en Golfito, Costa Rica. Revista Realidad y Reflexión,Universidad Francisco Gavidia, El Salvador (in rev).




Méndez-Carvajal, P. G., Rodríguez, M. E., Pozo Montuy, G., Chaves, O. M., Ponce, G., Rodríguez-Beitia B. A. & Portillo-Reyes, H. 2019. Central American Spider Monkey Ateles geoffroyi (Kuhl, 1820), Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama. In: C. Schwitzer, R.A. Mittermeier, A.B. Rylands, F. Chiozza, E.A. Williamson, D. Byller, S. Wich, T. Humle, C. Johnson, H. Mynott and G. McCabe (eds.), Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates 2018–2020. IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group (PSG), International Primatological Society (IPS), Conservation International (CI), and Bristol Zoological Society, Arlington, VA.

Rodríguez, M. E., Ortega, J., Gutiérrez-Espeleta, G., Arévalo, J. E. & B. Rodríguez-Herrera. 2020. Genetic Diversity of Artibeus jamaicensis (Phyllostomidae) in Forest Fragments Surrounded by Agricultural Matrix in El Salvador. In: Ortega, J. and J. E. Maldonado (eds.), Conservation Genetics in Mammals. Springer. DOI: 10.1007)978-3-030-33334-8_12.

Rodríguez-Herrera, B., M. E. Rodríguez & M. Fernández-Otárola. 2018. Ecological network between tent-roosting bats and the plants used in La Selva biological station, Costa Rica. Acta Chiropterologica 20(1): 139-145.

Méndez-Carvajal, P. G., Rodríguez, M. E., Pozo Montuy, G., Chaves, O. M., Ponce, G., Rodríguez-Beitia B. A. & Portillo-Reyes, H. 2016. Central American Spider Monkey Ateles geoffroyi (Kuhl, 1820), Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama. In: C. Schwitzer, R.A. Mittermeier, A.B. Rylands, F. Chiozza, E.A. Williamson, E.J. Macfie, J. Wallis and A. Cotton (eds.), Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates 2016–2018. IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group (PSG), International Primatological Society (IPS), Conservation International (CI), and Bristol Zoological Society, Arlington, VA.

Girón, L. y M. Rodríguez. 2015. Programa para la Conservación de los Murciélagos de El Salvador. En Rodríguez-Herrera, B. y R. Sánchez (Eds). Estrategia centroamericana para la conservación de los murciélagos. SIEDIN Universidad de Costa Rica, Escuela de Biología. 85 pp.

Girón, L. E., J. G. Owen and M. E. Rodríguez. 2010. Van Gelder´s Bat: First record of Bauerus dubiaquercus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from El Salvador, Central America. Southwestern Naturalist 55 (4): 585-587.



Workshop and Conference Attended

2018 Costa Rica Workshop: “Sampling methods and statistics applied to Diversity monitory”, Professor: Dr. Viviana Ruiz from Cornell University.
2017 Costa Rica Conservation Genetics Workshop, Universidad Nacional (UNA), Heredia – instructors from Porto University, Portugal.
2016 El Salvador Urban Ecology Workshop
2016 El Salvador Workshop Methods and techniques for the study of Rodents
2014 El Salvador Workshop Study design in ecology and Conservation Biology
2013 Costa Rica Central American Workshop for the establishment of Important Bat Conservation Areas and sites (AICOMs y SICOMs)
2012 El Salvador First Central American Workshop of Environmental Education with bats
2012 Panamá City Workshop Bioacustic with insectivorous bats. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute y SOMASPA (Sociedad de Mastozoológica de Panamá).
2012 Lancetilla, Honduras Central American workshop in Biology and Systematics of bats
2011 Costa Rica IV International Course “Introduction to Conservation Biology in Latin America”
2010 Universidad de El Salvador, San Salvador Course “Biologic Conservation Topics” Red Latinoamericana de Botánica.
2010 Esquipulas, Guatemala Workshop “Biological Corridors”

Affiliations

Asociación Territorios Vivos El Salvador (ATVES)
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Latin American Society of Primates

Presentation given

2019
Dinámica de construcción y ocupación de tiendas por Artibeus watsoni en dos especies simpátricas (Cyclanthaceae: Carludovica) en un bosque tropical
Antigua, Guatemala
Event: XXIII Congreso de la Sociedad Mesoamericana para la Biología y la Conservación
2019
El mono araña (Ateles geoffroyi) sobreviviendo en un ecosistema en peligro en El Salvador
Antigua, Guatemala
Event: XXIII Congreso de la Sociedad Mesoamericana para la Biología y la Conservación
2018
“Genetic diversity and structure of Glossophaga soricina (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in El Salvador”.
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Event: 48 North American Symposium for Bat Research
2018
“Contribution to the knowledge of the Central American Spider Monkey (Ateles geoffroyi) in El Salvador.
Panama
Event: XXII MSBC Congress
2017
“Genetic Diversity of Artibeus jamaicensis (Phyllostomidae) in Forest Fragments Surrounded by Agricultural Matrix in El Salvador”
El Salvador
Event: Second Latin American and the Caribbean Congress for Bats
2017
“Generating information for bat research using Environmental Education in Central America”
El Salvador
Event: Second Latin American and the Caribbean Congress for Bats
2017
Ateles El Salvador: Conservation efforts for the Central American Spider Monkey (Ateles geoffroyi vellerosus)”
Costa Rica
Event: V Simposium for Mesoamerican Primates (XXI MSBC Congress-October).
2017
“Ecological network between tent-roosting bats and the plants used in la selva biological station, Costa Rica”
Costa Rica
Event: XXI MSBC Congress
2017
“Genetic Diversity of Artibeus jamaicensis (Phyllostomidae) in Forest Fragments Surrounded by Agricultural Matrix in El Salvador”
Knoxville, Tennessee
Event: 47th North American Symposium for Bats Research (NASBR)
2016
Expositor with the Project “Analyzing the Matrix: Bats Species Richness and Abundance in Two Agricultural Matrix in El Salvador”
San Antonio, Texas
Event: 46th North American Symposium for Bats Research
2016
“Insectivorous bats richness and activity in mangroves and riparian forest in Golfito, Costa Rica"
Belize City
Event: XX Congress of the Mesoamerican Society for Biology and Conservation (MSBC)
2015
“Insectivorous bats in streams in eastern San José, Costa Rica”
Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico
Event: XIX Congress of the Mesoamerican Society for Biology and Conservation
Prizes, Grants and Awards

Other Awards

Oct 2017
Avinet Award
Best oral presentation for the North American Bat Research Symposium

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