Gerardo Ceballos

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Gerardo Jorge Ceballos González (born October 3, 1958 in Toluca , Mexico ) is a Mexican biologist , ecologist and conservationist .

Life

Ceballos was born in 1958 in Toluca to Oscar Ceballos and Leonor González. From 1975 to 1979 he studied at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Iztapalapa , where he obtained his bachelor's degree in biology and ecology. From 1979 to 1980 he was a lecturer at the Ecological Institute in Mexico City . In 1980 he obtained the work Experimental studies of grazing and its role in the balance of plant species. the Master of Science from Bangor University in Wales . From 1984 to 1987 he lectured at the University of Arizona Ecological Institute in Tucson . In 1988 he was visiting professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In 1989 he received his dissertation on Population and community ecology of small mammals from tropical deciduous and arroyo forests in western Mexico. from the University of Arizona to Ph.D. PhD. In the same year he was visiting professor at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque . Since 1990 he has been Professor of Biology at UNAM.

Ceballos research areas include the ecology of populations and communities, macroecology and biogeography, ecology and conservation of endangered species, the design and conservation of nature reserves, and environmental impact assessment and ecological planning.

1993 Ceballos was among the founders of the Reserve of the Biosphere Chamela-Cuixmala , a 131.42 km 2 large biosphere reserve in Jalisco , the status of a 2004 Ramsar reserve received.

Ceballos has been married since 1983 and has one son.

Memberships and honors

In 1988 Ceballos was one of the co-founders of the Asociación Mexicana de Mastozoología (Mexican Society of Mammalogues), served as its president from 1988 to 1989 and was editor-in-chief from 1990 to 1993. He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2014 and of the National Academy of Sciences since 2018 . Ceballos has been awarded several prizes. In 1990 he received an Honorable Mention at the Rolex Awards for Enterprise in Switzerland and in 2004 he received the Society for Conservation Biology's Distinguished Service Award . In 2005 he received a Guggenheim scholarship . In 2010, Ceballos was one of the six nominees for the Indianapolis Prize, a prestigious conservation award launched in 2005 by the Indianapolis Zoological Society.

Works (selection)

  • Mamíferos silvestres de la cuenca de México, 1984 (with Carlos Galindo Leal)
  • Mexican Diversity of Fauna, 1993 (with Fulvio Eccardi and Patricio Robles Gil)
  • Las aves de México en peligro de extinción, 2000 (with Laura Márquez Valdelamar)
  • Diversidad y conservación de los mamíferos neotropicales, 2002 (with Javier Simonetti)
  • The mammals of Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status, 2002 (Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales and Rodrigo A Medellín)
  • Animales de México en peligro de extincion, 2003 (with Fulvio Eccardi)
  • Los Mamíferos silvestres de México, 2005 (with Gisselle Oliva)
  • Naturaleza mexicana: legado de conservación, 2008 (with Rurik List, Rodrigo A Medellín, Ximena de la Macorra, Antonio Vizcaíno, Jorge Alberto Sandoval, Teléfonos de México and Grupo Carso)
  • Mammals of Mexico, 2014
  • The annihilation of nature: human extinction of birds and mammals, 2015 (with Anne H. Ehrlich and Paul R. Ehrlich )

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personal data
SURNAME Ceballos, Gerardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ceballos González, Gerardo Jorge (full name); Ceballos González, Gerardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican biologist, ecologist and conservationist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd October 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Toluca , Mexico