Herrando Pérez Salvador

Research

CURRENT ROLE = Science Manager and postdoc in palaeoecology with Miguel B. Araújo [www.maraujolab.eu] (February 2024-present)

LATEST PUBLICATIONS
$ Herrando-Pérez S, KJ Mitchell, JR Southon, CSM Turney, TW Stafford (2026, accepted) A database of radiocarbon dates from Holarctic mammal collagen purified with high-quality chemistry. Scientific Data (in press)
$ Herrando-Pérez S, TW Stafford (2025) Making vertebrate fossil radiocarbon dates more useful for global scientific research . Journal of Quaternay Science 40(8):1309-1335
$ Herrando-Pérez S, F Saltré (2023) Estimating extinction time using radiocarbon dates . Quaternary Geochronology 79: 101489. Blog published here 

RESEARCH = I am a quantitative ecologist with a broad interest in the curation and analysis of biodiversity data. In terms of study taxa, habitat, or ecological discipline, I am a generalist. 

• --Academic training: BSc in Biology/Zoology (1986-1991/Spain), MPhil in marine ecology (1992-1996/England), PhD in population dynamics (2007-2012/Australia)
• --Postdoc research:  ecophysiology (2013-2015/Spain), palaeoecology (2012-2013, 2018-2020/Australia, 2021-present/Spain), ecological monitoring (2021-2022/Spain) and fire ecology (2022-2023/Spain)
• --Skills: compilation/curation of biological databases, R programming and multivariate ordination of biodiversity data
• --Publications: 37 peer-reviewed scientific papers (20 as first author) with 2 new R packages and 4 species new to science
• --Lecturing: 15 postgraduate courses on multivariate statistics (Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Spain)
• --Outreach: I write popular science on biodiversity and global change since 2011 (> 100 blogs and printed articles)