Estrada, Alejandro (aestradaprimates@gmail.com), National Autonomous of the University of Mexico

Professor Estrada received his PhD in primatology from Rutgers University (USA). He conducts his primate field research in southeast Mexico. His long-term research is centered on ecological and population surveys of selected populations of spider and howler monkeys. He also studies other arboreal mammals, birds and bats that share the forest canopy with the primates of interest to enhance our understanding of how resources are partitioned between primates and other canopy dwelling vertebrates. Over several years he has investigated the behavioral and ecological responses of primates to habitat loss and fragmentation. In the recent past he has conducted, in collaboration with other world primatologists, global assessments of anthropogenic drivers leading to primate population declines and of possible conservation scenarios and policies. He has published more than 350 articles and has edited several books on primate ecology, behavior and conservation.
 

    Recent publications

1. Alejandro Estrada, Paul A. Garber, Abhishek Chaudhary. 2019. Expanding global commodities trade and consumption place the world’s primates at risk of extinction. PeerJ. DOI 10.7717/peerj.7068.
2. Carmen Galan-Acedo, Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez, Victor Arroyo-Rodriguez, Alejandro Estrada. 2019. Forest cover and matrix functionality drive the abundance and reproductive success of an endangered primate in two fragmented rainforests. Landscape Ecology 34:147–158 Doi.org/10.1007/s10980-018-0753-6.
3. Alejandro Estrada, Paul A. Garber , Russell A. Mittermeier, Serge Wich, Sidney Gouveia, Ricardo Dobrovilski, K. Anne-Isola Nekaris, Vincent Nijman, Anthony B. Rylands, Fiona Maisels, Elizabeth A. Williamson, Julio Cesar Bicca-Marques, Agustin Fuentes, Leandro Jerusalinsky, Steig Johnson_, Fabiano Rodriguez de Melo, Leonardo Oliveira, Christoph Schwitzer, Christian Roos, Susan M. Cheyne, Maria Cecília Martins Kierulff, Brigitte Raharivololona, Maurício Talebi, Jonah Ratsimbazafy, Jatna Supriatna, Ramesh Boonratana, Made Wedana, Arif Setiawan. 2018. Primates in peril: the significance of Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo for global primate conservation. PeerJ. DOI 10.7717/peerj.4869
4. Carmen Galán-Acedo, Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez, Alejandro Estrada, Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez. 2018. Drivers of the spatial scale that best predict primate responses to landscape structure Ecography DOI:  10.1111/ecog.03632.
5. Estrada, A., Paul A. Garber, Anthony B. Rylands, Christian Roos, Eduardo Fernandez-Duque, Anthony Di Fiore, K. Anne-Isola Nekaris, Vincent Nijman, Eckhard W. Heymann, Joanna E. Lambert, Francesco Rovero, Claudia Barelli, Joanna M. Setchell, Thomas R. Gillespie, Russell A. Mittermeier, Luis Verde Arregoitia, Miguel de Guinea, Sidney Gouveia, Ricardo Dobrovolski, Sam Shanee, Noga Shanee, Sarah A. Boyle, Agustin Fuentes, Katherine C. MacKinnon, Katherine R. Amato, Andreas L. S. Meyer, Serge Wich, Robert W. Sussman, Ruliang Pan, Inza Kone, Baoguo Li. 2017. Impending extinction crisis of the world’s primates: why primates matter. Science Advances. 3: e1600946 3: e1600946.