DR. RAÚL ORTIZ PULIDO
FULL TIME TENURED RESEARCH PROFESSOR C

ACADEMIC AREA OF BIOLOGY

INSTITUTE OF BASIC SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING

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Biological Research Center,
Institute of Basic Sciences and Engineering
Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo
Km 4.5 Pachuca-Tulancingo Highway,
Mineral de la Reforma, Hidalgo, 42184, Mexico.

Courier:
Laboratory of Population Ecology.
Ciudad del Conocimiento Km. 4.5 carretera Pachuca-Tulancingo s/n
Colonia Carboneras, Mineral de la Reforma, Hidalgo, CP 42184, Mexico.
Tel.: 71 72000 Ext. 6676
E-mail: ortizrau@uaeh.edu.mx raulortizpulido@yahoo.com


SUMMARY CURRICULUM VITAE

LINE OF RESEARCH: Mutualistic interactions and ornithology (1991 to present), biological conservation (2016 to present).
AREAS: Bird-plant interactions (hummingbirds-ornithophilic plants), interactions in a spatio-tempo-ecological context, biological conservation, green enterprises, self-sustaining reforestation.
GENERAL PROJECT: Hummingbird studies in mutualistic networks considering spatio-temporal-ecological variation, bird conservation in Mexico, development of enterprises whose main objective is conservation.

GRADES:

  • Biologist (B. Sc. 1994), Universidad Veracruzana.
  • Doctor of Science (Ph.D., 2000) Instituto de Ecología, A.C.
  • Diploma in photography (2014), Escuela de Artes de Pachuca.

NATIONAL SYSTEM OF RESEARCHERS: National researcher level II.
TEACHER IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (SEP): Professor with PROMEP profile (since 2002).

Academic achievements: American Ornithologists Union award (1995), Association of Field Ornithologists award (1995 and 1997), Sigma Xi -The Scientific Research Society award (1998), Cooper Ornithological Society award (2004), Animal Behavior Society Award (2006), American Ornithologist' Union Postdoctoral Award (2009). Former reviewing editor of Condor (2012-2013), former associate editor of Auk (2013- 2020), former associate editor of Huitzil (2000 to 2020), Associate Editor of Neotropical Ornithology (2015 to present). Anonymous reviewer of ca. 30 international journals indexed by ISI (2000 to date). Creator (1997) and editor-in-chief (2000-2007) of HUITZIL, Revista de Ornitología Mexicana. Author of more than 130 articles and six books. Bibliography published (2001- to date) by Who'swho (in the World, in Science and Engineering, in America, in Emerging Leaders) and International Biographical Centre. Member of the Board of Directors (2004-2005) and President of CIPAMEX (2005-2009). Member of the Ornithological Council (2006-2009). Member of the Board of the North American Bird Conservation Initiative-Mexico Chapter (2005-2010). Expert member of the commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (2014-present). Head of the Population Ecology Laboratory-UAEH (2001-2008). Member of the organizing committee of the IV North American Ornithological Congress (2006). Organizer of four national ornithological congresses and seven international symposia (held in Costa Rica, Brazil, Venezuela, Chile, USA and Mexico). Recognition as one of the three most outstanding scientists in the state of Hidalgo (2010, EduSat-SEP-CONACyT) and as professor of excellence in the UAEH (2011). Elective member of the American Ornithologist' Union (2010 to date). Recognition for teaching performance (2003 to date). National evaluator PROMEP-SEP (2010 to date) and CONACyT (different years). Advisor to the government of Hidalgo before the Smithsonian Institute (Washington). Leader of the Academic Body of Ecology (2010-2013) consolidated before the SEP (Mexico). Ranked 1500th among more than 30,000 scientists in Mexico (Scimago 2017).

Other achievements:

  • High level middle-distance athlete (800 and 1500 meters flat), national runner-up (1985), considered in the Mexican all-time athletics ranking (1985), first place in the Santiago Nakassawa Intercontinental Championship (1985).
  • Professional photographer, with local exhibitions and use of images in magazines and books at national and international level.
  • Tutor teacher of outstanding children channeled by the SEP (2008-2013).
  • Amateur astronomer, creator (2002), president (2002-2007) and honorary president (2010 to date) of the UAEH Astronomy Society.
  • Disseminator. He has given more than 250 divulgation conferences.
  • Environmental entrepreneur, creator of ecological reserve, trademark and company.

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Uropsila leucogastra, a specimen caught and released and released in a medium-sized jungle of La Mancha, Veracruz, Mexico. This is a bird that is seldom seen, as it lives close to the it lives close to the ground in scrubby areas. When when it is breeding, it emits a sound that resembles falling water. resembles falling water.


LINES OF RESEARCH

Ecology, specifically the interactions between birds and plants. In this topic he studies seed dispersal by birds and the distribution patterns and abundance of hummingbirds as a function of the abundance and richness of their food resource. She is very interested in the spatio-temporal-ecological variation inherent in this type of systems and the search for patterns in them.

Biological conservation. He focuses on different aspects related to the protection and reforestation of mountain mesophyll forest and pine-oak forest.


CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • Abundance and richness of hummingbirds in relation to their food resource.
  • Forest conservation.
  • Bird-plant interactions.

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Nest of the Eliza's hummingbird(Doricha eliza). This hummingbird is endemic to Mexico and is considered endangered. Before Before this photo was taken, the nest of this species was not known (Ortiz-Pulido et al. 1998). (Ortiz-Pulido et al. 1998).


SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TAUGHT

LICENSING:

  • Experimental design and biostatistics
  • Biological interactions
  • Writing scientific articles
  • Conservation biology
  • Techniques for the study of birds

master's degree and doctorate:

  • Conservation biology
  • Writing scientific articles

LIST OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • Dalsgaard, B. Pietro Kiyoshi Maruyama, Jesper Sonne, Katrine Hansen, Thais B. Zanata, Stefan Abrahamczyk, Ruben Alarcón, Andréa C. Araujo, Francielle P. Araújo, Silvana Buzato, Edgar Chávez-González, Aline G. Coelho, Peter A. Cotton, Román Díaz-Valenzuela, Maria F. Dufke, Paula L. Enríquez, Manoel Martins Dias Filho, Erich Fischer, Glauco Kohler, Carlos Lara, Flor Maria G. Las-Casas, Liliana Rosero Lasprilla, Adriana O. Machado, Caio G. Machado, Maria A. Maglianesi, Tiago S. Malucelli, Oscar H. Marín-Gómez, Vanessa Martínez-García, Severino Mendes de Azevedo-Júnior, Edvaldo Nunes da Silva Neto, Paulo E. Oliveira, Juan Francisco Ornelas, Raul Ortiz-Pulido, Ruth Partida-Lara, Blanca Itzel Patiño-González, Steffani Najara de Pinho Queiroz, Mónica B. Ramírez-Burbano, André Rodrigo Rech, Márcia A. Rocca, Licléia C. Rodrigues, Ana M. Rui, Ivan Sazima, Marlies Sazima, Benno I. Simmons, Boris A. Tinoco, Isabela G. Varassin, Marcelo F. Vasconcelos, Jeferson Vizentin-Bugoni, Stella Watts, Jonathan D. Kennedy, Carsten Rahbek, Matthias Schleuning, Ana M. Martín González. 2021. Influence of biogeography and evolution on morphology and resource specialization in plant-hummingbird. Functional Ecology.
  • Garcés-Cuartas, N., Carlos Alberto Niño-Torres, Delma Nataly Castelblanco-Martínez, Antonio Delgado-Huertas, Neidy Pauline Cetz-Navarro, Raúl Ortiz-Pulido and Jaime Cuevas. 2021. Isotopic composition of aquatic and semiaquatic plants from the Mexican Caribbean A baseline for regional ecological studies. Stuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 260.
  • Octavio-Aguilar, P., Martínez-Falcón, A.P., Sánchez-González, A., Rojas-Martínez, A., Meerow, A.W. Ramírez-Bautista, A., Ortiz-Pulido, R., Caballero-Cruz, P., Hernández-Rico, G.N., Berriozabal-Islas, C.S 2021. Influence of microhabitat on functional attributes of two columnar cacti with different distribution ranges. Journal of Arid Environments 162:18-25.
  • Chávez-González, E., Vizentin-Bugoni, J. Vázquez, D.P., MacGregor-Fors, I., Dáttilo, W. and Ortiz-Pulido, R. 2020. Drivers of the structure of plant-hummingbird interaction networks at multiple temporal scales. Oecology.
  • Martínez-García, V., González, O. and Ortiz-Pulido, R. 2020. Hummingbird-Plant Network in a Lowland dry forest in Yucatan, Mexico. Tropical Conservation Science 13: 1-12.
  • Cruz-Elizalde, R., Magno-Benitez, I., Berriozabal-Islas, C., Ortiz-Pulido, R., Ramírez-Bautista, A. and Hernández-Austria, R. 2020. Climatic niche, natural history, and conservation status of the Porthole Treefrog. Amphibian & Reptile conservation 14.
  • Simmons, B., Vizentin-Bugoni, J., Maruyama, P., Cotton, P., Marín-Gómez, O., Lara, C., Rosero-Lasprilla, L., Maglianesi, M.A., Ortiz-Pulido, R., Rocca, M., Rodrigues, L., Tinocco, B., Vasconcelos, M., Sazima, M., Martin Gonzalez, A., Sonne, J., Rahbek, C., Dicks, L., Dalsgaard, B., Sutherland, W. 2019. Abundance drives broad patterns of generalization in plant-hummingbird pollination networks. Oikos 128 (9): 1287-1295.
  • Ortiz-Pulido, R., Ortiz-Pulido, R. and Ortiz-Pulido, R. 2018. Maximal oxygen consumption in Mexican university students: correlation between five predictive tests. Rev. int. med. med. sci. act. phys. sport. 18(71): 521-535.
  • Caballero-Cruz, P., Vargas-Noguez, G. and Ortiz-Pulido, R. 2019. Records of bird species at risk in the mesophyll forest of the Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico. Huitzil, Revista Mexicana de Ornitología.
  • Kiyoshi, P., Sonne, J., Vizentin-Bugoni, J., Martin, A.M., Zanata, T.B., Abrahamczyk, S., Alarcon, R., Araujo, A.C., Araujo, F.P., Baquero, A.C., Chavez-Gonzalez, E.C., Coelho, A.G., Cotton, P.A., Matthias, D., Fischer, E., Kohler, G., Lara, C., Las-Casas, F.M.G., Machado, A.O., Machado, C.G., Maglianesi, M.A., Malucelli, T.S., Marin-Gomez, O.H., Oliveira, P.E. Ornelas, J.F., Ortiz-Pulido, R., Ramirez-Burbano, M.B., Rocca, M.A., Rodrigues, L.C., Rosero-Lasprilla, L., Rui, A.M., Sandel, B. , Svenning, J-C, Tinoco, B.A., Varassin, I.G., Watts, S., Rahbek, C., Sazima, M., Schleuning, M., Dalsgaard, B. 2018. Functional diversity mediates macroecological variation in plant-hummingbird interaction networks. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27(10): 1186-1199.
  • Ortiz-Pulido, R. 2018 Which bird species are endangered in Mexico? Huitzil, Revista Mexicana de Ornitología 19(2):237-272.
  • Wesley, D., Lara-Rodríguez, N., Jordano, P., Guimarães-Jr, P., Thompson, J., Marquis, R., Medeiros, L., Ortiz-Pulido, R., Marcos-García, M., Rico-Gray, V. 2017. Unraveling Darwin's entangled bank: architecture and robustness of mutualistic networks with multiple interaction types. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.
  • Márquez-Luna, U., Lara, C. & Ortiz-Pulido, R. 2017. Nectar quality affects territorial and foraging behavior of female Lucifer Hummingbirds(Calothorax lucifer): an experiment. Neotropical Ornithology 28: 67-75.
  • Larios-Lozano, O., Valencia-Herverth, J., Bravo-Cadena, J., Guzmán-Arias, E. and Ortiz-Pulido, R. 2017. Birds of Los Mármoles National Park, Hidalgo, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad.
  • Ortiz-Pulido, R. 2017. The story of the Sleeping Giant (with illustrations by Mariana González Roldán). Municipal Institute of Culture, Secretary of Environment and Sustainable Development. Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico.
  • Ortiz-Pulido, R. 2017. Chupamirtos, colibríes de Pachuca (with illustrations by Mariana González Roldán, Raúl Ortiz-Pulido and Roberto García). Secretary of Environment and Sustainable Development, Municipal Institute of Culture. Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico.
  • Ortiz-Pulido, R. and Zuria, I. 2017. Bird diversity of the state of Hidalgo. In Ramírez-Bautista, A., Sánchez-González, A., Sánchez-Rojas, G. and Cuevas-Cardona, C. (Eds.). Biodiversity of the State of Hidalgo, Volume II. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo. Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico. Pag. 529-558.

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When planning for species conservation, the human side of the problem must be considered. This man's land, located in the pine-oak forests of the Cofre de Perote in Veracruz, Mexico, is home to several endangered bird species. For more than 30 years he has been carefully exploiting their resources. This has not happened in the neighboring communities, which are now heavily deforested. He was born at the beginning of the 20th century and is one of the 60 million Mexicans in extreme poverty (i.e. food, opportunities and education poverty).


HUMAN RESOURCES TRAINING

Director of student theses (2001 to 2021): 25 bachelor's degree graduates, 11 master's degree graduates, 3 doctoral degree graduates and 3 postdoctoral degree graduates.


CURRENT ACADEMIC MANAGEMENT (2021)

  • Associate Editor of the Revista Ornitología Neotropical.
  • General Coordinator of the XVIII Congress for the Study and Conservation of Birds in Mexico.
  • Reviewer for > 30 international indexed journals.
  • Advisor or director of internal and external students to the UAEH of all educational levels.
  • Responsible for the follow-up of graduates of the Bachelor's Degree in Biology of the UAEH.
  • Member of the Academic Body of Biological Conservation (UAEH).
  • Technical manager of basic science project (CONACyT).
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