DISCIPLINARY BACKGROUND
Why study the PhD in Biodiversity and Conservation Sciences?
The PhD in Biodiversity and Conservation Sciences is a graduate program belonging to the Biology Academic Area of the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo, which was created in 2006 and has trained highly competitive researchers in disciplines related to biodiversity and its conservation. The program has a duration of three and a half years, which is necessary for students to complete their research project and allow them to take a greater number of subjects that allow them to systematically understand the field of study.
The mission of the PhD in Biodiversity and Conservation Sciences is to train human resources with a solid academic and scientific preparation in the field of biodiversity and conservation, with ethical values that allow them to establish criteria for the use and management of resources for sustainable development and conservation of biodiversity, assuming leadership in multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams for socioeconomic development, both nationally and internationally.
In the year 2025, the PhD in Biodiversity and Conservation Sciences of the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo is a postgraduate program of excellence recognized for its high academic quality, supported by cutting-edge research lines and consolidated academic bodies. Its graduates are highly competitive at the international level, capable of developing independently and in multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary groups in the field of research. In addition, they contribute to the knowledge of biodiversity, as well as to the generation of strategies and solutions to reverse the threats that put it at risk, and that can lead us as a society to sustainable development.
The PhD in Biodiversity and Conservation focuses on the study of biological diversity at all levels (genetic, species or community, taxonomic, ecological, evolutionary or biogeographical) and its conservation.
Specific Objectives
Specific Objectives
- To develop students' skills and knowledge that will allow them to propose strategies for the knowledge, management and conservation of biodiversity, as well as the sustainable use of natural resources.
- To foster in the student oral and written communication skills, through the elaboration of scientific publications and dissemination, as well as their participation in academic forums, for the dissemination of the results obtained in their research.
- To train human resources capable of consolidating themselves in the field of independent research, with the ability to form multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams of high prestige in their field of professional action to contribute to the solution of specific problems of biodiversity knowledge and its conservation.
A) Environmental history, evolution of biodiversity and its conservation
B) Ecology, sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity
The two Lines of Generation and Application of Knowledge are linked to the different disciplinary areas as follows:
B) Ecology, sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity
The two Lines of Generation and Application of Knowledge are linked to the different disciplinary areas as follows:
- Theoretical aspects in basic areas of knowledge in the field of Biodiversity, such as Ecology, Genetics and Evolution.
- Applied science, as in the case of ethnobiology, ecophysiology, environmental impact, use, management and conservation of biodiversity, and in vitro micro-propagation.
- The study of biodiversity on all time scales, from the present, the recent past (Biology and Society, Ethnobiology), to geological time scales (Paleontology, Paleobiology, Evolution).
- The study of biodiversity at all spatial scales, from local, state, regional, national and global levels (Ecology, Evolution, Biogeography).
- In the two LGAC there are specialists who carry out research in aspects of numerical evaluation of biodiversity (Biogeography, Ecology, Population Genetics, Systematics).
- The study of biodiversity at all levels of biological organization, from the molecular to the ecosystem level (molecular systematics, comparative anatomy and morphology, population and community ecology).
- The analysis of biodiversity distribution patterns by means of predictive models under different scenarios of present and future change (population and community ecology).
Duration
3 YEARS AND A HALF (7 semesters)
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Basic Academic Core
We have 11 research professors with doctoral degrees.
AAB research professors have established collaborations with other universities and research centers in the country and the world. An example is the "Native Wildlife Network in Anthropized Environments", which seeks to establish collaborative projects that allow the conservation of wildlife, or "Ethnoecology and Biocultural Heritage", which seeks to establish links between several academic institutions so that together with indigenous peoples and peasants they can establish strategies for the conservation of natural resources. On the other hand, there is academic interaction between professors and graduate students belonging to national research centers, as is the case of the collaboration between the CICY herbarium (of the Yucatan Scientific Research Center) and the HGOM herbarium of the CIB-ICBI. At the moment, there are pending agreements with the Instituto de Ecología A. C. for the possibility of students from both institutions to take courses in both institutions.
The research professors, in addition, have established relationships with other universities in the world, such as:
The research professors, in addition, have established relationships with other universities in the world, such as:
- University of Alicante
- National University of Chile
- University of Costa Rica
- University of Urbino-Italy
- University of Nebraska
- University of Maryland
- University of Kansas
- Loyola University Chicago
- University of Texas Pan-American
- Texas A&M University
- Mato Grosso State University
There are also links with national institutions such as:
- National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Metropolitan University
- University of Querétaro
- Michoacán University of San Nicolás Hidalgo
- University of San Luis Potosi
- University of the Sea, Oaxaca
- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla.
In the PhD in Biodiversity and Conservation Sciences, several academic production activities are carried out among students and teachers participating in the program, among the activities are attendance to different National and International Congresses, as well as publication of articles in indexed journals, below are listed some of the works from 2017 to 2020.
| NAME(S) OF TEACHER(S) | STUDENT'S NAME | PRODUCT |
|---|---|---|
| Griselda Pulido Flores and Scott Monks | Francisco Zaragoza Tapia | Host relationships and geographic distribution of species of Acanthobothrium Blanchard, 1848 (Onchoproteoceocephalidea, Onchobothriidae) in elasmobranchs: a metadata analysis. ZooKeys 940 (2020). |
| Griselda Pulido Flores and Scott Monks. | Erick Rodríguez Ibarra. | A new species of Acanthobothrium (Eucestoda: Onchobothriidae) in Aetobatus cf. Narinari (Myliobatidae) from Campeche, Mexico. Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Parasitology 27 (2018). |
| Claudia E. Moreno, Ana P. Martínez-Falcón, Fernando Rosas, Iriana Zuria. | Ilse J. Ortega Martinez, Natalia Martin Regalado | Measuring biodiversity in the Anthropocene: a simple guide to helpful methods. Biodivers Conserv 26 (2017). |
| Claudia E. Moreno. | Cintia Natalia Martín Regalado. | Spatial incongruence in the species richness and functional diversity of cricetid rodents. PlosOne 14 (2019). |
| Arturo Sánchez González. | Marisol Gutiérrez Lozano. | Taxonomic richness of lycophytes and ferns of the Mexican beech forest: Highest ever recorded among Fagus forests worldwide? Flora 229 (2017). |
| Iriana Zuria, Claudia E. Moreno. | Jesús Zuñiga Palacios. | Can small vacant lots become important reservoirs for birds in urban areas? A case study for a Latin American city. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 47 (2020). |
| Claudia E. Moreno. | Ilse J Ortega Martínez. | Sheep dung removal by coexisting rainbow scarabs (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Phanaeus MacLeay) under experimental laboratory conditions. The Coleopterists Bulletin 74 (2020). |
| Pablo Octavio Aguilar. | Mario Adolfo García Montes. | The influence of anthropogenic disturbance on the genetic diversity of Ceratozamia fuscoviridis (Zamiaceae). International Journal of Plant Sciences 181 (2020). |
| Irene Goyenechea. | Leonardo Fernández Badillo. | Confirmation of the presence of the snake Pituophis catenifer (Blainville, 1835) in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico. Latin American Journal of Herpetology 3 (2020). |
| Katia A. González Rodríguez. | Citlalli Hernández Guerrero. | A new pachyrhizodontid fish (Actinopterygii, Teleostei) from the Muhi Quarry (Albian-Cenomanian), Hidalgo, Mexico. Fossil Record 21 (2018). |
| Victor M Bravo Cuevas. | Elizabeth Ortiz Caballero. | A new species of the gopher Gregorymys (Rodentia, Gemyidae) from the early Oligocene (Arikareean 1) of southern Mexico. Journal of Parasitology 94 (2020). |
Dr. Claudia Elizabeth Moreno Ortega
cmoreno@uaeh.edu.mx
SNI III
PRODEP: Current
LGAC: Ecology, sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity.
Dr. William Scott Monks Sheets
smonks@uaeh.edu.mx
SNI II
PRODEP: Current
LGAC: Environmental history, evolution of biodiversity and its conservation
Dr. Iriana Leticia Zuria Jordan
izuria@uaeh.edu.mx
SNI II
PRODEP: Current
LGAC: Ecology, sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity.
Dr. Arturo Sánchez González
arturosg@uaeh.edu.mx
SNI II
PRODEP: Current
LGAC: Environmental history, evolution of biodiversity and its conservation.
Dr. Aurelio Ramírez Bautista
aurelior@uaeh.edu.mx
SNI II
PRODEP: Current
LGAC: Ecology, sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity.
Dr. Raúl Ortiz Pulido
ortizrau@uaeh.edu.mx
SNI II
PRODEP: Current
LGAC: Ecology, sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity.
Dr. María del Consuelo Cuevas Cardona
cuevas@uaeh.edu.mx
SNI I
PRODEP: Current
LGAC: Environmental history, evolution of biodiversity and its conservation.
Dr. Katia Adriana González Rodríguez
katiag@uaeh.edu.mx
SNI I
PRODEP: Current
LGAC: Environmental history, evolution of biodiversity and its conservation.
Dr. Griselda Pulido Flores
gpulido@uaeh.edu.mx
SNI I
PRODEP: Current
LGAC: Environmental history, evolution of biodiversity and its conservation.
Dr. Juan Márquez Luna
jmarquez@uaeh.edu.mx
SNI I
PRODEP: Current
LGAC: Environmental history, evolution of biodiversity and its conservation.
