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Fernando Colchero is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark, specializing in statistical eco-demography. His research focuses on understanding age-specific survival in wild animal populations, which is a crucial aspect of population dynamics and essential for the fields of evolution, management, and conservation. Colchero actively develops Bayesian Survival Trajectory Analysis (BaSTA), a tool for analyzing survival patterns in long-term studies. His work includes age-structured stochastic population modeling, emphasizing the impact of individual movement on fitness and resource foraging. He has published numerous papers in leading journals such as Ecology Letters, where his findings demonstrate the variability in stochastic population growth rates based on age-specific trajectories of survival and fecundity. Colchero also investigates animal movement dynamics, utilizing state-space approaches to address missing movement data and using Markov Chain Resource Selection functions to determine environmental features that influence movement decisions. He contributes significantly to several collaborations aimed at enhancing the understanding of animal demographics and population management.
University of Southern Denmark • Odense, Denmark
Teaching and research in eco-demography, animal movement modeling, and statistical methods.
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