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Daniel Pincheira-Donoso

Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology & Macroecology at Queen's University Belfast (UK). His research is concerned with the role of natural selection as the fundamental driver of evolutionary change that leads to the origin, adaptation and extinctions of species, with the aim of understanding the global organisation of biodiversity, its responses to climate change and the implementation of actions for their conservation. His publications have appeared in a range of leading scientific journals such as Nature Ecology & Evolution, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, Biological Reviews, Current Biology, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Proceedings of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, among others, and have received widespread attention from the media globally.

Daniel has been elected Fellow of the Linnean Society of London (2017), is a Fellow of the British Higher Education Academy (2012), and is the recipient of the 2018 Philippi Medal for Science awarded by the National Museum of Natural History of Chile. Since 2019, he holds a Visiting Professorship in Evolutionary Biology at the Universidad de La Serena (Chile). He is an Associate Editor for Global Ecology and Biogeography.

Academic Career
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln, UK (2012-2018)
Leverhulme Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Exeter, UK (2009-2012)
NERC Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Exeter, UK (2009)
NERC Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Exeter, UK (2008-2009)
PhD Evolutionary Biology, University of Exeter, UK (2005-2008)
Research Associate in Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Chile (2003-2005)
BSc Biology (Summa Cum Laude), University of Concepcion, Chile (2003)

E-mail: D.Pincheira-Donoso@qub.ac.uk
Tel: +44(0)28 9097 2967
Departmental Website
Google Scholar Profile

Selected Recent Publications

Pincheira-Donoso, D., Harvey, L.P., Grattarola, F., Jara, M., Cotter, S.C., Tregenza, T. & Hodgson, D.J. (2020). The multiple origins of sexual size dimorphism in global amphibians. Global Ecology and Biogeography. (In Press).

Stark, G., Pincheira-Donoso, D. & Meiri, S. (2020). No evidence for the rate of living theory across the tetrapod tree of life. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29, 857-884.

Amado, T.F., Martinez, P.A., Pincheira-Donoso, D. & Olalla-Tárraga, M.A. (2020). Body size distributions in anurans are explained by diversification rates and the environment. Global Ecology & Biogeography (In Press).

Meiri, S., Avila, L., Bauer, A.M., Chapple, D.G., Das, I., Doan, T.M., Doughty, P., Ellis, R., Grismer, L., Kraus, F., Morando, M., Oliver, P., Pincheira-Donoso, D., Ribeiro-Junior, M.A., Shea, G., Torres-Carvajal, O., Slavenko, A. & Roll, U. (2020). The global diversity and distribution of lizard clutch sizes. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29, 1515-1530.

Cotter, S.C., Pincheira-Donoso, D. & Thorogood, R. (2019). Beyond brood parasites: personal immunity, social immunity and host-pathogen interactions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B, Biological Sciences, 374: 0180207

Slavenko, A., Feldman, A., Allison, A., Bauer, A.M., Böhm, M., Chirio, L., Colli, G.R., Das, I., Doan, T.M., LeBreton, M., Martins, M., Meirte, D., Nagy, Z.T., Nogueira, C.C., Pauwels, O.S.G., Pincheira-Donoso, D., Roll, U., Wagner, P., Wang, Y., Meiri, S. (2019). Global patterns of body size evolution in squamate reptiles are not driven by climate. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 28: 471-483.

Pincheira-Donoso, D. & Hodgson, D.J. (2018). No evidence that extinction risk increases in the largest and smallest vertebrates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115, E5845-E5846.

Pincheira-Donoso, D., Tregenza, T., Butlin, R.K. & Hodgson, D.J. (2018). Sexes and species as rival units of niche saturation during community assembly. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27, 593-603

Roll, U., Feldman, A., Novosolov, M., Allison, A., Bauer, A.M., Bernard, R., Böhm, M., Castro-Herrera, F., Chirio, L., Collen, B., Colli, G., Dabool, L., Das, I., Doan, T., Grismer, L., Hoogmoed, M., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton, M., Lewin, A., Martins, M., Maza, E., Meirte, D., Nagy, Z., Nogueira, C., Pauwels, O., Pincheira-Donoso, D., Powney, G., Sindaco, R., Tallowin, O., Torres-Carvajal, O., Trape, J., Vidan, E., Uetz, P., Wagner, P., Wang, Y., Orme, D., Grenyer, R. & Meiri, S. (2017). The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1, 1677-1682.

Pincheira-Donoso, D., Jara, M., Reaney, A., García-Roa, R., Saldarriaga-Córdoba, M. & Hodgson, D.J. (2017). Hypoxia and hypothermia as rival agents of selection driving the evolution of viviparity in lizards. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 26, 1238-1246.

Pincheira-Donoso, D. & Hunt, J. (2017). Fecundity selection theory: concepts and evidence. Biological Reviews, 92, 341-356.

School of Biological Sciences
Queen's University Belfast
19 Chlorine Gardens, Belfast
BT9 5DL, United Kingdom
e-mail: D.Pincheira-Donoso@qub.ac.uk