Manuela Gonzalez-Suarez

Email:
manuela.gonzalez@reading.ac.uk
Phone:
+44 (0) 118 378 6437
Job title:
Associate Professor

Responsibilities:

Associate Professor
PhD supervisor
Researcher
Programme Director and Admission Tutor to Ecology and Wildlife Conservation

Areas of interest

I am broadly interested in understanding and predicting the current loss of biodiversity.

My work aims to:

Identify species' life-history, ecological and behavioural traits that can be used as predictors of extinction risk and invasion success.
Explore the role that distinct anthropogenic impacts (in interaction with species' traits) play in current biodiversity loss.
Understand the importance of individual variation for population dynamics.

Postgraduate supervision

PDRAs

Ruben Bernardo-Madrid

PhD students

Pablo Medrano-Vizcaino
Kerry Smith
Aditya Srinivasulu
Simon Boulter
Ben Howes (main supervisor Dr. Cristina Banks-Leite, Imperial College London)
Katie Powell (main supervisor Dr. David Roy, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology)
Pip Oppenheimer (main supervisor Dr Robin Freeman, Institute of Zoology)
Rana Orturk (main supervisor Dr Campbell Murn, University of Reading)

Teaching

BI1EC2 Ecology (module convener, Spring term, 20 credits)
BI2EAB3 Tropical Biology Field Course (module convener, Summer term, 20 credits)
BI2EC3 Ecology and Conservation Field Course (module co-convener, Summer term, 20 credits)
BIMASA Animal Survey and Assessment (MSc, Spring term, 20 credits)

Research centres and groups

International collaborators

Dr Margarita Mulero Pazmany, Universidad de Malaga, Spain
Dr Clara Grilo, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Dr Agustin Paviolo, National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina
Dr Luca Santini, National Research Council (CNR), Italy

Background

Co-Director of NERC-funded QMEE CDT
Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Ecology and BioScience
Reviewer for 33 different ISI journals
Fulbright and Marie Curie alumna

Websites/blogs

More details about my research and publications can also be viewed on my personal website.
I am the author of a public blog on being a female ecologist
See Google Scholar and ResearchGate for further publications.

Impact, Enterprise and Outreach

Participation and organization of outreach events like Soapbox Science and Pint of Science
Publication among top-cited papers in the Journal of Animal Ecology

Publications

Bessesen, B. , Garrido-Cayul, C. , Gonzalez-Suarez, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-5069-8900 (2023) Habitat suitability and area of occupancy defined for rare New World sea snake. Conservation Science and Practice , 5 (1). ISSN: 2578-4854 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12865
Johnson, T. , Isaac, N. , Paviolo, A. , Gonzalez-Suarez, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-5069-8900 (2023) Socioeconomic factors predict population changes of large carnivores better than climate change or habitat loss. Nature Communications , 14 ISSN: 2041-1723 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35665-9
Mulero-Pázmány, M. , Rollán, L. , D'Amico, M. , Gonzalez-Suarez, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-5069-8900 (2023) Road orientation affects the impact of roads on wildlife. Wildlife Research , 50 (1). pp. 39-46. ISSN: 1035-3712 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WR21149

Powell, K. , Oliver, T. , Johns, T. , González-Suárez, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-5069-8900 , England, J. , Roy, D. (2022) Abundance trends for river macroinvertebrates vary across taxa, trophic group and river typology. Global Change Biology ISSN: 1365-2486 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16549
Johnson, T. ORCID: 0000-0002-6363-1825 , Cruz, P. , Isaac, N. , Paviolo, A. , González-Suárez, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-5069-8900 (2022) CaPTrends: a database of large carnivoran population trends from around the world. Global Ecology and Biogeography , 31 (12). pp. 2475-2482. ISSN: 1466-8238 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.13587
Bessesen, B. , Oedekoven, C. , Galbreath, G. , González-Suárez, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-5069-8900 (2022) Population abundance and density estimates for Costa Rica’s endemic sea snake, Hydrophis platurus xanthos. Frontiers in Marine Science , 9 ISSN: 2296-7745 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.924966
Medrano-Vizcaíno, P. , Grilo, C. , Pinto, F. , Carvalho, W. , Melinski, R. , Schultz, E. , González-Suárez, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-5069-8900 (2022) Roadkill patterns in Latin American birds and mammals. Global Ecology and Biogeography ISSN: 1466-8238 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.13557
Cornford, R. , Millard, J. , González-Suárez, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-5069-8900 , Freeman, R. , Johnson, T. (2022) Automated synthesis of biodiversity knowledge requires better tools and standardised research output. Ecography ISSN: 0906-7590 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06068
Cazalis, V. , di Marco, M. , Butchart, S. , Akçakaya, H. , Gonzalez-Suarez, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-5069-8900 , Meyer, C. , Clausnitzer, V. , Bohm, M. , Zizka, A. , Cardoso, P. , Schipper, A. , Bachman, S. , Young, B. , Hoffman, M. , Benitez-Lopez, A. , Lucas, P. , Pettorelli, N. , Patoine, G. , Pacifici, M. , Jorger-Hickfang, T. , Brooks, T. , Rondinini, C. , Hill, S. , Visconti, P. , Santini, L. (2022) Bridging the research-implementation gap in IUCN Red List assessments. Trends in Ecology & Evolution ISSN: 0169-5347 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.12.002
Bessesen, B. and Gonzalez-Suarez, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-5069-8900 (2022) Safe from sunburn: the divergent diel pattern of a Hydrophis sea snake. Ecology and Evolution , 12 (1). ISSN: 2045-7758 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8436

Dawson, S. , Carmona, C. , Gonzalez-Suarez, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-5069-8900 , Jönsson, M. , Chichorro, F. , Mallen-Cooper, M. , Melero, Y. , Moor, H. , Simaika, J. , Duthie, A. (2021) The traits of 'trait ecologists': an analysis of the use of trait and functional trait terminology. Ecology and Evolution , 11 (23). pp. 16434-16445. ISSN: 2045-7758 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8321
Bessesen, B. and Gonzalez-Suarez, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-5069-8900 (2021) El valor y limitaciones del conocimiento ecológico local: Una evaluación longitudinal y retrospectiva de especies bandera en Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica. | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.48683/1926.00100401
Grilo, C. , Borda-de-Agua, L. , Beja, P. , Goolsby, E. , Soanes, K. , le Roux, A. , Koroleva, E. , Ferreira, F. , Gagne, S. , Wang, Y. , Gonzalez-Suarez, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-5069-8900 (2021) Conservation threats from roadkill in the global road network. Global Ecology and Biogeography ISSN: 1466-8238 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.13375
Soto-Saravia, R. , Garrido-Cayul, C. , Avaria-Llautureo, J. , Benítez-Mora, A. , Hernández, C. , Gonzalez-Suarez, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-5069-8900 (2021) Threatened neotropical birds are big, ecologically specialized, and found in less humanized refuge areas. Avian Conservation and Ecology , 16 (2). ISSN: 1712-6568 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ACE-01948-160218
Santini, L. , Antao, L. , Jung, M. , Benitez-Lopez, A. , Rapacciuolo, G. , Di Marco, M. , Jones, F. , Haghkerdar, J. , Gonzalez-Suarez, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-5069-8900 (2021) The interface between macroecology and conservation: existing links and untapped opportunities. Frontiers in Biogeography , 13 (4). ISSN: 1948-6596 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.21425/F5FBG53025
Bessesen, B. and Gonzalez-Suarez, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-5069-8900 (2021) The value and limitations of local ecological knowledge: longitudinal and retrospective assessment of flagship species in Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica. People and Nature , 3 (3). pp. 627-638. ISSN: 2575-8314 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10219
Carmona, C. , Tamme, R. , Partel, M. , de Bello, F. , Brosse, S. , Capdevila, P. , González-M, R. , Gonzalez-Suarez, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-5069-8900 , Salguero-Gómez, R. , Vásquez-Valderrama, M. , Toussaint, A. (2021) Erosion of global functional diversity across the tree of life. Science Advances , 7 (13). ISSN: 2375-2548 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abf2675
Broennimann, O. , Petitpierre, B. , Chevalier, M. , Gonzalez-Suarez, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-5069-8900 , Jeschke, J. , Gray, S. , Bacher, S. , Guisan, A. (2021) Distance to native climatic niche margins explains establishment success of alien mammals. Nature Communications , 12 (1). ISSN: 2041-1723 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22693-0
Johnson, T. , Kent, H. , Hill, B. , Dunn, G. , Dommett, L. , Penwill, N. , Francis, T. , Gonzalez-Suarez, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-5069-8900 (2021) Classecol: classifiers to understand public opinions of nature. Methods in Ecology and Evolution ISSN: 2041-210X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13596
Gonzalez-Suarez, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-5069-8900 , Gonzalez-Voyer, A. , von Hardenber, A. , Santini, L. (2021) The role of brain size on mammalian population densities. Journal of Animal Ecology , 90 (3). pp. 653-661. ISSN: 0021-8790 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13397

Johnson, T. , Isaac, N. , Paviolo, A. , Gonzalez-Suarez, M. (2020) Handling missing values in trait data. Global Ecology and Biogeography , 30 (1). pp. 51-62. ISSN: 1466-8238 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.13185
Duffett, D. , D'Amico, M. , Mulero-Pázmány, M. , González-Suárez, M. (2020) Species’ traits as predictors of avoidance towards roads and traffic. Ecological Indicators , 115 ISSN: 1470-160X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106402
Fung, C. , González-Moreno, P. , Pratt, C. , Oliver, T. , Bourchier, R. , González-Suárez, M. (2020) Effect of humidity and temperature on the performance of three strains of Aphalara itadori, a biocontrol agent for Japanese knotweed. Biological Control , 146 ISSN: 1049-9644 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2020.104269
Moleon, M. , Sánchez-Zapata, J. , Donázar, J. , Revilla, E. , Martín-López, B. , Gutiérrez-Cánovas, C. , Getz, W. , Morales-Reyes, Z. , Campos-Arceiz, A. , Crowder, L. , Galetti, M. , Gonzalez-Suarez, M. , He, F. , Jordano, P. , Lewinson, R. , Naidoo, R. , Owen-Smith, N. , Selva, N. , Svenning, J. , Tella, J. , Zarfl, C. , Jähnig, S. , Hayward, M. , Faurby, S. , Garcia, N. , Barnosky, A. , Tockner, K. (2020) Rethinking megafauna. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences , 287 (1922). ISSN: 1471-2954 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2643
Grilo, C. , Koroleva, E. , Andrasik, R. , Bil, M. , Gonzalez-Suarez, M. (2020) Roadkill risk and population vulnerability in European birds and mammals. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment , 18 (6). pp. 323-328. ISSN: 1540-9295 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fee.2216

Polaina, E. , González-Suárez, M. , Revilla, E. (2019) The legacy of past human land use in current patterns of mammal distribution. Ecography , 42 (10). pp. 1623-1635. ISSN: 0906-7590 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04406
Bernardo-Madrid, R. , Calatayud, J. , Gonzalez-Suarez, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-5069-8900 , Rosvall, M. , Lucas, P. , Rueda, M. , Antonelli, A. , Revilla, E. (2019) Human activity is altering the world’s zoogeographical regions. Ecology Letters , 22 (8). pp. 1297-1305. ISSN: 1461-0248 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.13321
Lucas, P. , Gonzalez-Suarez, M. , Revilla, E. (2019) Range area matters, and so does spatial configuration: predicting conservation status in vertebrates. Ecography , 42 (6). pp. 1103-1114. ISSN: 0906-7590 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03865
Verde Arregoitia, L. and Gonzalez-Suarez, M. (2019) From conference abstract to publication in the conservation science literature. Conservation Biology , 33 (5). pp. 1164-1173. ISSN: 1523-1739 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13296
Santini, L. , Gonzalez-Suarez, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-5069-8900 , Russo, D. , Gonzalez-Voyer, A. , von Hardenberg, A. , Ancillottto, L. (2019) One strategy doesn’t fit all: determinants of urban adaptation in mammals. Ecology Letters , 22 (2). pp. 365-376. ISSN: 1461-0248 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.13199

Gonzalez-Suarez, M. , Zanchetta Ferreira, F. , Grilo, C. (2018) Spatial and species-level predictions of road mortality risk using trait data. Global Ecology and Biogeography , 27 (9). pp. 1093-1105. ISSN: 1466-8238 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12769
Polaina, E. , Gonzalez-Suarez, M. , Kuemmerle, T. , Kehoe, L. , Revilla, E. (2018) From tropical shelters to temperate defaunation: the relationship between agricultural transition stage and the distribution of threatened mammals. Global Ecology and Biogeography , 27 (6). pp. 647-657. ISSN: 1466-8238 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12725

Gonzalez-Suarez, M. , D'Amico, M. , Mulero-Pázmány, M. (2017) Advancing road ecology in Africa with robust analyses and cautious inferences: a response to Jackson et al. (2017). Journal of Zoology , 302 (4). pp. 224-227. ISSN: 1469-7998 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12484
Santini, L. , González-Suárez, M. , Rondinini, C. , Di Marco, M. (2017) Shifting baseline in macroecology? Unraveling the influence of human impact on mammalian body mass. Diversity and Distributions , 23 (6). pp. 640-649. ISSN: 1472-4642 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12555
Olalla-Tarraga, M. , Gonzalez-Suarez, M. , Bernardo-Madrid, R. , Revilla, E. , Villalobos, F. (2017) Contrasting evidence of phylogenetic trophic niche conservatism in mammals worldwide. Journal of Biogeography , 44 (1). pp. 99-110. ISSN: 1365-2699 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12823

Polaina, E. , Revilla, E. , Gonzalez-Suarez, M. (2016) Putting susceptibility on the map to improve conservation planning, an example with terrestrial mammals. Diversity and Distributions ISSN: 1472-4642 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12452
Gonzalez-Voyer, A. , Gonzalez-Suarez, M. , Vilá, C. , Revilla, E. (2016) Larger brain size indirectly increases vulnerability to extinction in mammals. Evolution ISSN: 0014-3820 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.12943
Mulero-Pázmány, M. , D'Amico, M. , Gonzalez-Suarez, M. (2016) Ungulate behavioral responses to the heterogeneous road-network of a touristic protected area in Africa. Journal of Zoology , 298 (4). pp. 233- 240. ISSN: 1469-7998 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12310
Lucas, P. , Gonzalez-Suarez, M. , Revilla, E. (2016) Toward multifactorial null models of range contraction in terrestrial vertebrates. Ecography , 39 (11). pp. 1100- 1108. ISSN: 0906-7590 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.01819

Gonzalez-Suarez, M. , Bacher, S. , Jeschke, J. (2015) Intraspecific trait variation is correlated with establishment success of alien mammals. The American Naturalist , 185 (6). pp. 737-746. ISSN: 0003-0147 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1086/681105
Polaina, E. , Gonzalez-Suarez, M. , Revilla, E. (2015) Socioeconomic correlates of global mammalian conservation status. Ecosphere , 6 (9). pp. 1-34. ISSN: 2150-8925 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES14-00505.1

Gonzalez-Suarez, M. and Revilla, E. , eds. (2014) Generalized drivers in the mammalian endangerment process. In: Hayward, M. , (eds.) PLoS ONE , 9 (2). ISSN: 1932-6203 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0090292
Gonzalez-Suarez, M. (2014) Is behavioral ecology important for understanding and predicting population dynamics?. Ecosistemas , 23 (3). pp. 93-97. ISSN: 1697-2473 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.7818/ECOS.2014.23-3.12

Gonzalez-Suarez, M. , Gómez, A. , Revilla, E. (2013) Which intrinsic traits predict vulnerability to extinction depends on the actual threatening processes. Ecosphere , 4 (6). ISSN: 2150-8925 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES12-00380.1
Gonzalez-Suarez, M. and Cassini, M. (2013) Variance in male reproductive success and sexual size dimorphism in pinnipeds: testing an assumption of sexual selection theory. Mammal Review , 44 (2). pp. 88-93. ISSN: 0305-1838 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mam.12012

Gonzalez-Suarez, M. , Lucas, P. , Revilla, E. (2012) Biases in comparative analyses of extinction risk: mind the gap. Journal of Animal Ecology , 81 (6). pp. 1211-1222. ISSN: 0021-8790 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2012.01999.x
Flatz, R. , Gonzalez-Suarez, M. , Young, J. , Hernández-Camacho, C. , Immel, A. , Gerber, L. , eds. (2012) Weak polygyny in California sea lions and the potential for alternative mating tactics. In: Fenton, B. , (eds.) PLoS ONE , 7 (3). ISSN: 1932-6203 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033654
Gonzalez-Suarez, M. and Revilla, E. , eds. (2012) Variability in life-history and ecological traits is a buffer against extinction in mammals. In: Arita, H. , (eds.) Ecology Letters , 16 (2). pp. 242-251. ISSN: 1461-0248 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12035

Manuela Gonzalez-Suarez

Areas of interest

Postgraduate supervision

Teaching

Research centres and groups

Background

Websites/blogs

Impact, Enterprise and Outreach

Publications

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2020

2019

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