By Dr Ada Sanchez-Mercado

Journal articles

Sánchez-Mercado A; Moran L; Pineda MD; Cardozo-Urdaneta A; Rodríguez JP, 2024, 'Monitoring change: A Behavior-Centered Theory of Change for effective demand reduction interventions', Conservation Science and Practice, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/csp2.13222

Noriega JA; Hortal J; deCastro-Arrazola I; Alves-Martins F; Ortega JCG; Bini LM; Andrew NR; Arellano L; Beynon S; Davis ALV; Favila ME; Floate KD; Horgan FG; Menéndez R; Milotic T; Nervo B; Palestrini C; Rolando A; Scholtz CH; Senyüz Y; Wassmer T; Ádam R; Araújo CDO; Barragan-Ramírez JL; Boros G; Camero-Rubio E; Cruz M; Cuesta E; Damborsky MP; Deschodt CM; Rajan PD; D’hondt B; Díaz Rojas A; Dindar K; Escobar F; Espinoza VR; Ferrer-Paris JR; Gutiérrez Rojas PE; Hemmings Z; Hernández B; Hill SJ; Hoffmann M; Jay-Robert P; Lewis K; Lewis M; Lozano C; Marín-Armijos D; de Farias PM; Murcia-Ordoñez B; Karimbumkara SN; Navarrete-Heredia JL; Ortega-Echeverría C; Pablo-Cea JD; Perrin W; Pessoa MB; Radhakrishnan A; Rahimi I; Raimundo AT; Ramos DC; Rebolledo RE; Roggero A; Sánchez-Mercado A; Somay L; Stadler J; Tahmasebi P; Triana Céspedes JD; Santos AMC; Sanchez Mercado A, 2023, 'Dung removal increases under higher dung beetle functional diversity regardless of grazing intensification', Nature Communications, 14, pp. 8070, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43760-8

Lagisz M; Aich U; Amin B; Rutkowska J; Sánchez-Mercado A; Lara CE; Nakagawa S, 2023, 'Little transparency and equity in scientific awards for early- and mid-career researchers in ecology and evolution', Nature Ecology and Evolution, 7, pp. 655 - 665, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02028-6

Rodríguez JP; Sucre B; Mileham K; Sánchez-Mercado A; De Andrade N; Jabado RW, 2023, 'We Know How to Do Conservation—We Just Need to Do More of It!', Diversity, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d15030443

Rodríguez JP; Sucre B; Mileham K; Sánchez-Mercado A; De Andrade N; Bezeng SB; Croukamp C; Falcato J; García-Borboroglu P; González S; González-Ciccia P; González-Maya JF; Kemp L; Kusrini MD; Lopez-Gallego C; Luz S; Menon V; Moehlman PD; Raimondo DC; Sillero-Zubiri C; Street W; Vincent A; Xie Y, 2022, 'Addressing the Biodiversity Paradox: Mismatch between the Co-Occurrence of Biological Diversity and the Human, Financial and Institutional Resources to Address Its Decline', Diversity, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d14090708

Ferrer-Paris JR; Sánchez-Mercado A; Sanchez Mercado A, 2021, 'Contributions of distribution modelling to the ecological study of psittaciformes', Diversity, 13, pp. 611, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d13120611

Stachowicz I; Ferrer-Paris JR; Sanchez-Mercado A, 2021, 'Shifting cultivation and hunting across the savanna-forest mosaic in the Gran Sabana, Venezuela: Facing changes', PeerJ, 9, pp. e11612, http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11612

Sánchez-Mercado A; Ferrer-Paris JR; Rodríguez JP; Tella JL; Sanchez Mercado A, 2021, 'A literature synthesis of actions to tackle illegal parrot trade', Diversity, 13, pp. 191, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d13050191

Sánchez-Mercdo A; Blanco O; Sucre B; Briceño-Linares J; Pelaez C; Rodriguez JP, 2021, 'When good attitudes are not enough: Understanding intentions to keep Yellow Shouldered Amazons as pets in Margarita Island, Venezuela', Oryx: journal of fauna and flora international

Sánchez-Mercado A; Blanco O; Sucre-Smith B; Briceño-Linares JM; Peláez C; Rodríguez JP; Sanchez Mercado A, 2020, 'Using peoples' perceptions to improve conservation programs: The yellow-shouldered amazon in Venezuela', Diversity, 12, pp. 342, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/D12090342

Sánchez-Mercado A; Cardozo-Urdaneta A; Rodríguez-Clark KM; Moran L; Ovalle L; Ángel Arvelo M; Morales-Campos J; Coyle B; Braun MJ, 2020, 'Illegal wildlife trade networks: finding creative opportunities for conservation intervention in challenging circumstances', Animal Conservation, 23, pp. 151 - 152, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acv.12587

Sánchez-Mercado A; Cardozo-Urdaneta A; Moran L; Ovalle L; Arvelo M; Morales-Campos J; Coyle B; Braun MJ; Rodríguez-Clark KM, 2020, 'Social network analysis reveals specialized trade in an Endangered songbird', Animal Conservation, 23, pp. 132 - 144, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acv.12514

Mercado AS; Asmussen M; Rodriguez JP; Moran L; Cardozo-Urdaneta A; Morales LI, 2020, 'Illegal trade of the psittacidae in Venezuela', ORYX, 54, pp. 77 - 83, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S003060531700120X

Ferrer-Paris JR; Sánchez-Mercado ADA; Sanchez Mercado A, 2020, 'Making inferences about non-detection observations to improve occurrence predictions in Venezuelan Psittacidae', Bird Conservation International, 30, pp. 406 - 422, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0959270919000522

Sánchez-Mercado A; Rodríguez-Clark KM; Miranda J; Ferrer-Paris JR; Coyle B; Toro S; Cardozo-Urdaneta A; Braun MJ; Sanchez Mercado A, 2018, 'How to deal with ground truthing affected by human-induced habitat change?: Identifying high-quality habitats for the Critically Endangered Red Siskin', Ecology and Evolution, 8, pp. 841 - 851, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3628

Morán L; García L; Ferrebuz JD; Sánchez R; Mercado AS; Porta A; Paris JRF; Ferrer J; Sanchez Mercado A, 2018, 'Interannual and daily activity patterns of mid-sized mammals in maracaibo lake basin, Venezuela', Therya, 9, pp. 227 - 236, http://dx.doi.org/10.12933/therya-18-616

Jędrzejewski W; Carreño R; Sánchez-Mercado A; Schmidt K; Abarca M; Robinson HS; Boede EO; Hoogesteijn R; Viloria ÁL; Cerda H; Velásquez G; Zambrano-Martínez S, 2017, 'Human-jaguar conflicts and the relative importance of retaliatory killing and hunting for jaguar (Panthera onca) populations in Venezuela', Biological Conservation, 209, pp. 524 - 532, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2017.03.025

Jędrzejewski W; Boede EO; Abarca M; Sánchez-Mercado A; Ferrer-Paris JR; Lampo M; Velásquez G; Carreño R; Viloria ÁL; Hoogesteijn R; Robinson HS; Stachowicz I; Cerda H; Weisz MDM; Barros TR; Rivas GA; Borges G; Molinari J; Lew D; Takiff H; Schmidt K, 2017, 'Predicting carnivore distribution and extirpation rate based on human impacts and productivity factors; assessment of the state of jaguar (Panthera onca) in Venezuela', Biological Conservation, 206, pp. 132 - 142, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2016.09.027

Sánchez-Mercado A; Asmüssen M; Rodríguez-Clark KM; Rodríguez JP; Jedrzejewski W, 2016, 'Using spatial patterns in illegal wildlife uses to reveal connections between subsistence hunting and trade', Conservation Biology, 30, pp. 1222 - 1232, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12744

Sánchez-Mercado A; Ferrer-Paris JR; García-Rangel S; Yerena E; Robertson BA; Rodríguez-Clark KM, 2014, 'Combining threat and occurrence models to predict potential ecological traps for Andean bears in the Cordillera de Mérida, Venezuela', Animal Conservation, 17, pp. 388 - 398, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acv.12106

Ferrer-Paris JR; Sánchez-Mercado A; Rodríguez-Clark KM; Rodríguez JP; Rodríguez GA, 2014, 'Using limited data to detect changes in species distributions: Insights from Amazon parrots in Venezuela', Biological Conservation, 173, pp. 133 - 143, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2013.07.032

Ferrer Paris JR; Sánchez Mercado A; Rodríguez JP, 2013, 'Optimización del muestreo de invertebrados tropicales: Un ejemplo con escarabajos coprófagos (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) en Venezuela', Revista de Biología Tropical, 61, http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rbt.v61i1.10941

Ferrer-Paris JR; Sánchez-Mercado A; Viloria AL; Donaldson J; Sanchez Mercado A, 2013, 'Congruence and Diversity of Butterfly-Host Plant Associations at Higher Taxonomic Levels', PLoS ONE, 8, pp. e63570, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0063570

Rafael Ferrer-Paris J; Sánchez-Mercado A; Paul Rodríguez J, 2013, 'Sampling optimization for tropical invertebrates: An example using dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) in Venezuela', Revista de Biologia Tropical, 61, pp. 89 - 110

Ferrer-Paris JR; Rodríguez JP; Good TC; Sánchez-Mercado AY; Rodríguez-Clark KM; Rodríguez GA; Solís A, 2013, 'Systematic, large-scale national biodiversity surveys: NeoMaps as a model for tropical regions', Diversity and Distributions, 19, pp. 215 - 231, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12012

Rodríguez GA; Rodríguez JP; Ferrer-Paris JR; Snchez-Mercado A, 2012, 'A nation-wide standardized bird survey scheme for venezuela', Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 124, pp. 230 - 244, http://dx.doi.org/10.1676/11-057.1

Rodríguez JP; Ferrer-París JR; Mavárez J; Rodríguez-Clark KM; Sánchez-Merc Ado AY, 2010, 'More and better scientific information for 2010: International year of biodiversity', Interciencia, 35, pp. 161

Sánchez-Mercado A; Ferrer-Paris JR; Yerena E; García-Rangel S; Rodríguez-Clark KM, 2008, 'Factors affecting poaching risk to Vulnerable Andean bears Tremarctos ornatus in the Cordillera de Mérida, Venezuela: Space, parks and people', ORYX, 42, pp. 437 - 447, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0030605308006996

Rodríguez-Clark KM; Sánchez-Mercado A, 2006, 'Population management of threatened taxa in captivity within their natural ranges: Lessons from Andean bears (Tremarctos ornatus) in Venezuela', Biological Conservation, 129, pp. 134 - 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2005.10.037

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