Daniel Redondo Gómez
Department of Zoology
University of Granada
redondo.gomez.d@gmail.com
drg@ugr.es
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ORCID: 0000-0001-8942-8203
Researcher ID: AAD-8282-2022
Welcome to my website
Hi! I´m Daniel. I was born in 1994 in Granada. Since I was a child, I have always been passionate about everything related to nature and animals. This passion led me to study Biology at the University of Granada (2012-2016) and later a Master´s degree in Conservation, Management and Restoration of Biodiversity (2017-2018) at the same university. It was then that I entered the exciting world of scientific research studying Bonelli´s eagle biometrics with whom today is my thesis supervisor.
In 2019, I worked as a researcher and scientific consultant for public (University Miguel Hernández) and private (WWF) entities. In 2020, I had the opportunity to make stay at the University of Glasgow Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, researching an exciting field that would end up being the subject of my doctoral thesis: carrion ecology. Since 2022, I work full-time on my doctoral thesis at the University of Granada, which deals with the role of carrion in the landscapes of fear and disgust, exploring how predation and parasitism risk is modified at carcass sites and understanding its main ecological, evolutionary and epidemiological ramifications.
Research areas
Carrion ecology
Biodiversity conservation
Prey behavior at predator carcasses
Parasite-host interactions around carrion
Scavenging patterns on land and sea
Raptor mortality on power lines
Raptor
trophic ecology
Environmental crime prosecution
My research current mostly focuses on carrion ecology, the central subject of my doctoral thesis. Specifically, I focus on understanding how carrion shapes the predation and parasitism risk around it. We are getting into the role of carrion in this landscape of fear using as study models top predators such as the gray wolf in the Italian Alps and the lion in South Africa. We are also interested in exploring the disgusting facets of carcasses, namely the relevance of carrion in the transmission of parasites and diseases, using the red fox as a model.
At the same time, I take part in other research that could be included in biodiversity conservation, especially carnivores and raptors. In this regard, we carry out very diverse studies (feeding ecology, environmental crimes, human impacts, etc. ) on species whose conservation status is delicate, such as the Bonelli´s eagle, the golden eagle, the eagle owl, the wild cat, or the gray wolf.
Latest publications
The extended role of carrion: Insect consumption and hair taking at fox carcasses. Basic and Applied Ecology 2025
The underestimated role of carrion in vertebrates' diet studies. Global Ecology and Biogeography 2023
Top‐predator carrion is scary: Fight‐and‐flight responses of wild boars to wolf carcasses. Ecology and Evolution 2023
More publications on my Google Scholar
Fieldwork and collaborators
We are a multidisciplinary team that includes biologists, veterinarians, and lawyers from several universities, research centers and NGOs in many parts of Europe. Our fieldwork focuses on several areas of southwestern Europe and South Africa, often inhabited by the species we study. They range from high mountain areas such as the Alps to more wooded areas such as Hluhluwe Game Reserve in South Africa. This geographic variety allows us to study places with complex scavenger assemblages, such as the Sierra de Cazorla but also very simple systems such as Grosa Island in the western Mediterranean sea.
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