Biodiversity in Neotropical Landscape Lab

ARTÍCULOS CIENTÍFICOS / SCIENTIFIC PAPERS

Herrera-Lopera, J. M., Pineda, E., Solé, M., Aguirre-Jaimes, A., Cultid‐Medina, C. A. (en prensa). Trophic structure of native fauna species assemblages in monocultures of a native tree: frogs in avocado orchards in Mexico. Ethology Ecology & Evolution.

Vázquez, E. A., Sagot, P., Mérida-Rivas, J. A., Vandame, R., & Cultid‐Medina, C. A. (2025). First record of Rhinetula dentricus Friese (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Halictini) from México. First record of Rhinetula dentricus Friese (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Halictini) from México. Journal of Melittology, 132. https://doi.org/10.17161/jom.vi132.22426.

Méndez‐Rojas, D. M., Escobar, F., & Cultid‐Medina, C. A. (2025). Local and landscape heterogeneity promotes high functional structure of rove beetle community in Andean coffee crops. Journal of Applied Ecology.

Herrera‐Lopera, J. M., Solé, M., & Cultid‐Medina, C. A. (2025). Mapping the Missing: Assessing Amphibian Sampling Completeness and Overlap With Global Protected Areas. Ecology and Evolution, 15(5), e71137.

Barretto, J. W., Suárez-Domínguez, E. A., Cultid‐Medina, C. A, & Escobar, F. (2024). To stay or not to stay? Temporal shifts in dung beetle occupancy in a cloud forest landscape. Ecological entomology DOI: 10.111/een.13364.

Barrios, J. M., Bedolla-García, B. Y., González-Vanegas, P. A., Lira-Noriega, A., López-Enriquez, J. C., Mérida-Rivas, J. A., ... & Cultid-Medina, C. A. (2023). Xicotli Data: a project to retrieve plant-bee interactions from citizen science. Biodiversity Data Journal, 11.

Miguel-Peñaloza, A., Cultid Medina, C. A., Alquicira, J. P., & Rico, Y. (2023). Do habitat fragmentation and degradation influence the strength of fine-scale spatial genetic structure in plants? A global meta-analysis. AoB Plants, plad019.

Herrera-Lopera, J. M., Castaño, V. A. R., & Cultid-Medina, C. A. (2023). What are the Andean Colombian anurans? Empirical regionalization proposals vs. observed patterns of compositional dissimilarity. PeerJ, 11, e15217.

Méndez-Rojas, D. M., Cultid-Medina, C., & Escobar, F. (2023). Predicting Wing Trait Gaps: The Case of Andean Rove Beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 77(2), 171-181.

Barretto, J. W., Cultid‐Medina, C., Luna, P., Dáttilo, W., & Escobar, F. (2023). Population and movement ecology of two life‐history contrasting dung beetle species in a tropical human‐modified landscape. Ecological Entomology.

Herrera-Lopera, J.M., Pineda, E., Solé, M., & Cultid-Medina, C. A. (2022). Sample size effects, Hill numbers, and trophic niches in anurans. Salamandra, 58(3), 193-202.

Méndez-Rojas, D. M., Cultid-Medina, C. A., López-Barrera, F., & Escobar, F. (2022). How diverse are sun-grown coffee plantations? Local and landscape heterogeneity drives Andean rove beetle diversity. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 339, 108122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2022.108122.

Cruz-Esteban, S., Hernández-Ledesma, P., & Cultid-Medina, C. (2022). Presence of Economically Important Drosophila Flies in Tropical Landscapes of Mexico. In Proceedings of the Zoological Society (pp. 1-3). Springer India. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12595-022-00445-2.

Joaqui, T., Cultid‐Medina, C. A., Dáttilo, W., & Escobar, F. (2021). Different dung beetle diversity patterns emerge from overlapping biotas in a large mountain range of the Mexican Transition Zone. Journal of Biogeography, 48(6), 1284-1295.

Méndez-Rojas, D. M., Cultid-Medina, C., & Escobar, F. (2021). Influence of land use change on rove beetle diversity: A systematic review and global meta-analysis of a mega-diverse insect group. Ecological Indicators, 122, 107239.

Cultid-Medina, C. A., González-Vanegas, P. A., & Bedolla-García, B. Y. (2021). Wild bees as floral visitors to Salvia assurgens (Lamiaceae): a contribution to the pollination ecology of a white-flowered endemic Mexican sage. Acta botánica mexicana, (128).

Bedolla-García, B., Castro-Morales, M., & Cultid-Medina, C. A. 2020. Comparative assessment of pollen micromorphology of Salvia assurgens (Lamiaceae), an endemic sage from Mexico. Phytotaxa (DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.00.0.0).

Meza-Zalazar, A., Dias-Gomes, L., Guevara, G., & Cultid-Medina, C. A. (2020). Density and diversity of macroinvertebrates in Colombian Andean streams impacted by mining, agriculture and cattle production. PeerJ. (2019:06:38347:2:0).

Negrete-Yankelevich, S., Cultid-Medina, C. A., Fuentes-Pangtay, T., Álvarez-Sánchez, J., Cram, S., García-Pérez, J. A., ... & Bueno-Villegas, J. (2020). Disentangling the effects of legacies from those of current land use on soil properties in Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve, Mexico. Applied Soil Ecology, 153, 103578. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2020.103578.

Cultid-Medina, C., & Martínez-Quintero, B. (2019). More than 5 Years! An Unusually Long-Lived Dung Beetle (Scarabaeinae) in an Andean Agricultural Landscape. Neotropical Entomology (en prensa).DOI: 10.1007/s13744-019-00673-w.

Barretto, J., Cultid-Medina, C., & Escobar, F. (2019). Annual Abundance and Population Structure of Two Dung Beetle Species in a Human-Modified Landscape. Insects, 10(1), 2. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects10010002.

González – Tokman, D., Cultid-Medina, C. A., Díaz, A.,. Escobar, F., Ocampo-Palacio, L., & Martínez-Garza, C. 2018. Success or failure: the role of ecological restoration on the recovery of dung beetle diversity and function in a tropical rainforest. Revista Mexica de Biodiversidad, 89(1): 232-242.

Gasca-Álvarez, H. J., Deloya, C., Cultid-Medina, C. A., & Pinilla-Buitrago, G. 2018. Synopsis and potential geographical distribution of Cotinis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Gymnetini) in Colombia. Tropical Zoology, 31(3): 99-117.

Villada-Bedoya, S., & Cultid-Medina, C. A. 2017. Population structure of two species of Dichotomius hope, 1838 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) in a coffee landscape of the western Andes of Colombia, Risaralda. Boletín Científico. Centro de Museos. Museo de Historia Natural, 21(1), 188-198.

Villada-Bedoya, S., Cultid-Medina, C. A., Escobar, F., Guevara, R., & Zurita, G. 2017. Edge effects on dung beetle assemblages in an Andean mosaic of forest and coffee plantations. Biotropica, 49(2), 195-205.

Cultid-Medina, C. A. & F. Escobar. 2016. Assessing the ecological response of dung beetles to an agricultural landscape using number of individuals and biomass in diversity measures. Enviromental Entomology, doi: 10.1093/ee/nvv219.

Ramírez-Restrepo, L., Cultid-Medina, C. A., & I. MacGregor-Fors. 2015. How Many Butterflies Are There in a City of Circa Half a Million People?. Sustainability 7(7): 85878597.

Cultid-Medina, C. A., Martínez-Quintero, B. G., Escobar, F., & P. Chacón de Ulloa. 2015. Movement and population size of two dung beetle species in an Andean agricultural landscape dominated by sun-grown coffee. Journal of Insect Conservation 19(4): 617-626.

Zuñiga, M., Cardona, W., Molineri, C., Mendivil, J., Cultid-Medina, C. A., Chará, A. M., & Giraldo, A. (2014). Aquatic entomofauna from Gorgona National Natural Park, Colombian Pacific, with emphasis in Ephemeroptera and Plecoptera. International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation 62: 221-241.

Cultid-Medina, C. A., Lobo, J. M., Medina, C. A., González, F. A., Escobar, F., & P. Chacón de Ulloa. 2014. Completitud del inventario de escarabajos coprófagos (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) en la Ecorregión del Eje Cafetero, Colombia. Revista Colombiana de Entomología 40(1): 111 - 119.

Martínez – Quintero, B., Cultid-Medina, C. A. & J. Rudas – Grajales. 2013. Método para marcar escarabajos coprófagos (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) y su implementación en los Andes de Colombia. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (n.s) 29(2): 448 – 451.

Cultid, C. A. & Giraldo A. 2012. Coprophanaeus morenoi arnaud, 1982 (coleoptera:Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in the Gorgona National Natural Park (Colombian pacific ocean). Boletín Científico Centro De Museos Museo De Historia Natural ISSN: 0123-3068 ed: Centre Editorial Universidad De Caldas 16 (1): 261 – 265.

CAPÍTULOS DE LIBRO / BOOK CHAPTERS

Torres, D. W., Aguirre, P., Arenas, A., & Cultid-Medina, C. A. (2022). Coleoptera (Escarabajos, cucarrones), en: Torres, D., & Chacón de Ulloa, P., (Eds.). Insectos de la Isla Gorgona. Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Universidad del Valle. Cali – Colombia.

Cultid-Medina, C. A., & Escobar F. 2019. Pautas para la estimación y comparación estadística de la diversidad biológica (qD), Cap. 8. In: Moreno C. E. (Ed). La biodiversidad en un mundo cambiante: Fundamentos teóricos y metodológicos para su estudio. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Pachuca, México.

Cultid-Medina, C. A., Martinez-Quintero, G., Rudas, J. C., Suarez, T., Villada-Bedoya, S., & Escobar, F. 2015. ¿Cómo usan el paisaje dos especies de escarabajos coprófagos en los Andes occidentales de Colombia? En: V. H. Toledo – Hernández (Ed)., Retos y Herramientas para el Estudio de la Biodiversidad. Univesidad Autónoma del estado de Morelos. Cuernavaca, Morelos. México.

Cultid-medina, C. A. & C. A. Medina. 2015. Monitoreo de escarabajos coprófagos en los procesos de restauración ecológica. Cap. II. (Págs. 155 – 173) En: Aguilar, M. y W. Ramírez (ed.) Monitoreo a Procesos de restauración ecológica de ecosistemas terrestres tropicales. Instituto de investigación Alexander von Humboldt (IaVH). Bogotá, D.C., Colombia.

LIBROS / BOOKS

Cultid, C. A., C. A. Medina, B. Martínez, A. F. Escobar, L. M. Constantino & N. Betancur. 2012. Escarabajos coprófagos (Scarabaeinae) del Eje Cafetero: guía para el estudio ecológico. WCS - Colombia, CENICAFÉ y la Federación Nacional de Cafeteros. Villa María, Colombia. 196p (ISBN: 978-958-98927-5-6). Versión digital disponible en: www.wcscolombia.org.