Biografía

I study mammals and work for their conservation since 1990. Have university studies at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), and Universidad Internacional de Andalucia, and Universidad de Salamanca (Spain), with theses on the ecology of fish-eating bats, on Antarctic seals, on the trafficking of wild animals, and on primate’s conservation. I have been invited to talk in several universities and congresses in Latin America, Europe, and Africa. I founded and was the first president of the Ecuadorian Association of Mammalogists (2010–2016), and I stablished several groups of mammals specialist of Ecuador. I am research associate to the Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INABIO), in Ecuador, and to the Museo de Zoologia (QCAZ), at PUCE. I have published 15 books on mastozoological themes, over 60 scientific papers, and a similar number of popular science articles.

 

Research Interests

Mammals, biodiversity, ecology, conservation

 

Selected Publications

• Tirira, D. G., L. Sánchez-Sánchez & S. Álvarez-Solas. 2021. An update to the geographic distribution of the Red-mantled saddle-back Tamarin, Leontocebus lagonotus (Callitrichidae), in Ecuador. International Journal of Primatology 42(4): 600–617. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-021-00221-7
• Tirira, D. G., H. F. Greeney, C. Omaca, O. Baihua & R. P. Killackey. 2020. Species richness and ethnozoological annotations on mammals at the Boanamo indigenous community, Waorani territory, Orellana and Pastaza provinces, Ecuador. Mammalia 84(6): 535–551. http://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2019-0144 
• Tirira, D. G. 2018. Una revisión sobre la presencia y distribución de la familia Callitrichidae (Primates) en el Ecuador. Pp. 427–440, In: La primatología en Latinoamérica 2 / A primatologia na America Latina 2 (B. Urbani, M. M. Kowalewski, R. G. T. da Silva, S. de la Torre & L. Cortés-Ortiz, eds.). Ediciones IVIC, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas. Caracas. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325486950_Una_revision_sobre_la_presencia_y_distribucion_de_la_familia_Callitrichidae_Primates_en_el_Ecuador
• Tirira, D. G. 2017. Field guide to the mammals of Ecuador. 1st English edition. Asociación Ecuatoriana de Mastozoología & Editorial Murciélago Blanco. Special publication on mammals of Ecuador 10. Quito.

For a full list of my academic or biology-related publications, follow the link below:

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