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Carlos Daniel Cadena, Ph.D.
Professor and Department Chair
Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas
Universidad de los Andes
Apartado Aéreo 4976
Bogotá, Colombia
Email: [email protected]
Tel: (57-1) 3394949 Ext. 2072
http://evolvert.uniandes.edu.co
Education
2000-2006
Ph. D. Biology (Ecology, Evolution and Systematics Program), University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Dissertation Advisory Committee: Dr. Bette A. Loiselle (advisor), Dr. Robert E. Ricklefs (coadvisor), Dr. Elizabeth A. Kellogg, Dr. J. Van Remsen, Dr. Shannon J. Hackett.
1994-2000
B. S. Biology, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Additional Training
2011
Workshop on Genomics, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic.
2004
Workshop on Molecular Evolution. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA.
2002
Course Molecular Methods in Tropical Ecology, Organization for Tropical Studies and
Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.
2000
Course Ecología Tropical y Conservación [Tropical Ecology and Conservation]. Organization
for Tropical Studies and Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.
Employment
2015-present
Professor. Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
2009-2015
Associate Professor. Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá,
Colombia.
2006-2008
Assistant Professor. Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá,
Colombia.
2001-2006
Teaching and Research Assistant. Department of Biology, University of Missouri-St. Louis
2005
Teaching Assistant: Workshop on Molecular Evolution. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods
Hole, MA.
2003-2004
Course co-coordinator: Ecología de Ecosistemas Amazónicos. Organization for Tropical
Studies and Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana, Iquitos and Puerto Maldonado,
Perú.
Administrative Experience
2013-present
Department Chair. Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá,
Colombia.
2011-2013
Director of Graduate Studies (Ph.D. and masters programs in Biology). Departamento de
Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
2009-2010
Academic Coordinator, Undergraduate Program in Biology. Departamento de Ciencias
Biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Publications
Book
2000 Asociación Bogotana de Ornitología. Aves de la Sabana de Bogotá: guía de campo. Asociación Bogotana
de Ornitología & Corporación Autónoma Regional de Cundinamarca, Bogotá, 250 p. (Texts by F. G.
Stiles, C. I. Bohórquez, C. D. Cadena, S. De la Zerda, M. Hernández, L. Roselli, M. Kelsey, I. D. Valencia
& D. Knapp).
Dissertation
2006 Cadena, C.D. Biogeography of Buarremon Brush-finches (Aves, Emberizinae): Integrating Ecology,
Evolution and Systematics. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles (* indicates student coauthor)
2015 Link, A., L. M. Valencia, L. N. Céspedes, L. D. Duque, C. D. Cadena & A. Di Fiore.
Phylogeography of the critically endangered Brown Spider Monkey (Ateles hybridus): testing the
riverine barrier hypothesis. International Journal of Primatology: in press.
2015 Avendaño, J. E., A. M. Cuervo, J. P. López-O., N. Gutiérrez-Pinto, A. Cortés-Diago & C.
D. Cadena. A new species of tapaculo (Rhinocryptidae, Scytalopus) from the Serranía de Perijá of
Colombia and Venezuela. Auk 132: 132-139.
2014 Lozano-Jaramillo, M.*, A. Rico-Guevara & C. D. Cadena. Genetic differentiation, niche
divergence, and the origin and maintenance of the disjunct distribution in the Blossomcrown
Anthocephala floriceps (Aves,Trochilidae). PLoS One: 9: e108345.
2014 Suárez-Sanabria, N.* & C. D. Cadena. Diversidad y estructura de la avifauna del valle de
Lagunillas, Parque Nacional Natural El Cocuy, Colombia. Ornitología Colombiana 14: 48-61.
2014 Smith, B. T., J. E. McCormack, A. M. Cuervo, M. J. Hickerson, A. Aleixo, C. D. Cadena, J. L. PérezEmán, C. W. Burney, X. Xie, M. G. Harvey, B. C. Faircloth, T. C. Glenn, E. P. Derryberry, J.
Prejean, S. Fields & R. T. Brumfield. The drivers of tropical speciation. Nature 515: 406-409.
2014 Laverde-R., O.* & C. D. Cadena. Taxonomy and conservation: a tale of two tinamou species groups
(Tinamidae, Crypturellus). Journal of Avian Biology 45:484-492.
2014 Quintero, I.*, S. Gonzalez-Caro*, P. C. Zalamea & C. D. Cadena. Asynchrony of seasons: genetic
differentiation associated with geographic variation in climatic seasonality and reproductive phenology.
American Naturalist 184: 352-363.
2014 Graham, C. H., A. C. Carnaval, C. D. Cadena, K. R. Zamudio, T. E. Roberts, J. L. Parra, C. M. McCain, R.
C. K. Bowie, C. Moritz, S. B. Baines, C. J. Schneider, J. VanDerWal, C. Rahbek, K. H. Kozak & N. J.
Sanders. The origin and maintenance of montane diversity: integrating evolutionary and ecological
processes. Ecography 37: 711-719.
2014 Rocha, L. A. et al. (C. D. Cadena is one of 121 coauthors). 2014. Specimen collection: an essential tool.
Science 344: 814-815.
2014 Valderrama, E.*, J. L. Pérez-Emán, R. T. Brumfield, A. M. Cuervo & C. D. Cadena. The influence of the
complex topography and dynamic history of the montane Neotropics on the evolutionary differentiation
of a cloud forest bird (Premnoplex brunnescens, Furnariidae). Journal of Biogeography: 41: 1533-1546.
2014 Greenberg, M. L., E. Bonaccorso, R. Bozhankova, C. D. Cadena, V. Čapská, L. Czerniewicz, A.
Emmett, F. Fasina Oludayo, N. Glukhova, M. Hladnik, M. E. Grillet, M. Indrawan, M. Kapović, Y.
Kleiner, M. Laziński, R. D. Loyola, S. Menon, L. G. Morales, C. Ocampo, J. Pérez-Eman, A. T.
Peterson, D. Poposki, A. A. Rasheed, K. Rodríguez-Clark, J. P. Rodríguez, B. Rosenblum, V.
Sánchez-Cordero, F. Smolik, M. Snoj, M. Szilágyi, O. Torres & P. Tykarski. Bottlenecks in
the open-access system: Voices from around the globe. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly
Communication 2: eP1126.
2014 Gutiérrez-Pinto, N.*, K. G. McCracken, L. Alza, P. Tubaro, C. Kopuchian, A. Astie & C. D. Cadena.
The validity of ecogeographic rules is context-dependent: testing for Bergmann’s and Allen’s rules
by latitude and elevation in a widespread Andean duck. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
111: 850-862.
2014 Tello, J. G., M. Raposo, J. M. Bates, G. A. Bravo, C. D. Cadena & M. Maldonado-Coelho.
Reassesment of the systematics of the widespread Neotropical genus Cercomacra (Aves,
Thamnophilidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 170: 546-565.
2013 Avendaño, J. E.*, F. G. Stiles & C. D. Cadena. A new subspecies of Common Bush-tanager
(Chlorospingus flavopectus, Emberizidae) from the east slope of the Andes of Colombia. Ornitologia
Colombiana 13:44-58.
2013 Claramunt, S., E. P. Derryberry, C. D. Cadena, A. M. Cuervo, C. Sanín* & R. T. Brumfield. Phylogeny
and classification of Automolus and allies (Aves: Furnariidae). Condor 115: 375-385.
2013 Caro, L. M.*, P. C. Caycedo-Rosales*, R. C. K. Bowie, H. Slabbekoorn & C. D. Cadena. Ecological
speciation along an elevational gradient in a tropical passerine bird? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26:
357-374.
2012 Lara, C. E., A. M. Cuervo, S. V. Valderrama, D. Calderón-Franco & C. D. Cadena. A new species of wren
(Troglodytidae) from the dry Cauca River Canyon, northwestern Colombia. Auk 129: 537-550.
2012 Bowie, R. C. K., K. A. Feldheim, L. M. Caro* & C. D. Cadena. Novel tetranucleotide microsatellite DNA
markers for members of the Henicorhina wood-wren species complex. Conservation Genetics Resources
4: 419-421.
2012 Gutiérrez-Pinto, N.*, A. M. Cuervo, J. Miranda, J. L. Perez-Emán, R. T. Brumfield & C. D. Cadena. Nonmonophyly and deep genetic differentiation across low-elevation barriers in a Neotropical montane bird
(Basileuterus tristriatus; Aves, Parulidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 64: 156-165.
2012 Gonzalez-Caro, S.*, J. L. Parra, C. H. Graham, J. A. McGuire & C. D. Cadena. 2012. Sensitivity of
metrics of phylogenetic structure to scale, source of data and species pool of hummingbird assemblages
along elevational gradients. PLoS One 7:e35472. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035472
2012 Cadena, C. D., K. H. Kozak, J. P. Gómez*, J. L. Parra, C. M. McCain, R. C. K. Bowie, A. C. Carnaval, C.
Moritz, C. Rahbek, T. E. Roberts, N. J. Sanders, C. J. Schneider, J. VanDerWal, K. R. Zamudio & C. H.
Graham. Latitude, elevational climatic zonation, and speciation in New World vertebrates. Proceedings
of the Royal Society of London B 279: 194-201.
2011 Stouffer, P. C., K. L. Cockle, A. Aleixo, J. I. Areta, A. Bodrati, C. D. Cadena, A. S. DiGiacomo, S. K.
Herzog, P. Hosner, E. I. Johnson, L. N. Naka & C. Sánchez. 2011. No evidence for widespread bird
declines in protected South American forests. Climatic Change 108: 383-386.
2011 Peralta, N. A.* G. A. Londoño & C. D. Cadena. El nido, los huevos y el comportamiento de incubación
del Mosquero Pechiocre (Nephelomyias ochraceiventris; Tyrannidae). Ornitología Neotropical 22: 59-67.
2011 Cadena, C. D., N. Gutiérrez-Pinto*, N. Dávila* & R. T. Chesser. No population genetic structure in a
widespread aquatic songbird from the Neotropics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution: 58: 540-545.
2011 Flórez-Rodríguez*, A., M. D. Carling & C. D. Cadena. Reconstructing the phylogeny of "Buarremon"
brush-finches and near relatives from individual gene trees. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution: 58:
297-303.
2011 Cadena, C. D., Z. A. Cheviron & W. C. Funk. Testing the molecular and evolutionary causes of a
"leapfrog" pattern of geographical variation in coloration. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24: 402-414.
2010 Chaves, J. C.*, A. M. Cuervo, M. J. Miller & C. D. Cadena. Revising species limits in a group of
Myrmeciza antbirds reveals a cryptic species within M. laemosticta (Thamnophilidae). Condor 112: 718730.
2010 Gómez, J. P.*, G. A. Bravo, R. T. Brumfield, J. G. Tello & C. D. Cadena. A phylogenetic approach to
disentangling the role of competition and habitat filtering in community assembly of Neotropical forest
birds. Journal of Animal Ecology 79: 1181-1192.
2010 Krabbe, N. & C. D. Cadena. A taxonomic revision of the Paramo Tapaculo Scytalopus canus Chapman
(Aves: Rhinocryptidae), with description of a new subspecies from Ecuador and Peru. Zootaxa 2354: 5666.
2010 Cadena, C. D. & A. M. Cuervo. Molecules, morphology, ecology, and songs in concert: How many
species is “Arremon torquatus” (Aves, Emberizidae)? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 99: 152176.
2009 Sanín, C.*, C. D. Cadena, J. M. Maley, D. A. Lijtmaer, P. L. Tubaro & R. T. Chesser. Paraphyly of
Cinclodes fuscus (Aves: Passeriformes: Furnariidae): Implications for taxonomy and biogeography.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 53:547-555.
2009 Morales-Rozo, A.*, E. Rodríguez-Ortiz, B. Freeman, C. A. Olaciregui & C. D. Cadena. Notas sobre el
nido y los pichones del Abanico Colombiano (Myioborus flavivertex: Parulidae). Ornitología Neotropical
20: 113-119.
2008 Maurício, G. N., H. Mata, M. R. Bornschein, C. D. Cadena, H. Alvarenga & S. L. Bonatto. Hidden
generic diversity in Neotropical birds: molecular and anatomical data support a new genus for the
“Scytalopus” indigoticus species-group (Aves: Rhinocryptidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
49: 125-135.
2008 Ricklefs, R. E. & Cadena, C. D. Heritability of longevity in captive populations of nondomesticated
mammals and birds. Journal of Gerontology, Biological Sciences 63A: 435-446.
2008 Bates, J. M., C. D. Cadena, R. T. Brumfield & J. G. Tello. Diversification in the Neotropics: Phylogenetic
patterns and historical processes. Ornitología Neotropical 19 (Suppl.): 427-432.
2007 Cadena, C. D., B. López-Lanús, J. M. Bates, N. Krabbe, N. H. Rice, F. G. Stiles, J. D. Palacio & P.
Salaman. A rare case of interspecific hybridization in the tracheophone suboscines: Chestnut-naped
Antpitta Grallaria nuchalis x Chestnut-crowned Antpitta G. ruficapilla in a fragmented Andean landscape.
Ibis 149: 814-825.
2007 Ricklefs, R. E. & Cadena, C. D. Rejoinder to Ricklefs & Cadena (2007): Response to Mace & Pelletier.
Ecology Letters 10: 874-875.
2007 Ricklefs, R. E. & Cadena, C. D. Lifespan is unrelated to investment in reproduction in populations of
mammals and birds in captivity. Ecology Letters 10: 867-872.
2007 Cadena, C. D., J. Klicka & R. E. Ricklefs. Evolutionary differentiation in the Neotropical mountains:
molecular phylogenetics and phylogeography of Buarremon brush-finches (Aves, Emberizidae).
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44: 993-1016.
2007 Cadena, C. D. & B. A. Loiselle. Limits to elevational distributions in two species of Emberizine finches:
Disentangling the role of interspecific competition, autoecology, and geographic variation in the
environment. Ecography 30: 491-504.
2007 Cadena, C. D., S. Córdoba, G. A. Londoño, D. Calderón, T. E. Martin & M. P. Baptiste. Nesting and
singing behavior of Common Bush-Tanagers (Chlorospingus ophthalmicus) in South America. Ornitología
Colombiana 5:54-63.
2007 Cadena, C. D. Testing the role of interspecific competition in the evolutionary origin of elevational
zonation: an example with Buarremon brush-finches (Aves, Emberizidae) in the Neotropical mountains.
Evolution 61: 1120-1136.
2006 Cuervo, A. M., C. D. Cadena & J. L. Parra. Seguir colectando aves en Colombia es imprescindible: un
llamado a fortalecer las colecciones ornitológicas. Ornitología Colombiana 4: 51-58.
2005 Cadena, C. D., R. E. Ricklefs, I. Jiménez & E. Bermingham. Is speciation driven by species diversity?
Nature 438: doi:10.1038/nature04308.
2005 Krabbe, N., P. Salaman, A. Cortés, A. Quevedo, L. A. Ortega & C. D. Cadena. A new species of tapaculo
(Rhinocryptidae: Scytalopus) from the head of the Magdalena Valley, Colombia. Bulletin of the British
Ornithologists' Club 125: 93-108.
2005 Cuervo, A. M., C. D. Cadena, N. Krabbe & L. M. Renjifo. Scytalopus stilesi, a new species of tapaculo
(Rhinocryptidae) from the Cordillera Central of Colombia. The Auk 122: 445-463.
2004 Cadena, C. D., A. M. Cuervo & S. M. Lanyon. Phylogenetic relationships of the Red-bellied Grackle
(Icteridae: Hypopyrrhus pyrohypogaster) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequence data. The Condor
106: 664-670.
2004 Jiménez, I. & C. D. Cadena. Por qué no liberar animales silvestres decomisados Ornitología Colombiana
2: 53-57 (invited manuscript).
2003 Cadena, C. D. Taxonomía de Cistothorus apolinari (Troglodytidae), conceptos de especie y conservación
de las aves amenazadas de Colombia. Ornitología Colombiana 1:71-75.
2003 Londoño, G. A. & C. D. Cadena. The nest and eggs of the Cinereous Mourner (Laniocera hypopyrra).
Wilson Bulletin 115:115-118.
2003 Jiménez, I., G. A. Londoño & C. D. Cadena. Efficiency, bias, and consistency of visual and aural surveys
of curassows (Cracidae) in tropical forests. Journal of Field Ornithology 74:210-216.
2003 Cuervo, A. M., F. G. Stiles, C. D. Cadena, J. L. Toro & G. A. Londoño. New and noteworthy bird records
from the northern sector of the Western Andes of Colombia. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club
123:7-24.
2002 Cadena, C. D., C. Devenish & N. Silva. First observations on the nesting behavior of the Colombian
Mountain-Grackle (Macroagelaius subalaris), a probable cooperative breeder. Ornitologia Neotropical
13:301-305.
2000 Cadena, C. D., G. A. Londoño & J. L. Parra. Nesting records of five antbird species from the Colombian
Amazon. Wilson Bulletin 112:313-317.
2000 Cadena, C. D., M. Alvarez, J. L. Parra, I. Jiménez, C. A. Mejía, M. Santamaría, A. M. Franco, C. A.
Botero, G. D. Mejía, A. M. Umaña, A. Calixto, J. Aldana & G. A. Londoño. 2000. The birds of CIEM,
Tinigua National Park, Colombia: an overview of thirteen years of ornithological research. Cotinga 13:
46-54.
Book Chapters
2014 Navas-Berdugo, A. P. & C. D. Cadena. 2014. Scytalopus canus. Pp. 240-242 In L. M. Renjifo, M.
F. Gómez, J. Velásquez-Tibatá, A. M. Amaya-Villarreal, G. H. Kattan, J. D. Amaya-Espinel & J.
Burbano-Girón, editors. Libro rojo de aves de Colombia, volumen 1: Bosques húmedos de los
Andes y la costa pacífica. Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana e Instituto Alexander von
Humboldt. Bogotá, Colombia.
2011 Cadena, C. D. The Andean Region. Pp. 29-32 In M. Cooper & B. G. Freeman. Birds in Colombia.
Villegas Editores, Bogotá, Colombia.
2002 Cadena, C. D. Eremophila alpestris. Pp. 371-374 In L. M. Renjifo, A. M. Franco-Maya, J. D. AmayaEspinel, G. H. Kattan & B. López-Lanús, editors. Libro rojo de aves de Colombia. Instituto de
Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt & Ministerio del Medio Ambiente,
Bogotá, Colombia.
2002 Cadena, C. D. Gallinula melanops. Pp. 173-177 in L. M. Renjifo, A. M. Franco-Maya, J. D. AmayaEspinel, G. H. Kattan & B. López-Lanús, editors. Libro rojo de aves de Colombia. Instituto de
Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt & Ministerio del Medio Ambiente,
Bogotá, Colombia.
2002 Cadena, C. D. Polystictus pectoralis. Pp. 497-498 in L. M. Renjifo, A. M. Franco-Maya, J. D. AmayaEspinel, G. H. Kattan & B. López-Lanús, editors. Libro rojo de aves de Colombia. Instituto de
Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt & Ministerio del Medio Ambiente,
Bogotá, Colombia.
2002 Cadena, C. D. Pseudocolopteryx acutipennis. Pp. 333-337 in L. M. Renjifo, A. M. Franco-Maya, J. D.
Amaya-Espinel, G. H. Kattan & B. López-Lanús, editors. Libro rojo de aves de Colombia. Instituto de
Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt & Ministerio del Medio Ambiente,
Bogotá, Colombia.
2002 Cadena, C. D. & L. M. Renjifo. Muscisaxicola maculirostris. Pp. 345-348 en L. M. Renjifo, A. M. FrancoMaya, J. D. Amaya-Espinel, G. H. Kattan & B. López-Lanús, editores. Libro rojo de aves de Colombia.
Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt & Ministerio del Medio
Ambiente, Bogotá, Colombia.
2002 López-Lanús, B. & C. D. Cadena. Thryothorus nicefori.. Pp. 345-348 en L. M. Renjifo, A. M. FrancoMaya, J. D. Amaya-Espinel, G. H. Kattan & B. López-Lanús, editores. Libro rojo de aves de Colombia.
Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt & Ministerio del Medio
Ambiente, Bogotá, Colombia.
Electronic Publications
2014 Remsen, J. V., Jr., C. D. Cadena, A. Jaramillo, M. Nores, J. F. Pacheco, M. B. Robbins, T. S. Schulenberg,
F. G. Stiles, D. F. Stotz, and K. J. Zimmer. Version [date]. A classification of the bird species of South
America. American Ornithologists' Union. http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline.html.
(coauthor since 2006).
2012 Matamala, M.*, and Ornithology Course 2010-20, Universidad de los Andes (edited by A. Echeverri*, I.
Medina*, E. Salazar*, V. Alarcón* & C. D. Cadena). 2012. Bare-faced Ibis (Phimosus infuscatus).
Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p_spp=116636
Book Reviews
2002 Cadena, C. D. Birds of Venezuela, Second Edition, by S. L. Hilty. Ornitología Colombiana 1:76-77.
Selected Presentations
2014 C. D. Cadena. ¿Por qué es tan alta la diversidad de aves en el norte de Sur América? Hipótesis clásicas y
nuevas ideas. Conferencia magistral. IV Congreso Colombiano de Zoología, Cartagena.
2014 C. D. Cadena, I. Quintero, S. Gonzalez & P-C. Zalamea. Asyncrhony of seasons: Genetic differentiation
associated with geographic variation in climatic seasonality and reproductive phenology. Joint Annual
meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, the Society of Systematic Biologists and the American
Society of Naturalists. Raleigh, North Carolina.
2014 C. D. Cadena. ¿Por qué es tan alta la diversidad de aves en el norte de Sur América? Hipótesis clásicas y
nuevas ideas. Conferencia magistral Inaugural. IV Congreso de Ornitología Costarricense, San José.
2013 C. D. Cadena, J. Klicka, J. Pérez-Emán, A. M. Cuervo & M. J. Miller ¿Por qué la diversidad de aves en
Colombia es tan alta? Las montañas colombianas como un laboratorio para estudiar el origen de la
biodiversidad. IV Congreso Colombiano de Ornitología, Cali.
2011 Cadena, C. D., C. Sanín, I. Jiménez, A. M. Cuervo, J. Fjeldså & C. Rahbek. Linking spatial variation in
species richness to diversification rates in Neotropical birds. Joint Annual meeting of the Society for the
Study of Evolution, the Society of Systematic Biologists and the American Society of Naturalists. Norman,
Oklahoma.
2011 Valencia, L.*, A. Link, C. D. Cadena & A. Di Fiore. Phylogeography of Brown Spider Monkeys
(Ateles hybridus) in Colombia: Testing the riverine barrier hypothesis. Meeting of the American Society
of Primatologists, Austin, TX. Abstract published in American Journal of Primatology 73 (Suppl.1): 83.
2010 Caro, L. M., P. C. Caycedo, R. C. K. Bowie, H. Slabbekoorn & C. D. Cadena. Ecological speciation
associated with elevation in a tropical bird. Joint Annual meeting of the Society for the Study of
Evolution, the Society of Systematic Biologists and the American Society of Naturalists. Portland, Oregon.
2010 Cadena, C. D. ¿Por qué la diversidad de aves en Colombia es tan alta? Las montañas colombianas como
laboratorio para estudiar el origen de la biodiversidad. (Why is avian diversity in Colombia so high?
Colombian mountains as a laboratory to study the origin of biodiversity). III Congreso Colombiano de
Zoología, III Congreso de Ornitología Colombiana. Medellín, Colombia.
2010 Cadena, C. D. Patterns and mechanisms of evolutionary diversification in montane birds of northern
South America. XXVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Zoología, Belém, Brasil.
2009 Cadena, C. D. Redescubriendo y reorganizando el conocimiento de la diversidad de la avifauna
neotropical. (Rediscovering and reorganizing knowledge of the diversity of the Neotropical avifauna).
Plenary Invited Talk. Primer Congreso Venezolano de Ornitología, Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
2008 Cadena, C. D., J. Fjeldså, N. Krabbe, H. Mata, T. S. Schulenberg, E. Valderrama & S. L. Bonatto.
Phylogeny, diversification, and historical biogeography of Scytalopus tapaculos (Rhinocryptidae).
Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union, Cooper Ornithological Society, and Society of Canadian
Ornithologists. Portland, Oregon.
2008 Gómez, J. P., C. D. Cadena & G. A. Bravo. Phylogenetic structure of typical antbird (Thamnophilidae)
assemblages. Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union, Cooper Ornithological Society, and Society
of Canadian Ornithologists. Portland, Oregon. (J. P. Gómez received award for outstanding student poster
presentation).
2007 Cadena, C. D. Delimitación de especies de aves colombianas: integración de datos moleculares con
análisis de vocalizaciones, morfología y modelos de nicho ecológico (Species delimitation in Colombian
birds: Integrating molecular data with analyses of vocalizations, morphology, and ecological niche
models). II Congreso de Ornitología Colombiana. Bogotá, Colombia.
2007 Vargas, K., C. D. Cadena & J. L. Parra. Determinación del estado taxonómico del cucarachero de
Nicéforo Thryothorus nicefori (Aves, Troglodytidae) mediante métodos morfológicos y genéticos. II
Congreso de Ornitología Colombiana. Bogotá, Colombia.
2007 Cadena, C. D. Diversification of birds in the Northern Andes: Emerging patterns and research needs. VIII
Congreso de Ornitología Neotropical, Maturín, Venezuela.
2006 Cadena, C. D., A. M. Cuervo & Z. A. Cheviron. How do leapfrog patterns of geographic variation arise?
IV North American Ornithological Conference, Veracruz, Mexico. (Received award as outstanding
student oral presentation).
2005 Cadena, C. D., J. Klicka & B. A. Loiselle. Molecular systematics and comparative phylogeography shed
light on the role of competition in the origin and maintenance of altitudinal distributions of Buarremon
brush-finches (Emberizidae). One Hundred and Twenty-Third Stated Meeting of the American
Ornithologists' Union, University of California-Santa Barbara.
2003 Cadena, C. D. Sistemática molecular y filogeografía de gorriones del género Buarremon (Emberizinae).
VII Congreso de Ornitología Neotropical, Puyehue, Chile. (Received award as outstanding student oral
presentation).
2003 Cuervo, A. M., C. D. Cadena & S. M. Lanyon. Phylogenetic relationships of the Red-bellied Grackle
(Icteridae: Hypopyrrhus pyrohypogaster) inferred from mtDNA sequence data. VII Congreso de
Ornitología Neotropical, Puyehue, Chile. (Received award as outstanding student poster presentation).
2002 Cadena, C. D. A preliminary molecular phylogeny of Buarremon Brush-finches (Emberizidae): plumage
does not reflect relationships and complicates biogeographic understanding. Third North American
Ornithological Conference, New Orleans, LA.
Teaching Experience
Graduate Courses
2007-present
Advanced Ornithology. Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
2007-2010
Topics in Evolutionary Ecology. Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
2009
Speciation in Birds. Graduate Seminar, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
2008
Scientific Writing. Asociación Colombiana de Ornitología.
2008
Visiting Faculty: Ecología Tropical y Conservación. Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa
Rica.
2005
Teaching Assistant: Workshop on Molecular Evolution. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods
Hole, MA. Supervisor: Dr. Michael Cummings.
2005
Teaching Assistant: Community Ecology. Dept. Biology, University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Instructor: Dr. Robert J. Marquis.
2004
Teaching Assistant: Biometry. Dept. Biology, University of Missouri-St. Louis. Instructor: Dr.
John G. Blake.
2003-2004
Course co-coordinator: Ecología de Ecosistemas Amazónicos. Organization for Tropical
Studies and Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana, Iquitos and Puerto Maldonado,
Perú.
2003
Teaching Assistant: Advanced Population Biology. Dept. Biology, University of Missouri-St.
Louis. Instructor: Dr. Robert E. Ricklefs.
2002
Visiting Faculty: Ecología de Ecosistemas Amazónicos. Organization for Tropical Studies and
Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana, Iquitos and Puerto Maldonado, Perú.
Undergraduate Courses
2006-present
Vertebrate Biology. Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
2007-present
Ornithology. Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
2011-present
Evolution: The Origin of Species and Humans. Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
2012-present
Evolution. Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
2007-2011
Principles and Applications of Ecology. Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
2007
Ecology. Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
2004
Teaching Assistant: Introductory Biology Laboratory. Dept. Biology, University of Missouri-St.
Louis. Instructor: Dr. Mariette Baxendale.
1995-1999
Teaching Assistant: Introductory Biology Laboratory (three semesters); Data Analysis (three
semesters); Field Techniques (one semester). Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Student Supervision
In progress
4 Ph.D. students, 3 masters students; all as major advisor
Completed
17 masters and 14 honors thesis undergraduates as advisor; 22 additional honors thesis
undergraduates as coadvisor
External Funding
2008-2012
"Comparative Phylogeography of Birds with Cross-Andes Distributions"; National Science
Foundation. Senior Scientist (PI: Dr. Robb Brumfield, Louisiana State Univ.). US$750,000.
2009-2011
"Evaluación del Modelo de Especiación Ecológica con Flujo Genético en un Grupo de Aves
Colombianas" ("Evaluation of the Speciation-with-gene-flow Model in a Group of Colombian
Birds"). Fondo para la Promoción de la Investigación, Banco de la República de Colombia.
US$10,000.
2007-present
Undergraduate and graduate students in my lab have obtained research funding from:
American Ornithologists' Union, British Ecological Society, Conservation International, Rufford
Small Grants for Conservation, Fondo Colombia Biodiversa, The Explorers' Club (twice)
2005
American Museum of Natural History, Chapman Memorial Fund Grant.
2003
American Ornithologists’ Union, Wetmore Fund Award.
2003
American Museum of Natural History, Chapman Memorial Fund Grant.
2003
Sigma Xi, Grants in Aid of Research Program.
2001
Organization for Tropical Studies, Donald and Beverly Stone Fund.
2001
The Explorer’s Club, Exploration Fund Grant.
2001
Idea Wild, Grant for Field Equipment.
2005
American Museum of Natural History, Chapman Memorial Fund Grant.
Funding Obtained from Home Institutions
2006-present
Much of my work over the past 8 years has been supported by funds obtained from the
Faculty of Sciences at Universidad de los Andes. This includes start-up funds obtained as an
Assistant Professor, two independent research project funded (one in collaboration with
professors from different schools), and 10-12 research grants awarded to masters and doctoral
students under my supervision.
2003
International Center for Tropical Ecology, Parker-Gentry Research Fellowship.
2001
International Center for Tropical Ecology, Development Board Scholarship.
Awards and Scholarships
2013
The World Academy of Sciences - TWAS Award for Young Scientists, Colombia.
2006
VI North American Ornithological Conference (Veracruz, Mexico), Award for outstanding
student presentation.
2006
VI North American Ornithological Conference (Veracruz, Mexico), Travel Award.
2006
Raju Mehra Award, Dept. Biology, University of Missouri-St. Louis.
2005
American Ornithologists’ Union, Marcia Brady Tucker Travel Award.
2005
Grobman Memorial Scholarship, Dept. Biology, University of Missouri-St. Louis.
2003
VII Neotropical Ornithological Congress (Puyehue, Chile). Award for outstanding student oral
presentation.
2003
VII Neotropical Ornithological Congress (Puyehue, Chile). Award for outstanding student
poster presentation.
2000; 2003
The Graduate School, University of Missouri-St. Louis. Fellowship for doctoral studies in
Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics.
2000
Organization for Tropical Studies – Universidad de Costa Rica. Scholarship for participation in
graduate course on Tropical Ecology and Conservation.
1996-1998
Fundación Neme, Colombia. Scholarship for undergraduate studies in Biology, Universidad de
los Andes.
Honors
2014- present
Corresponding Member. Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales
2008-present
Elective Member. American Ornithologists’ Union.
Editorial Work
2015-present
Associate Editor. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B.
2013-present
Associate Editor. The Auk: Ornithological Advances (journal published by The American
Ornithologists' Union).
2010-present
Associate Editor. Revista Venezolana de Ornitología (journal published by Unión Venezolana
de Ornitólogos).
2002-present
Spanish Editor – in charge of Spanish translations of abstracts for the following journals: The
Condor, The Auk, Ornithological Monographs, Journal of Raptor Research.
2008-2013
Reviewing Editor. The Condor (journal published by The Cooper Ornithological Society).
2008-2013
Editor. Journal Ornitología Colombiana (published by the Asociación Colombiana de
Ornitología).
Service
2011-present
Executive Board Member, Neotropical Ornithological Society.
2008-present
Executive Board Member, Asociación Colombiana de Ornitología.
2002-present
Reviewer of manuscripts for the following journals/services (total number of manuscripts
reviewed in parenteheses): American Naturalist (3), Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
(1), The Auk (7, 2 handled as Associate Editor), Bioessays (2), Biological Journal of the Linnean
Society (4), Biota Colombiana (1), Biota Neotropica (1), BMC Evolutionary Biology (2), Boletín
Científico Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad de Caldas (1), Boletín SAO (2), Bulletin
of the British Ornithologists' Club (3), Canadian Journal of Zoology (1), CheckList (1), The
Condor (3 prior to becoming Reviewing Editor, 27 as Reviewing Editor), Cotinga (3), Ecology
Letters (3), Ecography (6), Evolution (2), Evolutionary Ecology (1), Evolutionary Ecology
Research (1), Frontiers in Genetics (1), Global Ecology and Biogeography (2), El Hornero (1),
Ibis (3), Intropica (1), Invertebrate Biology (1), Journal of Avian Biology (2), Journal of
Biogeography (3), Journal of Field Ornithology (2), Journal of Heredity (1), Journal of
Herpetology (1), Molecular Ecology (8), Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (4), Ornitología
Colombiana (4 prior to becoming editor, 50+ since), Ornitología Neotropical (6), PLoS One (2),
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B (5), The Wilson Bulletin -The Wilson Journal of
Ornithology (5), Zoologica Scripta (2), Zootaxa (4).
2004-present
Reviewer of grant proposals for: US National Science Foundation, Population and Evolutionary
Processes Cluster; US National Science Foundation, Ecological Biology Cluster; Natural
Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC), Discovery Grants Program; National
Environment and Research Council (UK); Neotropical Ornithological Society, François
Vuilleumier Fund; Fondo Para la Promoción de la Investigación y la Tecnología, Banco de la
República, Colombia; Secretaría de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva (Agencia
Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica) de la República Argentina; International
Center for Tropical Ecology, University of Missouri-St. Louis.
2010-present
Member of Awards Committee for: International Ornithological Congress (Brazil 2010),
Alexander Skutch Medal of the Association of Field Ornithologists' (2010), Neotropical
Ornithological Society Student Travel Awards (Peru 2011).
2006-present
Member of the South American Checklist Committee, American Ornithologists’ Union
2006-present
External referee for dissertations and theses for: Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande
do Sul (Brasil), Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Universidad Industrial de Santander.
2004-2005
Graduate student member of the Executive Board, International Center for Tropical Ecology,
University of Missouri-St. Louis.
2001-2003
Elected twice as Secretary and Treasurer for the Biology Graduate Student Association, U.M.St. Louis; in charge of fund raising and organization of two invited speaker seminars.
1997-2000
Elected twice to the Executive Board of the Asociación Bogotana de Ornitología.
July, 2015