Professor Roberto Salguero-Gómez
I am a biologist with broad training in evolutionary ecology. Some of the topics that I research include (i) life history theory, (ii) the mechanisms by which some species postpone or even escape from ageing, (iii) natural populations responses and forecasts to climate change, with a special emphasis in their conservation, and (iv) predictive links between organismal ecophysiology and demography.
I joined Pembroke in 2018, where I serve as a Tutorial Fellow in Ecology. In addition to the vibrant conversations with other academics and staff in college, I deeply enjoy interacting with my undergraduate and postgraduate students. I run tutorials and other academic activities that allow my students to gain a deeper appreciation for the complexities of the natural world. I frequently use some of the many resources that Pembroke and the University offer, including access to old textbooks of depictions of endemic fauna and flora via the Pembroke library and the Bodleian, visits to the back-stage collections of the Museum of Natural History, discussions on ecophysiology and adaptation at the Botanical Gardens, etc.
I was born in Seville (Spain) in the 1980s, and I did my BSc in Environmental Sciences at the University of Cadiz (UCA). I carried out my MSc in Management of Natural Resources at Kingston University of London. After my MSc, I worked as an associate researcher at the Botanical Institute of Vienna, where I studied the biogeographic predictors of anagenetic speciation, and then at the University of Seville, exploring the effects of habitat fragmentation on the Mediterranean vegetation.
I obtained my PhD in Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity at the Department of Biology of the University of Pennsylvania in 2011. There, I examined why and how plants decrease in size, an overlooked biological phenomenon, and the ecological and evolutionary implications of plant shrinkage at the modular, whole-individual, and population levels. Then I was offered a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Germany, where I first became intrigued by questions related to ageing in plants and animals.
In 2013, I moved to Australia to work at the University of Queensland. There, I explored patterns of viability in plant and animal populations, relationships between ecophysiological and demographic strategies, and the effects of climate change in mallee eucalypts in the Simpson Desert. In 2014, I obtained a highly competitive DECRA fellowship (Australian Research Council) to work as an independent researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Environmental Decisions, while I was also named research fellow of the MPIDR.
In 2016, I moved to the UK, where I first spent a year at the University of Sheffield as a NERC Independent Research Fellow. In May 2017, I moved to the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford, where a year later I started an Associate Professorship in Ecology, and a Tutorial Fellowship at Pembroke College
Paniw M, James T, Archer R, Römer G, Levin , Compagnoni A♮, Che-Castaldo J, Bennett J, Mooney A, Childs D, Ozgul A, Jones O, Burns J, Hodgson D, Beckerman A, Patwary A♮, Sanchez-Gassen N, Knight T*, Salguero-Gómez R*. In press. The myriad of complex demographic responses of terrestrial mammals to climate change and gaps of knowledge. Journal of Animal Ecology
Carmona C, Tamme R, Pärtel M, de Bello F, Brosse S, Capdevila P, González-M R, González-Suárez M, Salguero-Gómez R, Vásquez-Valderrama M & Toussaint A. 2021. Erosion of global functional spectra across the tree of life. Science Advances 7, 13
Compagnoni A, Levin S, Childs D, Harpole S, Paniw M, Römer G, Burns J, Che-Castaldo J, Rüger N, Kunstler G, Bennett J, Archer R, Salguero-Gómez R* & Knight T*. 2021. Perennial plants with short generation time have stronger responses to climate anomalies than those with longer generation time. Nature Communications 12, 1824
Capdevila P, Stott I, Beger M & Salguero-Gómez R. 2020. Towards a general framework of demographic resilience. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 35, 776-786
Healy K, Ezard T, Jones O, Salguero-Gómez R* & Buckley Y*. 2019. Animal life history is shaped by the pace of life and the distribution of age-specific mortality and reproduction. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3, 1217-1224
Salguero-Gómez R, Violle C, Gimenez O, Childs D. 2018. Delivering the promises of trait-based approaches to the needs of demographic approaches, and vice versa. Functional Ecology 32, 1424–1435
Paniw M, Ozgul A, Salguero-Gómez R. 2018. Interactive life-history traits predict sensitivity of plants and animals to temporal autocorrelation. Ecology Letters 21, 275-286
Salguero-Gómez R. 2017. Applications of the fast-slow continuum & reproductive strategy framework of plant life histories. New Phytologist 4: 1618-1624
Salguero-Gómez R, Jones OR, Archer CA, Bein C♮, de Buhr H♮, Farack C, Gottschalk F, Hartmann A, Henning A, Hoppe G, Römer G, Ruoff T, Sommer V, Wille J, Zeh S, Vieregg D, Buckley YM, Che-Castaldo J, Conde DA, Hodgson D, Scheuerlein A, Caswell H*, Vaupel JW*. 2016. COMADRE: a global database of animal demography. Journal of Animal Ecology 85, 371-384
Salguero-Gómez R, Jones OR, Jongejans E, Blomberg S, Hodgson D, Mbeau Ache C, Zuidema PA, de Kroon H* & Buckley Y*. 2016. The fast-slow continuum and reproductive strategies structure plant life history variation worldwide. PNAS 113, 230-235.
Salguero-Gómez R, Jones OR, Archer CA, Buckley YM, Che-Castaldo J, Caswell C, Scheuerlein A, Conde DA, Baudisch A, Brinks E, de Buhr H, Farack C, Gottschalk F, Hartmann A, Henning A, Hoppe G, Römer G, Runge J, Ruoff T, Wille J, Zeh S, Vieregg D, Altwegg R, Colchero F, Dong M, Hodgson D, de Kroon H, Lebreton J-D, Metcalf CJE, Neel M, Parker I, Takada T, Valverde T, Vélez-Espino LA, Wardle GM, Franco M* & Vaupel JW*. 2015. The COMPADRE Plant Matrix Database: an online repository for plant population dynamics.
Adler P, Salguero-Gómez R, Compagnoni A, Hsu J, Ray-Mukherjee J, Mbeau-Ache C & Franco M. 2014. Functional traits explain variation in plant life history strategies. PNAS 111, 740-745.
Jones OR*, Scheuerlein A*, Salguero-Gómez R, Camarda CG, Schaible R, Casper BB, Dahlgren JP, Ehrlén J, García MB, Menges E, Quintana-Ascencio PF, Caswell H, Baudisch A & Vaupel J. 2014. Diversity of ageing across the tree of life. Nature 505, 169-173. F1000Prime Underline indicates senior authors
Full list of publications available here:
https://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-rob-salguero-gomez#tab-1911941
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bgMIMNIAAAAJ&hl=en
Professor Roberto Salguero-Gómez
I am a biologist with broad training in evolutionary ecology. Some of the topics that I research include (i) life history theory, (ii) the mechanisms by which some species postpone or even escape from ageing, (iii) natural populations responses and forecasts to climate change, with a special emphasis in their conservation, and (iv) predictive links between organismal ecophysiology and demography.
I joined Pembroke in 2018, where I serve as a Tutorial Fellow in Ecology. In addition to the vibrant conversations with other academics and staff in college, I deeply enjoy interacting with my undergraduate and postgraduate students. I run tutorials and other academic activities that allow my students to gain a deeper appreciation for the complexities of the natural world. I frequently use some of the many resources that Pembroke and the University offer, including access to old textbooks of depictions of endemic fauna and flora via the Pembroke library and the Bodleian, visits to the back-stage collections of the Museum of Natural History, discussions on ecophysiology and adaptation at the Botanical Gardens, etc.
I was born in Seville (Spain) in the 1980s, and I did my BSc in Environmental Sciences at the University of Cadiz (UCA). I carried out my MSc in Management of Natural Resources at Kingston University of London. After my MSc, I worked as an associate researcher at the Botanical Institute of Vienna, where I studied the biogeographic predictors of anagenetic speciation, and then at the University of Seville, exploring the effects of habitat fragmentation on the Mediterranean vegetation.
I obtained my PhD in Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity at the Department of Biology of the University of Pennsylvania in 2011. There, I examined why and how plants decrease in size, an overlooked biological phenomenon, and the ecological and evolutionary implications of plant shrinkage at the modular, whole-individual, and population levels. Then I was offered a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Germany, where I first became intrigued by questions related to ageing in plants and animals.
In 2013, I moved to Australia to work at the University of Queensland. There, I explored patterns of viability in plant and animal populations, relationships between ecophysiological and demographic strategies, and the effects of climate change in mallee eucalypts in the Simpson Desert. In 2014, I obtained a highly competitive DECRA fellowship (Australian Research Council) to work as an independent researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Environmental Decisions, while I was also named research fellow of the MPIDR.
In 2016, I moved to the UK, where I first spent a year at the University of Sheffield as a NERC Independent Research Fellow. In May 2017, I moved to the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford, where a year later I started an Associate Professorship in Ecology, and a Tutorial Fellowship at Pembroke College
Paniw M, James T, Archer R, Römer G, Levin , Compagnoni A♮, Che-Castaldo J, Bennett J, Mooney A, Childs D, Ozgul A, Jones O, Burns J, Hodgson D, Beckerman A, Patwary A♮, Sanchez-Gassen N, Knight T*, Salguero-Gómez R*. In press. The myriad of complex demographic responses of terrestrial mammals to climate change and gaps of knowledge. Journal of Animal Ecology
Carmona C, Tamme R, Pärtel M, de Bello F, Brosse S, Capdevila P, González-M R, González-Suárez M, Salguero-Gómez R, Vásquez-Valderrama M & Toussaint A. 2021. Erosion of global functional spectra across the tree of life. Science Advances 7, 13
Compagnoni A, Levin S, Childs D, Harpole S, Paniw M, Römer G, Burns J, Che-Castaldo J, Rüger N, Kunstler G, Bennett J, Archer R, Salguero-Gómez R* & Knight T*. 2021. Perennial plants with short generation time have stronger responses to climate anomalies than those with longer generation time. Nature Communications 12, 1824
Capdevila P, Stott I, Beger M & Salguero-Gómez R. 2020. Towards a general framework of demographic resilience. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 35, 776-786
Healy K, Ezard T, Jones O, Salguero-Gómez R* & Buckley Y*. 2019. Animal life history is shaped by the pace of life and the distribution of age-specific mortality and reproduction. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3, 1217-1224
Salguero-Gómez R, Violle C, Gimenez O, Childs D. 2018. Delivering the promises of trait-based approaches to the needs of demographic approaches, and vice versa. Functional Ecology 32, 1424–1435
Paniw M, Ozgul A, Salguero-Gómez R. 2018. Interactive life-history traits predict sensitivity of plants and animals to temporal autocorrelation. Ecology Letters 21, 275-286
Salguero-Gómez R. 2017. Applications of the fast-slow continuum & reproductive strategy framework of plant life histories. New Phytologist 4: 1618-1624
Salguero-Gómez R, Jones OR, Archer CA, Bein C♮, de Buhr H♮, Farack C, Gottschalk F, Hartmann A, Henning A, Hoppe G, Römer G, Ruoff T, Sommer V, Wille J, Zeh S, Vieregg D, Buckley YM, Che-Castaldo J, Conde DA, Hodgson D, Scheuerlein A, Caswell H*, Vaupel JW*. 2016. COMADRE: a global database of animal demography. Journal of Animal Ecology 85, 371-384
Salguero-Gómez R, Jones OR, Jongejans E, Blomberg S, Hodgson D, Mbeau Ache C, Zuidema PA, de Kroon H* & Buckley Y*. 2016. The fast-slow continuum and reproductive strategies structure plant life history variation worldwide. PNAS 113, 230-235.
Salguero-Gómez R, Jones OR, Archer CA, Buckley YM, Che-Castaldo J, Caswell C, Scheuerlein A, Conde DA, Baudisch A, Brinks E, de Buhr H, Farack C, Gottschalk F, Hartmann A, Henning A, Hoppe G, Römer G, Runge J, Ruoff T, Wille J, Zeh S, Vieregg D, Altwegg R, Colchero F, Dong M, Hodgson D, de Kroon H, Lebreton J-D, Metcalf CJE, Neel M, Parker I, Takada T, Valverde T, Vélez-Espino LA, Wardle GM, Franco M* & Vaupel JW*. 2015. The COMPADRE Plant Matrix Database: an online repository for plant population dynamics.
Adler P, Salguero-Gómez R, Compagnoni A, Hsu J, Ray-Mukherjee J, Mbeau-Ache C & Franco M. 2014. Functional traits explain variation in plant life history strategies. PNAS 111, 740-745.
Jones OR*, Scheuerlein A*, Salguero-Gómez R, Camarda CG, Schaible R, Casper BB, Dahlgren JP, Ehrlén J, García MB, Menges E, Quintana-Ascencio PF, Caswell H, Baudisch A & Vaupel J. 2014. Diversity of ageing across the tree of life. Nature 505, 169-173. F1000Prime Underline indicates senior authors
Full list of publications available here:
https://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-rob-salguero-gomez#tab-1911941
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bgMIMNIAAAAJ&hl=en