Dr Sonia Bejarano Chavarro
Marine Spatial Ecology Lab
School of Biological Sciences
University of Queensland
St. Lucia Brisbane, Qld 4072
Australia
tel: +61 (733651671)
Fax: +61 7 3365 4755
email: s.bejarano@uq.edu.au
Research interests
Reef fish ecology, role of parrotfishes in the resilience of Pacific reefs, fisheries of herbivorous fish in Micronesia.
Career
2010-2013 Postdoctoral fellow in the University of Queensland (Australia).
2008-2010 Project scientist in “Effects of herbivore exploitation in Micronesia” funded by the US National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF).
2001-2004 Coral reef monitoring researcher within the System for Coral Reef Monitoring in Colombia – INVEMAR, Santa Marta, Colombia.
Qualifications
2010 PhD Biological Sciences, University of Exeter, UK.
2001 Bsc Marine Biology, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano de Bogota (Colombia).
Awards
2009 Living Oceans Foundation- Post-doctoral Fellowship.
2005 World Bank/GEF Coral Reef Targeted Research Project (CRTR)- PhD scholarship.
2004 10th International Coral Reef Symposium Travel Award (Okinawa, Japan).
Recent grants / projects
2003 Conservation International’s Initiative for the study of threatened species.
Journal Publications
Bejarano, S., P. J. Mumby, and I. Sotheran. (in press). Predicting the structural complexity of reef and their fish abundance using acoustic remote sensing (RoxAnn). Marine Biology. DOI 10.1007/s00227-010-1575-5.
Bejarano, S., P. J. Mumby, J. Hedley and I. Sotheran. 2010. Combining optical and acoustic data to enhance the accuracy of coral reef habitat maps. Remote sensing of environment 114: 2768-2778.
Rodriguez-Ramirez, A., M.C. Reyes–Nivia, S. Zea, R. Navas-Camacho, J. Garzon-Ferreira, S. Bejarano, P. Herron and C. Orozco. 2010. Recent dynamics and condition of coral reefs in the Colombian Caribbean. Rev. Biol. Trop. 58 (Suppl 1): 107-131.
Gil-Agudelo, D., R. Navas-Camacho, A. Rodirguez-Ramirez, M.C. Reyes – Nivia, S. Bejarano, J. Garzon-Ferreira and G. Smith. 2009. Enfermedades coralinas y su investigacion en los arrecifes Colombianos. Bol. Invest. Mar. Cost. 38(2): 71-195.
Manrique-Rodriguez, N. S. Bejarano and J. Garzón-Ferreira. 2006. Crecimiento del abanico de mar Gorgonia ventalina (Linnaeus, 1758) (Cnidaria: Gorgoniidae) en el area de Santa Marta, Caribe Colombiano. In. Bol. Invest. Mar. Cost. 35: 77-90.
Bejarano, S., J. M. Díaz and S. Zea. 2004. Esponjas y otros microhábitats de ofiuros (Ophiuroidea: Echinodermata) en ambientes arrecifales del Archipiélago de San Bernardo. Caribe Colombiano. Bol. Invest. Mar. Cost. 33: 24-46.
Friedlander, A., J. Sladek-Nowlis, J.A. Sanchez, R. Appledoorn, P. Usseglio, C. McCormick, S. Bejarano and Michael Chui. 2003. Designing effective marine protected areas in Sea flower biosphere reserve, Colombia, based on biological and sociological information. Conservation Biology 17 (6): 1769-1784.
Book chapters and conference proceedings
Bejarano, S., N. Manrique and J. Garzón-Ferreira. 2004. Recent mortality and other health conditions of the sea fan Gorgonia ventalina in Santa Marta, Colombian Caribbean, 15 years after a mass mortality event. In: Proceedings of the 10th International Coral Reef Symposium. Okinawa –Japan. 28 June –2 July 2004.