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Ecology and Evolution
Mexico
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
57
Citations
14944
World Ranking
2669
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Mexico Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Mexico Leader Award

Overview

Alejandro Estrada is affiliated with the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico and focuses on research that intersects environmental science and psychology. Their scholarly output encompasses various aspects of primate behavior, wildlife conservation, and related ecological and social factors.

Their recent publications include:

  • Global importance of Indigenous Peoples, their lands, and knowledge systems for saving the world's primates from extinction, 2022, Science Advances
  • Current and future trends in socio-economic, demographic and governance factors affecting global primate conservation, 2020, PeerJ
  • Principal Drivers and Conservation Solutions to the Impending Primate Extinction Crisis: Introduction to the Special Issue, 2022, International Journal of Primatology
  • Global wildlife trade and trafficking contribute to the world's nonhuman primate conservation crisis, 2024, Frontiers in Conservation Science
  • Dominance style is a key predictor of vocal use and evolution across nonhuman primates, 2021, Royal Society Open Science

The frequent coauthors with whom Estrada has collaborated include:

  • Paul A. Garber
  • Júlio César Bicca-Marques
  • Sam Shanee
  • Sarie Van Belle
  • Kimberley J. Hockings

The scientist often publishes in journals such as:

  • American Journal of Primatology
  • PeerJ
  • Science Advances
  • International Journal of Primatology
  • Frontiers in Conservation Science

Their main fields of study are Environmental Science and Psychology, with notable subfields including Social Psychology, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Global and Planetary Change.

The principal research topics covered by Estrada consist of:

  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

Best Publications

  • Impending extinction crisis of the world's primates: why primates matter

    Alejandro Estrada;Paul A. Garber;Anthony B. Rylands;Christian Roos

  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;D. Carolina Useche;Julio Rendeiro;Margareta Kalka

  • Habitat degradation impacts black howler monkey ( Alouatta pigra ) gastrointestinal microbiomes

    Katherine R Amato;Carl J Yeoman;Carl J Yeoman;Angela Kent;Nicoletta Righini

  • Frugivores and seed dispersal

    Alejandro Estrada;Theodore H. Fleming

  • Bat species richness and abundance in tropical rain forest fragments and in agricultural habitats at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico

    Alejandro Estrada;Rosamond Coates-Estrada;Dennis Meritt

  • Tropical rain forest fragmentation and wild populations of primates at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico

    Alejandro Estrada;Rosamond Coates-Estrada

  • Bats in continuous forest, forest fragments and in an agricultural mosaic habitat-island at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico

    Alejandro Estrada;Rosamond Coates-Estrada

  • Anthropogenic landscape changes and avian diversity at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico

    Alejandro Estrada;Rosamond Coates-Estrada;Dennis A. Meritt

  • Howler monkeys ( Alouatta palliata ), dung beetles (Scarabaeidae) and seed dispersal: ecological interactions in the tropical rain forest of Los Tuxtlas, Mexico

    Alejandro Estrada;Rosamond Coates-Estrada

  • Dung and carrion beetles in tropical rain forest fragments and agricultural habitats at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico

    Alejandro Estrada;Rosamond Coates-Estrada;Alberto Anzures Dadda;Pierluigi Cammarano

  • Agroecosystems and primate conservation in the tropics: a review.

    Alejandro Estrada;Becky E. Raboy;Becky E. Raboy;Leonardo C. Oliveira

  • Non flying mammals and landscape changes in the tropical rain forest region of Los Tuxtlas, Mexico

    Alejandro Estrada;Rosamond Coates-Estrada;Dennis Meritt

  • Fruit eating and seed dispersal by howling monkeys (Alouatta palliata) in the tropical rain forest of Los Tuxtlas, Mexico

    Alejandro Estrada;Rosamond Coates-Estrada

  • Tropical rain forest fragmentation, howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata), and dung beetles at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico.

    Alejandro Estrada;Rosamond Coates-Estrada

  • Primates in peril: the significance of Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo for global primate conservation

    Alejandro Estrada;Paul A. Garber;Russell A. Mittermeier;Serge Wich

  • Resource use by howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata) in the rain forest of Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico.

    Alejandro Estrada

  • Frugivory and seed dispersal: ecological and evolutionary aspects.

    T. H. Fleming;A. Estrada

  • Dung beetles in continuous forest, forest fragments and in an agricultural mosaic habitat island at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico

    Alejandro Estrada;Rosamond Coates-Estrada

  • Patterns of frugivore species richness and abundance in forest islands and in agricultural habitats at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico

    A. Estrada;R. Coates-Estrada;D. MerittJr.;S. Montiel

  • Bat species richness in live fences and in corridors of residual rain forest vegetation at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico

    Alejandro Estrada;Rosamunda Coates-Estrada

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul A. Garber
Paul A. Garber University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Karen B. Strier
Karen B. Strier University of Wisconsin–Madison
Anthony Di Fiore
Anthony Di Fiore The University of Texas at Austin
Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez
Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez National Autonomous University of Mexico
Kathryn E. Stoner
Kathryn E. Stoner Colorado State University
Thomas R. Gillespie
Thomas R. Gillespie Emory University
Sandra Junglen
Sandra Junglen Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Fiona Maisels
Fiona Maisels Wildlife Conservation Society
Christian Drosten
Christian Drosten Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Karen E. Nelson
Karen E. Nelson J. Craig Venter Institute

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