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Carlos Jaramillo is affiliated with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Their research focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these broader fields, their work extensively covers subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Paleontology, Geophysics, and Ecology.

Their main research topics include Plant Diversity and Evolution, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America, Plant and Animal Studies, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Fish Biology, Ecology, and Behavior, and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Jaime Escobar, Camila Martínez, Mónica R. Carvalho, Fabiany Herrera, and Dayenari Caballero-Rodríguez. Jaramillo publishes regularly in scholarly venues such as Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Global and Planetary Change, and Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology.

Recent publications by Carlos Jaramillo include:

  • Extinction at the end-Cretaceous and the origin of modern Neotropical rainforests (2021, Science)
  • Improving the taxonomy of fossil pollen using convolutional neural networks and superresolution microscopy (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • The origin and speciation of orchids (2024, New Phytologist)
  • The evolution of extant South American tropical biomes (2023, New Phytologist)
  • Disproportionate extinction of South American mammals drove the asymmetry of the Great American Biotic Interchange (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Best Publications

  • Amazonia Through Time: Andean Uplift, Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Biodiversity

    C. Hoorn;F. P. Wesselingh;H. ter Steege;M. A. Bermudez

  • Middle Miocene closure of the Central American Seaway

    C. Montes;A. Cardona;Carlos A. Jaramillo;A. Pardo

  • Sensitivity of leaf size and shape to climate: Global patterns and paleoclimatic applications

    Daniel J. Peppe;Daniel J. Peppe;Dana L. Royer;Bárbara Cariglino;Sofia Y. Oliver

  • Biological evidence supports an early and complex emergence of the Isthmus of Panama

    Christine D. Bacon;Christine D. Bacon;Daniele Silvestro;Carlos A. Jaramillo;Brian Tilston Smith

  • Cenozoic Plant Diversity in the Neotropics

    Carlos Alberto Jaramillo;Carlos Alberto Jaramillo;Carlos Alberto Jaramillo;Milton J. Rueda;Milton J. Rueda;Milton J. Rueda;German Mora;German Mora;German Mora

  • The Late Miocene paleogeography of the Amazon Basin and the evolution of the Amazon River system

    Edgardo Manuel Latrubesse;Mario Cozzuol;Silane A.F. da Silva-Caminha;Catherine A. Rigsby

  • Explosive Radiation of Malpighiales Supports a Mid‐Cretaceous Origin of Modern Tropical Rain Forests

    Charles C. Davis;Campbell O. Webb;Kenneth J. Wurdack;Carlos A. Jaramillo

  • Evidence for middle Eocene and younger land emergence in central Panama: Implications for Isthmus closure

    Camilo Montes;Camilo Montes;A. Cardona;A. Cardona;R. McFadden;S.E. Morón

  • Effects of Rapid Global Warming at the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary on Neotropical Vegetation

    Carlos Jaramillo;Diana Ochoa;Diana Ochoa;Lineth Contreras;Lineth Contreras;Lineth Contreras;Mark Pagani

  • Fracturing of the Panamanian Isthmus during initial collision with South America

    David W. Farris;Carlos Jaramillo;German Bayona;Sergio A. Restrepo-Moreno;Sergio A. Restrepo-Moreno

  • Middle Eocene rodents from Peruvian Amazonia reveal the pattern and timing of caviomorph origins and biogeography

    Pierre Olivier Antoine;Laurent Marivaux;Darin A. Croft;Guillaume Billet

  • Arc‐continent collision and orocline formation: Closing of the Central American seaway

    Camilo Montes;Camilo Montes;G. Bayona;A. Cardona;A. Cardona;David M. Buchs

  • Late Paleocene fossils from the Cerrejón Formation, Colombia, are the earliest record of Neotropical rainforest

    Scott L. Wing;Fabiany Herrera;Fabiany Herrera;Carlos A. Jaramillo;Carolina Gómez-Navarro;Carolina Gómez-Navarro

  • Post-Eocene climate change, niche conservatism, and the latitudinal diversity gradient of New World birds

    Bradford A. Hawkins;José Alexandre Felizola Diniz‐Filho;Carlos A. Jaramillo;Stephen A. Soeller

  • Giant boid snake from the Palaeocene neotropics reveals hotter past equatorial temperatures

    Jason J Head;Jonathan I Bloch;Alexander K Hastings;Jason R Bourque

  • An integrated analysis of an orogen–sedimentary basin pair: Latest Cretaceous–Cenozoic evolution of the linked Eastern Cordillera orogen and the Llanos foreland basin of Colombia

    German Bayona;Martin Cortes;Carlos A. Jaramillo;German Ojeda

  • Fossil evidence for Cretaceous escalation in angiosperm leaf vein evolution.

    Taylor S. Feild;Timothy J. Brodribb;Ari Iglesias;David S. Chatelet

  • Extinction at the end-Cretaceous and the origin of modern Neotropical rainforests.

    Mónica R. Carvalho;Mónica R. Carvalho;Carlos Jaramillo;Carlos Jaramillo;Carlos Jaramillo;Felipe de la Parra;Dayenari Caballero-Rodríguez

  • Lithofacies, palynofacies, and sequence stratigraphy of Palaeogene strata in Southeastern Nigeria

    Francisca E. Oboh-Ikuenobe;Chuks G. Obi;Carlos A. Jaramillo

  • A Palynological Zonation for the Cenozoic of the Llanos and Llanos Foothills of Colombia

    Carlos A. Jaramillo;Milton Rueda;Vladimir Torres

  • Miocene flooding events of western Amazonia

    Carlos Jaramillo;Ingrid Romero;Ingrid Romero;Carlos D’Apolito;Carlos D’Apolito;German Bayona

  • Orogenic wedge advance in the northern Andes: Evidence from the Oligocene-Miocene sedimentary record of the Medina Basin, Eastern Cordillera, Colombia

    Mauricio Parra;Andres Mora;Carlos A. Jaramillo;Manfred R. Strecker

Frequent Co-Authors

Camilo Montes
Camilo Montes Universidad del Norte
Agustín Cardona
Agustín Cardona National University of Colombia
Felipe Guhl
Felipe Guhl Universidad de Los Andes
Alexandre Antonelli
Alexandre Antonelli University of Gothenburg
Victor A. Valencia
Victor A. Valencia Washington State University
Andrés Mora
Andrés Mora Ecopetrol (Colombia)
Steven R. Manchester
Steven R. Manchester Florida Museum of Natural History
Bruce J. MacFadden
Bruce J. MacFadden University of Florida
Scott L. Wing
Scott L. Wing National Museum of Natural History

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