Claudia Hernández-Camacho

Currently professor at CICIMAR in La Paz, MX
Lab Member Fall 2004 – Spring 2009

cjhernandez78@gmail.com

RESEARCH INTERESTS  during lab tenure
“My research career has focused on basic aspects of the population ecology of the Californiasea lion, Zalophus californianus. I have studied California sea lion populations inMexico since 1994. My PhD research is focused on the relationship between behavioral ecology and population dynamics for this species. I am particularly interested in determining the efficiency of maternal strategies and how they are influencing the population dynamics (population growth rate and effective population size) of three colonies in theGulf of California. To examine these ideas, I am evaluating parameters like age and sex-specific survival (mark-recapture models), female fecundity, operation sex ratio, etc. I will incorporate observed maternal behavioral strategies on demographic models to examine how behavioral data influence the accuracy of simple age-structured population models.  The objective is to compare three colonies that vary in population trend, size and density and anthropogenic activities during the 2004-2007 reproductive seasons.”