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Awards

October 2017 Avinet Award
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Other Memberships/Affiliations
Asociación Territorios Vivos El Salvador (ATVES)
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Latin American Society of Primates

Degrees:

2018
Master     Biological Systems and Organisms

Publications resulting from Research
Girón, L. y M. E. Rodríguez. 2020. Murciélagos insectívoros (Mammalia: Chiroptera) en bosque de mangle y bosque ripario en Golfito, Costa Rica. Revista Realidad y Reflexión,Universidad Francisco Gavidia, El Salvador (in rev).
Méndez-Carvajal, P. G., Rodríguez, M. E., Pozo Montuy, G., Chaves, O. M., Ponce, G., Rodríguez-Beitia B. A. & Portillo-Reyes, H. 2019. Central American Spider Monkey Ateles geoffroyi (Kuhl, 1820), Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama. In: C. Schwitzer, R.A. Mittermeier, A.B. Rylands, F. Chiozza, E.A. Williamson, D. Byller, S. Wich, T. Humle, C. Johnson, H. Mynott and G. McCabe (eds.), Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates 2018–2020. IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group (PSG), International Primatological Society (IPS), Conservation International (CI), and Bristol Zoological Society, Arlington, VA.
Rodríguez, M. E., Ortega, J., Gutiérrez-Espeleta, G., Arévalo, J. E. & B. Rodríguez-Herrera. 2020. Genetic Diversity of Artibeus jamaicensis (Phyllostomidae) in Forest Fragments Surrounded by Agricultural Matrix in El Salvador. In: Ortega, J. and J. E. Maldonado (eds.), Conservation Genetics in Mammals. Springer. DOI: 10.1007)978-3-030-33334-8_12.
Rodríguez-Herrera, B., M. E. Rodríguez & M. Fernández-Otárola. 2018. Ecological network between tent-roosting bats and the plants used in La Selva biological station, Costa Rica. Acta Chiropterologica 20(1): 139-145.
Méndez-Carvajal, P. G., Rodríguez, M. E., Pozo Montuy, G., Chaves, O. M., Ponce, G., Rodríguez-Beitia B. A. & Portillo-Reyes, H. 2016. Central American Spider Monkey Ateles geoffroyi (Kuhl, 1820), Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama. In: C. Schwitzer, R.A. Mittermeier, A.B. Rylands, F. Chiozza, E.A. Williamson, E.J. Macfie, J. Wallis and A. Cotton (eds.), Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates 2016–2018. IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group (PSG), International Primatological Society (IPS), Conservation International (CI), and Bristol Zoological Society, Arlington, VA.
Girón, L. y M. Rodríguez. 2015. Programa para la Conservación de los Murciélagos de El Salvador. En Rodríguez-Herrera, B. y R. Sánchez (Eds). Estrategia centroamericana para la conservación de los murciélagos. SIEDIN Universidad de Costa Rica, Escuela de Biología. 85 pp.
Girón, L. E., J. G. Owen and M. E. Rodríguez. 2010. Van Gelder´s Bat: First record of Bauerus dubiaquercus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from El Salvador, Central America. Southwestern Naturalist 55 (4): 585-587.

XXIII Congreso de la Sociedad Mesoamericana para la Biología y la Conservación
2025
icon-pin-location Antigua, Guatemala
XXIII Congreso de la Sociedad Mesoamericana para la Biología y la Conservación
2025
icon-pin-location Antigua, Guatemala
48 North American Symposium for Bat Research
2025
icon-pin-location Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
XXII MSBC Congress
2025
icon-pin-location Panama
Second Latin American and the Caribbean Congress for Bats
2025
icon-pin-location El Salvador
Second Latin American and the Caribbean Congress for Bats
2025
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V Simposium for Mesoamerican Primates (XXI MSBC Congress-October).
2025
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XXI MSBC Congress
2025
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47th North American Symposium for Bats Research (NASBR)
2025
icon-pin-location Knoxville, Tennessee
46th North American Symposium for Bats Research
2025
icon-pin-location San Antonio, Texas
XX Congress of the Mesoamerican Society for Biology and Conservation (MSBC)
2025
icon-pin-location Belize City
XIX Congress of the Mesoamerican Society for Biology and Conservation
2025
icon-pin-location Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico

Workshop: “Sampling methods and statistics applied to Diversity monitory”, Professor: Dr. Viviana Ruiz from Cornell University.
2025
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Conservation Genetics Workshop, Universidad Nacional (UNA), Heredia – instructors from Porto University, Portugal.
2025
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Urban Ecology Workshop
2025
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Workshop Methods and techniques for the study of Rodents
2025
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Workshop Study design in ecology and Conservation Biology
2025
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Central American Workshop for the establishment of Important Bat Conservation Areas and sites (AICOMs y SICOMs)
2025
icon-pin-location Costa Rica
First Central American Workshop of Environmental Education with bats
2025
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Workshop Bioacustic with insectivorous bats. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute y SOMASPA (Sociedad de Mastozoológica de Panamá).
2025
icon-pin-location Panamá City
Central American workshop in Biology and Systematics of bats
2025
icon-pin-location Lancetilla, Honduras
IV International Course “Introduction to Conservation Biology in Latin America”
2025
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Course “Biologic Conservation Topics” Red Latinoamericana de Botánica.
2025
icon-pin-location Universidad de El Salvador, San Salvador
Workshop “Biological Corridors”
2025
icon-pin-location Esquipulas, Guatemala