Currículum

Licenciado en Ciencias Biológicas y Doctor en Ciencias Biológicas, mención Ecología de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Profesor del área de Biología y Bioestadística de la Facultad de Ciencias. Su línea de investigación se relaciona con el estudio y modelamiento de sistemas ecológicos a distintos niveles de organización. En la última década se ha desempeñado como consultor en diversos equipos multidisciplinarios, aportando como experto en análisis y modelamiento de poblaciones y comunidades ecológicas, al igual que en la sistematización de información cartográfica ambiental. Es autor de más de quince artículos en revistas de corriente principal y capítulos de libros. Actualmente es Profesor Titular e Investigador Principal del Centro de Investigación e Innovación para el Cambio Climático (CiiCC) de la Universidad Santo Tomás.

 

Su línea de investigación principal es la Conservación y Gestión Ambiental, y sus líneas de investigación complementarias son la Macroecología; Modelamiento de Nicho y Distribución de Especies; Observación de la Tierra.

 

Proyectos

 

2022-2025. Landscape structure and dynamics in a changing world: assessing the role of climate change and seismic drivers on the geographic structure and distribution of the cattail-tidal flat complex in coastal wetlands of southern Chile. Investigador responsable y Director.

 

2021-2025. Programa de Monitoreo del Humedal del Río Cruces. Universidad Austral de Chile y Consejo Científico Social del Humedal del Río Cruces, Valdivia. Co-Investigador.

 

2019-2020. Using earth observation to determine distribution of suitable habitat for migratory shorebirds: Case study of Bahia Lomas Ramsar Site. JNCC-DEFRA UK. Co-investigador.

 

2018-2020. Integrating structure and function of ecological, mechanical and mineralogical properties of marine calcifiers: shell carbonates as source of bio-inspiration (Carbo-Nat-Lab). PIA-CONICYT Anillos ACT172037. Investigador responsable y Director alterno.

 

2015-2020. Programa de Monitoreo del Humedal del Río Cruces. Universidad Austral de Chile y Consejo Científico Social del Humedal del Río Cruces, Valdivia. Co-Investigador.

Publicaciones

• 2022. Rivers as a potential dispersing agent of the invasive tree Acacia dealbata. Zamorano D, Labra FA, Vila I, Meier CI.

  Revista Chilena de Historia Natural. En prensa.

• 2022. Ocean acidification alters anti-predator responses in a competitive dominant intertidal mussel. Jahnsen-Guzmán, N, Lagos N, Quijón P, Manriquez P, Lardies M, Fernández C,Reyes M, Zapata J, García-Huidobro MR, Labra F, Duarte, C.

  Chemosphere. 288: 132410.

• 2021. Evolutionary drivers of the hump-shaped latitudinal gradient of benthic polychaete species richness along the Southeastern Pacific coast.  Moreno R, Labra F, Cotoras D, Camus, P, Gutierrez D, Aguirre L, Rozbaczylo N, Poulin E, Lagos N, Zamorano, D, Rivadeneira M.

  PeerJ 9:e12010.

• 2020. The Importance of Intraspecifc Variation for Niche Diferentiation and Species Distribution Models: The Ecologically Diverse Frog Pleurodema thaul as Study Case. A M. Barria, D Zamorano, A Parada, FA Labra, SA Estay, LD  Bacigalupe.

  Evolutionary Biology, 47(3):206-219.

• 2020. Assessing how body size affects the species-time relationship in a shallow marine benthic megafauna community exposed to a strong hypoxia disturbance. Labra FA, Hernandez-Miranda E y Quiñones RA.

  Marine Biology, 167(2), 1-13.

• 2019. Assessing the effect of fish size on species distribution model performance in southern Chilean rivers. Zamorano D, Labra FA, Villarroel M,Lacy S, Mao L, Olivares MA, Peredo-Parada M.

  PeerJ 7 (2019): e7771.

• 2019. Dietary habits of the black-necked swan Cygnus melancoryphus (Birds: Anatidae) and variability of the aquatic macrophyte cover in the Río Cruces wetland, southern Chile.

  PloS one 14(12): e0226331.

• 2019. Ecosystem processes, management and human dimension of tectonically-influenced wetlands along the coast of central and southern Chile. Lagos, NA, Labra, FA, Jaramillo, E, Marín, A, Fariña, JM, & Camaño, A.

  Gayana 83 (1): 57-62.

• 2018. Resilience of an aquatic macrophyte to an anthropogenically induced environmental stressor in a Ramsar wetland of southern Chile. Jaramillo, E, Duarte, C, Labra, FA, Lagos, NA, Peruzzo, B, Silva, R, Velasquez, C. & Melnick, D.

  Ambio 48(3): 304-312.

• 2018. Recovery of black-necked swans, macrophytes and water quality in a Ramsar wetland of southern Chile: Assessing resilience following sudden anthropogenic disturbances. Jaramillo, E, Lagos, NA, Labra, FA, Paredes, E, Acuña, E, Melnick, D, Manzano M., Velasquez, C. & Duarte, C.

  Science of the Total Environment 628: 291-301.

• 2018. Evaluating the relative role of feedback structure and environmental variables on the population dynamics of southeastern Pacific polychaetes. Labra FA, RA Moreno, SA Alvarado, FD Carrasco & SA Estay.

  Marine Biodiversity 48, (2): 1203-1212.

• 2016. Nonlinear temperature effects on multifractal complexity of metabolic rate of mice. Labra FA, Bogdanovich JM, Bozinovic F.

  PeerJ. 4:e2607.

• 2016. The relative role of ecological interactions and environmental variables on the population dynamics of marine benthic polychaetes. Labra FA, Moreno RA, Alvarado SA, Carrasco FD, Estay SA.

  Marine Biodiversity. 48(2):1203–1212.

• 2016. Nonlinear temperature effects on multifractality of metabolic rate fluctuations. Labra FA, JM Bogdanovic, F Bozinovic.

  PeerJ. 20:4:e2607.

• 2016. Variations in body size spectra of benthic macroinvertebrates as response to seasonal environmental changes. Badano EI, Martínez-Pérez CG, Vergara CH, FA Labra.

  In press J. tropical Biology. 64(1).

• 2015. Combining environmental suitability and population abundances to evaluate the invasive potential of the tunicate Ciona intestinalis along the temperate South American coast. Januario SM, Estay SA, Labra FA, Lima M.

  PeerJ. 3:e1357.

• 2015. Dynamic relationships between body size, species richness, abundance, and energy use in a shallow marine epibenthic faunal community. Labra FA, Hernández-Miranda E, Quiñones RA.

  Ecol Evol. 5(2):391-408.

• 2014. Evaluating Habitat Suitability for the Establishment of Monochamus spp. through Climate-Based Niche Modeling. Estay SA, Labra FA, Sepúlveda RD, Bacigalupe LD.

  PLoS One. 9(7):e102592.

• 2012. Response of the epibenthic macrofaunal community to a strong upwelling-driven hypoxic event in a shallow bay of the southern Humboldt Current System. Hernández-Miranda E, Veas R, Labra FA, Salamanca M, Quiñones RA

  Marine Environmental Research. 79:16-28.

• 2012. Geographic variation in trace-element signatures in the statoliths of near-hatch larvae and recruits of Concholepas concholepas (loco). Manríquez PH, Galaz SP, Opitz T, Hamilton S, Paradis G, Warner RR, Castilla JC, Labra FA, Lagos NA.

  Marine Ecology Progress Series. 448:105-118.

• 2011. Increased outbreak frequency associated with changes in the dynamic behaviour of populations of two aphid species. Estay SA, Lima M, Labra FA, Harrington R.

  Oikos. 121(4):614-622.

• 2011. DNA barcoding of marine polychaetes species of southern Patagonian fjords. Maturana CS, Moreno RA, Labra FA, González-Wevar C, Rozbaczylo N, Carrasco FD, Poulin E.

  Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía. 46:35-42.

• 2009. Predicting insect pest status under climate change scenarios: combining experimental data and population dynamics modelling. Estay SA, Lima M, Labra FA.

  Journal of Applied Entomology. 133:491-499.

• 2008. Thermal constraints on daily patterns of aggregation and density along an intertidal gradient in the periwinkle Echinolittorina peruviana. Muñoz JLP, Camus PA, Labra FA, Finke GR, Bozinovic F.

  Journal of Thermal Biology. 33:149-156.

• 2007. Scaling and universality in metabolic rate variability. Labra FA, Marquet PA, Bozinovic F.

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 104:10900-10903.

• 2005. Priority areas for the conservation of coastal marine vertebrates in Chile. Tognelli MF, Silva-García C, Labra FA, Marquet PA.

  Biological Conservation 126:420-428.

• 2005. Scaling and power laws in ecological systems. Marquet PA, Quiñones RA, Abades S, Labra FA, Tognelli M, Arim M, Rivadeneira M.

  Journal of Experimental Biology, 208:749-1769.

• 2004. Metabolic ecology: linking individuals to ecosystems. Marquet PA, Labra FA, Maurer B.

  Ecology, 85(7):1794-1796.

• 2003. Dispersal and transient dynamics in metapopulations. Labra FA, Lagos NA, Marquet PA.

  Ecology Letters. 6:197-204.

• 2000. Biogeographic patterns of Chilean littoral fishes. Ojeda FP, Labra FA, Muñoz AA.

  Revista Chilena de Historia Natural. 73:625-641.