Manuscripts in review


  • Chaparro-Herrera, S., J.P. Gomez, M. Restrepo-Arias, J.M. Ponciano. Population estimates and sex ratio of the critically endangered Antioquia Brushfinch (Atlapetes blancae). Bird Conservation International. In Review

Pre-prints

Peer Reviewed Publications

  1. Londoño, G.A., J.P. Gomez, M.A. Sanchez, D. Levey, S.K. Robinson. 2023. Changing patterns of nest predation and predator communities along a tropical elevation gradient. Ecology Letters. 26, 609-620.
  2. Martínez, A.E., Ponciano, J.M., Gomez, J.P., Valqui, T., Novoa, J. & Antezana, M. et al. 2023. The structure and organisation of an Amazonian bird community remains little changed after nearly four decades in Manu National Park. Ecology Letters, 26, 335-346
  3. Martinez, A.E., E. Parra, J.P. Gomez, V.T. Vredenburg. Shared predators between primate groups and mixed species bird flocks: the potential for forest-wide eavesdropping networks. Oikos. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.08274. 
  4. Morales, C.C.*, J.P. Gomez, J.L. Parra. Morphological variation of Manacus manacus in Colombia: Effects of isolation by distance, environment and contact zones. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blab106.
  5. Drucker, J.D., N. Senner, J.P. Gomez. 2021.  Interspecific aggression in sympatry between congeneric tropical birds. Behavioral Ecology.   https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arab060. 
  6. Dinh E.T.N., Gomez J.P., Orange J.P., Morris M.A., Sayler K.A., McGregor B.L., Blosser E.M., Burkett-Cadena N.D., Wisely S.M., Blackburn J.K.. Modeling Abundance of Culicoides stellifer, a Candidate Orbivirus Vector, Indicates Nonrandom Hemorrhagic Disease Risk for White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus). Viruses: 13(7):1328. https://doi.org/10.3390/v13071328
  7. Mavrodiev, E. V.,  Gómez, J. P.,  Mavrodiev, N. E.,  Melton, A. E.,  Martínez‐Azorín, M.,  Crespo, M. B.,  Robinson, S. K., and  Steadman, D. W..  2020.  On biodiversity and conservation of the Iris hexagona complex (Phaeiris, Iridaceae). Ecosphere  12( 1):e03331.
  8. Ocampo, D., K.G. Borja-Acosta, J. Lozano-Florez, S. Cifuentes-Acevedo, E. Arbelaez-Cortes, N.J. Bayly, A. Caguazango, B. Coral-Jaramillo, D. Cueva, F. Forero, J.P. Gomez, C. Gomez, M.A. Loaiza-Muñoz, G.A. Londoño, S. Losada-Prado, S. Perez-Peña, H.F. Ramirez-Chaves, M.E. Rodriguez-Posada, J. Sanabria-Mejia, M. Sanchez-Martinez, V.H. Serrano-Cardozo, M.S Sierra-Buitrago, J. Soto-Patiño, O. Acevedo-Charry. Body mass data set for 1317 bird and 270 mammal species from Colombia. Ecology. In Press
  9. Ramírez Riaño W.A., D.A Lucena-G, J.P. Gómez, S. Chaparro-Herrera. 2020. Distribution and new records of the River Tyrannulet,Serpophaga hypoleuca P.L. Sclater & Salvin, 1866 (Passeriformes, Tyrannidae) in Colombia. Check List 16(6): 1465-1468. https://doi.org/10.15560/16.6.1465
  10. Ortiz‐Acevedo, E,  J.P. Gomez, M. Espeland, E.F.A. Toussaint, K.R. Willmott. 2020. The roles of wing color pattern and geography in the evolution of Neotropical Preponini butterflies. Ecology and Evolution: 00: 1– 16. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6816
  11. Yang, A., J.P. Gomez, J.K. Blackburn. 2020. Exploring environmental coverages of species: a new variable contribution estimation methodology for rulesets from the genetic algorithm for rule-set prediction. ​PeerJ. 8:e8968 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8968
  12. Easterday W.R., J.M. Ponciano, J.P. Gomez, M.N. Van Ert, T. Hadfield, K. Bagamian, J.K. Blackburn, N.C. Stenseth, W.C. Turner. 2020.  Coalescence modeling of intra-infection Bacillus anthracis populations allows estimation of infection parameters in wild populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1920790117.
  13. Gomez J.P., J.M. Ponciano, G.A. Londoño, S.K. Robinson. 2020 The biotic interactions hypothesis may explain bird species turnover in a Neotropical rainfall gradient. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29 (3): 491 - 502. ​DOI: 10.1111/geb.13047.
  14. Chavarria-Pizarro T, J.P. Gomez,  J. Ungvari-Martin, R. Bay, M.M. Miyamoto, R. Kimball. 2019.  Strong phenotypic divergence in spite of low genetic structure in the endemic Mangrove Warbler subspecies (Setophaga petechia xanthotera) of Costa Rica. Ecology and Evolution. 9: 13902 - 13918. DOI:10.1002/ece3.5826
  15. Echeverri, A., L.O. Frishkoff, J.P. Gomez, J.R. Look, P.J. Juarez, R. Naidoo, K.M.A. Chan and D.S. Karp. 2019. Precipitation and tree cover gradients structure avian alpha diversity in North‐western Costa Rica. Diversity and Distributions. 25: 1222 - 1233. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12932.
  16. Yang, A., J.P. Gomez, C.G. Haase, K.M. Profit, J.K. Blackburn. 2019. Effects of Brucellosis serological status on physiological conditions and behavioral mechanisms of southwestern Montana Elk. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 55 (2): 304 - 315.
  17. Gomez, J.P., D. Nekorchuk, L. Mao, S.J. Ryan, J.M. Ponciano, J.K. Blackburn. 2018. Decoupling environmental effects and host population dynamics in a classic reservoir-driven disease. PLOS Biology.
  18. Pulgarín, P., J.P. Gomez, S.K. Robinson, R.E. Ricklefs, and C.D. Cadena. 2018. Host Species, and not Environment, Predict Variation in Parasite Prevalence, Distribution, and Diversity along a Humidity Gradient in Northern South America. Ecology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3785​.
  19. Gomez, J.P., S.K. Robinson, J.K. Blackburn & J.M. Ponciano. 2017.  An efficient extension of N-mixture models for multi-species abundance estimation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12856.
  20. Gillooly, J.F., J.P. Gomez and E.V. Mavrodiev. 2017. A broad-scale comparison of aerobic activity levels in vertebrates: endotherms versus ectotherm. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 284: 20162328. 
  21. Sandoval-Hernández, J*, J.P. Gomez, C.D. Cadena. 2017.  Is the largest river valley west of the Andes a driver of diversification in Neotropical lowland birds? The Auk. 134 (1): 168 - 180.
  22. Zhong, M*. G.M. Hill, J.P. Gomez, D. Plotkin, J.R. Barber and A.Y. Kalahari. 2016. Quantification of wing shape and size variation in Saturniidae. Journal of Tropical Lepidoptera. 70 (2): 99 – 107.
  23. Gillooly, J., J.P. Gomez, E. Mavrodiev, Y. Rong and E.S. McLamore. 2016. Structural constraints on passive oxygen diffusion explain body mass scaling of metabolic rate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113 (19): 5340 -5345.
  24. Martinez, A., J.P. Gomez, J.M. Ponciano, and S.K. Robinson. 2016. Functional traits, Flocking propensity and perceived predation risk in an Amazonian understory bird community. The American Naturalist. 187 (5): 607 - 619.
  25. Mavrodiev, E., J.P. Gomez, A. Laktionov and S.K. Robinson. 2015.  Invasive plant distributions recapitulate patterns found in native plant assemblages in a heterogeneous landscape. Ecosphere 6 (4): 48.
  26. Martinez A. and J.P. Gomez. 2013.  Are Mixed-species flocks stable through two decades? The American Naturalist. 181: E53 - E59.
  27. Cadena, C.D., K. H. Kozak, J. P. Gomez, J. L. Parra, C. M. McCain, R. C. K. Bowie, A. C. Carnaval, C. Moritz, C. Rahbek, T. E. Roberts, N. J. Sanders, C. Schneider, J. VanDerWal, K. Zamudio and C. H. Graham. 2012.  Latitude, elevational climatic zonation, and speciation in New World vertebrates. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 279 (1726): 194 – 201.
  28. Gomez J.P., G.A. Bravo, R.T. Brumfield, J.G. Tello and C.D. Cadena. 2010.  A phylogenetic approach to disentangling the role of competition and habitat filtering in community assembly of Neotropical forest birds. Journal of Animal Ecology, 78 (6): 1181 – 1192.

Book Chapters

  1. Gomez, J.P. and S.K. Robinson. Aves del bosque seco tropical de Colombia: las comunidades del valle alto del río Magdalena. In: El Bosque Seco Tropical en Colombia. M.C. Pizano Editor. Ediciones Instituto Alexander von Humboldt. Bogota – Colombia. 2014.
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