Aralisa Shedden

Aralisa Shedden-Gonzalez is a terrestrial ecologist who aims to understand the emerging challenges for biodiversity conservation in a changing world. She focuses on understanding how species respond to changes in their ecosystems, ongoing climatic events and human pressures.

She obtained her BSc and MSc from the University of Veracruz, Mexico and her PhD from Bournemouth University, UK. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Bournemouth University, collaborating in a EU Horizon 2020 project called RESONATE that investigates how past and current site factors and management affect forest system resilience in different forest types and management systems across Europe.

Aralisa is also involved with topics related to interactions between wildlife (e.g. jaguar and puma predation on primates), the effects of landscape transformation on animal health (e.g. increase in parasitism in animals living in human impacted forests) and enhancing our knowledge on how to tackle conservation issues in the tropics.