Camacho Guerrero, Agustín

Categoría Profesional: Profesor Ayudante Doctor
Departamento: Biología
Área de conocimiento: Fisiología Animal
Edificio: Edificio Biología
Email: agustin.camacho@uam.es
Teléfono: 91 497 2171
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Currículum Vitae

Licenciado en Biología por la Universidad de Córdoba - España (2003), Máster en Ecología y Biomonitoreo por la Universidad Federal de Bahía (2006) y Doctor en Zoología - IB/USP por la Universidad de São Paulo (2012). Estancias post doctorales en Sao Paulo (8 años), Arizona (1 año) y Adelaide, Australia (2 meses). Después de 17 años fuera, volví a España en 2020, gracias a un contrato MSCA otorgado por la Unión Europea. Tengo experiencia en Ecofisiología, con énfasis en Herpetología, Biogeografía y Evolución. Intento comprender cómo el medio ambiente interactúa con los fenotipos en evolución para determinar dónde pueden vivir las especies y las consecuencias de dicha interacción sobre diferentes niveles organizativos de la naturaleza. Últimamente, me he centrado en desarrollar un nuevo enfoque para pronosticar la vulnerabilidad de las especies al cambio climático. La mayor parte de mi trabajo se centra en los lagartos, pero disfruto trabajando con casi cualquier organismo. Utilizo enfoques que incluyen estudios de campo en regiones remotas y en el laboratorio, revisiones, modelos geográficos y videojuegos.

En mi labor docente en la UAM, participo en la asignatura de Fisiología Animal del Grado en Ciencias Ambientales y Biología. Dirijo TFGs y TFMS experimentales, de modelaje estadístico y/o bibliográficos. También he impartido cursos sobre diseño de proyectos, método científico en biología comparada, redacción científica, estadística filogenética y biogeografía funcional.

PALABRAS CLAVE DEL/DE LA INVESTIGADOR/A: Ecofisiología, Biología térmica, Vulnerabilidad climática.

ENLACES PERSONALES:

Portal Científico UAM: https://portalcientifico.uam.es/es/ipublic/researcher/332481

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2978-792X

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=LjInkHoAAAAJ&hl=es

www.agustincamacho.com

www.vulneraweb.com

Investigación

Proyectos de investigación

2024-2025. Mejora de las capacidades del laboratorio de macrofisiología animal. Proyectos de la FUAM. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Madrid. España. Supervisores: Agustín Camacho Guerrero, Rubén García Mateo. MyRole: Project designer and manager, research, mentoring, teaching. Determination of effects of temperature on activity time of flies and birds. Determination of the growth of medusae polips at different temperatures. Budget: € 4000.
2024-2025. Mejora de las capacidades del laboratorio de macrofisiología animal. Proyectos del departamento de Biología. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Madrid. España. Supervisor: Agustín Camacho Guerrero. MyRole: Project designer and manager, research, mentoring, teaching. Determination of effects of temperature on activity time of flies and birds. Determination of the growth of medusae polips at different temperatures. Budget: € 4000.
2020-2022. 897901. VULNERAWEB: A Web Platform for Forecasting Species Climatic Vulnerability. Marie Curie IF-Fellowship 2019 call. Estación Biológica de Doñana. CSIC. Sevilla. España. Supervisor: Miguel Tejedo Madueño. MyRole: Project designer and manager, research, mentoring, teaching. Evaluation of the capacity of multiple measures of thermal tolerance to predict geographic limits imposed by high temperatures. Creation of www.vulneraweb.com, capable of using supercomputing facilities to map species’ thermal vulnerability. Budget: € 160,932.48.
2018-20. CGL2017-86924-P. Predicción ecofisiológica y evolutiva de los efectos del calentamiento global. Análisis de vulnerabilidad en anfibios a lo largo de gradientes altitudinales y latitudinales. Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad. España. IPs: Drs. Miguel Tejedo Madueño & Alfredo González Nicieza. MyRole: Team member. Mechanistic modeling of pond properties along local and geographic gradients and manuscript writing of three manuscripts. Budget: € 181.500
2017-20. No ref. Evaluation of parameters used to estimate climatic vulnerability. Brazilian National post-doctoral Program. IB-USP. São Paulo. Brazil. Department of Physiology. Supervisor: Fernando Ribeiro Gomes. MyRole: Evaluation of experimental measures of behavioral thermal tolerance and Beneficiary, project designer and manager, research, mentoring, teaching climatic vulnerability against dehydration in the laboratory and the Brazilian Amazon. Budget: € 12,600.
2013-20. 1343578. Atlantic Forest Dimensions of Biodiversity. US-National Science Foundation-FAPESP. http://www.afbiota.org/ IPs: Drs. Ana Carolina Carnaval & Cristina Miyaki. MyRole: Team member. Independent production of two articles using data raised within the project and one talk at the project’s workshop on the measurement of thermal environment and tolerance traits and the geographic distribution of tropical lizards.
2012-22. 19/07090-1. Endemism and Comparative Phylogeography of the Brazilian Amazon Herpetofauna. FAPESP Thematic project. Phylogenetic. IP: Miguel Rodrigues Trefaut, IB-USP. Department of Zoology MyRole: Team member. Ecophysiologist: measurement of environmental temperature and thermoregulation, co-writing articles and divulgation, writing research reports.
2015-16. 2015/01300-3. Development of the measurement of behavioral thermal tolerance in lizards and its use for identifying restrictions on geographic distribution. FAPESP-BEPE at Arizona State University. Supervisor: Dr. Michael Angilletta Jr. MyRole: Beneficiary, project design and management, mentoring, and teaching. Budget: € 65,000 (15% research costs)
2012-17. 2012/15745-8 . Ecogeographical consequences of evolution of the snake-like morphotype in squamates. Stand-alone, competitive Postdoc FAPESP fellowship. IB-USP. Supervisor: Dr. Miguel Rodrigues Trefaut. MyRole: Beneficiary, develop techniques for massive modeling and analysis of species’ geographic distribution to investigate the effects of phenotypic evolution (snake-like body form) on species’ level traits in lizards. Budget: € 112,000. (15% research costs)
2013-15. 12-5 Australian and Pacific Science Foundation. Investigating the impact of seismic surveys on threatened sea snakes in Australia's North West Shelf. University of Adelaide, Australia. IP: Kate Sanders. MyRole: Team member, project co-designer, writer, and field implementation of underwater experiments for elapids. Budget: € 24,300.
2008-12. No ref. Evolution of snake-like lizards in the Gymnophthalmini Tribe. CAPES Ph.D. scholarship. IB-USP. Supervisor: Dr. Miguel Rodrigues Trefaut. MyRole: Beneficiary, project design and writing, management, mentoring, and teaching. Study of evolutionary relationships between physiology, morphology, ecology, and thermal environment in lizards. Budget: € 10,000.
2004-06. FAPESB. Master scholarship. Understanding the relationship of lizards with their habitats and microhabitats, a gradient in the Atlantic Rainforest. Institute of Biology. UFBA. Supervisor: Dr. Pedro Luis Bernardo da Rocha. MyRole: Project design, management, mentoring, and teaching. Expedition leader in measuring functional traits and environment of a lizard community in a vegetation ecotone in the Atlantic Rainforest. Budget: € 2,800.

Publicaciones

Camacho, A., Rodrigues, M. T., Jayyusi, R., Harun, M., Geraci, M., Carretero, M. A., & Tejedo, M. (2024). Does heat tolerance actually predict animals' geographic thermal limits?. Science of The Total Environment, 170165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170165
Pintanel, P., Tejedo, M., Camacho, A., Enriquez‐Urzelai, U., Llorente, G. A., & Merino‐Viteri, A. (2024). Physiological thermal niches, elevational ranges and thermal stress in dendrobatid frogs: An integrated approach. Journal of Biogeography, 51(10), 1880-1893. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14860
Camacho, A., Brunes, T. O., & Rodrigues, M. T. (2023). Dehydration alters behavioral thermoregulation and the geography of climatic vulnerability in two Amazonian lizards. PLoS One, 18(11), e0286502. Plos One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0286502
Leite, A. B., Camacho, A., & Francisco, M. R. (2024). Nest attachment, rather than nest type, correlates with passerine bird brain size. Ibis, 166(3), 814-825. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13292
Lima, C., Helene, A. F., & Camacho, A. (2021). Leaf-cutting ants’ critical and voluntary thermal limits show complex responses to size, heating rates, hydration level, and humidity. Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 1-11.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00360-021-01413-6
Guevara-Molina, E. C., Gomes, F. R., & Camacho, A. (2020). Effects of dehydration on thermoregulatory behavior and thermal tolerance limits of Rana catesbeiana. Journal of Thermal Biology, 93, 102721. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13292
Wiens, J. J., Camacho, A., Goldberg, A., Jezkova, T., Kaplan, M. E., Lambert, S. M., ... & Walls, R. L. (2019). Climate change, extinction, and Sky Island biogeography in a montane lizard. Molecular ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15073
Camacho, A., & Rusch, T. W. (2017). Methods and pitfalls of measuring thermal preference and tolerance in lizards. Journal of thermal biology, 68, 63-72.Camacho, A., & Rusch, T. W. (2017). Methods and pitfalls of measuring thermal preference and tolerance in lizards. Journal of thermal biology, 68, 63-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2017.03.010
Camacho, A., Rusch, T., Ray, G., Telemeco, R. S., Rodrigues, M. T., & Angilletta, M. J. (2018). Measuring behavioral thermal tolerance to address hot topics in ecology, evolution, and conservation. Journal of thermal biology, 73, 71-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2018.01.009
Camacho, A., Pavao, R., Moreira, C. N., Pinto, A. C. B. F., Navas, C. A., & Rodrigues, M. T. (2015). Interaction of morphology, thermal physiology and burrowing performance during the evolution of fossoriality in Gymnophthalmini lizards. Functional Ecology, 29(4), 515-521. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12355