Born and raised in the Tropical Andes, I am an interdisciplinary ecologist broadly interested in tropical ecology and conservation. My research explores the patterns and processes behind biodiversity across spatial scales in different taxa, and the role of species traits and species interactions (mainly positive interactions) in shaping diversity. I hold a PhD in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation from the University of Florida.
I was a postdoctoral researcher at LSU where I mostly focused on macroecological patterns of biodiversity. Currently, I am an Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University and an Associate Researcher at the Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in La Paz, Bolivia.
Isabel is a conservation ecologist with extensive experience in tropical ecosystems. Her research focuses on unraveling the processes and factors that drive species rarity and using this knowledge to inform effective conservation practices in tropical regions. She worked for several years in the Andes region, where she studied the dimensions of species rarity and explored how these dimensions interact and how this can be used to inform conservation practices.