Gustavo Londoño
Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas
Universidad Icesi
Cali – Colombia
email: galondono@icesi.edu.co

Dr. Londoño is an Associate Professor of Ecological Physiology and Animal Behavior in the Biology Department at Icesi University, Cali-Colombia. His research primarily involves birds as model organism to understand the factors that limits animal’s elevational distribution in the Andean mountains. He is particularly interested in the relative importance of biotic (e.g., predation, parasitism) and abiotic (e.g., temperature, rainfall) shaping species limits and life history strategies throughout the mountain ranges. His master’s research used Northern Mockingbird to understand the relative importance of food availability and heat on incubation behavior and embryonic development. His PhD explored how temperature and nest predation affected the life history strategies of nesting birds along a 2600m elevational gradient in Southwestern Peru. For his Postdoctoral research at University of California-Riverside he evaluated the effect of temperature and oxygen partial pressure on avian metabolic rate. During his time as an Associate Professor at Icesi Univeristy, he established a long-term bird mark recapture project on a 1500m elevational gradient and two additional sites. Simultaneously, he is conducting physiological, ecological and behavioral projects on invertebrates and vertebrates with the aim to understand the biotic and abiotic factors that constraint their elevational distribution.

B.S. (Biology) University of los Andes, Bogota-Colombia
M.S. (Zoology) University of Florida
Ph.D. (Zoology) University of Florida