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Dr. Jaime Ricardo Cantera Kintz - CEMarin

07 01, 2020
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Dr. Jaime Ricardo Cantera Kintz

Education

  • 1989-1991 Doctorat D’etat En Ciencias Oceanologia, Universidad De Aix-Marseille, France.
  • 1981-1983 Ph.D. in Troisieme Cycle En Océanologie, Universidad De Aix-Marseille, France.
  • 1973-1977 B.Sc. in Biology, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.

University Unit

  • Cali-Colombia
  • Universidad del Valle – Ciudadela Universitaria Meléndez
  • Building 320 – Office 4055
  • Phone: +57-2 3213138

Research Group

ECOMANGLARES – Estuary and Mangrove Ecology

Technical/Quantitative Skills: 

  • Leadership, project management, leadership at research institutions.

Contact Information

Professional Experience

  • 2017-date Vicepresident of research at Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia. 
  • 2009-2015 –  Dean of Natural Sciences at Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.
  • 2005-2008 Chief of Biology Department, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia. 
  • 2004-date Full professor at Biology Department, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia. 
  • 2000-2004 Ad-honorem commission, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.
  • 1991 Postdoc position at Universidad De Aix-Marseille, France. 
  • 1977-2000 Associate professor at Biology Department, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.

Research Interests

Topics: Characterization and use of biodiversity (mollusks, crustaceans, polychaetes), environmental management and management of marine ecosystems, ecological modeling.

Selected Publications

Riascos, J., Valencia, N., Peña, E., Cantera, J. (2019). Inhabiting the technosphere: The encroachment of anthropogenic marine litter in Neotropical mangrove forests and its use as habitat by macrobenthic biota. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 142: 559-568. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.04.010 

Mejía-Rentería, J. C., Castellanos-Galindo, G. A., Cantera-Kintz, J. R., Hamilton, S. E. (2018). A comparison of Colombian Pacific mangrove extent estimations: Implications for the conservation of a unique Neotropical tidal forest. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 212, 233–240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2018.07.020 


Riascos, J. M., Cantera, J. R., Blanco-Libreros, J. F. (2018). Growth and mortality of mangrove seedlings in the wettest neotropical mangrove forests during ENSO: Implications for vulnerability to climate change. Aquatic Botany, 147, 34–42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2018.03.002

Number Of Publications: 

Cvlac: 179

TAGS: Marine ecology, mangrove, mollusks, coastal management.