Uriel Buitrago Suarez

Although my appointment with the Department is teaching, I do some research with neotorpical fishes. I have refocused my interest in pedagogical issues in the Colombian Amazonia. My research in fishes includes natural history of targeted species of the group Astroblepidae from the Andean Cordilleras in Colombia. With on going projects, such as estimating the intraspecific variation in Astroblepus mariae, a species that dwells the headwaters of Rio Meta, tributary of the grand Rio Orinoco, and sex allocation in Pseudoplatystoma magdaleniatum, from the Magdalena River, Northcentral part of Colombia. I am also interested in phylobiogeography and evolution of catfishes from the neotropics.