Mammals of Middle and South America: Lagomorpha

Author Biography

Consuelo Lorenzo Monterrubio (PhD) currently works as researcher at the Departamento de Conservación de la Biodiversidad, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. She is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, the National System of Researchers in Mexico, the Systematic Collections Committee of the American Society of Mammalogists (ASM) and co-chair of the IUCN-SSC-Lagomorph Specialist Group. She is Professor of systematics and Curator of the mammal collection of ECOSUR. She is author of about 150 scientific publications and book chapters, and editor and author of 9 books, including Stories from the grassland: The Tehuantepec jackrabbit (2009), and Insular rabbits and hares of Mexico (2018), both from the National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity. Her research focuses on the evolution, ecology and conservation of Mexican lagomorphs. Her current projects include the ecology and conservation of endemic rabbits and jackrabbits in Mexico. José Manuel Mora Benavides currently works at the Carrera de Gestión Ecoturística, Sede Central, Universidad Técnica Nacional (UTN) in Alajuela, Costa Rica, where he is Professor of Zoology and Ecology. He has extensive teaching experience at several Costa Rican universities, as well as at institutions in other countries, and is currently associated with Portland State University and the University of Florida. He has also served as an invited professor in field courses organized by Pennsylvania State University and the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) in Costa Rica. His academic and research activities emphasize tropical biodiversity, wildlife conservation, and natural history. He has participated in and coordinated multiple field-based projects in Costa Rica and is the author and coauthor of over 200 scientific publications, including several book chapters, seven books as author or coauthor, and editor of two books. He is also the author of more than 100 technical reports and outreach materials on biodiversity. His research interests focus on the systematics, ecology, natural history, and conservation of Costa Rican wildlife, with particular emphasis on lagomorphs and other poorly studied vertebrate groups. His current projects include studies on the taxonomy, distribution, ecology, and conservation status of rabbits in Costa Rica, as well as broader efforts to document and promote the conservation of the country’s mammalian diversity.