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BACKGROUND & TIMELINE

Juan Carlos Castilla, Ph.D.
Professor of Marine Ecology
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Grupo Ecologia Marina
Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas
Alameda 340/CASILLA 11-D
Santiago
CHILE
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Wales
1970 - Marine Biology, United Kingdom

Prof. Cs. Naturales, Universidad Catolica de Chile
1965 - Zoology, Chile
KEY AWARDS & HONORS
Foreign Associate
2003 - National Academy of Sciences

Member
2003 - Chilean Academy of Science

Chilean Presidential Chair in Science
1997

Fellow
1996 - Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation

Award in Biology
1996 - Third World Academy of Science

Special Distinction in Marine Conservation
1993 - Chilean Fishery Office

Honorary Membership
1991 - Ecological Society of America
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Roberts, C., G. Branch, R. Bustamante, J.C. Castilla, J. Dugan, B. Halpern, K. Lafferty, H. Leslie, J. Lubchenco, D. McArdle, M. Ruckelshaus and R. Warner. 2003. Application of ecological criteria in selecting marine reserves and developing reserve networks. Ecological Applications 13(1): 215-228

Roberts, C., S. Andelman, G. Branch, R. Bustamante, J.C. Castilla, J. Dugan, B. Halpern, K. Lafferty, H. Leslie, J. Lubchenco, D. McArdle, H. Possingham, M. Ruckelshaus and R. Warner. 2003. Ecological criteria for evaluating candidate sites for marine reserves. Ecological Applications 13(1): 199-214

Farina J.M. and J. C. Castilla. 2001. Temporal variation in the diversity and cover of sessile species in rocky intertidal communities affected by copper mine tailings in Northern Chile. Marine Pollution Bulletin 42(7): 554-568

Leiva, G.E. and J.C. Castilla. 2001. A review of the world marine gastropod fishery: evolution of catches, management and the Chilean experience. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 11(4): 283-300

Castilla, J.C. 2000. Roles of experimental marine ecology in coastal management and conservation. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 250(1): 3-2

Castilla, J.C. 1999. Coastal marine communities: Trends and perspectives from human-exclusion experiments. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 14:280-283

Castilla, J.C. and M. Fernandez. 1999. Coastal marine community-ecosystem approaches in invertebrate multispecies management: take and no-take areas network and territorial use rights in fisheries (TURFs). Proceedings of the Norway/UN Conference on the Ecosystem Approach for Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity 137-142

Castilla, J.C. and M. Fernandez. 1998. Small-scale benthic fisheries in Chile: On co-management and sustainable use of benthic invertebrates. Ecological Applications 8(1): S123-S132

Castilla, J.C. and M. Fernandez. 1998. Small-scale benthic fisheries in Chile: On so-management and sustainable use of benthic invertebrates. Ecological Applications 8:S124-S132

Castilla, J.C. and M.A. Varas. 1998. A plankton trap for exposed rocky intertidal shores. Marine Ecology Progress Series 175-299

Castilla, J.C., P. Manriquez, J. Alvarado, A. Rosson, C. Pino, C. Espoz, R. Soto, D. Olivia and O. Defeo. 1998. Artisanal "Caletas" as units of production and co-managers of benthic invertebrates in Chile. Proceedings of the North Pacific Symposium on Invertebrate Stock Assessment and Management: Canadian Special Publication Fishery and Aquatic Sciences 125:407-413

Defeo, O. and J.C. Castilla. 1998. Harvesting and economic patterns in the artisanal Octopus minimus (Cephalopoda) fishery in a northern Chile cove. Fisheries Research (38): 121-130

Farias, A., I. Uriarte and J.C. Castilla. 1998. A biochemical study of the larval and postlarval stages of the Chilean scallop Argopecte purpuratus. Aquaculture 166(1): 2-37

Botsford, L.W., J.C. Castilla and C.H. Peterson. 1997. The Management of fisheries and marine ecosystems. Science 277(5325): 509

Castilla, J. 1997. Chilean resources of benthic invertebrates: Fishery, collapses, stock rebuilding and the role of coastal management areas and national parks. In: Developing and Sustaining World Fisheries Resources. The State of Science and Management (D.A. Hancock, D.C. Smith, A. Grant and J.P. Beumer eds.). 2nd World Fisheries Congress, CSIRO, Australia, p. 130-135

Castilla, J. and E. Rho. 1997. Marine littoral conservation and resource restocking in Northern Chile: The case of minera escondida at Punta Coloso, Antofagsta, Chile. Estud. Oceanol. 16:51-66

Farina, J.M., J.C. Castilla and P.A. Camus. 1997. Equilibrium and non-equilibrium concepts in community ecology. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 70:321-339

Fernandez, M. and J.C. Castilla. 1997. The Chilean artisanal stone crab (Homalaspis plana ) fishery: Catch trends in open access zones and the effect of management areas in central Chile. Journal of Shellfish Research 16(2): 371-377

Lagos, N.A. and J.C. Castilla. 1997. Bayesian statistical inference in ecology: An example of its use in a Chilean marine preserve. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 70:565-575

Serra, G. G. Chelazzi and J.C. Castilla. 1997. Effects of experience and risk of predation on the foraging behaviour of the south-eastern Pacific muricid Concholepas concholepas (Mollusca: Gastropoda). The Jornal of Animal Ecology 66(6): 876

Castilla, J.C. 1996. The future Chilean Marine Park and preserves network and the concepts of conservation, preservation and management according to the national legislation. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 69:253-270

Power, M.E., D. Tilman, J.A. Estes, B.A. Menge, W.J. Bond, L.S. Mills, G. Daily, J.C. Castilla, J. Lubchenco and R.T. Paine. 1996. Challenges in the Quest for Keystones Identifying keystone species is difficult--but essential to understanding how loss of species will affect ecosystems. BioScience 46(8): 609 pages

Marquet, P.A., S.A. Navarrette and J.C. Castilla. 1995. Body size, population density, and the energetic equivalence rule. The Journal of Animal Ecology 64(3): 325 pages

Sienfeld, W. and J.C. Castilla. Estado de conservacion y conocimiento de las nutrias en Chile. Estudio Oceanologicos 18:69-79

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