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Albert Fernandez Chacon

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Researcher
Telephone: 55238500
Department: Populasjonsgenetikk

I am an ecologist interested in the factors shaping the dynamics of wild animal populations and biological communities. I use detection data on individual animals and advanced modelling tools to generate knowledge on the factors influencing biological processes (e.g., individual survival, dispersal, recruitment, growth, etc.)  in space and time. My research results have contributed to the management of several species (e.g., Storm petrel, Mediterranean tortoise, European lobster, Atlantic cod)  and protected areas in Spain, France the USA and Norway.

Subjectarea

Eco-evolutionary dynamics, Animal demography, Mark-Recapture data analysis, Conservation biology, Fisheries ecology, MPAs, Harvested species, Sustainable resource management, Population projections, Biostatistics, Hierarchical and Hidden-Markov models

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

 

2013: PhD in Population ecology. University of Barcelona, Spain.         

2008: MSc Environmental Studies. Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.

2007: BSc Biology. Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.

 

PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

2022 - 2023: Scientific Secretary. North Atlantic Marine Mammal Comission (NAMMCO), Norway.

2019 - 2022: Postdoctoral Researcher. University of Agder (UiA), Norway.

2018 - 2019: Quantitative ecologist. Bretagne Vivante Association, France.

2016 - 2018: Postdoctoral Researcher. University of Oviedo, Spain.

2013 - 2015: Postdoctoral Researcher. Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Norway.

 

 

Publications

Academic articles

2023

Juvenile survival and movements of two threatened oceanic sharks in the North Atlantic Ocean inferred from tag-recovery data

Gonzalo Mucientes Albert Fernández-Chacón Nuno Queiroz David W. Sims og David Villegas-Ríos
Ecology and Evolution
2022

Lobster reserves as a management tool in coastal waters: Two decades of experience in Norway

Knutsen JA, Kleiven AR, Olsen EM, Knutsen H, Espeland SH, Sørdalen TK, Thorbjørnsen SH, Hutchings JA, Fernández-Chacón A, Huserbråten M, Villegas-Ríos D, Halvorsen KT, Nillos Kleiven PJ, Kiland Langeland T, Moland E.
Marine Policy
2022

Amphibian survival compromised by long-term effects of chytrid fungus

Gemma Palomar, Albert Fernández-Chacón, Jaime Bosch
Biodiversity and Conservation
2021

Mesocarnivore community structuring in the presence of Africa's apex predator

Curveira-Santos G, Sutherland C, Tenan S, Fernández-Chacón A, Mann GKH, Pitman RT, Swanepoel LH.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B
2021

Coastal Research Seen Through an Early Career Lens—A Perspective on Barriers to Interdisciplinarity in Norway

Deininger A, Martin AH, Pardo J, Berg PR, Bhardwaj J, Catarino D, Fernández-Chacón A, Martinez-Swatson K, Ono K, Oomen RA, Sodeland M, Sørdalen TK, Synnes AE, Thorbjørnsen SH, Thormar J.
Frontiers in Marine Science
2021

Demographic responses to protection from harvesting in a long-lived marine species

Fernández-Chacón A, Buttay L, Moland E, Knutsen H, Olsen EM
Biological Conservation
2021

Restoration of abundance and dynamics of coastal fish and lobster within northern marine protected areas across two decades

Moland E, Fernández-Chacón A, Sørdalen KT, Villegas-Rios D, Thorbjørnsen SH, Halvorsen KT, Huserbråten M, Olsen EM, Nillos Kleiven PJ, Kleiven AR, Knutsen H, Espeland SH, Freitas C, Knutsen JA
Frontiers in Marine Science
2020

Protected areas buffer against harvest selection and rebuild phenotypic complexity

Fernández-Chacón A, D. Villegas-Rios, E. Moland, M. L. Baskett, E. M. Olsen, and S. M. Carlson
Ecological Applications
2019

Covariate and multinomial: accounting for distance in movement in capture-recapture analyses

Guéry L, Rouan L, Descamps S, Bêty J, Fernández-Chacón A, Gilchrist HG, Pradel R
Ecology and Evolution
2018

Dry season survival of juvenile salmonids in an intermittent coastal stream

Jason Hwan , Albert Fernández Chacón , Matthieu Buoro and Stephanie Carlson
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 75
2017

Causes of mortality in depleted populations of Atlantic Cod estimated from multi-event modelling of mark-recapture and recovery data

Albert Fernández Chacón, Even Moland, Sigurd H. Espeland, Alf Ring Kleiven and Esben Moland Olsen
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 74
2016

Harvest pressure on coastal Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) from recreational fishing relative to commercial fishing assessed from tag-recovery data

Kleiven AR, Fernández-Chacón A, Nordahl J, Moland E, Espeland SH, Knutsen H, Olsen EM
PLOS One 11
2015

Neighbouring populations, opposite dynamics: influence of body size and environmental variation on the demography of stream-resident brown trout (Salmo trutta).

Albert Fernandez Chacon, Meritxell Genovart, David Alvarez, Jose Manuel Cano, Alfredo Ojanguren, Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz and Alfredo G. Nicieza
Oecologia 178
2015

Demographic effects of full versus partial protection from harvesting: inference from an empirical before–after control-impact study on Atlantic cod

Albert Fernández-Chacón, Esben Moland Olsen, Even Moland, Sigurd H. Espeland
Journal of Applied Ecology 52
2013

When to stay, when to disperse and where to go: survival and dispersal patterns in a spatially structured seabird population

Fernández-Chacón A, Genovart M, Pradel R, Tavecchia G, Bertolero A, Piccardo J, Forero MG, Afán I, Muntaner J, Oro D
Ecography 36
2013

Determinants of extinction-colonization dynamics in Mediterranean butterflies: the role of landscape, climate and local habitat features

Albert Fernández-Chacón, Constanti Stefanescu, Meritxell Genovart, James D. Nichols, James E. Hines, Ferran Páramo, Marco Turco and Daniel Oro
Journal of Animal Ecology 83
2012

Contrasting effects of climatic variability on the demography of a trans-equatorial migratory seabird

Genovart M, Sanz-Aguilar A, Fernández-Chacón A, Igual JM, Pradel R, Forero MG, Oro D, Roulin A
Journal of Animal Ecology 82
2011

Parasitisation by Bathycreadium elongatum (Digenea, Opecoelidae) in pyloric caeca of Trachyrincus scabrus (Teleostei, Macrouridae)

Maria Constenla, Maite Carrassón, Catalina Marta Moyà, Albert Fernàndez-Chacón, Francesc Padrós, Aigues Repullés-Albelda, Francisco Esteban Montero
Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 96
2011

Spatial heterogeneity in the effects of climate change on the population dynamics of a Mediterranean tortoise

Albert Fernández-Chacón, Albert Bertolero, Arnau Amengual, Giacomo Tavecchia, Victor Homar, Daniel Oro
Global Change Biology 17

Scientific lectures

2022

NAMMCO: 30 years of Regional Marine Mammal Management in the North Atlantic

Albert Fernández-Chacón Geneviève Desportes
DIS/DK Study abroad in Scandinavia program
2019

Age, Climate and Predators: survival dynamics of European storm petrels (Hydrobates pelagicus) in the Molène archipelago (France)

Albert Fernández-Chacón, Bernard Cadiou
Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Oslo (Norway)

Poster

2015

Cause-specific mortality of Atlantic cod and predicted survival under alternative management scenarios

Fernández-Chacon A, Moland E, Espeland SH, Kleiven AR, Olsen EM
27th International Congress of Conservation Biology (ICCB)

Reports and dissertations

2023

Benchmark Workshop for Harp and Hooded Seals (WKBSEALS)

Magne Aldrin, Martin Biuw, Alejandro Buren, Albert Fernandez-Chacon, Anne Kirstine Frie, Charmain Hamilton, Phil Hammond, John-Andre Henden, Daniel Howell, Hans Skaug, Lars Witting
ICES Scientific Reports 5 p. 74
2023

Report of the Joint ICES/NAFO/NAMMCO Working Group on Harp and Hooded Seals (WGHARP)

Biuw M, Fernández-Chacón A, Frie AK, Hamill M, Hamilton C, Haug T, Henden J-A, Howell D, Lang S, Murray K, Salberg A, Smout S, Stenson G, Witting L.
ICES Scientific Reports
2021

Kunnskapsstøtte og råd for regulering av fisket etter leppefisk i 2022

Halvorsen KT, Skiftesvik AB, Larsen T, Otterå H, Fernández-Chacón A.
Havforskningsinstituttet
2019

Démographie de l’océanite tempête en Iroise (1997-2017): effets de l’âge, de la colonie d’origine, de l’année, de la prédation, des variables climatiques et de la date de naissance sur la probabilité de recapture et la survie des individus bagués comme poussins

Albert Fernández-Chacón, Bernard Cadiou
Bretagne Vivante -SEPNB
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