
Paolo Piedrahita
Paolo Piedrahita is a biologist and professor at the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (Espol) in Ecuador, known for his research on marine biology and the ecological impacts of climate change. Recently, he has been in the news discussing the effects of the El Niño phenomenon on seabird reproduction along the Ecuadorian coast, highlighting how food scarcity forces many bird species, including blue-footed boobies, to suspend their breeding activities and how such disruptions can lead to significant demographic voids in their populations.
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Paolo Piedrahita explains that species like blue-footed boobies live several decades but reach reproductive maturity only after eight or ten years.
El ‘año perdido’ de las aves: el calentamiento de las aguas oceánicas relacionado al Niño amenaza la reproducción de las especies costeras | Ecuador | NoticiasEl Universo – major Ecuadorian daily, est. 1921·
Ecuador· 2026-07-30
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