Dr. Jaime R. Garcia Marquez
Postdoc
Interests
Freshwater biodiversity Ecosystem services Conservation planning Geo-informatics
Education
- PhD in Biology, 2007-2010
University of Bonn, NEES Institute, Germany - MSc in Geoinformation Science, 2004-2006
University of Twente, ITC Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, The Netherlands - BSc in Ecology, 2001-2005
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia
Jaime Garcia Marquez is a Postdoc at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB). Jaime has a long expertise on the use of ecological spatial methods which he has applied in research and consulting on biodiversity and ecosystem services conservation and landscape planning. He is now working on spatial modelling approaches towards identifying a safe operating space of water resources within the Horizon Europe project “SOS-Water”.
Career
- since 2023 - Postdoc in the Horizon Europe “SOS-Water” project
- 2019-2023 - GIS and Data Analyst at Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries
- 2018-2019 - Geography Department, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (Postdoc)
- 2014-2018 - Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (Postdoc)
- 2011-2013 - Environmental Consultant
- 2010-2011 - Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt, Germany (Postdoc)
Reviewer activities
- Journal referee: International Journal of Geographical Information Systems, Ecological Modelling, Plant Ecology and Diversity, International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management, Land Use Policy
Projects
Publications (14)
Reducing the global human footprint on lake water quality near river inlets (2026) · in revision
High resolution projections of shifts in freshwater biodiversity habitats under global climate change (2026) · EGU26-19593
Environment90m – globally standardized environmental variables for freshwater science at high spatial resolution (2026) · Earth System Science Data 2026, 1541–1559
The spatial discrepancy between Colombian freshwater fish suitable habitats and existing protected areas (2026) · Diversity and Distributions 32 (3), e70168
Complex Life Cycles Shape the Functional Biogeography of European Dragonflies (2025) · Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34, e70056
The Scale-Dependency in Freshwater Habitat Regionalisation Analyses (2025) · Ecohydrology, 18, e70018
GeoFRESH – an online platform for freshwater geospatial data processing (2024) · International Journal of Digital Earth, 2391033
Downscaling future land cover scenarios for freshwater fish distribution models under climate change (2024) · Limnologica, 126139
hydrographr: an R package for scalable hydrographic data processing (2023) · Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14, 2953-2963
DOI Project R-package Installation SDM workflow Connectivity workflow Authors & details
The recovery of European freshwater biodiversity has come to a halt (2023) · Nature, 620, 582–588
The Global EPTO Database: worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects (2023) · Global Ecology and Biogeography
Tracking a killer shrimp: Dikerogammarus villosus invasion dynamics across Europe (2023) · Diversity and Distributions, 29, 157-172
Hydrography90m: A new high-resolution global hydrographic dataset (2022) · Earth System Science Data, 14, 4525–4550
Urbanization promotes specific bacteria in freshwater microbiomes including potential pathogens (2022) · Science of the Total Environment, 845, 157321