Dr. Yusdiel Torres Cambas is a postdoc at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB). He is assessing the protection offered by the Cuban protected area system to freshwater biodiversity and to the supply of freshwater ecosystem services, considering the present conditions and future climate and land use/land cover change scenarios.
Career
- since 2023 - Postdoc at IGB
- 2021-2023 - Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the IGB and Institute of Geoecology, TU Braunschweig (Postdoc)
- 2006-2020 - Department of Biology, Universidad de Oriente (Lecturer)
Reviewer activities
- Journal referee: Scientific Data, Journal of Ecology and the Natural Environment, Revista de Biología Tropical, Revista de Investigaciones Marinas
Publications (8)
Freshwater biodiversity is not adequately addressed by the current protected areas of the Caribbean biodiversity hotspot (2026) · bioRxiv
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The Danube Fish Database: documenting species distributions across a major European river basin (2026) · Scientific Data 13 (1), 786
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Environment90m – globally standardized environmental variables for freshwater science at high spatial resolution (2026) · Earth System Science Data 2026, 1541–1559
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GeoFRESH – an online platform for freshwater geospatial data processing (2024) · International Journal of Digital Earth, 2391033
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