René Bolom-Huet

Researcher, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México

Focus regions: Neotropical

René Bolom-Huet is a biologist specializing in ecology, biogeography, and biodiversity conservation. His career centers on understanding the ecological, evolutionary, and environmental drivers of species distributions. His research integrates ecological niche modeling, functional connectivity analyses, climate change assessments, phylogeography, evolutionary diversity, and spatial approaches applied to conservation.

He has investigated how plethodontid salamanders and other Neotropical species respond to habitat fragmentation, climate change, and landscape transformation, highlighting the complex interactions shaping biodiversity under global change.

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Climate-driven erosion of richness and evolutionary diversity and conservation shortfall in a salamander hotspot

Bolom-Huet, R., Caloca-Peña, L., Falconi-Briones, F., & Sunny, A. · Biodiversity and Conservation · April 2026

This work addresses the survival of plethodontid salamanders in Nuclear Central America, a global biodiversity and endemism hotspot. By modeling 35 specialized species, the study reveals that over 70% face severe range contractions by 2060 due to warming and cloud forest fragmentation. It further assesses how different governance regimes shape conservation outcomes, finding that collaborative and subnational management significantly buffer biodiversity loss. The result is an urgent, evidence-based blueprint for climate-resilient regional planning, aimed at preserving essential evolutionary legacies and montane refugia.

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