Alejandra Echeverri

Datos Biográficos

ID7361502
NOMBREAlejandra Echeverri
NOMBRESAlejandra
APELLIDOEcheverri
FIRMAECHEVERRI Á
AFILIACIONESUniversity of California, Berkeley
ORCID0000-0002-8821-0509
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2017
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Bird-mediated cultural ecosystem services and disservices depend on urban residents’ perceptions of birds

    Open AccessLucía Izquierdo, Kai M A Chan et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2026

    Urbanization influences how people interact with nature, modifying perceptions of nature’s benefits (ecosystem services) or harms (ecosystem disservices or ED). In urban areas, wildlife-mediated ecosystem services remain understudied despite their importance for human well-being, particularly cultural ecosystem services (CES). The provision of species-mediated CES and ED also depends on the composition of wildlife communities, which can vary with…

  • Birdwatchers’ attitudes and preferences that influence their decisions to engage in local, national, and international birdwatching trips

    Corey T Callaghan, Brittany M Mason et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ecotourism2025

    Birdwatching tourism has significant economic potential and is a growing form of ecotourism. Birdwatchers throughout the United States have diverse attitudes and motivations, and here we sought to understand how, and why, birdwatchers select birdwatching destinations at local, in-country, and international scales. A questionnaire survey (n = 427 participants) revealed that 98% participate in local birdwatching trips, 96% participate in in-country…

  • Urban community gardens foster positive human-avian interactions across an income gradient in San Francisco

    Open AccessKelley E Langhans, Alejandra Echeverri et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2025

    Access to nature in cities is critical to human well-being; however, it is not equitably distributed. In this study, we investigated a specific type of access to nature, access to positive interactions with urban birds. We explored whether these interactions are equitably distributed in 20 community gardens across an income gradient in the city of San Francisco, U.S.A. We used an interdisciplinary approach, combining ecological and social methods…

  • Toward Sustainable Biocultural Ecotourism

    Open AccessAlejandra Echeverri, Natasha M Batista et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2025

    Ecotourism plays a vital role in both economic development and depending on the scale, it can also aid environmental conservation. Ecotourism planning often considers culture‐based and nature‐based tourism separately, failing to recognize the synergies between them, with the potential to market locations as biocultural destinations. Using Colombia as a case study, we created metrics of taxonomic biological diversity as measured by vertebrate spec…

  • Nearly half of Colombian artisan craft plant species lack national and international vulnerability assessments

    Open AccessKatherine Victoria Hernandez, Federico Andrade-Rivas et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2024

    Humanity has maintained cultural connections with our environments from time immemorial. Plants and artisan crafts are a prime example, as craft purpose, skill, design and species used can vary greatly between communities and the loss of a critical plant species can result in a loss of access to cultural craft practices. To mitigate global biodiversity loss, conservationists are faced with the challenge of assessing species vulnerability to extin…

  • Centring justice in conceptualizing and improving access to urban nature

    Open AccessKelley E Langhans, Alejandra Echeverri et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2023

    As humanity has become increasingly urban, a growing number of people have been deprived of access to nature and the benefits it provides. This is especially true for marginalized groups, who often live in neighbourhoods where nature has been so diminished and degraded that it provides fewer types, and much lower levels of benefits. We review the literatures on human–nature relationships, urban sustainability and justice to create an actionable d…

  • Can avian functional traits predict cultural ecosystem services

    Open AccessAlejandra Echeverri, Daniel S Karp et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2020

    The functional trait diversity of species assemblages can predict the provision of ecosystem services such as pollination and carbon sequestration, but it is unclear whether the same trait‐based framework can be applied to identify the factors that underpin cultural ecosystem services and disservices. To explore the relationship between traits and the contribution of species to cultural ecosystem services and disservices, we conducted 404 questio…

  • Eco-xenophobia among rural populations

    Deena Dinat, Alejandra Echeverri et al.ARTICLEHuman Dimensions of Wildlife2019

    The meanings attached to animals speak to context-specific socio-political differences that are crucial to the success of conservation and wildlife management programs. The social construction of animals, however, remains underrepresented in wildlife management scholarship and practice. We conducted 31 semi-structured interviews with farmers and urbanites, and analyzed the case of the Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) in Guanacaste, Cost…

  • How Messaging Shapes Attitudes toward Sea Otters as a Species at Risk

    Alejandra Echeverri, Kai M A Chan et al.ARTICLEHuman Dimensions of Wildlife2017

    To address the drivers of biodiversity loss, conservation efforts must attend to public attitudes toward endangered species. Using sea otters as a species at risk, we examined how messaging shapes people’s attitudes toward this species. Participants viewed a message about sea otters that was either positive (sea otters as keystone species), negative (resource conflict with local fishermen), or neutral (biological facts). The impact of the message…