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Universidad de Costa Rica: San Jose, San José, CR

2019 to present | Research Associate (Centro de Investigación en Neurociencias)
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Marcelo Araya-Salas

Cornell University Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology: Ithaca, NY, US

2016-10 to 2018-12
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New Mexico State University: Las Cruces, NM, US

2010-08-01 to 2015-12-15 | PhD (Biology)
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Universidad de Costa Rica: San Jose, San José, CR

2006 to 2009 | Licentitate (Escuela de Biologia)
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Marcelo Araya-Salas

Universidad de Costa Rica: San Jose, San José, CR

2000 to 2005 | Bachelor's (Escuela de Biologia)
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Works (32)

Quantifying degradation in animal acoustic signals with the R package baRulho

Methods in Ecology and Evolution
2025-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.14481
Contributors: Marcelo Araya‐Salas; Erin E. Grabarczyk; Marcos Quiroz‐Oliva; Adrián García‐Rodríguez; Alejandro Rico‐Guevara
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Calling to the collective: contact calling rates within groups of disc-winged bats do not vary by kinship or association

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2024-07-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0195
Contributors: Gloriana Chaverri; Maria Sagot; Jennifer L. Stynoski; Marcelo Araya-Salas; Yimen Araya-Ajoy; Martina Nagy; Mirjam Knörnschild; Silvia Chaves-Ramírez; Nicole Rose; Mariela Sánchez-Chavarría et al.
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Variation in echolocation call emission of Neotropical insect-eating bats in response to shifting ambient temperatures

2023-12-22 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2023.12.20.572652
Contributors: Paula Iturralde Pólit; Marcelo Araya-Salas; Holger R. Goerlitz; Gloriana Chaverri
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baRulho: an R package to quantify degradation in animal acoustic signals

2023-11-22 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2023.11.22.568305
Contributors: Marcelo Araya-Salas; Erin E. Grabarczyk; Marcos Quiroz-Oliva; Adrián García-Rodríguez; Alejandro Rico-Guevara
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ohun: An R package for diagnosing and optimizing automatic sound event detection

Methods in Ecology and Evolution
2023-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.14170
Contributors: Marcelo Araya‐Salas; Grace Smith‐Vidaurre; Gloriana Chaverri; Juan C. Brenes; Fabiola Chirino; Jorge Elizondo‐Calvo; Alejandro Rico‐Guevara
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Foraging, Fear and Behavioral Variation in a Traplining Hummingbird

Animals
2023-06-15 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/ani13121997
Contributors: Katarzyna Wojczulanis-Jakubas; Marcelo Araya-Salas
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The evolution of sexually dimorphic traits in ecological gradients: an interplay between natural and sexual selection in hummingbirds

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2022-12-21 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.1783
Contributors: Diego F. Beltrán; Marcelo Araya-Salas; Juan L. Parra; F. Gary Stiles; Alejandro Rico-Guevara
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ohun: an R package for diagnosing and optimizing automatic sound event detection

2022-12-15 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2022.12.13.520253
Contributors: Marcelo Araya-Salas; Grace Smith-Vidaurre; Gloriana Chaverri; Juan C. Brenes; Fabiola Chirino; Jorge Elizondo-Calvo; Alejandro Rico-Guevara
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Landing manoeuvres predict roost-site preferences in bats

Journal of Experimental Biology
2022-11-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.244267
Contributors: Gloriana Chaverri; Marcelo Araya-Salas; Jose Pablo Barrantes; Tere Uribe-Etxebarria; Marcela Peña-Acuña; Angie Liz Varela; Joxerra Aihartza
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VARIACIÓN DE LA ESTRUCTURA DEL CANTO DEL GORRIÓN DE COLLAR RUFO (ZONOTRICHIA CAPENSIS) A LO LARGO DE UN GRADIENTE URBANO EN EL SUROESTE DEL PERÚ

Ornitología Neotropical
2022-10-24 | Journal article
DOI: 10.58843/ornneo.vi.943
Contributors: Rafael Montes-Rivas; Víctor Gamarra-Toledo; Evaristo López; Marcelo Araya-Salas
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Landing manoeuvres predict roost-site preferences in bats

2022-03-14 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2022.03.12.484101
Contributors: Gloriana Chaverri; Marcelo Araya-Salas; Jose Pablo Barrantes; Tere Uribe-Etxebarria; Marcela Peña-Acuña; Angie Liz Varela; Joxerra Aihartza
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A machine learning approach for classifying and quantifying acoustic diversity

Methods in Ecology and Evolution
2021-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.13599
Contributors: Sara C. Keen; Karan J. Odom; Michael S. Webster; Gregory M. Kohn; Timothy F. Wright; Marcelo Araya‐Salas
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Breeding season length predicts duet coordination and consistency in Neotropical wrens (Troglodytidae)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2020-12-23 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2482
Contributors: Emily L. Keenan; Karan J. Odom; Marcelo Araya-Salas; Kyle G. Horton; Matthew Strimas-Mackey; Megan A. Meatte; Nigel I. Mann; Peter J. B. Slater; J. Jordan Price; Christopher N. Templeton
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Anthropogenic noise affects female, not male house wren response to change in signaling network

Ethology
2020-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/eth.13085
Contributors: Erin E. Grabarczyk; Marcelo Araya‐Salas; Maarten J. Vonhof; Sharon A. Gill; Leonida Fusani
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Ontogeny of an interactive call-and-response system in Spix's disc-winged bats

Animal Behaviour
2020-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.05.018
Contributors: Marcelo Araya-Salas; H. Andrés Hernández-Pinsón; Nazareth Rojas; Gloriana Chaverri
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Social group signatures in hummingbird displays provide evidence of co-occurrence of vocal and visual learning

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2019-05-29 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.0666
Contributors: Marcelo Araya-Salas; Grace Smith-Vidaurre; Daniel J. Mennill; Paulina L. González-Gómez; James Cahill; Timothy F. Wright
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Assessing the effect of sound file compression and background noise on measures of acoustic signal structure

Bioacoustics
2019-01-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/09524622.2017.1396498
Contributors: Marcelo Araya-Salas; Grace Smith-Vidaurre; Michael Webster
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Early development of vocal interaction rules in a duetting songbird

Royal Society Open Science
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171791
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2-s2.0-85043523699
Contributors: Rivera-Cáceres, K.D.; Quirós-Guerrero, E.; Araya-Salas, M.; Templeton, C.N.; Searcy, W.A.
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Seabird parents provision their chick in a coordinated manner

PLoS ONE
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0189969
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2-s2.0-85040365115
Contributors: Wojczulanis-Jakubas, K.; Araya-Salas, M.; Jakubas, D.
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Spatial memory is as important as weapon and body size for territorial ownership in a lekking hummingbird

Scientific Reports
2018-01-31 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-20441-x
Contributors: Marcelo Araya-Salas; Paulina Gonzalez-Gomez; Katarzyna Wojczulanis-Jakubas; Virgilio López, III; Timothy F. Wright
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warbleR: an r package to streamline analysis of animal acoustic signals

Methods in Ecology and Evolution
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12624
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2-s2.0-84987621308
Contributors: Araya-Salas, M.; Smith-Vidaurre, G.
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To overlap or not to overlap: context-dependent coordinated singing in lekking long-billed hermits

Animal Behaviour
2017-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.12.003
Contributors: Marcelo Araya-Salas; Katarzyna Wojczulanis-Jakubas; Emily M. Phillips; Daniel J. Mennill; Timothy F. Wright
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Neotropical wrens learn new duet rules as adults

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.1819
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2-s2.0-85001042480
Contributors: Rivera-Cáceres, K.D.; Quirós-Guerrero, E.; Araya-Salas, M.; Searcy, W.A.
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An RFID based smart feeder for hummingbirds

Sensors (Switzerland)
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/s151229886
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2-s2.0-84949973141
Contributors: Ibarra, V.; Araya-Salas, M.; Tang, Y.-P.; Park, C.; Hyde, A.; Wright, T.F.; Tang, W.
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Bills as daggers? A test for sexually dimorphic weapons in a lekking hummingbird

Behavioral Ecology
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/aru182
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2-s2.0-84928384981
Contributors: Rico-Guevara, A.; Araya-Salas, M.
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Does environmental heterogeneity promote cognitive abilities?

Integrative and Comparative Biology
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icv062
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2-s2.0-84940844996
Contributors: González-Gómez, P.L.; Razeto-Barry, P.; Araya-Salas, M.; Estades, C.F.
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Does vocal learning accelerate acoustic diversification? Evolution of contact calls in Neotropical parrots

Journal of Evolutionary Biology
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12694
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2-s2.0-84943659343
Contributors: Medina-García, A.; Araya-Salas, M.; Wright, T.F.
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How acoustic signals scale with individual body size: Common trends across diverse taxa

Behavioral Ecology
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/aru174
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2-s2.0-84928403557
Contributors: Rodríguez, R.L.; Araya-Salas, M.; Gray, D.A.; Reichert, M.S.; Symes, L.B.; Wilkins, M.R.; Safran, R.J.; Höbel, G.
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Collared Forest-Falcon (Micrastur semitorquatus) preying on Chestnut-mandibled Toucan (Ramphastos swainsonii) in Costa Rica

Wilson Journal of Ornithology
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1676/12-085.1
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2-s2.0-84874093801
Contributors: Arévalo, J.E.; Araya-Salas, M.
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Open-ended song learning in a hummingbird

Biology letters
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0625
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2-s2.0-84898262761
Contributors: Araya-Salas, M.; Wright, T.
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Is birdsong music?

Significance
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2012.00613.x
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2-s2.0-84870783870
Contributors: Araya-Salas, M.
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Is birdsong music? Evaluating harmonic intervals in songs of a Neotropical songbird

Animal Behaviour
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.04.038
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2-s2.0-84864144417
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Peer review (9 reviews for 8 publications/grants)

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