Hector Medina

Hector Medina
Country	Argentina
Organizations:	The National Food Safety and Quality Service
Titles:	Coordinator of the National Grasshopper and Locust Program
Focal areas:
Agriculture Biological Control Climate Change Early Warning Extension Forecasting Geographic Information System (GIS) Governance Invasive Species Management Monitoring Regional Cooperation
Focal species:
Central American locust (Schistocerca piceifrons) Peruvian locust (Schistocerca interrita) South American locust (Schistocerca cancellata) Violet-winged grasshopper (Tropidacris collaris) Giant red-winged grasshopper (Tropidacris cristata) Tucura sapo (Bufonacris claraziana) Chromacris colorata Mato Grosso locust (Rhammatocerus schistocercoides)
LinkedIn:	https://www.linkedin.com/in/hectoremiliomedina/
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/MedinaHectorE

Resources by this author

Name	Year published	Resource link	Author
Synthesis of the governance workshop on the South American Locust	2021		Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research, The National Food Safety and Quality Service, Global Locust Initiative, Clara Therville, John Anderies, Hector Medina, Rick Overson, Eduardo Trumper, Arianne Cease

Select publications from this author

• Scattolini, M.C., Piou, C., Medina, H., Iglesias, R., Cerquetti, A., Cigliano, M.M., 2024. Environmental factors associated to breeding areas of the South American locust Schistocerca cancellata on a regional scale. Austral Ecology 49:e13568. https://doi.org/10.1111/aec.13568
• Talal, S., Harrison, J.F., Farington, R., Youngblood, J.P., Medina, H.E., Overson, R., Cease, A.J., 2024. Body mass and growth rates predict protein intake across animals. eLife 13:e88933. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.88933
• Cease, A.J., Trumper, E.V., Medina, H., Bazán, F.C., Frana, J., Harrison, J., Joaquin, N., Learned, J., Roca, M., Rojas, J.E., Talal, S., Overson, R.P., 2023. Field bands of marching locust juveniles show carbohydrate, not protein, limitation. Current Research in Insect Science 100069. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cris.2023.100069
• Youngblood, J.P., Cease, A.J., Talal, S., Copa, F., Medina, H.E., Rojas, J.E., Trumper, E.V., Angilletta Jr, M.J., Harrison, J.F., 2023. Climate change expected to improve digestive rate and trigger range expansion in outbreaking locusts. Ecological Monographs 93:e1550. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1550
• Trumper, E.V., Cease, A.J., Cigliano, M.M., Bazán, F.C., Lange, C.E., Medina, H.E., Overson, R.P., Therville, C., Pocco, M.E., Piou, C., Zagaglia, G., Hunter, D., 2022. A review of the biology, ecology, and management of the South American Locust, Schistocerca cancellata (Serville, 1838), and future prospects. Agronomy 12:1–20. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12010135
• Piou, C., Zagaglia, G., Medina, H.E., Trumper, E., Rojo Brizuela, X., Ould Maeno, K., 2021. Band movement and thermoregulation in Schistocerca cancellata. Journal of Insect Physiology 104328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2021.104328
• Talal, S., Cease, A., Farington, R., Medina, H.E., Rojas, J., Harrison, J., 2021. High carbohydrate diet ingestion increases post-meal lipid synthesis and drives respiratory exchange ratios above 1. Journal of Experimental Biology 224:1–6. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.240010
• Talal, S., Cease, A.J., Youngblood, J.P., Farington, R., Trumper, E.V., Medina, H.E., Rojas, J.E., Fernando Copa, A., Harrison, J.F., 2020. Plant carbohydrate content limits performance and lipid accumulation of an outbreaking herbivore. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287:2–9. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.2500