Publications

De Jesús Villanueva, C. N., Massanet Prado, G. P., Van Belleghem, S. M., Gould, W., & Kolbe, J. J. (2024). Experimental evidence of negative agricultural impacts and effectiveness of mitigation strategies of invasive green iguanas (Iguana iguana) in Puerto Rico. NeoBiota, 96, 49-66. PDF 

De Jesús Villanueva, C. N., Massanet Prado, G. P., Gould, W., García-Quijano, C., & Kolbe, J. J. (2022). Interviews with farmers suggest negative direct and indirect effects of the invasive green iguana (Iguana iguana) on agriculture in Puerto Rico. Management of Biological Invasions, 13(4), 781-797. PDF

De Jesús Villanueva, C.N., Falcón, W., Velez-Zuazo, X. et al. (2021)  Origin of the green iguana (Iguana iguana) invasion in the greater Caribbean Region and Fiji. Biological Invasions (2021).  link

van den Burg, M.P., Van Belleghem, S.M., De Jesús Villanueva, C. N. (2020) The continuing march of Common Green Iguanas: arrival on mainland Asia. Journal for Nature Conservation. 57: 125888. PDF

De Jesús Villanueva, C.N. and Louise Stewart (2017) 18th Cambridge Student Conference on Conservation Science.  Oryx. 51(3): 391-399 PDF

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De Jesús Villanueva, C.N. (2017) Tales from the “Iguana Girl”: An Anecdotal Account of Puerto Ricans’ Interactions with and Perceptions of Invasive Green Iguanas (Iguana iguana).  Reptiles and Amphibians: Conservation and Natural History. 24(1): 30-35 PDF

Ríos- López, N., Reyes-Díaz, M., Ortíz-Rivas, L., Negrón-Del Valle, J. E., De Jesús Villanueva, C.N, (2014) Natural History and Ecology of the Critically Endangered Puerto Rican Plains Coquí, Eleutherodactylus juanariveroi, Ríos-López and Thomas, 2007 (Amphibia: Anura: Eleutherodactylidae). Life: The Excitement of Biology. 2(2): 69-73 PDF

Redmond, M.D., Hartson, R.B., Hoverman, J.T., De Jesús Villanueva, C.N., and P.T.J Johnson (2011). Experimental exposure of Helisoma trivolvis and Biomphalaria glabrata (Gastropoda) to Ribeiroia ondatrae (Trematoda). Journal of Parasitology. 97(6): 1055-1061 PDF