Just this week, we published our results from 22 years of studies on bird populations in 2 100-ha plots in the Amazon forests of Ecuador in Global Ecology and Conservation. Starting in 2010, we began to see widespread declines in observations and captures of birds, and reported on these patterns in 2015. This latest [...]
Rick Stanley, PhD candidate in SNRE, has recruited Marlyn Zuluaga (PhD student, WEC), Liz Hurtado and Wenyi Zhou (PhD students, Biology) to join him in the Dominican Republic for 2 weeks to help capture palmchats, an endemic bird of Hispaniola. Rick's PhD will investigate the social behavior and ecology of palmchats, which are primarily [...]
Thrilled to have visited Michigan Tech University and the lab of Dr. Jared Wolfe this past week. Met many great students and faculty, learned more about Isle Royale wolf-moose dynamics, spent the morning at a bird/mammal banding station, and saw the amazing landscape and forests on the edge of Lake Superior. It was a blast!
Long time since we have taken a picture of our Tropical Ecology Lab group (aka "White House" group). We are missing a few students from my lab in this picture - Vanessa Luna was in Peru (co-advised by Karen Kainer) and Akshay Anand (advised by Rob Guralnick, co-advised by Bette) was in class. Everyone is back [...]
Hot off the press: "Assessment of local community perspective about caiman management in the Mamiraua Reserve, Brazil" was just published in Volume 13 of International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development (DOI: 10.4018/IJSESD.287884) by Robinson Botero-Arias and colleagues Diogo de Lima Franco, Rodolfo Araújo Moraes Filho and Tales Wanderley Vital. The study reports on a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, [...]
Congratulations to TCD's Governance and Infrastructure in the Amazon (GIA) team led by UF-SFFGS PhD candidate Carla Mere and Dr. Andrea Chavez and Dr. Eben Broadbent, plus graduate students and colleagues from 4 Amazonian countries for the recent open access publication of "Participatory Mapping for Strengthening Environmental Governance on Socio-Ecological Impacts of Infrastructure in the Amazon: [...]
Emily Khazan successfully defended her PhD dissertation in Interdisciplinary Ecology, UF's School of Natural Resources and Environment this past Wednesday, December 1st. Her dissertation "Thermal, community, and microbial ecology of butterflies of the Colombian Andes" explored how butterflies from one of the most biodiversity-rich areas of the world adapt to their environments. The work [...]
Congratulations to PhD student D. Vanessa Luna-Celino for receiving a prestigious UF International Center Research Abroad Grant for her dissertation work on fire management and governance in the Andes of Peru. Vanessa's research will explore how local Quechua communities govern the use of fire for agricultural practices in the high Andes, including understanding measures to [...]
Congratulations to Mahi Puri for winning the prestigious Best Talk award at the Student Conference on Conservation Science - New York hosted by the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History. The meeting was held virtually from 5-8 October, 2021. Her talk was entitled "An integrated approach to prioritize carnivore conservation in [...]
Congratulations to Dr. Flavia Montaño-Centellas (flamontano [at] gmail [dot] com) for her new publication in Journal of Biogeography. Using datasets from montane gradients across the globe, Flavia tests Dan Janzen's idea regarding "Why mountain passes are higher in the tropics" (American Naturalist, 1967) using multiple analyses of bird diversity across latitudinal gradients. The study concludes [...]
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