Congratulations to Dr. Farah Carrasco Rueda for her recent publication in Diversity which reports on her dissertation work in Madre de Dios, Peru. This study examines multiple dimensions of bat diversity at the forest-agriculture frontier in the Amazon of Peru focusing on forests adjacent to papaya plantations and cattle pastures. While agricultural lands adjacent to large [...]
Gold-mining and large-scale agriculture are becoming increasingly prevalent in Amazon forests of Peru and elsewhere. With these activities, the possibility of mercury pollution increases, which could and has had serious negative impacts on human and wildlife health. Dr. Farah Carrasco examined the presence of mercury in tropical bats in a region of Peru where gold-mining [...]
Hot off the press! Dr. Farah Carrasco Ruedo (PhD 2018, UF) studied this question for her dissertation research in a recently converted forest destined for palm production in the Amazon of north-central Peru. Her results were just published in Ecology and Evolution and can be found here. These riparian forest strips add important habitat diversity [...]
The School of Natural Resources and Environment is hosting a seminar on Monday, March 12, 2018, 1:55PM-2:45PM in 112 Newins-Ziegler Hall. Farah Carrasco-Rueda, Ph.D. candidate and UFBI Fellow, will present “Landuse change and biodiversity: understanding patterns, driving mechanisms and impacts of mitigation.” Farah’s dissertation work is focused on the effects of landuse cover change on diversity, using bats [...]
Bat Conservation International recognized the dissertation research of PhD candidate Farah Carrasco with a $5000 Global Bat Conservation Priorities grant PLUS a $1000 Women in Conservation Science special recognition. Farah is studying bat communities in the Amazon of Peru with a focus on examining how agricultural land use practices affect bats and [...]
Hot off the press! PhD candidate Flavia Montano with colleagues Luis Aguirre, Mercedes Gavilanez, and Richard Stevens published "Taxonomic and phylogenetic determinants of functional composition on Bolivian bat assemblages" in PLoS ONE (released 6 July 2016). You can access the publication here. Their work compiles a rich data set on bats from many habitats within [...]
Rodrigo Medellin, international renowned conservation biologist and professor at UNAM-Mexico visited the University of Florida where he gave an inspiring talk about his work in Mexico to a packed house in Newins-Ziegler Wildlife Ecology and Conservation department. Rodrigo was instrumental in getting the bat houses established near Lake Alice while a graduate student at UF [...]
Flavia and colleagues explore how habitat disturbance impacts species- and community-level responses of bats in the Andes in a new paper published in Acta Oecologica. Their study shows that at the individual species level, bats behavior and activity patterns can change even with low to moderate levels at disturbance. Such responses might be missed if studies [...]
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