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Emily Khazan is a PhD! Congratulations!!

By | December 3rd, 2021|Andes, biodiversity, butterflies, climate change, Colombia, graduate students|

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 [...]

Paty Feria is awarded 2018 Outstanding International Female Faculty at UTRGV

By | March 8th, 2018|climate change, conservation|

I am so thrilled to learn about successes of my colleagues, especially when they were a former PhD student. Dr. Teresa (Paty) Feria is being honored as the 2018 Outstanding International Female Faculty at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley @utrgv on March 9, 2018.  Paty received her PhD in Biology at the University of [...]

Tools and Strategies for Conservation and Development in the Amazon

By | October 31st, 2017|Amazon, biodiversity, Bolivia, Brazil, climate change, Peru|

Recently, several of us from the lab participated in a workshop organized by UF's Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD) Program: "Tools and Strategies for Conservation and Development in the Amazon: Lessons Learned and Future Pathways".  This workshop brought together ~105 individuals including academics, conservation and development practitioners, research scientists, lawyers, donors, indigenous people, from USA, [...]

Climate change impacts birds in western Amazonia?

By | August 26th, 2015|Amazon, birds, climate change, Ecuador|

Our new paper, Enigmatic declines in bird numbers in lowland forest of eastern Ecuador may be a consequence of climate change, reports on widespread declines in bird populations across species within a largely undisturbed forest of western Amazonia.  Populations varied but were largely stable until recent years when both species found in understory and canopy [...]