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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Mahi Puri successfully defended her PhD dissertation on Monday, June 28th in the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of Florida. Her dissertation "Prioritizing and Identifying Opportunities for Carnivore Conservation in Human-dominated Landscapes of India" examined three main objectives: "1) determining habitat-use patterns for 4 carnivores (tiger, leopard, [...]
Mahi Puri, PhD candidate in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation won the outstanding oral presentation by a graduate student at the 2020 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. There she presented her work entitled "The balancing act: maintaining leopard-prey equilibrium could offer economic benefits to people in a shared forest landscape of central India". Mahi has long [...]
Rick Stanley, PhD student in UF's Interdisciplinary Ecology program and TCD program recently published a new paper that identifies native pine forests as key to conserving the highly endangered Bahama Oriole on Andros Island in the Bahamas. Contrary to "conventional wisdom", this study discovered that the Bahama Oriole was in fact more abundant than originally expected. [...]
Bette recently gave a talk at the North American Ornithological Conference (NAOC 2020)- on Zoom of course! This was a GREAT meeting that was excellently run and had more than 3000 attendees. While preparing for her talk, Bette put together a timeline of the graduate students she has had in her lab since 1990. Brought [...]
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