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Mixed-species bird flocks – hot off the press!

By | November 8th, 2018|birds, Bolivia, Brazil, ecology, graduate students, research, tropical|

Congratulations to Flavia Montaño-Centellas for her new paper with colleagues Lia Nahomi Kajiki, Giselle Mangini, Gabriel Colorado and María Elisa Fanjul that explores mixed-species bird flocks along elevational, latitudinal, and human disturbance gradients in the Neotropics.  This paper results from a special symposium entitled "Mixed-species flocks of birds: ecology and evolution" at the XII [...]

Silvopastures in Colombia: how do we enhance their value to conserve forest biodiversity?

By | September 28th, 2018|birds, graduate students, TCD|

Bryan Tarbox suggests we can add conservation value to silvopastures by managing them to include certain tree species and microhabitats.  These management techniques would improve habitat quality and likely attract and maintain forest species that occupy nearby forest remnants.  This research just appeared in CONDOR as part of Bryan's PhD dissertation research in Luke [...]

Crowdfunding as a learning tool

By | May 30th, 2018|courses, graduate students, TCD, teaching|

Back in 2014 at Emilio Bruna's suggestion, we embarked on a new skills course for graduate students in the Tropical Conservation and Development program - Fundraising Skills for Conservation and Development.  Our goals for the course were to (1) to introduce students to the diverse set of private and public sources for funding their [...]

Fruits of Sillutinkara pre-Columbian trail, Cotapata National Park, La Paz, Bolivia

By | May 25th, 2018|Andes, Bolivia, graduate students, research, seed dispersal|

Flavia Montaño-Centellas together with colleagues Beatriz Nieto Ariza, Yara Fernández, Alfredo Fuentes, Freddy Zenteno, Emilio Sánchez and Huber Vilka, recently published a gorgeous photo guide to fruits of Sillutinkara pre-Columbian trail in Cotapata National Park, La Paz, Bolivia.  This colorful guide highlights 78 fruiting plant species found along an elevational gradient from 2000-3500 m asl.  [...]

Mahi Puri publishes new paper on Ecotourism in India

By | May 25th, 2018|conservation, graduate students, India, research|

With co-authors Krithi Karanth (WCS-India) and Brijesh Thapa (UF), Mahi Puri's paper "Trends and pathways for ecotourism research in India" appeared in the Journal of Ecotourism in May 2018. Reviewing 30 studies on ecotourism since 2005, the authors identified research gaps in ecotourism as well as the reasons to develop ecotourism.  Mahi and colleagues also [...]

Flavia is heading to Malaysia for ATBC meetings

By | May 25th, 2018|Bolivia, graduate students, research|

Congratulations to Flavia Montano for receiving a WWF alumni grant to attend the WWF Alumni meeting and the ATBC meetings in Malaysia this summer.  In Malaysia Flavia will present on her dissertation research investigating how functional, phylogenetic and taxonomic diversity changes across environmental gradients.  Flavia has also recently become a member of the SECSI Chapter of [...]

New Publication from Robinson Botero-Arias

By | May 4th, 2018|Amazon, Brazil, graduate students, research|

Congratulations to Robin Botero-Arias for his new publication in Conservation Genetics.  The paper "Delimitation of evolutionary units in Cuvier's dwarf caiman, Paleosuchus palpebrosus (Cuvier, 1807): insights from conservation of a broadly distributed species" uses molecular genetics to define evolutionary significant units (ESU) of dwarf caimans.  The work highlights how biodiversity is often underestimated and suggests [...]

Farah Carrasco exit seminar at UF

By | March 8th, 2018|Amazon, bats, biodiversity, graduate students, Peru, tropical|

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 [...]

Vanessa Luna to join the Lab in August 2017

By | June 1st, 2017|conservation, ecology, graduate students, interdisciplinary, LAS, Peru, TCD|

A big welcome to Vanessa Luna Celino who will join the lab and become the newest "Gator" in August 2017.  Vanessa is supported by a competitive graduate assistantship from the Center for Latin American Studies and will be working towards the Master's of Latin American Studies degree (MALAS) with a specialization in Tropical Conservation [...]

Farah Carrasco awarded Global Bat Conservation Priorities grant

By | March 2nd, 2017|Amazon, bats, graduate students, Peru, research|

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 [...]