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New paper on black caimans by Robin Botero-Arias and colleagues

By | January 13th, 2022|Brazil, graduate students, research, wildlife management|

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, [...]

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Vanessa Luna wins UF Doctoral Research Abroad Grant!

By | November 10th, 2021|Andes, graduate students, interdisciplinary, Peru, research|

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 [...]

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Mahi Puri wins ESA’s Murray F. Buell Award

By | April 6th, 2021|biodiversity, conservation, graduate students, India, interdisciplinary, research|

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 [...]

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Timeline of Students in the Lab

By | September 7th, 2020|graduate students, research|

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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Michael Esbach defends his PhD!!

By | March 18th, 2020|Amazon, camera, conservation, ecology, Ecuador, research, SNRE, TCD|

Congratulations to Dr. Michael Esbach (or at least officially at end of Spring semester 2020) who defended his PhD dissertation "Hunting for Justice: Indigenous self-determination and the sustainability of subsistence in the Ecuadorian Amazon" on 17 March 2020 in a "virtual" defense.  Thanks to committee members Drs. Stephen Perz, Susan Paulson and Robert Walker at [...]

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Year 20 for Research in the Ecuadorian Amazon

By | March 6th, 2020|birds, ecology, Ecuador, field station, manakins, research|

Hello there!  This camera trap photo of a jaguar was captured in mid January along the Parahuaco trail in Tiputini Biodiversity Station, a field station in the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve operated by the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ). John Blake has led the camera trap project together with Diego Mosquera, and earlier Jaime Guerra, as [...]

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Hot off the Press: Using Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity to Infer Avian Community Assembly Along Elevational Gradients

By | October 23rd, 2019|Andes, birds, Bolivia, research, WEC|

Dr. Flavia Montaño-Centellas is lead author on a new research paper in Global Ecology and Biogeography "Using functional and phylogenetic diversity to infer avian community assembly along elevational gradients" which represents work from her PhD dissertation in the Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Department at the University of Florida. In this paper she examines bird communities [...]

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Farah Carrasco joins Field Museum staff in Chicago

By | September 23rd, 2019|Amazon, Andes, biodiversity, Peru, research|

Dr. Farah Carrasco finished her PhD in Interdisciplinary Ecology (SNRE) in December 2018.  After wrapping up several of her publications, she joined the Field Museum staff in Chicago as Coordinator of the Putumayo Biological and Cultural Corridor, in the Andes Amazon Program of the Keller Science Action Center at the Museum.  There she works with UF [...]

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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 [...]

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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.  [...]

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