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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The lab has been busting with good news lately. Congratulations are due to many of our lab mates: Flavia Montaño & Diego Garcia were both awarded 2018 summer fellowships from UF's Biodiversity Institute Flavia will head to Bolivia to record bats using automatic sound recorders along the same elevational gradient she sampled birds in [...]
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