functional diversity

/Tag:functional diversity

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 [...]

New publication on Bolivian bat assemblages by Flavia Montano

By | July 6th, 2016|Andes, bats, Bolivia, ecology, graduate students|

Hot off the press!  PhD candidate Flavia Montano with colleagues Luis Aguirre, Mercedes Gavilanez, and Richard Stevens published "Taxonomic and phylogenetic determinants of functional composition on Bolivian bat assemblages" in PLoS ONE (released 6 July 2016).  You can access the publication here.  Their work compiles a rich data set on bats from many habitats within [...]