If it is December and winter break, I am heading to the field to resight manakins and continue our long-term studies of bird populations and communities at Tiputini Biodiversity Station (TBS) in the Amazon of Ecuador. On this trip, the canoe was packed!! TBS is owned and operated by Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Our [...]
A new publication led by MJ Karichu, PhD student in City University of New York and NY Botanical Garden modeled potential changing distributions of African tree ferns (Alsophila spp.) from the last glacial maximum to present day and into the next decades using MAXENT, a species distribution modeling tool. African tree ferns are currently under decline [...]
Wish we could be there, but happy to post photos of PhD candidate Orlando Acevedo-Charry (on right) from Miguel Acevedo lab and Akshay Vinod Anand (on left) from Rob Guralnick (Advisor) and Bette Loiselle (Co-Advisor) lab presenting on their dissertation work! Glad you are there and showing off your excellent work!
Kathi Borgmann reports on declining birds in tropical forests of the Americas in a recent article in Living Bird. She highlights our work in Ecuador, as well as long-term studies in Panama and Brazil. The story is also enriched by reports by Geovanny Rivadeneyra, a naturalist and guide from the Indigenous Kichwa community of Añangu who has [...]
Dr. Flavia Montaño-Centellas received a prestigious Award in Field Biology from the Maxwell | Hanrahan Foundation. 2024 Awards were announced on their website on September 20th. Flavia received her PhD in 2018 from Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of Florida. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in Biology at Louisiana State University. We are [...]
Recently, John Blake and I were interviewed about our recent publication reporting on bird declines in an Amazonian forest. The post by Bernardo Araujo went live on Mongabay.com on 16 May 2024. You can read it here.
Bette had a great visit to Dr. Corey Tarwater's lab at the University of Wyoming this past week where she met with grad students and faculty over two fun-filled days. Also got a chance to go birding in the snow with some amazing students from Anna Chalfoun's, Corey Tarwater's, Patrick Kelley's and Melanie Murphy's lab. Loved [...]
Just this week, we published our results from 22 years of studies on bird populations in 2 100-ha plots in the Amazon forests of Ecuador in Global Ecology and Conservation. Starting in 2010, we began to see widespread declines in observations and captures of birds, and reported on these patterns in 2015. This latest [...]
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 [...]
Thrilled to have visited Michigan Tech University and the lab of Dr. Jared Wolfe this past week. Met many great students and faculty, learned more about Isle Royale wolf-moose dynamics, spent the morning at a bird/mammal banding station, and saw the amazing landscape and forests on the edge of Lake Superior. It was a blast!
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