Flavia Montaño-Centellas with co-authors Bette Loiselle and Morgan Tingley have published a new paper in Ecography that examines the role of abiotic filtering and biological interactions in explaining bird community assemblages along an extensive elevational gradient in Bolivia. This paper results from Flavia's PhD research support the hypothesis of abiotic filtering as a primary driver [...]
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 [...]
Congratulations to Dr. Farah Carrasco Rueda for her recent publication in Diversity which reports on her dissertation work in Madre de Dios, Peru. This study examines multiple dimensions of bat diversity at the forest-agriculture frontier in the Amazon of Peru focusing on forests adjacent to papaya plantations and cattle pastures. While agricultural lands adjacent to large [...]
Gold-mining and large-scale agriculture are becoming increasingly prevalent in Amazon forests of Peru and elsewhere. With these activities, the possibility of mercury pollution increases, which could and has had serious negative impacts on human and wildlife health. Dr. Farah Carrasco examined the presence of mercury in tropical bats in a region of Peru where gold-mining [...]
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Esbach - his dissertation "Hunting for Justice: Cofán subsistence, sustainability, and self-determination in the Ecuadorian Amazon" was just accepted by University of Florida Graduate School. Great work! Michael will graduate (virtually) in May 2020 with a PhD in Interdisciplinary Ecology from the School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) from the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Today, 9 graduate students in the Tropical Conservation and Development Program launched their GoFundMe campaigns to support their summer research or professional activities. These campaigns are part of a "learn-by-doing" professional skills courses that contribute to achieving a graduate certificate in Tropical Conservation and Development at the University of Florida. Students will be conducting [...]
Check out this post in La Region which interviewed Dr. Flavia Montaño on International Women in Science Day. Flavia discusses her experiences and challenges as a woman in science.
Robinson (Robin) Botero-Arias, PhD candidate in the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation went to the Brazilian Amazon and led a training course for black caiman (Melanosuchus niger) management for government technicians over UF's Thanksgiving break. Robin is a crocodilian specialist and has been working with Amazonian caimans for nearly 20 years and serves as [...]
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