Congratulations to Vanessa Luna who recently defended her MALAS (Master of Arts in Latin American Studies) thesis. Her thesis entitled "Does establishment of community conservation areas lead to greater protection of existing forest? A case study from the Andes of northern Peru", examined changes in forest cover over the past decade in communities without [...]
Hot off the press! Dr. Farah Carrasco Ruedo (PhD 2018, UF) studied this question for her dissertation research in a recently converted forest destined for palm production in the Amazon of north-central Peru. Her results were just published in Ecology and Evolution and can be found here. These riparian forest strips add important habitat diversity [...]
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 School of Natural Resources and Environment is hosting a seminar on Monday, March 12, 2018, 1:55PM-2:45PM in 112 Newins-Ziegler Hall. Farah Carrasco-Rueda, Ph.D. candidate and UFBI Fellow, will present “Landuse change and biodiversity: understanding patterns, driving mechanisms and impacts of mitigation.” Farah’s dissertation work is focused on the effects of landuse cover change on diversity, using bats [...]
As part of her MS thesis, Ghislaine Cardenas, co-advised by C. Daniel Cadena (Univ. de los Andes) and Bette Loiselle (Univ. Florida), described the display behavior, vocalizations, and social organization of the blue-backed manakin (Chiroxiphia pareola napensis) in Amazon of Ecuador at the Tiputini Biodiversity Station. Males of blue-backed manakins display cooperatively for females in [...]
Recently, several of us from the lab participated in a workshop organized by UF's Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD) Program: "Tools and Strategies for Conservation and Development in the Amazon: Lessons Learned and Future Pathways". This workshop brought together ~105 individuals including academics, conservation and development practitioners, research scientists, lawyers, donors, indigenous people, from USA, [...]
Funded by NSF's Dynamics of Coupled Natural-Human Systems, the Amazon Dams Network will meet with partners from UF Geological Survey, Federal Universities of Tocantins and Rondonia in Brazil, Northern Arizona University, among others, in Flagstaff, Arizona from 14-18 May. This first RCN workshop will promote cross-sectorial dialogue and learning across geographical borders, focusing on [...]
The newly created UF Biodiversity Institute (UFBI) awarded a Faculty Interdisciplinary Seed Grant to a joint effort by UF faculty, students and Brazilian collaborators of the Amazon Dams Network (Rede Barragens Amazônicas -ADN/RBA), hosted in the Tropical Conservation and Development Program (TCD) in the Center for Latin American Studies, in partnership with the UF Levin [...]
Bat Conservation International recognized the dissertation research of PhD candidate Farah Carrasco with a $5000 Global Bat Conservation Priorities grant PLUS a $1000 Women in Conservation Science special recognition. Farah is studying bat communities in the Amazon of Peru with a focus on examining how agricultural land use practices affect bats and [...]
We began this long-term project on birds, with a particular focus on manakins (Aves: Pipridae) in January of 2001. The site - Tiputini Biodiversity Station in Yasuni Biosphere Reserve - is in western Amazonia and is arguably one of the most biodiverse-rich locations on the planet. The field station is operated by the Universidad San Francisco [...]
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