Emily Khazan successfully defended her PhD dissertation in Interdisciplinary Ecology, UF's School of Natural Resources and Environment this past Wednesday, December 1st. Her dissertation "Thermal, community, and microbial ecology of butterflies of the Colombian Andes" explored how butterflies from one of the most biodiversity-rich areas of the world adapt to their environments. The work [...]
Congratulations to PhD student D. Vanessa Luna-Celino for receiving a prestigious UF International Center Research Abroad Grant for her dissertation work on fire management and governance in the Andes of Peru. Vanessa's research will explore how local Quechua communities govern the use of fire for agricultural practices in the high Andes, including understanding measures to [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
Dr. Farah Carrasco finished her PhD in Interdisciplinary Ecology (SNRE) in December 2018. After wrapping up several of her publications, she joined the Field Museum staff in Chicago as Coordinator of the Putumayo Biological and Cultural Corridor, in the Andes Amazon Program of the Keller Science Action Center at the Museum. There she works with UF [...]
Last summer with the support of a local grass-root organization, Red AMA, Vanessa Luna organized a 2-day workshop in Chachapoyas, Peru to promote collective discussion on the factors that limit and facilitate the effective management of community-based conservation areas in the northern Peruvian Andes. She brought together leaders from 10 communities and through use of [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
The main product of Dr. Oscar Gonzalez dissertation was recently published in the open access journal PeerJ. This study examined the interactions between birds and flowering plants in elfin forest of the high Andes in Peru. The study tests the importance of neutral processes and biological constraints in influencing species interactions and network properties. Biological [...]
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