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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Rick Stanley, PhD student in UF's Interdisciplinary Ecology program and TCD program recently published a new paper that identifies native pine forests as key to conserving the highly endangered Bahama Oriole on Andros Island in the Bahamas. Contrary to "conventional wisdom", this study discovered that the Bahama Oriole was in fact more abundant than originally expected. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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