Winter break means field work! On my way back to Yasuni Biosphere Reserve today for another field season in the Ecuadorian Amazon. This is year 16 for our project on population dynamics of tropical birds, with a special emphasis on manakins. This field trip I will find out if "old red" a 19+ yr old [...]
WEC PhD student Flavia Montano, joins labmate Farah Carrascco Rueda, in being awarded the Doris Lowe and Earl and Verna Lowe scholarship from UF’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. This $2000 award recognizes Flavia’s work in examining functional diversity and community assembly of birds along montane gradients in Bolivia. Congrats Flavia and Farah!
PhD student Flavia Montano has had a pretty exciting summer so far. Besides conducting field work in the Bolivian Andes, Flavia learned that she has received two field research grants to support her dissertation research. One is from the Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research from the American Philosophical Society. Her second [...]
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