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New paper on black caimans by Robin Botero-Arias and colleagues

Brazil, graduate students, research, wildlife management

New paper on black caimans by Robin Botero-Arias and colleagues

By loiselleb@gmail.com| 2022-01-13T19:37:12+00:00 January 13th, 2022|Brazil, graduate students, research, wildlife management|

Hot off the press: "Assessment of local community perspective about caiman management in the Mamiraua Reserve, Brazil" was just published in Volume 13 of International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development (DOI: 10.4018/IJSESD.287884) by Robinson Botero-Arias and colleagues Diogo de Lima Franco, Rodolfo Araújo Moraes Filho and Tales Wanderley Vital. The study reports on a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, [...]

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What did you do on Thanksgiving Break? Training Course for Brazilian Government Technicians!

Amazon, Brazil, conservation, ecology, graduate students, wildlife management

What did you do on Thanksgiving Break? Training Course for Brazilian Government Technicians!

By loiselleb@gmail.com| 2019-12-04T14:24:22+00:00 December 4th, 2019|Amazon, Brazil, conservation, ecology, graduate students, wildlife management|

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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First Record of Black Caiman Feeding on Monkeys!

Amazon, Brazil

First Record of Black Caiman Feeding on Monkeys!

By loiselleb@gmail.com| 2019-10-18T17:18:52+00:00 October 18th, 2019|Amazon, Brazil|

Robinson Botero-Arias, PhD candidate in UF's Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation in collaboration with Boris Marioni (lead author), Marcela Magalhaes, José de Sousa Silva E. Júnior, and Ronis da Silveira, recently published a note on the diet of Melanosuchus niger, the Black Caiman in Herpetological Review, vol. 50 (3). Here they report on food [...]

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Mixed-species bird flocks – hot off the press!

birds, Bolivia, Brazil, ecology, graduate students, research, tropical

Mixed-species bird flocks – hot off the press!

By loiselleb@gmail.com| 2018-11-08T20:58:35+00:00 November 8th, 2018|birds, Bolivia, Brazil, ecology, graduate students, research, tropical|

Congratulations to Flavia Montaño-Centellas for her new paper with colleagues Lia Nahomi Kajiki, Giselle Mangini, Gabriel Colorado and María Elisa Fanjul that explores mixed-species bird flocks along elevational, latitudinal, and human disturbance gradients in the Neotropics. This paper results from a special symposium entitled "Mixed-species flocks of birds: ecology and evolution" at the XII [...]

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New Publication from Robinson Botero-Arias

Amazon, Brazil, graduate students, research

New Publication from Robinson Botero-Arias

By loiselleb@gmail.com| 2018-05-04T18:48:22+00:00 May 4th, 2018|Amazon, Brazil, graduate students, research|

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 [...]

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Tools and Strategies for Conservation and Development in the Amazon

Amazon, biodiversity, Bolivia, Brazil, climate change, Peru

Tools and Strategies for Conservation and Development in the Amazon

By loiselleb@gmail.com| 2017-10-31T19:47:05+00:00 October 31st, 2017|Amazon, biodiversity, Bolivia, Brazil, climate change, Peru|

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, [...]

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Lower-ranking manakin males display more at larger leks

Atlantic Forests, birds, Brazil, lek, Manakin, manakins, sexual selection

Lower-ranking manakin males display more at larger leks

By loiselleb@gmail.com| 2016-09-30T15:19:30+00:00 September 30th, 2016|Atlantic Forests, birds, Brazil, lek, Manakin, manakins, sexual selection|

Our paper on "Trade-offs in male display activity with lek size" is now published on PlosOne: Cestari, C., B. A. Loiselle, and M. A. Pizo. Trade-offs in male display activity with lek size. PloS ONE: 11(9): e0162943 Click here to see the publication. The field research was led by Cesar Cestari and involved simultaneous filming [...]

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Productive visit to UNESP

birds, Brazil

Productive visit to UNESP

By loiselleb@gmail.com| 2015-12-18T18:07:25+00:00 December 18th, 2015|birds, Brazil|

Wrapping up a two week visit with colleagues Marco Pizo and Cesar Cestari as part of our Science without Borders grant investigating the integration of sexual selection and optimal foraging using white-bearded manakin (Manacus manacus) as a model. We managed to submit two articles in the past few days about this work and have plans [...]

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What’s wrong with this picture?

birds, Brazil

What’s wrong with this picture?

By loiselleb@gmail.com| 2015-12-16T10:44:43+00:00 December 16th, 2015|birds, Brazil|

Well besides the fact it could be in better focus! I am back in Brazil visiting my colleagues Cesar Cestari and Marco Pizo at UNESP in Rio Claro. Sunday morning we headed to the local 'natural' area where there are stands of Eucalyptus (30 yr old, 100 yr old), lots of Euterpe palms (an exotic [...]

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Wrapping up The Amazon seminar

Amazon, Brazil, courses, Ecuador, graduate students, interdisciplinary, LAS, Peru, TCD, teaching

Wrapping up The Amazon seminar

By loiselleb@gmail.com| 2015-12-14T17:10:58+00:00 December 14th, 2015|Amazon, Brazil, courses, Ecuador, graduate students, interdisciplinary, LAS, Peru, TCD, teaching|

I had the distinct privilege of co-teaching The Amazon seminar with Dr. Marianne Schmink in Fall 2015 - what a great experience! Marianne has been teaching this foundation inter-disciplinary seminar since 1981 when she first taught the course with Drs. Charles Wagley and Chuck Wood. This fall we had 16 fabulous students and several faculty [...]

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New paper on black caimans by Robin Botero-Arias and colleagues

What did you do on Thanksgiving Break? Training Course for Brazilian Government Technicians!

First Record of Black Caiman Feeding on Monkeys!

Mixed-species bird flocks – hot off the press!

New Publication from Robinson Botero-Arias

Tools and Strategies for Conservation and Development in the Amazon

Lower-ranking manakin males display more at larger leks

Productive visit to UNESP

What’s wrong with this picture?

Wrapping up The Amazon seminar

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