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. [...]
Bette recently gave a talk at the North American Ornithological Conference (NAOC 2020)- on Zoom of course! This was a GREAT meeting that was excellently run and had more than 3000 attendees. While preparing for her talk, Bette put together a timeline of the graduate students she has had in her lab since 1990. Brought [...]
Congratulations to Dr. Farah Carrasco Rueda for her recent publication in Diversity which reports on her dissertation work in Madre de Dios, Peru. This study examines multiple dimensions of bat diversity at the forest-agriculture frontier in the Amazon of Peru focusing on forests adjacent to papaya plantations and cattle pastures. While agricultural lands adjacent to large [...]
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Esbach - his dissertation "Hunting for Justice: Cofán subsistence, sustainability, and self-determination in the Ecuadorian Amazon" was just accepted by University of Florida Graduate School. Great work! Michael will graduate (virtually) in May 2020 with a PhD in Interdisciplinary Ecology from the School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) from the [...]
Today, 9 graduate students in the Tropical Conservation and Development Program launched their GoFundMe campaigns to support their summer research or professional activities. These campaigns are part of a "learn-by-doing" professional skills courses that contribute to achieving a graduate certificate in Tropical Conservation and Development at the University of Florida. Students will be conducting [...]
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 [...]
Congratulations to WEC PhD candidate Mahi Puri and her colleagues Arjun Srivathsa, Krithi Karanth, Imran Patel and N. Samba Kumar for their new publication in Ecological Indicators: The balancing act: maintaining leopard-wild prey equilibrium could offer economic benefits to people in a shared forest landscape of central India. This article shows that abundance of wild [...]
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 [...]
Robinson Botero Arias, Thomas Smith and Diego Juarez-Sanchez, all UF PhD students in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, traveled to Guatemala and gave research talks at Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala this past July. Diego and Robinson, together with UF alumna Yasmin Quintana, and Valerie Corrado and Rony Garcia, also organized a workshop on [...]
Congratulations to Arjun Srivathsa, Mahi Puri, Krithi Karanth, Imran Patel and Samba Kumar for their recently published paper "Examining human-carnivore interactions using a socio-ecological framework: sympatric wild canids in India as a case study" in Royal Society Open Science. You can access this paper here. Using a socio-ecological framework, their study examines what factors [...]
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