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 [...]
Hot off the press! Dr. Farah Carrasco Ruedo (PhD 2018, UF) studied this question for her dissertation research in a recently converted forest destined for palm production in the Amazon of north-central Peru. Her results were just published in Ecology and Evolution and can be found here. These riparian forest strips add important habitat diversity [...]
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 [...]
Bryan Tarbox suggests we can add conservation value to silvopastures by managing them to include certain tree species and microhabitats. These management techniques would improve habitat quality and likely attract and maintain forest species that occupy nearby forest remnants. This research just appeared in CONDOR as part of Bryan's PhD dissertation research in Luke [...]
Back in 2014 at Emilio Bruna's suggestion, we embarked on a new skills course for graduate students in the Tropical Conservation and Development program - Fundraising Skills for Conservation and Development. Our goals for the course were to (1) to introduce students to the diverse set of private and public sources for funding their [...]
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. [...]
With co-authors Krithi Karanth (WCS-India) and Brijesh Thapa (UF), Mahi Puri's paper "Trends and pathways for ecotourism research in India" appeared in the Journal of Ecotourism in May 2018. Reviewing 30 studies on ecotourism since 2005, the authors identified research gaps in ecotourism as well as the reasons to develop ecotourism. Mahi and colleagues also [...]
Congratulations to Flavia Montano for receiving a WWF alumni grant to attend the WWF Alumni meeting and the ATBC meetings in Malaysia this summer. In Malaysia Flavia will present on her dissertation research investigating how functional, phylogenetic and taxonomic diversity changes across environmental gradients. Flavia has also recently become a member of the SECSI Chapter of [...]
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 [...]
The School of Natural Resources and Environment is hosting a seminar on Monday, March 12, 2018, 1:55PM-2:45PM in 112 Newins-Ziegler Hall. Farah Carrasco-Rueda, Ph.D. candidate and UFBI Fellow, will present “Landuse change and biodiversity: understanding patterns, driving mechanisms and impacts of mitigation.” Farah’s dissertation work is focused on the effects of landuse cover change on diversity, using bats [...]
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