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 [...]
A big welcome to Vanessa Luna Celino who will join the lab and become the newest "Gator" in August 2017. Vanessa is supported by a competitive graduate assistantship from the Center for Latin American Studies and will be working towards the Master's of Latin American Studies degree (MALAS) with a specialization in Tropical Conservation [...]
Bat Conservation International recognized the dissertation research of PhD candidate Farah Carrasco with a $5000 Global Bat Conservation Priorities grant PLUS a $1000 Women in Conservation Science special recognition. Farah is studying bat communities in the Amazon of Peru with a focus on examining how agricultural land use practices affect bats and [...]
Do primates avoid areas disturbed by infrastructure development? Find out what PhD candidate Farah Carrasco Rueda found out in a study with colleagues at Smithsonian Institution - Tremie Gregory, Jessica Deichmann, Joseph Kolowski and Alfonso Alonso. Published in Biotropica, Farah and colleagues examined how primates used a forest area before, during and after construction of [...]
The main product of Dr. Oscar Gonzalez dissertation was recently published in the open access journal PeerJ. This study examined the interactions between birds and flowering plants in elfin forest of the high Andes in Peru. The study tests the importance of neutral processes and biological constraints in influencing species interactions and network properties. Biological [...]
Hernan Alvarez received his TCD graduate certificate and M. Sc. degree from Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at UF in the Loiselle lab in 2015. Shortly after that he returned to Ecuador as the "Technician in Community-based and Participatory Management" at Wildlife Conservation Society program in Ecuador. He uses his experiences working with indigenous communities and conservation [...]
Oscar earned his PhD in 2015 from UF's School from Natural Resources and the Environment. His dissertation research explored species interactions between flowering plants and birds in elfin forests of the high Andes in Peru. In August 2016, he moved to a new faculty position teaching undergraduate biology at Emmanuel College in Franklin Springs, Georgia. [...]
Congratulations to incoming PhD student Diego Garcia for receiving a prestigious Peruvian CONCYTEC fellowship to cover years 3-5 at University of Florida in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation graduate program. This fellowship will complement funding he has received from LASPAU-Fulbright program for years 1 and 2, together with tuition support from the Center for Latin American Studies. [...]
Hot off the press! PhD candidate Flavia Montano with colleagues Luis Aguirre, Mercedes Gavilanez, and Richard Stevens published "Taxonomic and phylogenetic determinants of functional composition on Bolivian bat assemblages" in PLoS ONE (released 6 July 2016). You can access the publication here. Their work compiles a rich data set on bats from many habitats within [...]
Great news for PhD candidate Flavia Montano. Not one, but two research awards came this past week. The Rufford Foundation and World Wildlife Fund Russell E. Train Education for Nature Program both selected Flavia for funding in their competitive grants programs. Her dissertation research is focused on revealing what drives bird community assembly (especially mixed-species [...]
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