Thrilled to have visited Michigan Tech University and the lab of Dr. Jared Wolfe this past week. Met many great students and faculty, learned more about Isle Royale wolf-moose dynamics, spent the morning at a bird/mammal banding station, and saw the amazing landscape and forests on the edge of Lake Superior. It was a blast!
Congratulations to TCD's Governance and Infrastructure in the Amazon (GIA) team led by UF-SFFGS PhD candidate Carla Mere and Dr. Andrea Chavez and Dr. Eben Broadbent, plus graduate students and colleagues from 4 Amazonian countries for the recent open access publication of "Participatory Mapping for Strengthening Environmental Governance on Socio-Ecological Impacts of Infrastructure in the Amazon: [...]
Congratulations to Dr. Flavia Montaño-Centellas (flamontano [at] gmail [dot] com) for her new publication in Journal of Biogeography. Using datasets from montane gradients across the globe, Flavia tests Dan Janzen's idea regarding "Why mountain passes are higher in the tropics" (American Naturalist, 1967) using multiple analyses of bird diversity across latitudinal gradients. The study concludes [...]
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 [...]
The lab has been busting with good news lately. Congratulations are due to many of our lab mates: Flavia Montaño & Diego Garcia were both awarded 2018 summer fellowships from UF's Biodiversity Institute Flavia will head to Bolivia to record bats using automatic sound recorders along the same elevational gradient she sampled birds in [...]
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