BIOLOGISTS WITH SPECIAL INTEREST IN THE TROPICS

New and changed addresses from October 21 to November 21, 1996.

New addresses, changes to old ones, and suggestions can be sent to hantuo@utu.fi

The complete list (now including about 420 persons) is publicly accessible on the internet. It is archived on the Web site http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/biology/ecology+evolution. It is also accessible via anonymous FTP from sunsite.unc.edu in directory pub/academic/biology/ecology+evolution/people, filename tropical.

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Research: Avian frugivory, seed dispersal, and forest regeneration.

      (home): 05 56 24 14 37
E-mail      : Franck.Bameul@paramyco.u-bordeaux2.fr

Amateur entomologist. Systematic, phylogeny and biogeography of water beetles and related groups. Biometry. Area of interest: Palaearctic, Afrotropical, Indo-Malayan and West Indies.

Working with the physiology of marine macro-algae associated with coral reefs, especially coralline red algae.

Research interests: systematics, phylogeny, biogeography, and ecology of Annonaceae (particularly neotropical and West African); neotropical floristics.

Finished my Undergrad Botany degree at the U of Michigan. Interested in tropical botany, biological conservation, ethnobotany. Planning a trip to Central America for a few months (Guatemala + others). Please contact me if you have any ideas of research to assist with while I am there.

Thesis project: evolution and maintenance of pigment pattern polymorphisms in Litter Frogs (Eleutherodactylus), employing studies of population genetics, lower level phylogenetics, and field studies (esp. Costa Rica). Evolutionary and developmental morphology in salamanders.

I am working on population genetics and molecular systematics of the Hoplias malabaricus (Pisces; Erythrinidae) species complex. I am also trying to use information from independent data sets (morphology, karyotypes, and molecules).

Or:
University of Missouri-St. Louis
8001 Natural Bridge Rd, R223
St. Louis, MO 63121-4499, USA
Phone: (314) 516-6349
Fax: (314) 516-6233
e-mail: s000013@umslvma.umsl.edu

Research: Systematics of Aciotis (Melastomataceae).

Executive editor Flora of the Guianas. Working on Piperaceae of the Guianas.

I am trying to complete an inventory of the vascular plant flora of the humid chaco in southern Bolivia, including a listing of species presently used for various purposes (medicine, food, construction, etc.) and vernacular names in castellano and guarana (bolivian spelling).

Herbivore ecology.

Interests: Pantanal of Brazil, spatio-temporal dynamics of land cover, ecological remote sensing, landscape ecology, grasslands.

My interests are basically in the science of genetics, but I am interested in the whole field of biology as well as any other sciences. I am currently doing research on how to make a terrium of a rainforest.

Research interest: Flora of the Guianas in general, floristics and exploration. Systematic work in Verbenaceae, Tiliaceae and Gentianaceae of the Guianas.

Agronomist, MSc, potato, South America, Andes, Ecuador, Peru, system analysis on crops, highland cropping systems, CIP/Quito, Helsinki/Plant Biology, Wageningen/Agronomy, on-farm yield gaps, dynamic crop growth modelling, drought, late blight, ground cover, organic farming.

Plant rooting and rooting hormones.

Biogeography and geomorphology of Neotropical savannas, especially the Llanos de Moxos of Bolivia, impacts of livestock and ranching systems in the Neotropics, primate biogeography, non-forest herpetofauna, gallery forests and forest islands, etc.

Taxonomy, biology, ecology of African Zingiberaceae. Taxonomy of African Xyridaceae. Phytogeography of African vegetation. Ecology of Hippopotamus amphibius.

Research Interests: Tropical ecology, conservation biology, landscape ecology, applications of spatial analysis, GIS and remote-sensing to biodiversity conservation.

In Panama:
Research Affiliate, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Unit 0948, APO AA, Miami 34002-0948, USA Phone: 507-27-6022
Fax: 507-32-5978

Tropical plant ecophysiology and resource allocation in tropical forest canopies. Director of the International Center for Tropical Ecology.

I am working on dry forest fragmentation in southern Puerto Rico, under Peter Murphy. I am interested in conservation and reserve design, restoration, dry forest ecology and seed ecology generally.

Research: Reproductive biology, especially the evolution of dioecy in higher plants. Systematics of the Melastomataceae and Monimiaceae (worldwide).

Rice Hoja Blanca Virus, THE virus disease of rice in America. Molecular biology/evolution/epidemiology; the Big Dream to predict the durability of transgenic virus resistant rice with respect to virus evolution/ epidemiology. Classical and molecular tropical population ecology.

I have studied seasonal variation in fruit consumption and seed dispersal by canopy frugivorous bats in Manu National Park, Peru.

Research: Taxonomic study of Rosaceae in Ecuador. Flora of Yasuni National Park.

Systematics, zoogeography, ecology, morphology and evolution of mammals; particularly (but not exclusively) Rodentia and Chiroptera; Southeast Asia (Himalayas to Malay Archipelago to New Guinea), in particular the area of Wallace's Line; Latin America and Africa to some extent.

Working on my PhD thesis on Sloths in French Guiana captured during animal rescue at Petit Saut Dam; interested in conservation biology, especially vertebrates.

Systematics on the neotropical catfishes Hypostominae (Siluroidei, Loricariidae) with emphasis on Hypostomus, Cochliodon, and Rhinelepis.

Research Interests: Medical Ethnobotany, quality control of herbal medicines, phytochemical, pharmacology profile of plant extracts, Herbal medicines used in the treatment of AIDS, Cancer, Memory Impairment, etc; Cultivation of Medicinal Plants; Synergy effects in plant extracts.

Interests include: foraging and mating systems, role of experience in behavioral decisions, life histories of flower-breeding Drosophila. BACK TO

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