Flora of Andean forests and paramos; Berberidaceae, Olacaceae and Santalacaeae of Ecuador.

Research Interests: Canopy structure-tropical forests; subsistence land use-humid and arid systems: slash and burn agriculture, pastoralism, etc and the relationship of these to tropical ecology; climate change: carbon release and storage from tropical biota.

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Herbariet, Bygn 137, Universitetsparken Aarhus Universitet
DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Phone 45-89-422751
Fax 45-86-139326
e-mail biobecu@aau.dk

Research: Composition and structure of three Ecuadorian forests at different elevations.

Ethnobotany - plant systematics - vegetation studies keywords: biodiversity - arid zones - desert areas - Euphorbiaceae - succulents - CAM physiology - drought stress - salt stress - physiology

Research: Canopy development in the forests of French Guiana.

Research: Forest gradients in West Africa. The effect of slope on the composition, density and diversity of large trees in SW Ivory Coast.

Responsible for the Environmental Science Program at Wartburg College. Research: microbial ecology of wetlands (fens and bogs) in Arctic and temperate systems. I am taking a class of 20 students to Guyana for a service/learning experience and to do water quality studies in May 1996.

Canopy structure, plant physiology, inter- and intra-individual competition, modelling spatially explicit multi-species communities.

Research: Ecology and distribution of palms in the neotropics, especially in Peru. Ethnobotany and environmental economics cencerning palms.

My research focusses on issues related to chimp reproduction - including environmental (diet, weather, social) influences.

Functional & species diversity of rainforest canopy Acari; mite-plant mutualisms; mite-insect symbioses; phoresy; mite-fungal associations; reproductive & feeding ecology of Acari; systematics of Parasitiformes; flower mites; effects of microhabitat on species diversity; thrips.

Professor Emeritus interested in using transgenics in grasses and cultivated tropical species.

Crocodilian behavior, ecology and biology. Heavy metal contamination.

Interests: Hydraulic stream ecology, ecology of Hawaiian streams, biology of amphidromous stream organisms (gobies, neritid snails, atyid shrimp).

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

Modelling of tropical floodplains (Central Amazonia) with respect to

• nutrient dynamics in floodplain lakes
• photosynthesis and primary production of macrophytes

PhD student. Interested in: Biodiversity in the rainforest canopy. Ecology and nestbuilding behavior of social insects, especially ants. Ant-plant interactions, especially epiphytes. Old World army ants (Dorylus, Aenictus).

Interested in migratory birds in the neotropics.

Research interest: Neotropical parrots, especially feeding and breeding habits and flocking behaviour of Pacific Parakeet (Aratinga strenua).

Problems related to insect population dynamics and spatial distribution. In particular the design of an expert system to provide decision support for quarantine risk, introduction of bio-control agents and enhanced greenhouse effects.

Research: Systematics of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), primarily of the Old World tropics. Currently a doctoral student of the City University of New York, working on the systematics of spartaeine & lyssomanine salticids. Also interested in the biogeography of the Indo-West Pacific region.

Behavioural ecology, tropical ecology, Galapagos, working in Galapagos on evolution of body size in marine iguanas.

Research interests: Intertidal ecology; plant-herbivore interactions; herbivore behviour; limpets; the "biofilm"- marine microalgae; tropical rocky shores.

Taxonomy of East African freshwater crabs (Deckeniidae, Potamonautidae).

My research interests focus on population and community ecology of animals (especially bats, birds, and snails) in arid (Caatinga of NE Brazil) and mesic habitats of the neotropics. In particular I am interested in the structure of animal communities, the factors that affect it, and its response to disturbance.

Ph.D. thesis on Cape parrot Poicephalus robustus ecology in temperate forests. Interested in other parrot research, esp. feeding, movement patterns, telemetry, etc. Herbivory and frugivory in birds. Loranthaceae - pollination biology, systematics and host relations.

Research interestes: Tropical (and subtropical) marine biology. Biodiversity gradients, species lists, symbioses, decapod crustaceans, blennioid fish, zoogeography of Atlantic and Mediterranean groups.

Research Conducted: Molecular diagnosis of Burkholderia(Pseudomonas) pseudomallei infections using PCR. We also produced specific antigens by Molecular Biology techniques. This bacteria is the causative agent of human melioidosis. The disease is endemic in Southeast Asia and Australia.

(i) Testing biogeographic hypotheses in SE Asia and S. America using snakes as models
(ii) Evolutionary biology and systematics of venomous snakes with reference to the snakebite problem.

Research Interests: Regional & Landscape ecology especially of tropical dry forest and woodland, pastoralism.

Mammalogy, especially small mammals. Also interested in plant ecology, such as reproductive phenology, seed dispersal, seed predation and so on, some of which are called "the interaction between plants and animals". My study site is the Pasoh Forest Reserve in West Malaysia.

Ecology and ecophysiology of tropical plants, especially epiphytes and hemiepiphytes. BACK TO

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