Neotropical ornithology, esp. passerines, altitudinal migration, ecology, understorey avian communities, endangered species, Colombia. Presently undertaking D.Phil on Forest-falcons in south-west Colombia, investigating natural history, population and conservation.
I am a graduate student in ecology and systematics. My interest is mainly centered on systematics and biogeography of South American mammals. I have worked mostly in tropical savannas and forest ecosystems in Bolivia, inventoring mammals using traditional methods.
Interests: Corydoras, taxonomy, ecology, genetics, behaviour. Siluriformes.
My professional interest is landscape ecology and environmental planning, with emphasis on habitat fragmentation of tropandean landscapes. Restoration Ecology and environmental services for the Andean region is my interest for applied ecological work.
Research interests include: chemical mediation of coevolution between insects and plants (primarily on Jamaica), insect and plant community ecology and evolution.
Flora of Mato Grosso, Phytosociology of wetlands and floodplains, Sociology and phenology of cerrado vegetation.
Termite-ecology, termite-diversity, termite-taxonomy, conceptual questions in ecology and evolution.
Interests: influence of canopy gaps on succession & microclimate; integrating global/tropical biology into non-majors education.
I am from Venezuela. Research interests: Wildlife ecology, conservation biology. I have worked with ecology and conservation aspects of the family Cracidae (Birds). Currently my PhD Dissertation is about changes in habitat and their effects on camouflage in lizards.
Tropical ferns (both old and new world tropics): systematics, ecology, and evolution of morphological and anatomical adaptations especially of the root systems.
Marine ecology, Caribbean diversity, Crustacea.
Chemical ecology, pheromones, insect-plant interactions, natural products, spiders, butterflies, toxins, silk.
My main interest and experience is in plant population and communituy ecology in general. I am especially interested in cloud forest vegetation dynamics, but I am also interested in other tropical ecosystems, like savannas where I have some experience.
Plant-animal interactions, community ecology of birds and mammals, conservation biology, impact of human disturbances on tropical forests, slash-and-burn shifting cultivation, landscape ecology.
Neotropics, particularly Venezuela. Protected area management: biological surveys, land use, local communities, economics and information management. Environment-development issues. Also neotropical ornithology (I also work as an ornithological tour guide).
Demography and ecology of tropical pteridophytes. Comparisons of tropical and temperate pteridophyte life histories. Barrier island vegetation. Primary school science education.
Main area of interest is Ethnobotany.
I study the indirect and direct effects of herbivorous land crabs (Gecarinus quadratus and Cardisoma crassum) on the seedling community structure and ecosystem dynamics of Corcovado National Park, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica. Ecocsystem, community, population, & behav. levels.
I am intersted in carbon and nitrogen interaction on plant productivity. Respiration is one of the most important interst of mine.
I am teaching plant pathology here, while my training, and research interests are in plant virology. I have no research program as I started only a month ago.
I am interested in plant secondary compounds, insect herbivory, and ethnobo= tany.
Structure of tropical forest communities: how individual life-histories influence the distribution and abundance of species, and how these individual distributions integrate to form communities. Work on dispersal limitation, predation, climate change, and historical species migrations.
Research interest: Ecology, systematics and biogeography of Neotropical birds, with emphasis on Amazonia, Cerrado, Caatinga and Atlantic Forest.
I am interested in all information regarding Passiflora species.
Addressing the connection between forest harvesting operations and silvicultural or ecological objectives. Current research: the productivity of types of harvesting machines and their effects on the regeneration of a root sprouting tree species (Populus tremuloides). Ph.D. near completion.
I am a medical student who is very interested in Tropical Medicine (Parasitology). Also interested in biospeleology and concepts of island biogeography as they pertain to evolutionary processes.
Research areas include tropical ecology, evolutionary history, paleobotany, and systematics; flowering plants, especially members of the Magnoliidae and Ranunculidae; neotropical forest community ecology; and co-evolution of plants and animals.
Research interests: mangrove forest biology and ecology; hormonal control of seedling development under adverse conditions; shoot-root ratios; microclimate-vegetation interactions in subtropical-tropical environments.
Molecular genetics, phylogenetics, and domestication processes of tropical crop species, especially polyploid and vegetatively propagated ones. Main emphasis on sugarcane (Saccharum sp.), cassava (Manihot esculenta) and bananas (Musa sp.); smaller efforts in Rhizobium and entomopathogenic fungi.
I am interested in rainforest conservation and have been working with tropical social insects. The main focus of this research haas been to develop an understanding of the evolution of sociality.
In Ecuador:
FUNDACION CUYABENO
Casilla 17-17-1377, Quito-Ecuador
Phone: (5932) 464 728
Fax: (5932) 464 717
My research interests include tropical ornithology, avian frugivory, fruit phenology, canopy fruit utilization, ecology of canopy frugivore birds especially the Psittacidae family. Ethno-ornithology and Ethno-taxonomy of birds. Conservation of tropical birds.
Home:
3813 Grayson Lane
Austin, Texas 78722
512-476-0139 USA
souther@cs.utexas.edu (internet)
I am interested in (but not yet currently engaged in) the possibility of using artificial intelligence to help detemine the optimal areas to focus on in the protection of the Amazon (e.g., defining refugia). Any and all ideas are much welcome.
I am interested in possibly doing some research in rain forests anywhere in South America. I am especially interested in macaw conservation efforts. I would like to work/volunteer in the summer time.
Special Interests: indigenous plant and animal genetic resources, savannas, agro-silvo-pastoral production systems, pastoralism, wildlife protection and management, biodiversity, multipurpose trees.
Research: Vegetation reorganisation following disturbances in Andean forests: the role of Chusquea, a montane bamboo.
Variation in species richness, forest dynamics, wood-boring insects, plant life history.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Neotropical freshwater fishes, community ecology, historical biology, systematics (especially catfishes), ecological energetics.
I am a high school biology teacher who travels extensively with students and without to tropical rain forests in Central and South America. I am interested in biodiversity, effects of ecotourism on developing countries and education.
I am a DVM, MS. Specialized in diseases of cold blooded vertebrates (reptiles, amphibians and fish).
Tropical and subtropical fruits. Lychee, longan, carambola, jackfruit, jaboticaba, avocado
Evolutionary biology of social behavior, particularly in social insects, genetic conflicts of interest within social insect colonies. Methods combine field work with molecular techniques particularly microsatellites. Recent tropical work has been in Venezuela and has focused on colony cycles of swarm-founding wasps.
Tropical mountain ecology, forest ecology, environmental ethics, restoration ecology, conservation biology, natural resource management, anthropology, sustainable development, ethnobotany, forest resource management, environmental impacts, ecological modeling, GIS/remote sensing applications.
I am a 27-year-old grad student in the Zoology Dept. at Duke University who is studying Neotropical freshwater electric fishes. I'll be in Brazil, Venezuela & French Guiana from Feb. to June 1993 collecting them.
Agroforestry (including windbreaks), rehabilitation of degraded tropical lands, restoration ecology, genetic evaluation, direct seeding, plant salt tolerance and response to salinity.
Research Interests: Water quality problems in tropical estuaries, aquatic toxicology, shrimp mariculture.
Honey bee population genetics, honey bee DNA analysis, mites parasitic on honey bees (personal interest: tropical fruits - culture and pollination).
Phone +358-17-262 1935 e-mail syrja@messi.uku.fi
Postgraduate studies in Kuopio University environment sciences.
I am a second year undergraduate student, majoring in marine biology. My primary interests are coral reef ecology and herpetology. I'd like to help (volunteer) in any research going on in the neotropics over the summer. I have a couple of published papers on herpetology of the Balkans.
I worked with flow of water and nutrients in tropical soils. I already worked fertilizer, physical and use of tropical soils.
Applications of remote sensing and GIS to tropical marine and terrestrial ecosystems, particulary in the Caribbean region.
Res. Int: Collaborators to assist in genetically transforming tropical crops utilizing proprietary genes which confer high levels of resistance to a broad range of bacterial & fungal pathogens. Also have nutrition enhancement genes for crops.
My interests are: tropical insects (sticks) and spiders (birdspiders)
I=B4m working on a mapping of the primate species occuring in an urban zone of the state I live, but also deal with captive reproduction of green iguanas.
Behavioural ecology of reptiles and amphibians.
Resaerch Interests: Behavioral ecology of tropical birds and mammals. Social and Reproductive systems in Hoatzins and cracids. Tropical Conservation and Sustainable Development.
Entry level positions (pref. abroad) in ecology, zoology, marine biology, biodiversity/island biogeography, or related fields. Willing to work in exchange for room and board.
Vegetation ecology of the lowland rain forests in western Amazonia
(especially Peru), and how it relates to geology. Use of satellite images
and indicator species (especially ferns) in rapid vegetation surveys.
Ecology, biogeography and systematics of neotropical ferns.
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