A5082622752- Plant and animal studies
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Fern and Epiphyte Biology
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Forest Management and Policy
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Sports injuries and prevention
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Tendon Structure and Treatment
- Tree Root and Stability Studies
University of Louisville
2021-2025
Florida Gulf Coast University
2025
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2019-2025
Savanna Institute
2019
Boston University
2007
Abstract Lightning strikes are a common source of disturbance in tropical forests, and typical strike generates large quantities dead wood. Lightning‐damaged trees consistent resource for saproxylic (i.e., wood‐dependent) organisms, but patterns consumer colonization succession following lightning not known. Here, we documented the occurrence four taxa spanning multiple trophic levels—beetles, Azteca ants, termites, fungi—in sites nearby undamaged control over time lowland forest Panama....
Lightning strikes kill hundreds of millions trees annually, but their role in shaping tree life history and diversity is largely unknown. Here, we use data from a unique lightning location system to show that some individual counterintuitively benefit being struck by lightning. killed 56% 93 directly caused an average 41% crown dieback among the survivors. However, these trees, 10 direct negligible damage Dipteryx oleifera while killing 78% lianas 2.1 Mg competitor biomass. Nine other...
ABSTRACT Chestnut short‐tailed bats, Carollia castanea , and Seba's C. perspicillata (Phyllostomidae), were radio‐tracked ( N = 1593 positions) in lowland rain forest at Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Orellana Province, Ecuador. For 11 C . mean home range was 6.8 ± 2.2 ha, core‐use area 1.7 0.8 long axis across 438 106 m. three 5.5 1.3 0.6 493 172 Groups of less than five occupied day‐roosts earthen cavities that undercut banks the River. used tree hollows buildings as day‐roosts....
The arboreal ecosystem is vitally important to global and local biogeochemical processes, the maintenance of biodiversity in natural systems, human health urban environments. ability collect samples, observations, data conduct meaningful scientific research similarly vital. primary methods modes access remain limited difficult. In an online survey, canopy researchers ( n = 219) reported a range challenges obtaining adequate including ∼10% who found it impossible procure what they needed....
Agroforestry represents a solution to land degradation by agriculture, but social barriers wider application of agroforestry persist. More than half all cropland in the USA is leased rather owner-operated, and short terms most leases preclude agroforestry. Given insufficient research on tenure models appropriate for USA, primary objective this study was identify examples farmers practicing they do not own. We conducted interviews with these farmers, and, several cases, landowners, order...
Epiphytes, air plants that are structurally dependent on trees, a keystone group in tropical forests; they support the food and habitat needs of animals influence water nutrient cycles. They reach peak diversity humid montane forests. Climate predictions for Central American mountains include increased temperatures, altered precipitation seasonality, cloud base heights, all which may challenge epiphytes. Although remaining forests highly fragmented, many agricultural systems trees host...
Abstract The study of functional traits offers predictive power for community ecology. Particularly in cases where individual species are difficult to study, known properties trait spectra, such as the leaf economics spectrum (LES), and trait–environment relationships can provide crucial generalizable information that contribute forecasts distributional shifts response abiotic effects climate land use changes. Vascular epiphytes have been proposed indicators environmental change, but we know...
Wisconsin's plant communities are responding to shifting disturbance regimes, habitat fragmentation, aerial nitrogen deposition, exotic species invasions, ungulate herbivory, and successional processes. To better understand how functional traits mediate species' responses changing environmental conditions, we collected a large set of trait data for vascular occupying Wisconsin forests grasslands. We used standard protocols make 76,213 measurements 34 quantitative traits. These provide rich...
Shade-grown coffee is an important reservoir for tropical biodiversity, but habitat quality hinges on decisions made by farmers. Our research aims to investigate the link between producers’ and outcomes using epiphytes as our focal group. Using qualitative methods, we interviewed 33 producers in northern Nicaragua understand how they connect trees their farms ecosystem services personal values, access agronomic expertise, labor supply, financial stability influence decision-making. We used...