Year 5 for our Caribbean Pollination Networks project is officially completed! 🌺🐝🦋
New species & interactions as we continue exploring the incredible diversity of Caribbean plants & their pollinators.
So much more to learn from these dynamic systems!
#TropicalDryForests #PlantPollinatorNetworks
Lygophis anomatus - the snake species that lost most habitat in our study (Photo Diego Carús)
Deforestation leads to an erosion of snake diversity in the #GranChaco. Paper led by Hugo Cabral just out in @consbiog.bsky.social 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #Chaco #herptiles @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu #TropicalDryForests
It’s not only the Amazon: tropical dry forests should be protected as well. #tropicaldryforests
Very excited about this! Huge thanks to @DovciakLab for supporting our initiative and helping make it real. #VCU #seedtraits #seedispersal #tropicaldryforests #BiodiversityResearchLab
(a) Map with the location of the study area. (b) Map of the land-use cover in the study area.
#TropicalDryForests are among the most degraded and fragmented biomes in the world. In order to protect it, Oscar R Lanuza et al. assessed the #Diversity, #Composition, #Structure and #ConservationValue of tropical dry forests in a #HighlyFragmentedLandscape in #Nicaragua.
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Deforestation in the Bolivian Chiquitania (photo credit: BiogeoLab @ HU Berlin)
First major results coming out from our
ERC project #SystemShift (hu.berlin/SystemShift) on land-use change and conservation challenges (and opportunities) in #TropicalDryForests!
I was lucky enough to meet a few of these amazing creatures during my time in the #TropicalDryForests of @ACGuanacaste 🌿
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This evening I presented to Nature Miramichi, our local naturalist club on my research in the #TropicalDryForests of Costa Rica @ACGuanacaste 🇨🇷, and an intro to my current research on wetland birds in Atlantic Canada 🦆
The 2nd chapter of my Master's thesis is now published online in Journal of #Ornithology! 😊
Female & male Rufous-and-white Wrens living in fragmented #TropicalDryForests of @ACGuanacaste respond differently to neighbours, time of day & time of year.
1/6 To begin my #AnimBehav2021 thread, I'd like to introduce you to...the Rufous-and-white Wren 🤩
This tropical species lives in the fragmented #TropicalDryForests of @ACGuanacaste #CostaRica, an imperiled ecosystem that experiences extreme dry & wet seasons.
Learn a little bit about #TropicalDryForests, one of earth's most imperilled ecosystems! 👇👇👇
You can't NOT fall in love with this unique ecosystem 😍
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!!! I'm a published scientist now! 😎
We found that bird communities become more diverse, abundant & similar to those in mature #TropicalDryForests as forest regrow due to ambitious restoration efforts in @ACGuanacaste! 🐦🌿
Read it online here:
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This has been an AWESOME collaboration between 6 different coauthors of many different research interests from 4 different universities, but with one really important thing in common: an appreciation & love of the #TropicalDryForests of @ACGuanacaste, Costa Rica.
This is what makes #TropicalDryForests so different from nearby rain & cloud forests!
Plants & animals living in this unique ecosystem are specially adapted to deal with extreme seasonality. Pictured: Baird's Tapir cools off; Rufous-and-white Wren nest-building after the rains.
It's that time of year where the dry season ends & the rainy season begins in the #TropicalDryForests of Guanacaste, Costa Rica. The entire ecosystem responds VERY quickly (these two pictures are within a few weeks).
On this day last year I was in the #TropicalDryForests of @ACGuanacaste recording wrens.
Today was the day we were supposed to head back there for the 2020 season.
Listening to audio recordings of Rufous-and-white Wrens (a species with #FemaleSong & duetting!) from the #TropicalDryForests of @ACGuanacaste. Sadly, I won't be able to observe them in person this year. They'll be building nests soon in anticipation of the coming rainy season.
Dry season vs. wet season in the #TropicalDryForests of @ACGuanacaste @gdfcf_org. Capuchins in the tree during the dry season, leaves in the tree in the wet season ☀️🐒🌿☔️
JUST submitted my first manuscript!
Stay tuned to read about what we discovered when we put these recorders up around the #TropicalDryForests of @ACGuanacaste.
Right now I'm feeling as cool as I look in that photo 😎
Excited! Not sure if I'll be there long enough to see these fun critters (Neotropical Yellow Toads) emerge, but I look forward to spending a few weeks in the #TropicalDryForests of @ACGuanacaste again!
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"Human social desire is the single most needed trait for allowing survival of wild tropical biodiversity"
(Janzen & Hallwachs 2020)
@ACGuanacaste @gdfcf_org #TropicalDryForests #conservation
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As I finish up my 1st data chapter on bird biodiversity in @ACGuanacaste's regenerating forests, I'm shifting my focus to my data Ch. #2. I am focusing on one of the most charismatic birds of #TropicalDryForests with, arguably, the coolest songs: the Rufous-and-white Wren😊
Second-ever conference talk complete! Some very positive feedback. Thank you to everyone who attended & listened to me talk about bird communities in #TropicalDryForests of @ACGuanacaste! 🔥🌱🌳🐦
#AFOWOS2019
I will be talking about how bird communities use regenerating #TropicalDryForests of @ACGuanacaste.
This is going to be the first chapter of my MSc thesis. I'm still finishing up analyses & writing, so if you come to my talk & have suggestions, please come chat with me after!!
Today's bird is the Rufous-and-white Wren - a long-term study species of @DMennill's lab. Males & females of this species sing & sometimes form duets.
They have the BEST songs in the #TropicalDryForests of Costa Rica... but I might be biased 😅
Hey everyone, for those that haven't been following along, I've been sharing photos of #birds from the #TropicalDryForests of @ACGuanacaste. This endangered ecosystem is home to many amazing birds, including the abundant & endlessly-singing Yellow-green Vireo (Vireo flavoviridis
Who's next? How about this elusive Thicket Tinamou! One of the most common sounds in the #TropicalDryForests of #CostaRica (and one of the easiest to identify!), it's described by @CornellBirds as "far-carrying, mellow, quavering whistle.
Another species from the #TropicalDryForests of #CostaRica that comes up very often on my recordings: Long-tailed Manakins! Usually they are heard when a pair of males engage in their "toledo" calls.
