Thrilled, that we launched our #fieldguide of #fruits, #seeds and #seedlings 🥭🌱🌳 of woody plants in the #TropicalDryForest at the simposium of the #RESPECT research project at the #UTPL in Loja, Ecuador this week! It's bilingual: Spanish & English 🌎😊
➡️https://lnkd.in/dPDa29XV
Admission is free - Freier Eintritt - at "Long night of the climate" #LNDK Berlin, tomorrow in the Kulturfabrik Moabit. #Bolivia #Bolivien #Berlin #biodiversity #deforestation #tropicaldryforest
Hope to see you there!
🐸🌿 What happens to frogs and toads when tropical dry forests are fragmented?
Our new study shows how edge effects profoundly alter the functional and taxonomic diversity of amphibians in Colombia’s Caribbean region www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#TropicalDryForest #Amphibians #EdgeEffects
Accepted! "Bioacoustic analyses reveal that bird communities recover with forest succession in tropical dry forests." Coming to @AvianAce!
Our paper, by @KiirstiO & a team of collaborators working @ACGuanacaste, shows that avian biodiversity grows when a #TropicalDryForest grows.
Very excited to announce that my first-ever scientific paper has been ACCEPTED!! 🥳
Soon you will be able to read in @AvianAce what we found using wildlife recorders to monitor bird communities' responses to #TropicalDryForest regeneration! 🌱🌿🌳🐦
So it looks like I'm heading back to @ACGuanacaste #CostaRica this spring to help set up the field season! Yippee!
I will be posting oodles of #TropicalDryForest photos & fun facts.
Here's a taste of what's to come, follow me for more awesomeness 🐦🐍🐆🐸🦉🐗🐒🌿
Who's that hiding in the trees looking back at me? It's my next #TropicalDryForest bird!
The Squirrel Cuckoo or Cuco Ardilla (Piaya cayana) gets its name from it's squirrel-like behaviour of leaping from branch to branch 🐿️
I have another #TropicalDryForest bird for you! Eupsittula canicularis or Orange-fronted Parakeet 🦜🦜🦜
These birds are often seen in groups & can be VERY vocal. You can read about the 'warbles' and 'peaches' of these birds in Balsby et al. 2017:
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Who's my next #TropicalDryForest bird?
@ACGuanacaste #CostaRica
Take a guess before looking to the next tweet! #BirdQuiz
This series of #TropicalDryForest birds needs a little grace and grandeur👑
The Royal Flycatcher is the perfect candidate!
While not particularly stunning when spotted in the mature forests of Santa Rosa, this bird is hiding something...
Listened to this today (thanks @AdamClarkSmith for the tip!). Album features many #TropicalDryForest birds of #CostaRica with beautiful piano pieces mixed in. Though TBH it's hard for me to enjoy it because I keep trying to ID all the birds I hear 😅🎶🐦
music.apple.com/ca/album/simbi…
I'm back w/ another cool #TropicalDryForest bird: the White-throated MagpieJay. Arguably the fanciest of the jays 😍 this species exhibits really interesting social behaviour - read about it on @CornellBirds 👍
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Accoun…
Ready for another #TropicalDryForest bird? Skutch wrote a wonderful account of the Black-headed Trogon in 1948, "One must see him resting low and in the sunshine to appreciate the full loveliness of the iridescent blue-green and golden-green plumage" #CostaRica @ACGuanacaste
I promised to share photos of cool #tropicaldryforest critters, so here is the BIGGEST one: Baird's Tapir! Once widespread, now #endangered & restricted to protected areas. Land protection & forest restoration are helping this amazing species recover in #CostaRica! @ACGuanacaste
