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AT LA SELVA BIOLOGICAL STATION, COSTA RICA
The influences of drought and flooding related to climate change on the biotic interactions of the regionally dominant tree species Pentaclethra macroloba in northeastern Costa Rica.
With S. Goffredi and G. North we are investigating how natural and experimentally manipulated differences in soil water availability influence above- and below-ground interactions between P. macroloba, its nitrogen-fixing microbial symbionts, and its leaf herbivores.
2017 leads: Ben Scott, Cora Davies, Bryce Lewis-Smith
Who eats Pentaclethra macroloba?
Our public database will contain images and life history data on leaf- and fluid-feeding insects utilizing the most abundant tree at La Selva.
2016 lead: Skye Harnsberger
Field guide to La Selva grasshoppers.
Based on the work of Dr. C.H. F. Rowell and his 2013 book, The Grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama.
We are partnering with La Selva biologists and station director Carlos de la Rosa, and Dr. Cesar Nufio, to create a digital field guide to the family Acrididae found at La Selva.
(right) Microtylopteryx hebardi male
2016 and 2017 lead student: Hannah Hayes
Dr. Beth Braker | bbraker@oxy.edu | 203 Moore Laboratory of Zoology | 323-259-2645
Department of Biology, Occidental College, 1600 Campus Road, Los Angeles CA 90041
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