Amazonian Fragmentation

For my PhD dissertation, I studied how land use history (e.g. cutting and burning) and the subsequent regrowth of tropical rainforest affects understory bird movement and dispersal. I have used a variety of techniques to get at this question, including radiotelemetry, stable isotopes and mark-recapture analyses. My field work took place at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project near Manaus, Brazil.

Thinking of doing a translocation experiment to understand how animals move in fragmented landscapes? Think again!

Recently Phil Stouffer and I published this manuscript in the scientific journal Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia: Experimental translocations: Pitfalls and alternatives for quantifying animal movement in fragmented landscapes.

Recovery of Secondary Growth for Amazonian Wildlife

Recently myself and coauthors Phil Stouffer and Erik Johnson published the results of my dissertation's "chapter 1" in The Auk.: Recovery of Understory Bird Movement Across the Interface of Primary and Secondary Amazon Rainforest (supplementary materials).

1 ha and 10 ha forest fragments at the

Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project

in the early 1980s.

Radio-telemetry

Jared Wolfe (Left),Aída Rodrigues and myself with

radio-tagged Formicarius colma.

Recently I presented a poster on space use by rainforest birds at the Society of Conservation Biology's congress in Oakland entitled: Dynamics of space use by understory birds in a heterogeneous Amazonian landscape. Check out the PDF here. The manuscript is in review with the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society - Biology.