Principle Investigator
Amy Dunham, PhDI am primarily interested in the interactions of species in complex tropical forests and especially in relation to anthropogenic disturbances. However, my research spans a wide range of topics in ecology, evolution and conservation biology, from geographic and phylogenetic patterns of trait distributions and community assembly to impacts of extinction and invasion on trophic cascades and ecosystem processes, to studies of global climate change impacts on demography and species interactions.
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Graduate Students
Eric WuesthoffEric is a PhD student and NSF GRFP fellow interested in the impacts of anthropogenic environmental changes on the spatial and community ecology of tropical mammals. Eric's doctoral research looks at how mammals influence the structure of degraded habitat, traditional use forests, and agroforests through seed dispersal and the implications of these interactions for conserving threatened species and supporting the needs of local communities.
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Julieanne MontaquilaJulieanne is an NSF GRFP fellow studying the complex multispecies interactions between mistletoe hemiparasites, their host trees, and the many animal mutualists and enemies with which they interact. Her work is focused in Ranomafana National Park located in the southeastern rainforests of Madagascar.
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Graduate Student Alumni
Internationally Based Student Collaborators