Amazon

Photos from the Field: Patterns of plant phenology in Amazonian seasonally flooded and unflooded forests

Hawes and Peres, (2016). Patterns of plant phenology in Amazonian seasonally flooded and unflooded forests. Biotopica, 48:465-475. doi: 10.1111/btp.12315 Few… Read More »

#ATBC16 Bacardi & Gentry Award Winners

The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) recognizes the exceptional research of our students and early career scientists with… Read More »

Photos from the Field: Canopy Openess & Ant-Plant Interactions

Figure 2. Wesley Dáttilo and his field assistant Roberto Stofel recording ant-plant interactions.

Dáttilo, W. and Dyer, L. (2014), Canopy Openness Enhances Diversity of Ant–Plant Interactions in the Brazilian Amazon Rain Forest. Biotropica,… Read More »

Photos from the Field: Fire in Seasonally Flooded Amazonian Forests

de Resende, A. F., Nelson, B. W., Flores, B. M. and de Almeida, D. R. (2014), Fire Damage in Seasonally… Read More »

Photos from the Field: Tarli et al. Structure of Amazonian Cockroach Communities

Tarli et al. Cockroaches of the Ducke Reserve, Amazonas, Brazil.

Tarli, V. D., Pequeno, P. A. C. L., Franklin, E., de Morais, J. W., Souza, J. L. P., Oliveira, A…. Read More »

Reviewer needed: Field Gide to Amazon Mushrooms

Are you willing to write a review of this field guide to Amazon fungi? If so I will send it… Read More »

Tropical Biology and Conservation in Brazil

Brazil always fascinated early naturalists – many will be familiar with the writings of Darwin, Wallace, Roosevelt, von Humboldt, and… Read More »

Photos from the Field: Fadini et al. 2014. Seed predation in Mistletoes

Fig. 5. Rodrigo Fadini and Leidielly Ghizoni doing fieldwork in a sand beach along the Tapajos River. (Photo credit: Brendson Brito).

Rodrigo F. Fadini. Ana Mellado, and, Leidielly P. Ghizoni. 2014. A Host Creates an Enemy-free Space for Mistletoes by Reducing Seed Predation Caused… Read More »

Photos from the Field: Lee at al. 2014. Geophagy in Amazonian Parrots

Blue-and-Yellow; Red-and-green; and Scarlet Macaws in flight
around the claylick at Tambopata Research Centre (Photo: Alan Lee)

Alan T. K. Lee, Donald J. Brightsmith, Mario P. Vargas, Karina Q. Leon, Aldo J. Mejia and Stuart J. Marsden…. Read More »

Photos from the Field: Heymann et al. 2014. Research Impacts on Bromeliads

Heyman et al. 2014. The Estación Biológica Quebrada Blanco (EBQB) is a field research site in north-eastern Peruvian Amazonia. While the focus of research at EBQB has traditionally been on primate ecology and behaviour, researchers and students interested in other organisms are highly welcome. (Photo: E.W. Heymann).

Eckhard W. Heymann, Laura L. Wörner, Birgit Ziegenhagen, Ronald Bialozyt. 2014. Research Trails Affect the Abundance of an Epiphytic Tropical Bromeliad. Biotropica, 46(2):… Read More »

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