Ecological consequences of rat eradication on the Palmyra Atoll (Central Pacific)
For this project, we are able to draw on extensive and detailed baseline data on the structure, composition, and diversity of the native vegetation and the islets dominated by the invasive coconut palm, as well as information about the food chain length and dynamics and soil, foliage, and runoff nutrients on the Palmyra Atoll in the Central Pacific. We are now comparing such variables following a successful rat eradication program.
Collaborator: Hillary Young, Stanford and University of California Santa Barbara
Funding: National Geographic Society
Rodolfo Dirzo
Principal Investigator
My research is simply part of the research that most lab members are conducting. In addition to that, I conduct some projects in which students from Stanford –and from other universities– participate. I also conduct research in collaboration with other colleagues from a variety of institutions—nationally and internationally, including the following: Patterns of herbivory in… Read more
