Just out: Impacts of rodent eradication on seed predation and plant community biomass on a tropical atoll
Dirzo Lab former undergrad Ana Miller-Ter Kuile and collaborators (including Rodolfo Dirzo and former lab member and now UCSB faculty Hillary Young), just published a paper in Biotropica. The study looks at the effects of an invasive rodent eradication on the plant community at the Palmyra Atoll.
Check out the press release: https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2020/020085/plot-twist
And the paper: https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.stanford.idm.oclc.org/doi/10.1111/btp.12864
Luísa Genes
PhD Student
My research focuses on the conservation and restoration of species interactions in tropical terrestrial ecosystems. I am currently working in rainforests in Brazil and Costa Rica, studying how communities and plant-animal interactions reassemble through restoration and trophic rewilding. Before coming to Stanford, I’ve worked in the reintroduction of howler monkeys (Alouatta guariba) to Rio de… Read more
