A New National System for the monitoring of biodiversity and the role of ecosystem integrity in regulation zoonotic disease in Mexico
A project in collaboration with Mexico’s National Commission foe Biodiversity (CONABIO) and the Dirzo Lab. This project will use a network of paired sites comprising two adjacent modules (conserved, disturbed) to monitor plant (plot surveys) and animal life (medium and large vertebrates) via camera traps, sound/ultrasound recorders, and Sherman traps 9for rodents and their ectoparasites) to monitor biodiversity and assess how the contrasting status of conservation determine incidence of zoonotic disease. The network of monitoring sites includes replicated pairs across all major ecosystems of Mexico.
The New Biodiversity Monitoring Program in Mexico
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
