Our Mission:
To understand the consequences of deforestation, habitat fragmentation, climate change, and other human activities for plant-animal interactions and plant population dynamics. While we work in many ecosystems, most of our research is conducted in tropical rain forests and savannas.
Professor & Distinguished Teaching Scholar
Dept. of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
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Center for Latin American Studies
University of Florida
Emilio M. Bruna, Ph.D.
I use field experiments, long-term demographic studies, mathematical models, and computational approaches to study (1) how the demography and population dynamics of tropical plants are influenced by human activities such as deforestation and climate change, and (2) factors influencing geographic disparities in the production and spread of knowledge, with an emphasis on scholarship from Latin America.
I currently serve as Past-President of the Association for Tropical Biology & Conservation and Secretary of the Ecological Society of America.
- Tropical ecology and conservation
- Plant population ecology
- Plant-animal interactions
- Habitat Fragmentation
- Amazonia & The Cerrado
- Scientometrics, Science of Science
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Ph.D. in Population Biology, 2001
University of California, Davis
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M.S. in Biology, 1995
University of California, San Diego
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B.S. in Ecology, Behavior, & Evolution with a Minor in Literature, 1994
Revelle College, University of California, San Diego
Current Lab Members
Nina Attias
Postdoctoral Researcher
conservation biology, spatial ecology, education, Animal movements in disturbed landscapes
Priyanka Hari Haran
Ph.D. Student
community ecology, mixed-species flocks, forest restoration, tropical ecology, Western Ghats, Science Communication
Thomas Smith
Ph.D. Student
Habitat fragmentation, insect community ecology, Plant-insect interactions
Recent Publications
Contact
- embruna@ufl.edu
- (352) 514-3935
- University of Florida-WEC, PO Box 110430, 110 Newins-Ziegler Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611-0430
- The Tropical Ecology and Conservation Lab is located at 711 Newell Dr. on the UF campus. Our building is a white house nestled between the Rawlings Hall dorms and the parking garage at the corner of Newell Dr. and Museum Road.
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