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The University of Florida has just pushed a press release about a paper by our Ph.D. student Ernane Vieira Neto [website]. Congratulations Ernane!   UF student’s research shines a light on Brazilian ecosystems [caption id=“attachment_9368” align=“alignright” width=“500”] Road cutting through a mixture of natural areas and agriculture in Brazil’s Cerrado (Photo by Emilio Bruna).

Our lab members' interests range from trying to understand the consequences of deforestation in the Amazon for plants to how international collaboration influences the impact of research papers. Below are some of what we consider our major accomplishments in four areas of research, with links description of the results pdf’s of the articles.

Bruna Lab doctoral student Ernane Viera Neto was awarded the E. Lucy Braun Award for a poster he presented at the 2012 meeting of the Ecological Society of America detailing his research on how roads influence the distribution and demography of leaf-cutter ants (Atta) Brazil’s Cerrado.

The Organization for Tropical Studies is a consortium of 63 universities and research institutions from around the world whose field stations and courses have been some of the most important training and research opportunities for tropical ecologists.