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The annual meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation
(ATBC) in July 2004 in Miami was well attended by Project Amazonas
personnel, students and researchers who have done research at Project
Amazonas field sites in the Amazon.
The annual meetings bring
together researchers and academics from around the globe, and are
a great opportunity for networking.
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Dr. Devon Graham and Dr. Jim Riach presented a poster on using
an integrated approach to address problems of human and environmental
health. Rutgers University graduate student Johanna Choo, who
spent a year researching avian frugivory and plant phenology
at the Paucarillo Forest Reserve presented some of her work
at the conference as did University of Miami graduate student
Carlos Robledo Garcia, who has worked at the Project Amazonas
field sites conducting research on beetle herbivory and pollination
of Calathea (Marantaceae) and Xanthosoma (Araceae).
Dr. Steven Yanoviak, who has conducted mosquito and bat viral
vector work at Madre Selva presented video footage and experimental
evidence indicating that a common ant that inhabits the Amazonian
canopy and tree trunks is capable of gliding (technically a
'controlled descent'), and when dislodged from a branch, they
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From left to right:
Dr. Devon Graham; Project Amazonas
Dr. Johanna Choo; Rutgers University,
New Jersey
Dr. Steven Yanoviak; Iquitos,
Peru
Carlos Robledo Garcia; University
of Miami, Florida |
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Drs. Graham
and Yanoviak are from the USA, while Dr. Choo (she successfully
defended her dissertation in 2005 - congrats!) is a native
of Singapore and soon-to-be-Dr.. Robledo Garcia hails from
Colombia. It was the first time that any of them had met
each other outside of Peru, however.
Below: The
Project Amazonas poster.
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