Emilio M. Bruna, Associate Professor
Department of Wildlife Ecology & Conservation &
Center for Latin American Studies
University of Florida-WEC
110 Newins-Ziegler Hall
PO Box 110430
Gainesville, FL 32611-0430
Office Phone: (352) 846-0634
Lab Phone: (352) 846-0527
Fax: (352) 392-6984
email: embruna[AT]ufl.edu
Education
- 2001
Ph.D. in Population Biology
University of California, Davis - 1995
M.S. in Biology
University of California, San Diego - 1994
B.S. in Ecology, Behavior, & Evolution
University of California, San Diego
Research Interests
I use field experiments, long-term demographic studies, and simple mathematical models to study how habitat fragmentation and other anthropogenic landscape alterations influence plant-animal interactions and plant population dynamics. I conduct most of my research in South America's two largest biomes: the Amazon and the Cerrado. In Amazonia I am working at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP), which is co-administered by Brazil’s Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia (INPA) and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). My Cerrado fieldwork is conducted at the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia's Panga Ecological Station, located in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. A complete description of my labs ongoing research can be found here: Bruna Lab Projects.
Curriculum Vitae (in pdf Format)
Graduate Students
I advise students through the following graduate programs:
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (MS and PhD)
- Latin American Studies (MA in Latin American Studies / Tropical Conservation & Development)
- The School for Natural Resources and the Environment (MS and PhD in Interdisciplinary Ecology)
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