I am will be on sabbatical in Brazil from August 2009 through February, 2010. You can reach me via email, however I will be spending much of my time in the field and hence may be slow to respond. Emergency contact information for me is available from Elaine Culpepper in the WEC office (phone: 352.846.0643; email: Elaine Culpepper).
Current Positions
- University of Florida Research Foundation Professor (2009-2011)
- Associate Professor, Department of Wildlife Ecology & Conservation & Center for Latin American Studies
- Academic Advisor, Tropical Conservation and Development Program
Education
- Ph.D. in Population Biology, 2001
University of California, Davis - M.S. in Biology, 1995
University of California, San Diego - B.S. in Ecology, Behavior, & Evolution with a minor in Literature, 1994
Revelle College, 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, which is co-administered by Brazil’s Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. My Cerrado fieldwork is conducted at Panga Ecological Station, a field station of the Universidade Federal de Uberlandia in Minas Gerais. A complete description of my labs ongoing research can be found here: Bruna Lab Projects.
Curriculum Vitae (in pdf Format)
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