Lab News

4-2-2008
Yesterday we found out Stella is an NSF Predoctoral Fellow. We celebrated.

3-25-2008
Great news...Irina has been named a 2008 CALS University Scholar! She will be doing her Senior Thesis at the Ordway-Swisher Biological Station, where she will study nutirent limitation and its effects on long-leaf pine savannas. See more at http://cals.ufl.edu/undergraduate/UniversityScholars.html

3-17-2008
Gwen is a Master of Science! Congrats on defending her thesis, whose title is "Seedling recruitment as a driver of species richness in the understory of longleaf pine savanna". Gwen will take a few weeks off before starting her nrew job with the Florida Natural Areas Inventory.

12-10-07
Yes! Antonio passes his qualifying exam with flying colors! He is now a PhD candidate and is getting ready for a busy field season.

8-23-07
Drum roll please...A paper by the Cerrado Research Group (knows as EIPA in Brazil) has been awarded the 2007 Award for Excellence in Tropical Biology and Conservation. The award is given by the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation to the outstanding article published in the journal Biotropica. The paper is available for donwload on the Publications page. Congratulations to Heraldo et al.! You can read the award announcement here (Award of Excellence pdf).

Vasconcelos, H. L., E. H. M. Vieira-Neto, F. M. Mundim, and E. M. Bruna. 2006. Roads alter the colonization dynamics of a keystone herbivore in Neotropical savannas. Biotropica 38(5):661-665)

An article about the research in the UF Inside IFAS magazine is here

8-22-07
Welcome back! Fall semester is finally here. our new student Stella has arrived, and Antonio is back from a tough summer of field work. Gwen and Christine are in the field collecting boatloads of cool data. And it's really hot.

6-5-07
Back from two weeks of fieldwork in Uberlandia (sampling biomass and soils) and a trip to Sao Paulo (to meet with Cris and Alexandre). Things are quiet...everyone else is in the field.

4-24-07
More good news for Christine! She was awarded an IAF (Inter-American Foundation) Grassroots Development Fellowship to support her research on forest regeneration in Amazonian flooded forests.

4-24-07
Dr. Marcello Tabarelli (UFPE-Brazil) arrived today for a quick visit. In addition to talking more about Antonio's project, He, Ariadna, and I will be discussing some collaborative manuscripts on fragmentation and plant reproduction.

4-18-07
Christine passed her qualifying exams with flying colors! She is now officially a Ph.D. Candidate, and is off to Brazil to do field work. Congratulations, Christine!

12-13-06
...and stayed busy. The semester flew by, with everyone working hard on field work (Gwen), classes (Antonio, Christine, Irina) or papers (Ariadna, Selene). Enjoy the break!

9-6-06
A new semester is now underway...things got very busy very quickly...

5-15-06
Summertime...things got quiet around here! Christine and Gwen are in the field, Ian is preparing for his move to NC State, Matt is roaming the southeast, and Emilio is getting ready to leave for Brazil. Ariadna has returned and is getting settled, while Antonio slaves away on his proposal.

4-20-06
Ian successfully defends his MS Thesis! The title is "Demographic studies of plants: data limitations and spatial sampling methods".

4-19-06
Emilio's brother Sean, a doctoral student at UNM, has a web page. Find him at http://www.unm.edu/~sbruna/bio.html.

4-10-06
Good news for Christine! She received a grant from WFT to pay for her summer field research in Brazil.

10-26-05
Matt successfully defends his MS Thesis! The title is "Ant occupancy and ant-herbivore defense of Cordia alliodora, a Neotropical myrmecophyte".

9-16-05
Diego Andrés Delamônica Bruna has arrived! 3.6 kg and 51 cm - mom and baby are doing fine.

9-5-05
Welcome back! Christine and Emilio spent the summer conducting fieldwork in Brazil, while Matt and Ian were in Gainesville working on their theses and collecting ants in the Natural Area Teaching Lab. Gwen and Antonio have arrived and are getting settled in.

Photos

Diego (Nov 2006)

Emilio con Diego (10-5-05)

Alan mapping Atta nests