new paper on Solanum fruit-color evolution – congrats to João on an excellent work!
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Part of Special Issue “‘Diversity-dependence of dispersal: interspecific interactions determine spatial dynamics’
http://‘Diversity-dependence of dispersal: interspecific interactions determine spatial dynamics’
New review paper on frugivory and seed dispersal on islands
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Julissa Irizarry successfully passes her comps – congratulations Julissa!!
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Dr. Tobías N. Rojas joins our lab as postdoc in the Paranapanema forest regeneration experiment – welcome Tobías!
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Congratulations – Parabéns – to João for passing his comprehensive exam with flying colors!
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New Paper
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Carlo Lab PhD Students at AOS/BC Congress 2022 in Puerto Rico
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Students of Carlo Lab successfully presented at the AOS/BC Congress 2022 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Julissa won the award for best student presentation by Birds Caribbean!
Alberto made two oral presentations and co-authored three more!
João presented days after returning from field work in Peru!
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Welcome to the Carlo Lab website.
Our research focuses on animal-plant interactions with emphasis on mutualistic seed dispersal by frugivores (i.e., fruit-eating animals that disperse seeds effectively).
Recent news:
May 2023: Sam, Alberto, Ellie, and Adriana spend the summer in Paranapanema, Brazil conducting different projects.
May 2023: Congratulations to João for passing his comprehensive exam!
About the lab
Our lab studies animal-plant interactions with emphasis on mutualistic seed dispersal by frugivores (i.e., fruit-eating animals that disperse seeds effectively). We use field-based research, experimentation, and models to answer fundamental questions about the patterning, organization, and resilience of communities.
Current major projects in the lab investigate:
- Antiapostatic or rare-biased frugivory as a diversity-maintenance process in plant communities(NSF DEB-1556719, in collaboration with Juan Morales, César Arana, Letty Salinas, Marco Pizo & Teresa Morán-López).
- The influence of marine inputs from the guano seabird colony (Sula sula) in the phenology of palnt communities and the architecture of animal-plant interactions in Mona, a small oceanic island.
- Fragmentation and the functional traits of fruiting plants and animals in shaping seed dispersal on deforested landscapes in Brasil (in collaboration with Marco Pizo, UNESP, funded by FAPESP).
- The use of stable isotopes as tracers and dietary indicators of frugivory and seed dispersal. (several projects in collaboration with D. Tallamy, P. Marra, and N. Cordeiro).
- Phyllogeography and evolutionary ecology of Dendropemon mistletoes in the Caribbean (in collaboration with M. Caraballo-ortiz & Claude dePamphilis).