• Where we work in Mexico
• Research on birds in Mexico
• Ecological Research
• Bioacoustics Research
•  Related bioacoustics research in other geographic regions
• Collaborators
• Field Assistants
• A few pictures of our sites
  

• Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan
• El Eden Ecological Reserve, Quintana Roo
• Banco Chinchorro Biosphere Reserve, Quintana Roo
• Morelos State- three municipalities in the area surrounding the Aquatic Park "Las Estacas", including Nuevo Temilpa, Agua Linda, and La Nopalera.

• Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve and Banco Chinchorro Reserve
• Temporal dynamics of migratory bird communities, including species turnover during migration and its ecological and biogeographical correlates
• Scale-dependent patterns in stopover habitat use and the role of vegetation architecture, plant species composition, and food availability in explainning species' distributions
• Evaluation of habitat quality through comparisons of habitat-specific foraging behavior and mass gain

           

            

• Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve and El Eden Ecological Reserve
• Evaluation of the spatial and temporal responses of bird communities, foraging guilds, and populations to Hurricane Wilma in the northeastern Yucatan Peninsula

• Morelos, Mexico
• Avian population and community dynamics along a successional gradient in low-stature decidious forest; associations among birds, vegetation, and arthropods

       


       

• Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve and El Eden Ecological Reserve
• Test the effectiveness of an acoustic recording system for sampling bird communities in five tropical vegetation types in multiple phases of the annual cycle

                            

• Evaluation of soundscape recordings for estimating species abundances, richness and composition

• Experimental evaluation of acoustic recording systems using All Bird Radio, a bird community simulation system

           

           

As you can imagine we have plenty of collaborators that help us out:

• John Rotenberry – Department of Biology and Center for Conservation Biology, UC Riverside
• Michael Allen – Center for Conservation Biology, UC Riverside
• Ted Simons – USGS Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and Department of Zoology, NC State University
• Jim Nichols – USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
• Charles Francis – Canadian Wildlife Service
• Fernando Gonzalez García – Instituto de Ecología
• Fernando Urbina Torres and Claudia Romo de Vivar – Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
• Rodrigo Migoya and Melgar Tabasco – Niños y Crías, A.C.
• Luis Castillo Sanchez – PROTROPICO, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
• Barbara MacKinnon – Conservación de las Aves de la Península de Yucatán
• Gonzalo Merediz – Amigos de Sian Ka'an, A. C.
• Mike Ward - Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• David Enstrom - Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

FUNDING RESOURCES 

FIELD ASSISTANTS 

Over the years many field assistants have participated in our research projects and helped us collect data that have contributed to our understanding of birds in these areas. We want to thank them for all their hard work and friendship, as well as for teaching us a lot about the animals, plants, and history of the regions where we work.

In alphabetical order: Roberto Carlos Almazán, Ramiro Aragón, Ray Archer, Nayelli Arrambide, Jesus Bobadilla, Brenda Brugg, Sergio Cabrera, Medderick Calleja, Francisco Uriel Chay (Cochori), Luis Castillo, Jimena Contreras, Sandra Flores, Jane Fonger, Abigail Hernández, Jorge Alberto Hernández (Yiyo), Ramiro Lara, Mario Marín, Victor Marín, Edgar Mason, Danny Meltzer, Sara Morales, Karla Muńoz, Orlando Pacheco, Freddy Pinto, Cindy Poot, Carmita Poot, Abel Rubalcaba, Laurel Salzman, John Seigel, Andrés Sierra, Melgar Tabasco, Anya Wrona, Pancho (Los Peregrinos de Celestun), Jorge Omar (UADY), and Till (Germany), Raúl Canto, Alfredo, Fernanda Arenas, Hugo Ponce.