Animal Signals
Identify vocal structure, behavior, and the information carried by calls of individual species.
we study animal communication in a community context, from the codification of repertoires to the development of interspecific behavioral models
Conservation Research
Removing trees changes behavior
By measuring impacts across a gradient of human land-use scenarios, we can test for signs of behavioral change on a community scale.
Interspecific Networks
Understand how animals use information from other species, and how signal combinations define distinct risk states.
Community Changes
Evaluate differences in communication and community dynamics across a gradient of forest conditions.
Projects
From research to the classroom
Our research approach
Natural history meets tech
We connect knowledge of life histories with acoustic recording, spatial mapping, and contemporary analytical tools. New tools extend what we can observe but are not substitutes for in-situ observation and discovery.
We have classroom models for everything else: solar systems, extinct animal skeletons, organelles of bacterium…
where are the ecological models?
AveRosetta
This showcase project demonstrates how scientists and educators can leverage the most current data visualization tools to fast-track the teaching of complex ecological principals. AveRosetta is our first implementation of an immersive teaching tool connecting rainforest research, spatial sound, and ecological visualization.
Research outputs
Publications
- 2026
Evaluating the effectiveness of model predators in simulating real predators in tropical bird communities
Current Zoology, zoag042, 2026
- 2026
Small canopy species drive information highways about predators in an Amazonian rainforest
Current Biology 36 (8), R318-R319, 2026
- 2026
On Risk and Safety Communication in Amazonian Mixed-Species Bird Flocks: Species-Level Vocal Structure, Community States, and Agroforestry Disturbance
University of California, Los Angeles, 2026
- 2023
The structure and organisation of an Amazonian bird community remains little changed after nearly four decades in Manu National Park
Ecology Letters 26 (2), 335-346, 2023
- 2023
Continent-wide recent emergence of a global pathogen in African amphibians
Frontiers in Conservation Science 4, 1069490, 2023
- 2023
Biological lessons for strategic resistance management
Evolutionary Applications 16 (12), 1861-1871, 2023
- 2022
- 2021
- 2019
- 2019
- 2018
Fear‐based niche shifts in neotropical birds
Ecology 99 (6), 1338-1346, 2018
- 2017
Deconstructing the landscape of fear in stable multi‐species societies
Ecology 98 (9), 2447-2455, 2017
- 2012
Adaptive Color Polymorphism and Unusually High Local Genetic Diversity in the Side-Blotched Lizard, Uta stansburiana
PLoS One 7 (10), e47694, 2012
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