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My background and research training is as a tropical ecologist with interests in community ecology, avian predator ecology, and conservation. My main research goal is to understand how ecological processes and natural history shape species interactions, communities, and ecosystems. My research has focused on natural history and field ecology studies of avian species, their habitat use, and interactions within their ecosystem as well as their interaction with human activities. My work integrates a variety of approaches and methods from natural history and behavioral observations, population surveys, individual captures and bird banding, radio- telemetry and spatial analysis, to the use of social science and education as tools for conservation.
While my work has been done largely in South America, I am extending my involvement in research projects in western Washington, specially in urban environments. In addition, I integrate my research in my teaching activities and in the training of younger generations of scientists.
Neotropical Raptor Ecology
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Population Ecology of Avian communities in human modified habitats of Amazonian Peru
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Long-term monitoring of avian populations in restored and urban environments of King County, WA
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Lessons from Urban Indigenous Immigrants: Integrated Social & Ecological Dynamics of Informal Communities in the Peruvian Amazon
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