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Contributions to Neotropical botany

Contributions to Neotropical botany

Our studies on the life history of birds naturally involve plants. It happens that birds lead us to interesting botanical questions, which we try to figure out. We recently described several new species of trees, including:

Collecting specimens in the forest canopy.
Collecting botanical specimens in the forest canopy.
Processing pressed and dried specimens.
Processing pressed and dried specimens of trees.

During our botanical research we have been collaborating with researchers at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (UK), the University of Guelph (Canada), Instituto de Pesquisa Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and the Herbarium UVAL at Centro de Estudios Ambientales y Biodiversidad (CEAB) of Universidad del Valle de Guatemala.

mapping trees
Mapping and measuring trees.
measuring seeds
Measuring fruits and seeds.
growing seedling
Germinating seeds for documenting seedlings.
mounting botanical specimens on herbarium sheets
Mounting botanical specimens on herbarium sheets.
Publishing results in peer-reviewed journals.
Publishing results in peer-reviewed journals.
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