Tracking Andean Birds
Published: Jun 17th, 2019
By Ian Ausprey As part of the National Geographic grant funding our field season in Peru this summer, I am blogging on NG’s Open Explorer platform. Our research is on […]
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Faculty Interdisciplinary Seed Grants, 2019
Published: Jan 14th, 2019
Faculty Interdisciplinary Seed Grants, 2019 The UF Biodiversity Institute encourages interdisciplinary research and training with three main foci: (1) discovery of biodiversity, (2) using big data – informatics, modeling, computation […]
Former UFBI Fellow Joan Meiners Winner in AIBS Faces of Biology Photo Contest
Published: Dec 17th, 2018
Joan Meiners, a 2016-17 UF Biodiversity Fellow, took second place in the 2018 Faces of Biology Photo Contest, sponsored by the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS). Her photograph shows […]
Climate change in Quebec equals a much greater diversity of species?
Published: May 31st, 2018
By Xavier Haro Carrion I study tropical ecosystems and when discussing climate change and its implications for tropical ecosystems I am used to talk about the potential savanization of Amazonia, the loss […]
Bat Sounds, Bat Songs
Published: May 15th, 2018
By Farah Carrasco-Rueda There are around 1300 species of bats in the world. In the Neotropics, approximately half of the bat species cannot be captured using mist-nets because the bats […]
UF Biolink Year-End Celebration & Student Awards Reception
Published: Apr 19th, 2018
Smathers Library (East) Room 100 April 26th, 2018, 4-5pm
International Women’s Day: Celebrate Women Rising in Conservation
Published: Mar 9th, 2018
Women Rising in Conservation In the western reaches of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, women are at the center of the household and the heart of local livelihoods. They […]
“Show me your neighbors, and I’ll tell who you are”
Published: Mar 5th, 2018
By Sergio Marconi How many times Hollywood showed scientists in their hoodies tracking a person of interest, hacking security cameras around the world? Sitting for hours on huge machines, weird […]
UFBI Travel Grants for Congressional Visits Day 2018
Published: Dec 24th, 2017
UFBI Travel Grants for Congressional Visits Day 2018 The American Institute of Biological Sciences is hosting its annual Congressional Visits Day in Washington, DC on April 17-18, 2018. […]
Polyploidy and Plant Diversity
Published: Nov 16th, 2017
By Jonathan Spoelhof Where does biodiversity come from? A simple answer would be mutation, which creates the heritable variation that fuels natural selection and other evolutionary forces. However, mutations and […]