Meet Our Team
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Catherine Hulshof, PhD
PI. I study contemporary patterns of biodiversity across spatial and temporal scales, ranging from variation in species traits to gradients in the assembly and dynamics of ecological communities.
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Pablo López Bustamante
PhD Candidate - Plant functional trait variation in tropical dry forests
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Perla Ortiz-Colín
PhD Student - Climate change in the tropical dry forest - wet forest ecotone
Lab Alumni
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Cat Terry
NSF REPS Researcher: Tropical plant and butterfly responses to changing climates
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Robyn Dudrick
Senior Lab and Field Technician
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Megan Gaitan
ALTA Project Manager
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Ramón Agosto Díaz
Puerto Rico Field Manager
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Emelia Obodum Kusi
MSc. The effects of abiotic and biotic factors on species distribution models.
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Allyson Richins
MSc. Plant-pollinator networks in a serpentine savannah.
Data analytics. Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico.
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Claudia Gárnica Díaz
MSc. Plant functional diversity across climatic and edaphic gradients in Puerto Rico.
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Dayneris Aparicio Jiménez
MSc. Effects of forest cover on the recovery of diurnal butterflies after Hurricane Maria.
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Amelia Mateo Jiménez
MSc. Phenology of tropical dry forests of the Caribbean.
Instructor, UASD
All-Star Undergraduate Alumni
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Eric Escobar-Chena
Ecological Society of America SEEDS Inaugural Chapter President at VCU
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Mariangeli Echevarría Ramos
Phenotypic variation of the Puerto Rican monarch
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Luis Velázquez Román
Species distribution models of Puerto Rican butterflies and effects of future climate change
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Oscar Ojeda Cana
Digitization of Lepidoptera collections of Puerto Rico
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Andrea Manzano Castro
Origin and diversity of plant species in supermarkets of Puerto Rico