Dr Carlos A Peres

As a research group, we operate at the interface between tropical ecology and conservation biology and focus on field studies at scales ranging from populations to entire regional landscapes with neotropical closed-canopy forests as a common denominator. Most of our studies involve medium to large-bodied forest vertebrates and address ecological responses to different forms of structural and non-structural human disturbance. We are also interested in the ecology and management of key non-timber forest products extracted from Amazonian forests, nature reserve design and selection criteria, and human conflicts with protected areas in the tropics. Our previous and ongoing studies have spanned the last two decades, and have taken place in over 60 neotropical forest sites of lowland Brazilian Amazonia, the Atlantic forest, and southern Mexico. I currently supervise 5 PhD and 2 MSc students.

We have published some 120 papers on neotropical ecology, conservation biology and resource management. In 1995 I received a Bay Foundation ‘Biodiversity Conservation Leadership Award’, and in 2000 was elected an ‘Environmentalist Leader for the New Millennium’ by Time Magazine and CNN Network. I am currently a Reader in Tropical Ecology and Conservation at the University of East Anglia, and divide my time between Norwich and fieldwork in the Brazilian Amazon.