Carlos A Peres : Current and Previous Graduate Students

Current PhD Students

• Toby Gardner
  The Biodiversity value of carbon-sequestration projects in the tropics (NERC PhD studentship)
• Alex Lees
  Effects of forest fragmentation on Amazonian bird assemblages (NERC PhD studentship)
• Fernanda Michalski
  Synergistic effects of forest disturbance and fragmentation on Amazonian mammal assemblages (CAPES PhD studentship)
• Tania Urquiza-Haas
  Conservation value of community-based forest management in southern Mexico (CONACYT PhD studentship)
• Beatriz Contreras
  Effects of patch disturbance on forest bird communities in Chiapas, southern Mexico (CONACYT PhD studentship)
• Luke Parry
  Designing landscape-scale game management strategies in tropical forests: source-sink dynamics of terrestrial vertebrates hunted by the Kayapó Indians of eastern Brazilian Amazonia (NERC PhD studentship)

Previous PhD and MSc Students

• Amrita Neelakantan
  Anuran assemblages in montane secondary forests in the tropical Andes of Ecuador
• Simon Mahood
  Large-scale patterns of avian community structure in open countryside matrix habitat of southern Amazonia (NERC studentship)
• Richard Bull
  Wildlife conservation value of forest corridors in southern India (NERC studentship)
• Joe Hawes
  Patterns of sphingid moth diversity in Amazonian primary, secondary and plantation forests (NERC studentship)
• Gita Kasthala
  Patterns of arthropod abundance and diversity in an Amazonian landscape mosaic
• Luke Parry
  Mammal community structure in Amazonian primary and secondary forests (NERC studentship)
• Tor Haugaasen
  Seasonal dynamics of vertebrate frugivores in a highly heterogeneous Amazonian forest landscape: implications for nature reserve design (UEA PhD studentship)
• Jos Barlow
  Ecological effects of surface fires in Amazonian forests (NERC PhD studentship)
• Claudia Baider
  Population ecology of an unharvested stand of Brazil-nut trees (Bertholletia excelsa) in the Kayapó Reserve, south-eastern Amazonia (FAPESP PhD studentship)
• Johanna Maughan
  Effects of hunting and selective logging on African forest wildlife (NERC studentship)
• Juan Carlos Guajardo
  Effects of selective logging on large forest vertebrates in Belize (CONACYT studentship)
• Carla Morsello
  Socio-economic sustainability of forest management by indigenous groups in Amazonia - a case study of the Kayapó (CAPES PhD studentship)
• Rodolfo Salm
  Population ecology and seed dispersal biology of two arborescent palms in a seasonally-dry forest of southeastern Amazonia (CAPES PhD studentship)
• Stephen Knapp
  Avian community ecology across an elevational gradient in the Brazilian Atlantic forest (MSc by Research)
• Erwin Palacios
  Large vertebrate densities in undisturbed Amazonian forests: implications for minimum spatial requirements of viable populations (British Council MSc studentship)
• Darren Norris
  Edge effects and terrestrial mammal community structure in Amazonian forest fragments (UEA MSc studentship)
• Matthew Struebig
  Vulnerability of insectivorous bats - an assessment of a paleotropical bat community
• Steve Ball
  Population ecology of a potential keystone plant resource in the Brazilian Pantanal wetlands (UEA MSc studentship)
• S. Sunarto
  Effects of forest wildfires on plant communities in Sumatra, Indonesia (British Council MSc studentship)
• Ricardo Boulhosa
  Effects of top-predator control on terrestrial vertebrate assemblages in the Brazilian Pantanal wetlands (Wellcome Trust MSc fellowship)
• Tor Haugaasen
  Effects of surface fires on understorey bird communities in Amazonian forests (MSc by Research)
• Linda Swankie
  What determines mammal distribution in forest fragments in Andalucía, Spain? (UEA MSc studentship)
• Hilton Nascimento
  Population densities of vertebrate game species in hunted and nonhunted Amazonian forests (Wellcome Trust MSc fellowship)
• Adriano Jerozolimski
  Effects of subsistence hunting on the structure of mammal assemblages in neotropical forests (Wellcome Trust MSc fellowship)
• Rebecca Smith
  The ecology of Amazonian saltlicks: implications for ecotourism in south-east Peru (UEA MSc studentship)
• Maria Cecília Lunardelli
  Bottom-up effects of forest phytochemistry on the feeding ecology of howler monkeys (Alouatta fusca) in the Brazilian Atlantic forest (FAPESP MSc studentship)
• Jorge Solorzano
  Demography and seed dispersal ecology of a relict population of Brazilian monkey-puzzle trees (Araucaria angustifolia) (FAPESP studentship)
• Maria Luiza Jorge
  Behavioural ecology and home range use of agoutis in southeastern Amazonia (CAPES MSc studentship)
• Pedro Develey
  Seasonal dynamics of mixed-species flocks of Atlantic forest birds (FAPESP MSc studentship)
• Letícia Brandão
  Ecology and distribution of buffy-tufted-eared marmosets (Callithrix aurita) in a montane Atlantic forest, São Paulo , Brazil (FAPESP MSc studentship)