Ecology, behavior, evolution, and conservation
Plant-animal interactions
Pollen and seed dispersal are key reproductive processes in plants, and they often rely on dynamic, mutualistic relationships with animal dispersal agents. Through their dispersal services, these animals shape patterns of genetic diversity and variation in plant communities....
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Lab members
Jordan Karubian Email: jk@tulane.edu CV July 2022 | Google Scholar Profile Phone: (504) 865-5549 Office: Israel 306 Mail: 6823 Saint Charles Avenue Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology...
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New Orleans research
Tulane’s position in southern Louisiana presents unparalleled opportunities to pursue research questions of both broader ecological relevance and considerable local interest. In the urban New Orleans neighborhoods surrounding Tulane University, we are assessing how exposure to...
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Friends of the lab
Max Aliaga Max’s website. Domingo Cabrerra Domingo is a founding member of and the current director of FCAT and local resident of the Mache-Chindul Ecological Reserve. His research focuses on plant ecology and taxonomy, seed dispersal, and reproductive phenology...
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Publications
2023 Anderson, H.L., J. Olivo, and J. Karubian. The adaptive significance of off-lek sociality in birds: a synthetic review, with evidence for the reproductive benefits hypothesis in Long-wattled Umbrellabirds. Ornithology, 140(3): 1–21. PDF 2023 Khalil, S.K., E.D. Enbody, C....
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Conservation biology
The tropics are home to more species of animal and plant than anywhere else on the planet, and many of these species are poorly known and/or threatened with extinction. Because we work primarily in the tropics, a core value of this lab is that our scientific research should...
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Engagement
Mission Statement A core value of our lab is to stem the rising tide of deforestation and species loss at local and global scales. As described on our Research Pages, we use scientific research to better understand species and ecosystem decline and resilience....
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Welcome! Our lab explores how the environment that organisms experience shapes their ecological, behavioral, evolutionary, and conservation trajectories. We focus our research on animal and plant and plant systems around the world, with active studies on plant-animal interactions, mating systems, demography and survival, signal evolution, movement and dispersal, and endangered species. Our lab takes a socially aware approach that combines community-engaged participatory research with capacity building, training, and education in the biodiversity hotspots where we work.
April 2013
A good month for student research! Sam, Luke, and Mitch all presented posters at the annual Tulane SSE Research Day poster session. Luke also received funding from the Explorer’s Club, the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane, the Tinker Foundation, and the American Ornithologist’s Union for his upcoming field season in Ecuador. He presented work in collaboration with Kym Ottewell and Jordan Karubian on the genetic and demographic consequences of forest fragmentation in Ecuador forOenocarpus bataua as part of Tulane’s Ecolunch seminar series.
Jenny’s paper ‘Reproductive Biology of the Yungas Manakin (Chiroxiphia boliviana) in Manu National Park, Peru’ was published in Ornitologia Neotropical.
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Scott’s manuscript ‘Hurricane, Habitat Degredation, And Land Loss Effects On Brown Pelican Nesting Colonies’ has been accepted to the Journal of Coastal Research. Furthermore, Scott has submitted the full grant proposal to National Geographic requesting funds to continue our GPS tracking work with Brown Pelicans in Alabama and Louisiana. This work seeks to gain an understanding of pelican foraging behaviors within the context of hypoxia-induced shifts in the distribution of the pelican’s dominant prey, the Gulf Menhaden.
Jordan was appointed to the Kylene and Brad Beers Professorship in Social Entrepreneurship. This appointment recognizes his commitment to blending community engagement with scholarship. Furthermore, Jordan and his family have recently arrived in Brazil, where they will spend several months of this Third Year Leave in the city of Florianopolis.
Finally, we’ll have two new PhD students in the lab this fall. Erik Enbody plans to conduct his dissertation research on the behavioral ecology of the White-shouldered Fairy-wren in Papua New Guinea. And, Brock Geary will focus his research on Gulf of Mexico Waterbirds. Welcome to them both!
Otherwise, we all enjoyed another Mardi Gras!
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