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.
January 2013
Scott presented the talk ‘Brown Pelican Foraging and Nesting in Relation to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill’ at the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and Ecosystem Science Conference in New Orleans, LA. Furthermore, Scott submitted the manuscript ‘Hurricane, Habitat Degradation, and Land Loss Effects on Brown Pelican Nesting Colonies’ to theJournal of Coastal Research.
On the international front, Sam has recently returned from three weeks collecting red-backed fairy wren data during the wet season in Australia.
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Jordan and Luke visited the Chocó rainforests in Ecuador to field test techniques to radio track palm seeds, and also hold an Environmental Fair in La Y de la Laguna that was attended by > 400 local residents. Jordan also recently received a grant from the LA Board of Regents P-FUND program for work on white-shouldered fairy-wrens in Papau New Guinea. As for Sam, she is soon off for Australia to continue her doctoral research on red-backed fairy-wrens. Finally, congratulations to Jenny for advancing to PhD candidacy! Happy holidays, everyone.
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