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.
November 2012
Scott T. Walter’s manuscript ‘Brown pelican colony initiation attempts: Translocations and decoys’ was accepted for publication by the journal Waterbirds. Also, his manuscript ‘Hurricane, habitat degradation, and land loss effects on brown pelican nesting colonies’ was submitted to the journal Bird Conservation International. Finally, his grant pre-proposal ‘Effects of hypoxia on brown pelican foraging ecology and demographic processes’ submitted to National Geographic was accepted!
The article in The American Naturalist – ‘Use of Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Diversity Measures to Characterize Seed Dispersal by Animals’ by Douglas Scofield, Peter Smouse, Jordan Karubian, and Victoria Sork is now available online!
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Congratulations to Jordan for receiving the Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty from the New England Resource Center for Higher Education! He accepted the award on October 15th at the 18th annual conference for the Coalition for Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU) at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
“The Lynton Award emphasizes engaged scholarship, characterized by work tied to a faculty member’s expertise that benefits the external community and is visible and shared with community stakeholders, while reflecting the mission of the institution. Dr. Karubian’s faculty work exemplifies the highest standards of engaged scholarship.”
Find out more here and read the official press release here!
Pictured above: Jordan Karubian accepting the Lynton Award from Dr. Robert L. Caret, President of the University of Massachusetts system
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