Tropical Rainforest Ecology Lab

Post-docs

Joseph Hawes – Tree species composition, biomass and carbon stocks in undisturbed Amazonian forests.

João Campos-Silva – Effects of community-based fisheries management in the Juruá river, Brazil

Jacob Socolar – Impacts of tropical agriculture on biodiversity across spatial scales

Matthias Dehling – Hunting-induced defaunation and carbon stocks

Alexander Anderson – Functional diversity of birds in the Colombian Andes

James Gilroy – Effects of land-use change on biodiversity in the Colombian Chocó-Andes and Llanos

 

PhD students

Thomas Luypaert – Soundscape analysis for biodiversity monitoring in tropical rainforest ecosystems

Isabela Oliveiras – Amazonian butterfly assemblages

Elildo Carvalho Jr. – Effects of selective logging on Amazonian wildlife 

Oscar Morton – Illegal wildlife trade (co-supervisee University of Sheffield)

Yennie Bredin – Flooding matters: Structure, above-ground biomass, and carbon stocks of an Amazonian forestscape

Whaldener Endo – Game vertebrate responses to rural populations in Neotropical protected areas

Rafael Leandro de Assis – Tree species diversity, distribution and habitat specificity on Amazonian floodplains

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MSc students

William Gromstad – Harnessing eDNA metabarcoding to investigate marine vertebrate community composition and its seasonal changes in the Oslo fjord

Aline Nobre Guindani – Efeitos do alagamento sazonal em assembleias de Formigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) nas florestas de Terra-firme, Igapó e Várzea na Amazônia Central (co-supervisor)

Miranda Dørum – Encounter rates and distribution of Inia geoffrensis and Sotalia fluviatilis in the middle Juruá region, western Amazonia, Brazil

Martine Johnsen – Home range size of domestic cats (Felis catus) around Østensjøvannet nature reserve and how this is affected by gender and age

Sara Norup – Home range use of domestic cats in and around Østensjøvannet nature reserve (co-supervisor)

Julie Torp Stavelin – Does the use of cat flaps influence home range size and use among domestic cats?

Nina Rosita Hansen – Spatial interactions in a domestic cat population (co-supervisor)

Ingrid Johanne Müller Tangvik – Effect of season and habitat on two congeneric bat species in a fragmented forest landscape, central Amazon, Brazil

Sinduja Anantha Krishnan – Phylogenetic diversity and evolutionary distinctiveness of Amazonian floodplain forest birds

Lillian Prestmoen – Space use and preferred places among domestic cats in Ås, southeastern Norway

William Gromstad – Temperature shapes the daily temporal distribution of Neotropical mammals

Anne-Marie Austad - Birds on camera: assessing avifaunal detections by camera traps in the Amazon

Sven Emil Hinderaker - Spatio-Temporal Ecology of Amazonian Freshwater Turtles

Astrid Kisen - Personality differences among domestic cats (Felis catus) in Norway and how they affect home range size

Ole-Andreas Stigsrud - Kan deltakelse i borgerforskningsprosjekter øke elevers interesse for naturfag på skolen?

Fan Wu - When does the cat roam: Temporal patterns of pet cat (Felis catus) roaming in Norway

Gina Sande Leikanger - Wildlife use of private gardens in south-eastern Norway

Malin Sahlin Aannestad - Biomass and carbon loss from selective logging and associated collateral damage in eastern Amazonia, Brazil

Filip Sarfi - Utilization of habitat edges and linear features during movement in free-ranging domestic cats in Norway

Bettina Bachmann - Home ranges of domestic cats (Felis catus) in south-eastern Norway

Joe Partyka - Parasites and People: Crocodile parasite interactions in human impacted areas of Belize

Linda Zsemberovszky - Vocal behaviour and intraspecific call variations of Kempholey Night Frog (Nyctibatrachus kempholeyensis) in the Western Ghats, India

Guillermo Alba – Assessing the effect of environmental variables on microhabitat selection and distribution for seven amphibian species in Colombia using in-situ and MaxEnt approaches

Nina Storm – An evaluation of the efficiency of survey methods to monitor large mammals in Cusuco National Park, Honduras 

Liss Mortveit – Primate assemblage structure and habitat associations in the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve, Peru

Margarita Lopez Garcia – Recovery of butterfly assemblages in secondary Andean cloud forests, Colombia

Gabriella Krivek – Fruit choice and habitat use of the Greater Mascarene Flying Fox (Pteropus niger) on Mauritius

Rudy Badia – Exploring the environmental factors determining forest bird composition and distribution on the island of Ta'u, American Samoa

Jørgen Sand Sæbø – Spatial and temporal distributions and interactions in a neotropical ground-dwelling animal community

Martin Austad – Nest site selection and nesting success by terns and skimmers in Manu National Park, Peru

Ramón Soto Madrid – The effect of selective logging on the community of chewing lice and feather mites associated with forest birds in Sabah, Malaysia

Marte Sofie Søreide – Effect of tree-fall gaps on fruit-feeding nymphalid butterfly assemblages and vertical stratification in Manu National Park, Peru

Petter Lilleengen – Assemblage structure of fruit-feeding nymphalids (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) in floodplain and upland forest at Cocha Cashu, Peru

Pauline Kajl – Effects of alien plant species removal on biodiversity and species interactions in two native forest areas on Mauritius

Marte Fandrem – Bird-parasite dynamics in a Bornean rainforest: the effects of selective logging and host characteristics

Silvana Gallegos – Effect of forest conversion on the aquatic macro-invertebrate fauna in the Ecuadorian Andes

Fernanda de Almeida Meirelles – Conservação de roedores caviomorfos em uma reserva de desenvolvimento sustentável na Amazônia: efeitos da estrutura do habitat e atividades extrativistas (co-supervisor)

Ajaya Nagarkoti – A comparative study of abundance of tiger prey base in Bardia-Katarniaghat (Khata) corridor and south-west corner of Bardia National Park, Nepal

Molly Maria Greger – Traditional healers as a foundation pillar of medicinal plant conservation in Uganda

Tahir Mahmood – Assessing snow leopard (Unica unica) by sign surveys and camera trapping in northern Pakistan (co-supervisor)

Janak Raj Khatiwada – Amphibian species richness and composition along an elevational gradient in Chitwan, Nepal

Joaquin Urrutia – Physical factors influencing macro-invertebrate assemblages in epiphytic bromeliads in the rainforest of Belize

Maarten van der Eyden – Effects of fire history on species richness and carbon stocks in a Peruvian puna grassland, and development of allometric equations for biomass estimation of common puna species

Karl Rickard Persson – Seed dispersal of the Brazil nut tree (Bertholletia excelsa) by scatter-hoarding rodents in central Amazonian secondary forest

Jorunn Ospedal Vallestad – Bird species composition in primary and secondary forests of the lower Caquetá region, Colombia

Laura Maira – Status and ecology of the Wattled Curassow (Crax globulosa Spix, 1825) in the lower Caquetá river, Colombia

Daniel Thorsell – Ecology of the Malay Civet (Viverra tangalunga) in Lambusango forest on Buton Island, Sulawesi