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My research centers on the ecology and behavior of tropical anurans, both adults and larvae. I am especially interested in underlying mechanisms that determine the number and abundance, i.e., structure, of amphibian communities in tropical habitats. I have worked with small communities that occur in phytotelmata such as Brazil nut fruit capsules and larger assemblages of small frogs and lizards that occur in leaf litter habitats. In the Brazilian Amazon region, Brazil nut capsules are breeding sites for two species of frogs, a dendrobatid and a bufonid. Both species must interact with predaceous insect larvae that occur in the same microhabitat, including larvae of giant damselflies in the Family Pseudostigmatidae and mosquitoes in the genus Toxorhynchites. My work has revealed that the two species of anurans utilizing this microhabitat have different strategies for offsetting predation by these two insect larvae. As an outgrowth of this work, I have become interested in aspects of the biology of tadpoles in the Dendrobates clade. These tadpoles are unusual because they develop in small phytotelm microhabitats; they are predaceous and, under certain conditions, cannibalistic.
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Lost Frogs and Hot Snakespp.21-26, (2024)
Herpetologypp.83-113, (2014)
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