Dear Friends of CTR, We face tremendous environmental challenges during this presidential election year. Human activities are altering every ecosystem on our planet and the threat of climate change to…
Integrating Wildlife Conservation into the Management of Cameroon's Cacao Agricultural Landscapeby Thomas Dietsch, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment, UCLA Restoration of Lowland Tropical Rainforests…
Alternative Mating Tactics in a Tropical Damselflyby Brenda Larison, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment, UCLA Preserving Biodiversity in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil and…
Conserving Evolutionary Process in the Sky Islands of Northern Mexico by John McCormack, Graduate Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment, UCLA Host-parasite…
Finding Endangered Tropical Dry Forest in the Pacific: A Case Study from Fiji by Dr. Thomas W. Gillespie, Associate Professor of Geography, UCLA The international summit on “Evolutionary Change in…
Bird Flu Research at the Center for Tropical Research by Dr. John Pollinger, CTR Associate Director Avian Influenza Virus - An Overview Avian Flu Surveillance Sampling of Migratory Passerines in…
What drives song variation in tropical birds? A study across habitats and populations in Cameroon and Uganda by Alex Kirschel, Graduate Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Center for Tropical…
On May 14th, the Center for Tropical Research held its first open house to welcome all Affiliated Faculty, Senior Research Fellows, and interested members of the UCLA community to meet…
On December 20, 2002, a generous gift was made to the Institute of the Environment for the Center for Tropical Research. The gift eventually will create the E.P. and Betty…
Blaise Kadjo (left) and Bertin Akpatou at work in the CTR molecular genetics laboratory The CTR conservation genetics laboratory hosted a visit from two colleagues from West Africa during…
For the past three years, CTR researchers and collaborating scientists have been working on an NSF-funded project to examine the importance of evolutionary processes in the generation and maintenance of…
CTR facilitates Memorandum of Agreement between UCLA and Ecuadorian University On August 26, 2002 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Universidad de San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) formalized a…
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