Center for Tropical Research April 2009 Newsletter
Dear Friends of CTR, During the current global economic crisis that is affecting the livelihoods of so many people, we need to continue to serve as guardians of our planet’s…
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Center for Tropical Research October 2008 Newsletter
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…
Center for Tropical Research April 2008 Newsletter
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…
Center for Tropical Research October 2007 Newsletter
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…
Center for Tropical Research June 2007 Newsletter
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…
Center for Tropical Research April 2007 Newsletter
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…
Center for Tropical Research October 2006 Newsletter
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…
Center for Tropical Research July 2006 Newsletter
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…
Center for Tropical Research May 2003 Newsletter
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…
Center for Tropical Research February 2003 Newsletter
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…
Center for Tropical Research December 2002 Newsletter
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…
Center for Tropical Research November 2002 Newsletter
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…
Center for Tropical Research September 2002 Newsletter
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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