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	Former Students:
		Wendy Tori. 2008. Sexual selection in an exploded lekking species: the white-crowned manakin (Pipra pipra). Ph. D. diss., UM-St. Louis. (Peru) (Assistant Professor, Earlham College).
		Renata Durães. 2008. Spatial and temporal dynamics of lekking behavior and female mate choice in the Blue-crowned Manakin (Lepidothrix coronata, AVES: Pipridae). Ph. D. diss., UM-St. Louis. (Brazil) (Post-doctoral associate at UCLA).
		Milton Muldrow. 2007. Breaking down barriers to forest regeneration. M.Sc., UM-St. Louis. (USA). (Program Assistant, National Science Foundation).
		T. Patricia Feria. 2007. Predicting species distributions: effects of range size and niche specialization. Ph. D. diss., UM-St. Louis (Mexico). (Assistant Professor, University of Texas-Pan American).
		Kimberly Holbrook. 2006. Seed dispersal limitation in a Neotropical nutmeg, Virola flexuosa (Myristicaceae): and ecological and genetic approach. Ph. D. diss., UM-St. Louis. (USA). (Post-doctoral fellow, Spain).
		Grace P. Servat. 2006. Effect of local and regional factors on foraging ecology of Polylepis bird assemblage. Ph. D. diss., UM-St. Louis. (Peru). (Instructor, Boston University in Ecuador).

		Monica Romo. 1993. Seasonal variation in fruit consumption and seed dispersal by canopy frugivorous bats in lowland mature and successional forests of Peru. M. Sc. thesis, UM-St. Louis. (PhD, University of Finland). (Peru). (Working in conservation in Peru). Evan Notman. 1994. Factors affecting seed survival in two tropical tree species of a Peruvian rain forest. M. Sc. thesis, UM-St. Louis. (PhD, Miami University). (USA). (Program Director, National Science Foundation) Melissa Hayes. 1994. Consequences of fruit color polymorphism in Rubus spectabilis: an experimental investigation of fruit removal by birds. M. Sc. thesis, UM-St. Louis. (USA). (Veterinarian) Jaqueline M. Goerck. 1995. Birds of the Atlantic Forest of Brazil: patterns of rarity and species distributions along an elevational gradient. M. Sc. thesis, UM-St. Louis. (Brazil). (Working in conservation in Brazil). Mark Yoder. 1996. Fruit and seed morphological traits determining seed-handling behavior in the long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis). M. Sc. thesis, UM-St. Louis. (USA). (Research technician, Dallas Zoo) Gillian Bowser. 1998. Genetics, geographics, and prairie dogs: a landscape model of prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) dispersal. Ph.D. diss., UM-St. Louis. (USA). (Co-advised with J. Blake). (Professor, Texas A&M, NPS Coop Unit). Luis Miguel Renjifo. 1998. Effects of the landscape matrix on composition and conservation of bird communities. Ph.D. diss., UM-St. Louis. (Colombia). (Dean, School of Environmental and Rural Science, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia) Jaqueline M. Goerck. 1999. Ecology and evolution of Drymophila and Hypocnemis antbirds in the Atlantic forests of Brazil. Ph.D. diss., UM-St. Louis. (Brazil). (Working in conservation in Brazil). Gilbert Barrantes. 2000. Ecology and evolution of Phainoptila melanoxantha (Bombycillidae, Aves) in the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama. Ph.D. diss., UM-St. Louis. (Costa Rica). (Professor, Universidad de Costa Rica). Sandra Arango. 2002. Edge effects on tree regeneration in the Colombian Andes. Ph. D. diss., UM-St. Louis. (Colombia; Colciencias Fellow). (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia). Andrea Loayza. 2002. Ecology and movements of frugivorous bats between forest islands and continuous forest in Beni Biological Station and Biosphere Reserve, Bolivia. (Bolivia; Fulbright Fellow, 2001-2002). (PhD program, UM-St. Louis). Tibisay Escalona. 2003. Maternal effects on reproductive success in a river turtle (Podocnemis unifilis) in southern Venezuela. Ph. D. diss., UM-St. Louis. (Venezuela). (NSF post-doc at Iowa Atate University). Tanya Montenegro. 2005. Population characterization and spatial distribution of Ecuadendron acosta-solisianum D. A. Neill (Fabaceae-Caesalpinioideae): a highly endangered endemic tree species of western Ecuador. M.Sc., UM-St. Louis. (Co-advisor with Dr. David Neill, Missouri Botanical Garden). (Ecuador). (Jardin Botanico de Guayaquil, Ecuador). P. Daniel Hernandez. 2005. M.Sc. (non-thesis), UM-St. Louis. (Colombia/USA). (Sierra Club, San Francisco Bay Chapter) Jose Fabara. 2005. Oil companies in national parks: a case study of Yasuni National Park, Amazonian Ecuador. M.Sc., UM-St. Louis. (Ecuador, Fulbright fellow, 2003-2005). C. Daniel Cadena. 2006. Biogeography of Buarremon brush-finches (Aves, Emberizinae): Integrating Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. Ph. D. diss., UM-St. Louis. (Colombia). (Co-advised with R. Ricklefs). (Assistant Professor, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia). Seema Sheth. 2006. Habitat occupancy of a primate community in Amazonia Ecuador. M.Sc., UM-St. Louis. (USA/India). (Research Analyst, Missouri Botanical Garden). Grace P. Servat. 2006. Effect of local and regional factors on foraging ecology of Polylepis bird assemblage. Ph. D. diss., UM-St. Louis. (Peru). (Instructor, Boston University in Ecuador).
	Past Post-doctoral Associates:
		Pedro Blendinger (Argentina) (Ph.D. 2002, Univ. de Buenos Aires, Argentina). August 2004 – January 2005. Recruitment and dispersal limitation for shrubs in the Melastomataceae. on Loiselle UM Research Award. (Currently, CONICET Research Scientist, Argentina). Lucia Lohmann (Brazil) (Ph.D. 2003, UM-St. Louis). September 2003-August 2004. Using ecological niche models for designing conservation action plan in the Andes. Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden. (Professor, Biology, Universidade Sao Paulo). Christine A. Howell (USA) (Ph.D. 2001, UM-Columbia). 2001-2003. Testing the coarse-filter paradigm for conservation. NSF Bioinformatics Post-doctoral Associate. (Conservation Scientist, Point Reyes Bird Observatory, CA). Ana Cristina Villegas (Colombia) (Ph.D. 1998, UM-St. Louis). 1998-1999. Seed removal and plant fitness in Palicourea (Rubiaceae). Funded on Loiselle UM Research Award. (Program Director, Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation).

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