My Dissertation Research in Panama
My doctoral dissertation research explores the effects of abiotic (e.g. sunlight, rainfall, shade) and biotic (e.g. predators) environmental variation on three life-stages of Dendropsophus ebraccatus. D. ebraccatus is a small neotropical treefrog that lives throughout Central America, between the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico to the northern parts of Columbia. Dendropsophus ebraccatus is a leaf-breeding treefrog. Adults lay eggs on leaves above a pond, the eggs develop over the course of 3-4 days, hatch, and fall into the pond below. My study site is at a Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute research station in Gamboa, Panama.
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Rainfall Variation Alters Predation Upon, and Development of, Dendropsophus ebraccatus embryos
Predator-Induced Developmental Plasticity of Dendropsophus ebraccatus tadpoles