The ATBC Seed Research Grant supports research addressing tropical biology and conservation at Master’s and early Doctoral levels. Ten grants of up to $1,000 were awarded to outstanding ATBC student members. This year’s winners are:
Angelica Torres
Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Amazonia, “Reciprocal stream-riparian arthropod fluxes along a vegetation structure gradient in the Colombian Amazon” (Colombia)
Hayden Davis
University of Washington, “A Genomic Approach to Estimating Biodiversity in Southeast Asian Gecko Lineages” (Malaysia)
University of British Columbia, “Trade-offs in fitness as a function of web architecture in tropical spiders: prey, predator risk, and investment in silk” (Ecuador)
Georgia Hernandez
University of Connecticut, “Plastic and adaptive responses of high and low elevation plant morphotypes to current and future warming temperatures” (Costa Rica)
Jacob Moutouama
University of Tennessee at Knoxville, “Herbivory as driver of center-periphery dynamics in an endemic plant species” (Benin)
Mayra Ninzaunta
Florida International University, “To defend or reproduce? An overlooked dilemma of a highly variable trait: seed size” (Costa Rica)
Nicholas Russo
University of California, Los Angeles, “Exploring the Drivers of Seed Dispersal by Hornbills Across Spatial Scales in Cameroon” (Cameroon)
King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thronburi, “Spatial ecology of the Javan mongoose (Herpestes javanicus) within a Degraded Forest Fragment” (Thailand)
James Watuwa
University of Tennessee at Knoxville, “Association between Stress Levels and Parasites in African Elephants in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda” (Uganda)
Federal University of Uberlândia, “Vulnerability of ants from the Brazilian Cerrado to global warming: The influence of time of activity, food preference and nesting habits” (Brazil)