Current Positions
- Distinguished Teaching Scholar and Professor, Department of Wildlife Ecology & Conservation & Center for Latin American Studies
- Director, Florida-Brazil Linkage Institute
- President, Association for Tropical Biology & Conservation
Education
- Ph.D. in Population Biology, University of California, Davis (2001)
- M.S. in Biology, University of California, San Diego (1995)
- B.S. in Ecology, Behavior, & Evolution with a minor in Literature, Revelle College – University of California, San Diego (1994)
Curriculum Vitae and Online Profiles
- Curriculum Vitae (downloadable pdf)
- Google Scholar
- ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3381-8477
Research Interests
My current research focuses on two areas: First, I use field experiments, long-term demographic studies, and simple mathematical models to study how habitat fragmentation and other anthropogenic landscape alterations influence plant-animal interactions and plant population dynamics. I conduct most of my research in South America’s two largest biomes: the Amazon and the Cerrado. In Amazonia I am working at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, which is co-administered by Brazil’s Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. My Cerrado fieldwork is conducted at Panga Ecological Station, a field station of the Universidade Federal de Uberlandia in Minas Gerais. Second, I am broadly interested in the development of science and science policy in Latin America, including factors that (a) drive within- and between country patterns of scientific productivity (b) influence the establishment and success of international collaboration. For a more complete description of my lab’s ongoing research see Bruna Lab Projects, or read this “How WEC Works” blog post.
Other Online Profiles: ImpactStory | Thomson Reuters ResearcherID | Academic Family Tree