Current Positions
Emilio conducting field work at Panga Ecological Station outside Uberlânida, Minas Gerais, Brazil (Photo by Laura V. B. Silva).
- Distinguished Teaching Scholar and Professor, Department of Wildlife Ecology & Conservation & Center for Latin American Studies
- Director, Florida-Brazil Linkage Institute
- Editor-in-Chief, Biotropica
Education
- Ph.D. in Population Biology, 2001
University of California, Davis - M.S. in Biology, 1995
University of California, San Diego - B.S. in Ecology, Behavior, & Evolution with a minor in Literature, 1994
Revelle College, University of California, San Diego
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.
Curriculum Vitae and Online Profiles
- Curriculum Vitae (Feb 2019): pdf
- Google Scholar
- ImpactStory
- ORCID ID
- Thomson Reuters ResearcherID
- Academic Family Tree
- How WEC works: Emilio Bruna