This year, our laboratory and collaborators prepared a stand for the Environmental fair (Feria Ambiental) at La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica. During this open house, neighbors from around La Selva and beyond come to take a look at the research happening in the station.
Gabriel Huertas and Reyder Mesén (Parabiologists running our lab at La Selva) showed some our results on the demographic and genetic responses of arthropods to global warming. Laura Bizzarri (Graduate student, University of Connecticut) talked about her results on the exciting interactions between hummingbirds, Zingiberales and other hummingbird-pollinated plants, and mites hitchhiking on hummingbird beaks. Miguel Chavez (University of Missouri St. Louis) is becoming an expert on chemical ecology in Zingiberales, and its role structuring insect herbivore communities.
photo credit: Laura Bizzarri
