Neotropical Science News & Updates

​Interactive Data!

We are proud to introduce our first 
spatial temporal learning tool:
AveRosetta3D, 
forest communication visualizer

Hear the symphony of fear 
unfold in real time,
see the network, 
fast-forward your understanding 
of the most complex mixed-species communication networks on earth.

Scored like sheet music, 
each note is a unique call.
​This is not a simulation: this is data

Imagine carrying a trained hawk around the rainforest,
hearing alarm calls new to science over and over...
​What do you do with a trove of alarm recordings?

Neotropical Sci asked a few questions:
1) does the size of the alarming animal influence who responds?
2) how does the information travel through the forest?
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These questions are hard to test, until now! Check out this article in The Conversation which includes some great video, quotes, and descriptions of the science behind understanding the cross-species communication networks in Amazonian forests.

Originally censused in 1982 by several pioneers
of neotropical ornithology,
the 2018 census of the Cocha Cashu plot
in the Peruvian rainforest
has been a long time coming!
​
Repeating methods established by the likes of
John Terborgh, John Fitzpatrick,
and the late Ted Parker,
this is a special project that demands
generational teamwork. 
Read about this incredible undertaking
​ in Ecology Letters!

Our summary graphic describing
our research on primate and passerine
alarm eavesdropping was chosen
as the cover image for this months
special issue of Oikos!
This issue is titled
The Ecology of Information enters the Anthropocene,
 Thanks Oikos! 

And thank you to NeotropicalScience affiliate
and wildlife illustrator Micah Riegner
who painted 16 birds and a primate
​just for this graphic!

One of our favorite birds (and favorite studies)
has been making the rounds online!
Read about our research at IFLScience.com,
or check out the official press release 
to discover Thamnomanes ardesiacus,
​the "Amazonian lookout bird"!

Check out this awesome feature from the American Society of Naturalists including our photos of the Cocha Cashu Field site and those awesome antshrikes! Read all about the study of eavesdropping and fear in this awesome new manuscript!