Research info

Insect Ecology

• Feeding activities of chrysomelid beetles on selected plant families
• Historical relationships of hispine and cassidine beetles
• Responses of herbivores and parasitoids to spatial, seasonal and annual variation in climate
• Field research on pollination of native and cultivated tropical plants Bee communication and foraging behavior
• Biology and systematics of honeybees and stingless bees
• Englossine bees and bees in general, in equatorial forests of the world—emphasis on French Guiana , Costa Rica , Panama , Ecuador , Gabon and Borneo
• Field work on stingless beekeeping and pollination ecology in Quintana Roo , Mexico
• Field work on traditional beekeeping and honey exploitation in the Incan realm – canopy studies, molecular phylogeny studies of Melipona Trigona and Apis
• Life history of moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera), with special attention to certain groups, such as Adelpha butterflies, and skipper butterflies

Forest Ecology

• Ecologically guided bioprospecting in Panama
• Reforestation with native species (PRORENA)
• Flora of Panama
• Long-term forest dynamics
• Forest canopy biology
• International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups Program for Panama

Behavioral Ecology

• Behavior in incipient social groups, using bees and other Hymenoptera, and their predators and parasites.

Evolution

• Biosystematics and genetic variations of selected taxa of Neotropical bryophytes