Bruna Rodrigues do Amaral
Graduate Student, Integrative Biology
Graduate Student, Ecology, Evolution & Behavior Program
Pronouns: She/Hers
Email: bamaral@msu.edu
Bio
Bruna’s research focuses on understanding how birds cope with the challenge of surviving in the Anthropocene. She is passionate about using quantitative methods to investigate a variety of individual, population, and community-level processes to identify the underlying causes of demographic declines and to inform conservation efforts. She is particularly interested in tropical bird communities, which are both extremely diverse and threatened, yet remain understudied. During her PhD, Bruna will be a part of an NPS project investigating how forest bird populations in parks in the Eastern US have changed in the past fifteen years, and the importance of protected habitats in conserving these avian communities.
Selected Publications
- Light and thermal niches of ground-foraging Amazonian insectivorous birds View Publication
- Major range extension for Orange-fronted Plushcrown Metopothrix aurantiaca in the central Amazon of Brazil View Publication
- Migratory strategy drives species-level variation in bird sensitivity to vegetation green-up View Publication
- Morphological consequences of climate change for resident birds in intact Amazonian rainforest View Publication