Research and Conservation News from Reserva San Nicolás
Dear Friends of Centro de Educación Ambiental de la Península Yucateca (CEAPY),2021 has been a challenging but extremely productive year for CEAPY and we are grateful for the things we have been able to do with your support and look forward to an even more amazing 2022!
Mil gracias for your gifts that have made such a difference
Turtle Researchers
Carlos Delgado
and Taggert Butterfield
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Students conserving nature is a mexican non profit with the mission to conserve terrestrial and freshwater turtles in Mexico through research, monitoring, restoration, and the involvement of students from local communities. The Yucatan peninsula is host to eleven species of freshwater and terrestrial turtles, making it a hotspot for turtle diversity.
The San Nicolas reserve is home to three of these species: the Creaser's mud turtle (Kinosternon creaseri), the furrowed wood turtle (Rhinoclemmys areolata), and the Yucatan box turtle (Terrapene yucatana).
Luis studies tri-trophic interactions between plants, insect herbivores and their natural enemies in both natural and managed settings. I seek to determine the contribution of different sources of "bottom-up" variation in plant traits influencing consumers, the mechanisms by which these effects propagate up food chains, as well as the potential for "top-down" feedbacks influencing plant evolution.
Luis Abdala‐Roberts
Skills and Expertise
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Plant Defense
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Agroecology
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Biodiversity
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Insect Plant Interactions
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Community Ecology
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Herbivory
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Evolutionary Biology
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Ecology and Evolution
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Plant Ecology
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Pollination
