I was fortunate to appear in a new movie 'Close the Divide' to be screened at Vancouver International Film Festival, at 6pm April 22! Vancouver International Film Festival

The movie shows a gripping journey to bridge the deep divide on climate change, revealing how uniting diverse perspectives can spark…

Beyond thrilled to be joining the Smith Fellows family working alongside Dr. Rebecca F. Johnson and Christopher Schell at California Academy of Sciences and UC Berkeley Berkeley Environmental Science, Policy & Mngmt !

Getting increasingly excited (and a bit nervous! 😬) for this TEDxSantaCruz talk coming up this Saturday. Thrilled to be sharing the stage with such amazing Santa Cruz folks and looking forward to this unique experience. I’ll be talking about birdwatching tourism 👀🐦‍⬛🦜💛

COLOMBIANOS INTERESADOS EN HACER DOCTORADO EN USA: apliquen a estas becas. Si son apasionados por la Botánica, plantas acuáticas, evolución y quisieran hacer un doctorado en el JARDIN BOTANICO DE NEW YORK, contáctenme y discutimos posibilidades #Cienciacriolla #Botánicaextrema

Check out our latest paper in #PLOSONE : Female researchers are under-represented in the Colombian science infrastructure dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Hoy en #CienciaCriolla tenemos un nuevo articulo de los comportamientos de las aves en bosques y agricultura

Thanks to our amazing co-author team, led by Alison Ke and including Alejandra Echeverri, PhD, Rahel Sollmann, Luke Owen Frishkoff, and Jim Zook.

Thanks also to all the amazing landowners, local institutions, and communities we worked with during this project!!!

Broadly, these results show how behavioral analyses can be integrated with surveys to elucidate habitat quality. Tropical forests may be pretty important for bird reproduction... even for species often seen on farms!

Birds were not always most abundant in the habitats where they were most likely to exhibit reproductive behaviors.

For example, Great Kiskadees exhibited more reproductive behaviors in forests but were just as abundant on farms. Could agriculture represent an ecological trap?

We also found birds were more likely to exhibit reproductive behaviors and less likely to exhibit passive/foraging behaviors in forest reserves compared to privately owned forests.

We found birds were much less likely to exhibit reproductive behaviors in agriculture than in forests. As a result, 3X more birds were observed exhibiting reproductive behaviors in forests compared to farms.

A problem: it's easier to detect some behaviors in open farms than closed forests (e.g., foraging). Other behaviors may exhibit fewer differences in detectability.

Alison extended a behavior model to the community level to solve this detection issue.

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High levels of bird diversity are often found in tropical farms. But are they actively foraging/reproducing or just passing through?

We used 4 years of bird surveys across 150 sites in Costa Rican farms, private forests, and protected areas to find out.

Thrilled to shared Alison Ke’s 3rd dissertation chapter, just out in Conservation Biology!

Using >14k observation of bird behaviors, we show Costa Rican birds are more likely to exhibit reproductive behaviors in forest than farms, esp forest reserves (a thread)

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Hey bird twitter. Where have you seen artwork like this one and what is it usually trying to convey, from your pov?

Our birdwatching survey is open until Feb 29th and we would love to hear your perspectives! Fill out this quick survey to help us understand how birders make decisions. We would love to capture perspectives from diverse groups of birders. Please share widely!

Super excited to announce my lab's website! Keep an eye out for new publications, media coverage, and if you are donor, please donate to our lab! 🐸🦋🦠🐆🐋🐳🦈🦕🦖🦨🦅🕊️🦃🐓🪿🦢

nature.berkeley.edu/EcheverriGroup

Website designer: Melissa Lattke
Logo designer: Juanita🖤💚

Professor Alejandra Echeverri, PhD co-authored a recent study that shows that natural environments and human agricultural history impact how severely agricultural deforestation affects biodiversity. Read more about the Peking University led study : newsen.pku.edu.cn/news_events/ne…