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James’ 2nd Phd & his ever-growing SRMP lab

1/13/2017

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On my visit to the lab of Dr. James Herrera I found Ayesha and Olivia preparing to dive back into their mentor’s (many) field notebooks to digitize trap data on rodents and mouse lemurs, data collected by James when a PhD student in Madagascar. Mind you, James has already successfully completed his doctorate on the evolutionary ecology of lemurs, but seems to have enough unanalyzed data in his field notebooks for a second dissertation!
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Ayesha and Olivia  - joined by SRMP alumni Allison (Class of 2014) and Alejandro (Class of 2013- are chipping away at the data entry. (Apparently they are also learning a little Malagasy along the way as they translate data collected in the native language of Madagascar). The team will be using this data to investigate the impact of human disturbance on species richness (# of species in an area) and morphology (e.g. tail length, color, body size).
Madagascar is a very special place. Having separated from Africa ~180 million years ago (mya) and from India ~88 mya, the island country supports life not found anywhere else on the planet. Over 90% of its mammals, plants, reptiles and amphibians are endemic to Madagascar. This includes lemurs of which over 100 different species are currently recognized in a country about the size of Texas.
All too familiar issues such as deforestation, illegal wildlife trade, and climate change threatens much of this biodiversity. Ecological research such as that being conducted by James and his crew provides vital information for conservation practitioners who work to predict and minimize the impact of humans on wildlife and it’s habitat.
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9/7/2017 04:39:10 am

America is strong country in all over the world and his abilities for work is too much up. Historical museum is part of America and it has many things which are rare in this time. So we should visit here and keep the safety our values of old time of people.

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10/1/2021 09:42:23 pm

Grreat post thankyou

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