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MAYA PROJECT COMPONENTS

Activities and Results

RESEARCH OUTLINE

Our choice of research topics within the Maya Project has been guided largely by our perceptions concerning information needed in tropical forest conservation efforts.

Here is an outline of our research topics. Each component is further described below, organized in this fashion.

  1. Basic Biology of Poorly-Known Tropical Forest Birds of Prey

  2. Spatial Needs of Tropical Forest Raptors

  3. Toward the Documentation of a Tropical Forest Food Web

  4. Habitat Affinities of Tropical Forest Fauna: How do prevalent land uses affect bird and bat populations?
    1. Slash-and-Burn Farming
    2. Forest Fragmentation
    3. Tropical Hardwood Logging
    4. Forest Vegetation Ecology
  5. Forest Vegetation Ecology

  6. Development of Methods for Censusing and Studying Tropical Forest Raptors

  7. Monitoring the Ecological Integrity of Tropical Forest Protected Areas Over Time

  8. Monitoring Population Status of Threatened and Vulnerable Species


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