Ceiba Pentandra
CTC
Center for
Tropical
Conservation
John
Terborgh, Ph.D.
Co-Director
Duke
University
Box 90381
Durham, NC 27708
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences
Dynamics, forest growth, seeds dispersion and light measurement at Manu
National Park and Manu Biosphere Reserve
Principal investigator: Dr.John Terborgh, James B. Duke Professor of Environmental Sciences at Duke University.
Dr. Terborgh's
interests lie in the fields of tropical ecology and conservation. At different
times in his career he has studied birds, primates, herbs and forest trees,
and he has directed student projects involving butterflies, lizards, amphibians
and crocodillians. The common denominator in all this work has been the
goal of solving problems of general ecological interest using a comparative
approach. Some typical comparisons have involved seasonal patterns in
resource utilization by forest primates, habitat use by Amazonian birds,
and latitudinal variation in the structure of mature forests. Applications
of ecology to conservation have increasingly become a central theme of
his work. He regards as particularly important the need to understand
the many consequences of habitat fragmentation, especially those related
to the disruption of trophic-level processes.