We combine observational data with statistical modeling approaches to investigate questions
at the interface of ecological theory and conservation biology.
The primary goals of our research are to:
1) Identify mechanisms that structure tropical vertebrate communities across spatial scales
2) Understand how tropical mammals and birds respond to global change
3) Apply results to biodiversity conservation
Community and MacroecologyWe study the drivers of variation in communities across taxonomic groups, ecological systems and spatial scales, with emphasis on tropical mammals and birds and the resources they require.
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Global Change BiologyHabitat loss and climate change are two of the most critical threats to biodiversity worldwide. We study how these aspects of global change affect patterns of tropical vertebrate diversity and local extinction risk.
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Conservation BiologyWe conduct research in collaboration with TEAM, a global biodiversity monitoring network and partnership between Conservation International, the Smithsonian Institute and the Wildlife Conservation Society
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News
May 2019: Jennifer wins a Rice Women in Natural Science travel award to present at the Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation meeting in Madagascar!
April 2019: New article entitled "Local temperature and ecological similarity drive distributional dynamics of tropical mammals worldwide" published online in Global Ecology and Biogeography. Check out the Rice press release and intro to our lab video!
Chia Hsieh accepts offer to join the lab in the fall of 2019 as a PhD student. We are thrilled!
Jennifer wins a postdoc travel award from the American Society of Mammalogists to present her research comparing species richness and detection using line transects, ground cameras and arboreal cameras at the ASM meeting in Washington DC this summer!
March 2019: Jennifer attends an invited workshop at Oxford entitled "Learning from observational data to tackle illegal behavior for conservation"
Dan wins the top prize travel award from the Rice Institute of BioSciences and Bioengineering!
The Beaudrot Lab GitHub page is finally up and running
New article published in the Journal of Tropical Ecology: Differences among regions in environmental predictors of primate community similarity affect conclusions about community assembly
Lab outing to Memorial Park to set up camera traps with the Memorial Park Conservancy
Lab outing to see the Houston Rodeo and Zac Brown Band perform!
February 2019: Symposium entitled "Synthesizing camera trapping data for tropical ecology and conservation" that Lydia organized has been accepted for the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation meeting in Madagascar this summer!
January 2019: New article published in Oryx: Detecting tropical wildlife declines through camera-trap monitoring: an evaluation of the Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring protocol
Lydia gives a talk in the Machine Learning Lunch Series at Rice entitled "Image data and analysis for tropical conservation"
Lab outing to the Houston Museum of Natural Science for a talk by Dr. Jill Pruetz entitled "Redefining human evolution: understanding chimpanzees on the savanna"
Beaudrot & Dunham joint lab meetings get started
December 2018: New article entitled "Distributional shifts in a biodiversity hotspot" published in Biological Conservation
November 2018: Dr. Jennifer Moore joins the lab as a postdoc. Welcome, Jennifer!
October 2018: Lydia attends the 10th International Symposium of Integrative Zoology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China and presents on the impacts of global change on terrestrial mammals in tropical forest protected areas.
New article entitled "Effects of environmental stress on primate populations" published in Annual Review of Anthropology:
August 2018: Dan Gorczynski joins the lab as a PhD student in the Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Program at Rice and the EEB Worden Fellow. Welcome, Dan, and congratulations on your first-year fellowship!
Lydia gives keynote address at the 2018 BioSciences at Rice Symposium
July 2018: Lydia officially joins the BioSciences faculty at Rice University
May 2019: Jennifer wins a Rice Women in Natural Science travel award to present at the Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation meeting in Madagascar!
April 2019: New article entitled "Local temperature and ecological similarity drive distributional dynamics of tropical mammals worldwide" published online in Global Ecology and Biogeography. Check out the Rice press release and intro to our lab video!
Chia Hsieh accepts offer to join the lab in the fall of 2019 as a PhD student. We are thrilled!
Jennifer wins a postdoc travel award from the American Society of Mammalogists to present her research comparing species richness and detection using line transects, ground cameras and arboreal cameras at the ASM meeting in Washington DC this summer!
March 2019: Jennifer attends an invited workshop at Oxford entitled "Learning from observational data to tackle illegal behavior for conservation"
Dan wins the top prize travel award from the Rice Institute of BioSciences and Bioengineering!
The Beaudrot Lab GitHub page is finally up and running
New article published in the Journal of Tropical Ecology: Differences among regions in environmental predictors of primate community similarity affect conclusions about community assembly
Lab outing to Memorial Park to set up camera traps with the Memorial Park Conservancy
Lab outing to see the Houston Rodeo and Zac Brown Band perform!
February 2019: Symposium entitled "Synthesizing camera trapping data for tropical ecology and conservation" that Lydia organized has been accepted for the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation meeting in Madagascar this summer!
January 2019: New article published in Oryx: Detecting tropical wildlife declines through camera-trap monitoring: an evaluation of the Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring protocol
Lydia gives a talk in the Machine Learning Lunch Series at Rice entitled "Image data and analysis for tropical conservation"
Lab outing to the Houston Museum of Natural Science for a talk by Dr. Jill Pruetz entitled "Redefining human evolution: understanding chimpanzees on the savanna"
Beaudrot & Dunham joint lab meetings get started
December 2018: New article entitled "Distributional shifts in a biodiversity hotspot" published in Biological Conservation
November 2018: Dr. Jennifer Moore joins the lab as a postdoc. Welcome, Jennifer!
October 2018: Lydia attends the 10th International Symposium of Integrative Zoology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China and presents on the impacts of global change on terrestrial mammals in tropical forest protected areas.
New article entitled "Effects of environmental stress on primate populations" published in Annual Review of Anthropology:
August 2018: Dan Gorczynski joins the lab as a PhD student in the Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Program at Rice and the EEB Worden Fellow. Welcome, Dan, and congratulations on your first-year fellowship!
Lydia gives keynote address at the 2018 BioSciences at Rice Symposium
July 2018: Lydia officially joins the BioSciences faculty at Rice University
