Rodolfo Dirzo, Ph.D.
Professor, Universidad Nacional
Autonoma de Mexico
Mexico DF 04510 MEXICO
http://www.pewmarine.org/PewFellows/pf_DirzoRodolfo.html

Rodolfo Dirzo's main field of expertise is tropical ecology and conservation and his primary area of research is ecological interactions. He focuses on the conservation of processes in tropical forests. Rodolfo's work includes the study of defaunation (the contemporary loss of vertebrates) and its consequences on forest diversity and function; deforestation and its consequences on atmospheric properties; and tropic relationships between plants and animals (who eats who, who is eaten by whom, and with what consequences for the functioning of ecosystems).

Of Note:
- Pew Fellows Program in Conservation and the Environment, Fellow, 1992
- Association for Tropical Biology, Past Council Member
- Scientific Committee of the Latinoamerican Botanical Network, Past Member

LECTURE

“Ecological consequences of contemporary defaunation:
observations and experiments in
Mexican tropical forests”
Wednesday, January 29th, 4 PM

Florida International University (FIU)
130 Wertheim Conservatory
11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL

(Enter FIU through SW 107th Avenue and SW 16th Street)

Arrive early, doors open at 3:00 p.m.
Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis.