Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Bruna Lab
Led by Emilio Bruna · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
What we study
The Bruna Lab studies tropical ecosystems, focusing on understory plants, deforestation effects, and global scientific information disparities. They use field work and data analysis.
What working here is like
- Plants
- Coding helps
- Papers
- 5
Recent papers, explained
- The phylogenetic diversity of plant communities in response to anthropogenic disturbances in a Neotropical savanna
2026 · Annals of Botany
Compares how anthropogenic disturbances affect phylogenetic diversity in plant communities in a Neotropical savanna.
- Landscape quality drives ecological responses to habitat loss and fragmentation
2026 · Nature Ecology & Evolution
Finds that habitat loss, fragmentation, and surrounding landscape quality all affect survival rates in a plant-herbivore system.
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- Herbaceous Plants in Forest Ecosystems: One Hundred Fundamental and Applied Questions
2026 · Journal of Vegetation Science
Lists 100 key questions about herbaceous plants in forests, focusing on gaps in research.
- Sequencing foundational computational instruction in the life sciences
2026 · Ecology and Evolution
- Fire enables passive directed seed dispersal by birds
2025 · Current Biology
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How to reach out
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