Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Loiselle Lab
Led by Bette Loiselle · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
What we study
The Loiselle Lab studies how animals affect plant populations through seed dispersal and how biodiversity loss impacts ecosystems. They use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to support conservation planning.
What working here is like
- Computational
- Wild animals
- Plants
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 4
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Geographic Information Systems
Uses Geographic Information Systems, which map and analyze location data, to build spatial models of species and habitats that can guide where conservation efforts should focus.
Seed Dispersal
How do animal seed dispersers influence the ecology and evolution of plant populations?
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Tropical Ecology
Evaluating the ecological impacts of biodiversity loss on ecological services.
People & Nature
Examining interactions, feedbacks and uncertainty in coupled human natural systems.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Patterns of understorey bird diversity across Amazonian forests: survey effort and range maps predict local species richness
2026 · Ecography
Tests whether survey effort and range maps predict bird species richness in Amazonian forests.
- On tap, not on top: An urgent call for academia to support Indigenous science and equitable conservation
2026 · Earth stewardship.
Argues for including Indigenous knowledge in conservation to improve fairness and success.
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- Genomic and physiological changes in a sexually selected and frugivorous bird radiation
2026 · Current Biology
Studies how diet and mating systems changed in manakin birds, which have flashy displays.
- The Once and Future Amazon Forest? Climate and Landscape Change May Drive the Expansion of Nutrient‐Poor Amazonian Ecosystems
2026 · Biotropica
Predicts how climate and soil changes may spread poor-soil ecosystems in the Amazon.
- Anthropogenic modification shifts pollinator phenology in the eastern USA
2026 · Royal Society Open Science
Uses citizen science data to track how human changes affect pollinator flight times in the eastern U.S.
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