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This is a Dipteryx panamensis, or mountain almond tree, in the canopy at Barro Colorado Island in Panama. For more on neotropical trees,
see INBio's herbarium.
I am a graduate student in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley in Whendee Silver's Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Ecology lab. My research is focused on nutrient cycling in tropical forest ecosystems.
In particular, I am interested in the effects of nitrogen deposition on soil carbon storage and carbon dioxide fluxes.
I am also looking at the effects of nitrogen deposition on symbiotic nitrogen fixation.
My work is currently located on long-term nitrogen additions plots in the
Luquillo Experimental Forest (LEF)in Puerto Rico.
The LEF is a National Science Foundation Long-Term
Ecological Research Site.
Check out the Silver Lab for more information about
what we do.
I did my Master's research on rainforest regeneration at La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica. This is the River Station where I lived. When the river floods, the only way back to the main station is by boat. The plant is Hampea appendiculata of the Malvaceae family. It is a woody species I commonly found regenerating in secondary forest. For a great digital herbarium of seedlings at La Selva, see www.msu.edu/~vriesend/all_seedlings.htm.
Daniela F. Cusack, Ecosystem Science, UC Berkeley, 151 Hilgard Hall #3110, Berkeley, CA 94709-3110, Phone: 510-643-3963, dcusack@nature.berkeley.edu. ©Daniela Cusack. |
