Wildlife Team Leader & Research Wildlife Biologist

International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service
Sabana Field Research Station, HC 02 Box 6205
Luquillo, PR 00773

(787) 889-7485
(787) 889-7477 (Fax)

jmwunderle@gmail.com

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My research interests and those of my graduate students from the University of Puerto Rico focus primarily on resident and nearctic migrant birds in the neotropics with an emphasis on their ecology and behavior of relevance to conservation. An underlying theme of our work has been disturbance ecology especially avian behavioral and population responses, as well as habitat responses to both natural (e.g.,hurricanes,drought) and anthropogenic disturbance (e.g., selective logging, agriculture, urbanization). I am also interested in comparing avian populations and their ecology in natural habitats with disturbed or human-managed habitats (e.g., agroecosystems, timber production forests, plantations, etc.) in an effort to identify or devise management strategies that ameliorate human disturbances on bird populations. As my attached C.V. indicates I have worked on a diversity of other topics of relevance to avian ecology primarily throughout the Caribbean with additional studies in the Brazilian Amazon and in Central America. Currently, my collaborative research focuses on the ecology and behavior of the endangered migrant Kirtland’s Warbler and associated species on its wintering grounds in the Bahamas for the purpose of developing strategies for its conservation in the archipelago.