{"id":1531,"date":"2015-11-02T17:09:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T01:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2018-03-02T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T20:06:00","slug":"summer-of-fieldwork-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/summer-of-fieldwork-costa-rica\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer of fieldwork: Costa Rica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In July, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biology.washington.edu\/users\/jeff-riffell\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Riffell<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/David_Villalobos4\" target=\"_blank\">David Villalobos<\/a>\u00a0and I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/tropicalstudies.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=162&amp;Itemid=348\" target=\"_blank\">La Selva Biological Station<\/a> in Costa Rica to work on our NSF-funded project \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=1456375\" target=\"_blank\">Chance or necessity? Adaptive vs. non adaptive evolution in plant-frugivore interactions<\/a>\u201d. Going in the middle of the rainy season during an El Ni\u00f1o year made for a very stormy, wet, muddy and soggy couple of weeks. In what I\u2019d like to call \u201cthe field season triathlon\u201d (hiking, trawling, and reaching up), we were able to collect Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) from the fruits of over a dozen species of <em>Piper <\/em>and other bat-dispersed plants, and fecal and tissue samples from nearly 100 bats. While mapping the VOC profiles onto phylogenies will enable us to investigate how fruit scent evolves in this system, analyses of the bat fecal samples will allow us to expand our current understanding of how much the bats rely on the different <em>Piper<\/em>\u00a0species for food.<\/p>\n<p>This autumn, <a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/lab-members\/leith-miller\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leith Miller<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/lab-members\/ada-kaliszewska\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ada Kaliszewska<\/a> are continuing sample collection and analysis for this project in La Selva. Meanwhile,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/laurelryohe.weebly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laurel Yohe<\/a>\u00a0(a PhD student at our\u00a0collaborating <a href=\"http:\/\/life.bio.sunysb.edu\/ee\/davaloslab\/The_Lab.html\" target=\"_blank\">lab<\/a>) gave a talk\u00a0at the North American Symposium for Bat Research in which she presented preliminary results \u00a0on the olfactory receptors of short-tailed fruit bats.<\/p>\n<p>[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=&#8221;9&#8243; gal_title=&#8221;CR 2015&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July, Jeff Riffell, David Villalobos\u00a0and I went to La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica to work on our NSF-funded project \u201cChance or necessity? Adaptive vs. non adaptive evolution in plant-frugivore interactions\u201d. Going in the middle of the rainy season during an El Ni\u00f1o year made for a very stormy, wet, muddy and soggy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,24],"tags":[29,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1536,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions\/1536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}