MARIO FERNANDO GARCES RESTREPO

I completed my undergraduate degree in Biology with an emphasis in zoology, and obtained a master’s degree in biological science at the Universidad del Valle in Colombia. Overall, I consider myself to be a field ecologist and have led research on the ecology and natural history of a diversity of terrestrial vertebrates in Colombia. I have three areas of special interest: population ecology of terrestrial vertebrates, especially in threatened species; effects of human perturbation at level of the community and population; and urban ecology. For my dissertation, I will be studying the population and community ecology of two species of sloths in Costa Rica.

email: garcesrestre@wisc.edu