Hi, We are proud to announce a new OTS specialty graduate course “Ecology of plant-animal interactions in the tropics”. This intensive two-week course is designed to get hands-on experience on how to effectively perform research on biotic interactions between plants and animals in the tropics (La Selva, Costa Rica). The main goal is to expose students to different types of biotic interactions, and to teach analytical skills and study methods to understand these interactions. We will put particular emphasis on teaching methods to study ecological and evolutionary principles of the chemical ecology of plant-animal interactions.
This course provides a unique field-based experience for graduate students from South-,Central- and North America and will be taught by renowned scientists in the field of plant-animal interactions including Anurag Agrawal, Rodolfo Dirzo, Andre Kessler, Robert Raguso and Jennifer Thaler. For more information please visit the OTS website http://www.ots.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=158&Itemid=328 or contact Katja Poveda (kpov...@gwdg.de) or Andre Kessler (ak...@cornell.edu). Thank you for helping us distributing this information to students and faculty! Best wishes, Katja Poveda & Andre Kessler -- Dr. Katja Poveda Agroecology Göttingen University e-mail: kpov...@gwdg.de http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~uaoe/mitarbeiter/k_poveda_e.htm<http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/%7Euaoe/mitarbeiter/k_poveda_e.htm>
