Meghan Radtke collecting
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Photo by Jeff Sheldon.
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Meghan Radtke is a Ph.D. student
in the Department of Biological Sciences at Louisiana State
University. Currently, she is working on her dissertation project
that will compare dung beetle communities (Scarabaeidae and
Geotrupidae) across the Amazon Basin. Radtke believes that productivity
differences between the old and young regions of the Amazon
will affect the overall abundance of dung beetles within these
two regions. She is interested in developing this idea into
a rapid biomass assessment technique useful for conservation
surveys. Radtke is interested in combining a taxonomic (get
them all) approach and an ecological approach to answer broad-scale
community questions in the tropics. She hopes to continue to
use dung beetles as study organisms for future questions. |
