Sandra Amézquita collecting near Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico. |
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Sandra J. Amezquita M. is a Colombian biologist interested in dung beetles. She worked in Colombia and Bolivia between 1996-1998 in partnership with Alejandro Lopera and with the guidance of Adrian Forsythe using dung beetles as bioindicators of forest fragmentation. For her Masters degree in 2000 she compared the dung beetle community in two Andean forest fragments comparing data of two years of sampling (1996 and 2000) and discussed the application of these studies as tools for environmental management in this type of forest.
She is currently a graduate student at the Instituto de Ecologia, A.C. in Xalapa, Mexico working under the supervision of Mario Favila. They are working on dung beetle ecology that involves evaluating the effects of forest fragmentation on dung removal by dung beetles in forest fragments at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico. |
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Sandra J. Amézquita M.
Dpto. Biodiversidad y Comportamiento Animal
Instituto de Ecología, A.C
Km 2.5 antigua carretera a Coatepec No. 351
Congregación El Haya, CP 63, Xalapa 91070
Veracruz, MEXICO
TEL: 228 + 8421800, Ext. 4131
EMAIL: samezquit@gmail.com |
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Publications:
Germán Amat-García, Alejandro Lopera-Toro y Sandra Amézquita-Melo. 1997. Patrones de distribución de escarabajos coprófagos (Coleoptera :Scarabaeinae) en relictos de bosque altoandino, Cordillera Oriental de Colombia. Caldasia 19.
Sandra J. Amézquita M, Adrian Forsyth, Alejandro Lopera T & Andrés Camacho. 1999. Comparación de la composición y riqueza de especies de escarabajos coprófagos (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) en remanentes de bosque de la Orinoquía Colombiana. Acta Zoológica Mexicana No. 76: 113-126.
E. Nichols, S. Spector, J. Louzada, T. Larsen, S. Amezquita, M. Favila and the Scarab Net Research Network. 2008. Ecological functions and ecosystem services of Scarabaeinae dung beetles: a review. Biological Conservation 141: 1461-1474.
Amezquita, S. and M-E. Favila. 2009. Removal of native and exotic dung by dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) in a fragmented tropical rain forest. Submitted to Enviromental Entomology. |
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