Estefania Fernandez

Stories from the Field – How Hauling Hundreds of Logs Across the Tropical Jungle Makes me a Perfectly Sane Scientist

When people stroll through a forest, they often overlook the seemingly inconspicuous pieces of dead wood scattered across the forest floor. Little do they know that these logs play a crucial role in providing habitat for arthropods and fungi, and contribute significantly to the forest’s nutrient cycling. In this post, I share my journey into …

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Using Creativity in The Face of Adversity – Adapting Berlese Funnels to Extract Insects from Dead Logs

  As I prepared to head to Costa Rica on my second field season, year 1 after Covid hit, I was facing challenges that went beyond trying to get into a foreign country during a pandemic or finding ethanol to preserve samples. After convincing my university that I would be okay travelling, I had to …

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