Funded by the National Science
Foundation (NSF), the goal of this project (PIs: R.D. Owen & M.R.
Willig) was to
catalogue the mammalian diversity of Paraguay in an intensive and
extensive manner, including comprehensive documentation of associated
ectoparasites. Starting in
1994, we collected many species of bats, rodents, and marsupials, and
expanded the known
range of a number of taxa. We used such information
concerning bat species to inform recommendations concerning conservation
reserve configurations in the country.
Both graduate and undergraduate
students have participated in the collection, preparation, and
cataloguing of species. In addition, some of these students (C. Dick, C.
Lopez-Gonzalez, M. Gorresen, S. Presley, and R. Stevens) have used this
project as a point of departure for their own research, encompassing
both thesis and dissertation projects.
Below are a selection of biomes in
which this research was conducted in Paraguay.
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