COCHA CASHU, PERU 2019
The Theory and Practice of Statistical Ecology
Research interests
My research focuses on the theory and practice of statistics and stochastic processes in Ecology and Evolution. I view stochastic processes and statistics as the ideal language to translate fundamental questions in Biology into testable hypotheses that can be confronted with real data. I am passionate about field work and conservation biology. Early in my academic formation as an ornithologist I recognized the importance of Mathematics in Biology. I jumped feet first into the math and stats world and traded the field boots and binocs for paper, pencils, lots of erasers, and countless hours of programming! The journey has been both, fascinating and rewarding. Specially because now I live every single fieldwork experience much more intensively, aware of opportunities and open problems and with renewed ideas of how to approach persisting and tough science and conservation problems.
Here you’ll find links to publications, projects and working ideas from my Lab at University of Florida. Students in my lab are either mathematicians/statisticians learning biology or biologists learning math and stats. Topics in my publications include: evolution of behavior, tropical avian ecology, the application of stochastic processes in Ecology, Population Genetics and Evolution, Wildlife Management, Conservation Biology and Fisheries, Epidemiological modeling, Microbial Community Ecology, Population Genetics and Phylogenetics.
Contact
Location
Carr Hall 309
Department of Biology
University of Florida
P.O. Box 118525
Gainesville, FL 32611-7320
Contact Info
jm dot ponciano at gmail dot com
ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8457-7840