During my BSc at the University of Nottingham, in the broad subject of Biology, I realised my real interests lay in ecology. I took particular advantage of the summer holidays to get my first experiences of tropical forests through fieldwork first in Indonesia and, the following year, in the Comoros Islands, where I assisted work on the feeding ecology of two fruit bat species and also conducted a project for my final year thesis on their diurnal roosting behaviour. I continued these interests in behaviour and ecology by taking a six-month internship at Los Tuxtlas in Mexico studying bats and howler monkeys, before commencing an MSc in Applied Ecology and Conservation at the University of East Anglia. This gave me the opportunity to visit the fragmented landscape of Jari, in the north-east Brazilian Amazon, where I studied moth assemblages and where I returned again soon after my Msc to conduct further work on understorey bird communities. I have now focused more on the topic of fruit-frugivore interactions and, following work on fig trees and frugivores at Ankarana in Madagascar, I am currently developing my ideas in the somewhat larger and more complex fruit-frugivore system of the Juruá in western Amazonia, where I have begun research towards my PhD.
Publications
Hawes, J.E., da Silva Motta, C., Overal, W.L., Barlow, J., Gardner, T.A, & Peres, C.A. 2009. Diversity and composition of Amazonian moths in primary, secondary and plantation forests. Journal of Tropical Ecology 25: 281-300.
Hawes, J.E., Barlow, J., Gardner, T.A. & Peres, C.A. 2008. The value of forest strips for understorey birds in an Amazonian plantation landscape. Biological Conservation 141: 2262-2278.
Gardner, T. A., J. Barlow, I. S. Araujo, T. C. S. Avila-Pires, A. B. Bonaldo, J. E. Costa, M. C. Esposito, L. V. Ferreira, J. Hawes, M. I. M. Hernandez, M. Hoogmoed, R. N. Leite, N. F. Lo-Man-Hung, J. R. Malcolm, M. B. Martins, L. A. M. Mestre, R. Miranda-Santos, A. L. Nunes-Gutjahr, W. L. Overal, L. T. W. Parry, S. L. Peters, M. A. Ribeiro-Junior, M. N. F. da Silva, C. da Silva Motta, and C. Peres. 2008. The cost-effectiveness of biodiversity surveys in tropical forests. Ecology Letters 11:139-150.
Barlow, J., T. A. Gardner, I. S. Araujo, T. C. S. Avila-Pires, A. B. Bonaldo, J. E. Costa, M. C. Esposito, L. V. Ferreira, J. Hawes, M. I. M. Hernandez, M. Hoogmoed, R. N. Leite, N. F. Lo-Man-Hung, J. R. Malcolm, M. B. Martins, L. A. M. Mestre, R. Miranda-Santos, A. L. Nunes-Gutjahr, W. L. Overal, L. T. W. Parry, S. L. Peters, M. A. Ribeiro-Junior, M. N. F. da Silva, C. da Silva Motta, and C. Peres. 2007. Quantifying the biodiversity value of tropical primary, secondary and plantation forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104:18555-18560.
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