As part of a broader, cooperative study of wildlife-habitat relationships in the Chiquibul Forest of Belize, Central America, we are looking for a Doctoral Student to lead research on the effects of forest composition, structure, and management at multiple scales on avian and/or bat communities. The student will spend several months each year in the Chiquibul Forest/Maya Mountain Region of western Belize. This is a remote, essentially uninhabited, rugged, wet, and hot rain forest! We work as the Program for Tropical Ecology & Conservation Science (PTECS; https://www.wec.ufl.edu/ptecs/) from our Las Cuevas Research Station in the Chiquibul Forest Reserve. The student will receive a $22,000/yr stipend, paid tuition, and basic insurance for