Description of project: The Ecology of Bird Loss project examines the effect of bird loss on forest systems by comparing forests on Guam, where forest birds are functionally extinct due to predation by the invasive Brown Treesnake, to forests on two Northern Mariana Islands (Saipan and Rota) where native bird populations are still present. Our general approach integrates landscape scale observations with manipulative experiments. The intern will assist with research to measure the benefits of seed dispersal for plants and to observe which bird species disperse which tree species on Saipan. See the project website at www.ecologyofbirdloss.org for more details about research in this system.
Duties of the interns: The intern will live on Saipan to set up and maintain experiments as w