Tim at Wolong Nature Reserve in Sichuan, China, where he has been working on a reserve management project.

MOERMOND, Timothy C.
Phone:  262-5868
Email:  tcmoermo@facstaff.wisc.edu
Office:  451 Birge

My principal effort for the past year has been coordinating a complex community-based rural development and conservation project - "Community Planning for Sustainable Livestock-based Forested Ecosystems in Latin America" - Project PLAN. The principal goal (1) of this project is to promote, enable, and support sustainable development of agriculture and natural resource use by rural communities engaged in extensive livestock production systems in mountainous, forested areas of Latin America in Mexico, Ecuador, and Bolicia. Two complementary goals are (1a) to promote the conservation of forests, biodiversity, and watershed services and (1b) to improve the quality and stability of household livelihoods within these isolated farming communities. These goals are to be achieved through adaptive management and local planning at the scale of households, whole farms, farming communities, and local institutions. The second principal goal (2) is to design a "Sustainable Development Process Model Approach," developed through trial applications in four different sites in three countries that can be used by development agents and local communities to guide similar community-based sustainable development projects.

Students supervised who've recently earned graduate degrees:

Eakright, Alexis, MS in CBSD and MA in Agricultural and Applied Economics
(joint degree with AAE, Brad Barham - advisor)
"Income diversification in a Mexican Ejido: Patterns and potential for improving livlihoods without increasing impact of livestock on natural resources."

Sutherland, Ron, MS in CBSD
"Indigenous people and conservation in the Bolivian Chaco"

Vaughan, Chris, PhD in Land Resources, 2002
(jointly advised with Stan Temple, Wildlife Ecology)
"Population and conservation of endangered Scarlet Macaws in Costa Rica"

Hernandez, Yoyi, MS in CBSD, 2002
"Resident birds in a dry tropical forest agro-ecosystem in Mexico: Richness, abundance, and perceptions of local community members."

Galasso, Louise, M.S. CBSD, 2002
"The Spectacled Bear's impact on livestock and crops and use of remnant forest fruit trees in human-altered landscape in Ecuador"

Mercado-Silva, Norman, M.S. CBSD, 2001
"Fish communities, fisheries and public perception of the Ayuquila River in West Central Mexico" (jointly advised with John Lyons, DNR Research)

Cochrane, Erica, Ph.D. Zoology and Botany
"Elephand seed dispersal and impact on forest tree dynamics in Uganda" (jointly advised with Tom Givnish, Botany)

Anderson, Dean, Ph.D. Zoology, 2001
"Tree phenology and distribution, and their relation to chimpanzee social ecology in the Tai National Park, Cote d'Ivoire"

Putnam, Mike, Ph.D. Zoology, 2001
"Studies on the ecology and conservation of forest bird communities in Madagascar."

Morales, Miguel, M.S. CBSD, 2001
"Ecological and socio-economic context for the creation of a new biosphere in Paraguay"

Kabera, Isaac, Ph.D. in Forest Ecology and Management, 2000
"The role of forest plantations in the restoration of tropical forests

Johnson, Arlyne, Ph.D. in Land Resources, 2000
"Monitoring and evaluation of an enterprise-based strategy for wildlife conservation in the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area, Papua New Guinea"

Santana, Eduardo C., Ph.D. in Zoology, 2000
"Dynamics of understory birds along a cloud forest successional gradient."

Cardenas, Oscar, MS in CBSD, 1999
"Land use and land cover change from 1970-1993 in Zenzontla, Jalisco, Mexico"

Oscar Cardenas (ocardena@students.wisc.edu)
Land Resources PhD candidate - Effects of government policies and market forces on land use decisions; comparative study of six communities in Sierra de Manantlan Biosphere Reserve, Mexico.

Joan Freitas
CBSD MS candidate - Guide to conservation principles, laws and regulations for conservation and legal professionals.

Ahmad Khan (yzai@hotmail.com)
CBSD MS candidate - Ecological dynamics and status of wetlands in western Pakistan for crane conservation. (project with International Crane Foundation, Clair Mirande, P.I.)

Cara Meredith
M.S. candidate in Zoology - White-faced Monkeys and mixed species foraging flock interactions in Costa Rica

April Sansom (acsansom@students.wisc.edu)
CBSD MS candidate - Participatory research on community perception and decision-making for natural resource management.

Liying Su (liyingsu@students.wisc.edu)
Zoology PhD candidate - Determinants of landscape and resource use by Sandhill Cranes in central Wisconsin.

Andrea Young (ranita26@snail-mail.net)
Zoology MS candidate - Recovery of Herpetological communities in Mitigated Wetlands in comparison to natural wetlands in Illinois.

Sample Recent publications:

Papers in refereed national/international journals:

• B.A. Kaplin, and T.C. Moermond. 2000. "Foraging ecology of the mountain monkey (Cercopithecus l'hoesti): Implications for its evolutionary history and use fo disturbed forest." Amer. J. Primatology. 50: 227-246.

• B.A. Kaplin, T.C. Moermond, and J. Mvukiyumwami.  1998.  The influence of temporal changes in fruit availability on diet composition and seen handling in blue monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis doggetti).  Biotropica 30:  56-71.

• B.A. Kaplin, and T.C. Moermond.  1998.  Variation in temporal patterns of seed dispersal by two species of monkeys in Rwanda, Africa.  Amer. J. Primatology 45:  83-101.

Other:

• Anderson, D., E. Nordheim, C. Boesch, and T. Moermond. Factors influencing fission-fusion grouping in chimpanzees in the Tai National Park, Cote d'Ivoire. In: C. Boesch, G. Hohmann, and L. Marchant (eds.), Behavioural Diversity in Chimpanzees and Bonobos. Cambridge: cambridge University Press. 2003.

• T.C. Moermond, "Divergent vs. Convergent Problems: New approaches to Sustainable Agricultural Development" Ruminations (Newsletter of the Global Livestock Collaborative Research Support Program), Winter 2002.

• A. Johnson, J. Ericho, R. Bino, P. Hukahu, and P. Igag. Measuring our success: One team's experience in monitoring the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area project in Papua New Guinea. In: Lessions from the Field: linking Theory and Practice in Biodiversity Conservation. Issue No. 3.