Field of Expertise:  Tropical Conservation Biology and Vertebrate Zoology

Address:
Latin America and Caribbean Division
   The Nature Conservancy
   1815 North Lynn Street
   Arlington, VA 22209
   USA
 
Telephone/Fax:   (703) 841-4214/Fax: (703) 841-2722

Email:   byoung@tnc.org

Education

B.A. 1981-85 Cornell University (Biology) 1988
  Organization For Tropical Studies: "Tropical Biology" 88-3

Ph.D. 1987-93 University of Washington, Department of Zoology
  Dissertation: "Geographical Variation in Avian Clutch size: the   case of the Tropical House Wren, Troglodytes aedon"
 

Current Appointment

1998-present  Chief Zoologist, Latin American and Caribbean Division (The Nature Conservancy)
 

Publications Based on Research Conducted at Monteverde, Costa Rica

Feinsinger, P.F., H. T. Tiebout III, and B. E. Young.  1991.  Do tropical bird-pollinated plants exhibit density dependent interactions? Field experiments.  Ecology 72:1953-1963.

Feinsinger, P. F., H. T. Tiebout III, B. E. Young, and K. G. Murray.  1991.  New perspectives on neotropical plant-hummingbird interactions.  Acta XX Congressus Internationalis Ornithologici, pp. 1605-1610.

Young, B. E.  1993.  Effects of the parasitic botfly Philornis carinatus on nestling House Wrens, Troglodytes aedon, in Costa Rica.  Oecologia 93:256-262.

Young, B. E., M. C. Garvin, and D. B. McDonald.  1993.  Blood parasites in birds from Monteverde, Costa Rica.  Journal of Wildlife Diseases  29:555-560.

Young, B. E.  1994.  The effects of food, nest predation, and weather on the timing of breeding in tropical House Wrens, Troglodytes aedon.  Condor 96:341-353.

Young, B. E.  1994.  Geographical and sesonal patterns of clutch size variation in House Wrens.  Auk 111:545-555.

Young, B. E.  1996.  An experimental analysis of small clutch sizes in tropical House Wrens.  Ecology 77: 472-488.

Young, B. E., D. DeRosier, and G. V. N. Powell.  1998.  The distribution and conservation of understory birds in five life zones in the Tilarán mountains, Costa Rica.  Auk 115:998-1016.

Young, B. E. and D. B. McDonald.  1999.  Lessons from 25 years of bird research at Monteverde.  In The Natural History and Ecology of Monteverde, Costa Rica: A Background for Conservation, edited by N. Nadkarni and N. Wheelwright.  In press, Oxford University Press.

Other Publications on Tropical Themes

Young, B. E., M. Kaspari, and T. E. Martin.  1990.  Species-specific nest site selection by birds in ant-acacia trees.  Biotropica 22:310-315.

Young, B. E.  1997.  Priorities for bird conservation; review of Neotropical Birds by Stotz et al.  Ecology 78:1613-1614.

Young, B. E. and J. R. Zook.  1999.  Nesting of four poorly-known bird species on the Caribbean slope of Costa Rica.  In press, Wilson Bulletin.

Sayre, R., E. Roca, G. Sedaghatkish, B. Young, S. Keel, R. Roca, and S. Sheppard.  1999.  Nature in Focus: Rapid Ecological Assessment.  In press, Island Press.

Research on Nesting Success of Lowland Tropical Birds: Web Site

http://spathodea.ots.ac.cr/~young