Contact Information:
- Name:
- Pelz-Serrano, Karla
- Title:
- Graduate Student
- Discipline(s):
- Ecology, Conservation
- Research Station:
- SDRS
- Work Address:
- 125 Biological Sciences East, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
- Telephone Number:
- (520) 623-3720; FAX: (520) 670-5001
- Email Address:
- kpelzser@email.arizona.edu
Biographical Sketch:
Karla Pelz-Serrano, originally from Mexico, obtained her B.S. in Biology from the Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, in Queretaro, Mexico in 2004. For the past four years she has been working on projects in ecology and the conservation of mammals, such as volunteering for the Northern Jaguar Project, and studying beavers, coyotes and black bears in the Sierra de San Luis, Sonora, Mexico. Recently, Karla has been working for the Laboratory of Ecology and Conservation of Wildlife at the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico on the Janos la Ultima Pradera project, first as a field technician and now as a volunteer. Her work on this project has been focused on the ecology and conservation of black tailed prairie dogs and American porcupines, as well as monitoring reintroduced black footed ferrets.
Karla is currently pursuing an M.S. in Wildlife Management and Conservation with Charles van Riper, III at the University of Arizona. Her goals are to apply all the scientific knowledge she gains in her educational career to generate management plans for the conservation of natural resources at a transnational scale. Her master's research focuses on the effects of isolation on the conservation and genetic structure of beaver populations in the Cajon Bonito River, Sonora, Mexico and the San Pedro River, Arizona. Her research has important implications for future management plans for the ocnservation of the beaver, which is in anger of extinction in Mexico, and for the riparian ecosystems in which beavers are important ecosystem engineers.
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