Field Expedition · Peruvian Amazon · Madre de Dios
Field Surveyor — 4-week Expedition
Four-week field expedition on the Madre de Dios river near the Peruvian–Bolivian border, conducting full-spectrum biodiversity surveys to compare highland and lowland Amazonian communities across multiple taxa.
Based out of field camps along the Madre de Dios river, this expedition surveyed biodiversity across contrasting highland and lowland Amazonian sites to characterise differences in community composition along an altitudinal gradient.
Sampling spanned multiple taxa: primate transect tracking for mammals; mist netting for birds and bats; netting for freshwater fish; pitfall and pan traps for ground and flying insects; and light traps for nocturnal moth assemblages.
The work was a deeply practical introduction to multi-taxa tropical fieldwork — coordinating logistics, taxonomy, and comparative analysis under remote field conditions.