Matthew I. Williams
Education:
Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
- work toward Ph.D., Zoology
Dissertation topic: Community Ecology and Habitat use of
Neotropical Treefrogs
Smilisca baudinii with thread
tracking spool
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
- M.S. - Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Thesis: Systematics of Neotropical Parrots with Emphasis on Deroptyus
and Triclaria
Deroptyus
accipitrinus (Hawk-headed parrot)
- B.S. - Wildlife Ecology and
Conservation
(Minors in Latin American Studies and Zoology)
- Habitat use, community structure, and ecology of arboreal herpetofauna
- New World vertebrate natural history, ecology, conservation, biogeography, and paleoecology
Publications:
- Williams, M. I. and D. W. Steadman. 2001. The Historic and Prehistoric Distribution of Parrots (Psittacidae) in the West Indies. in C. A. Woods and F. E. Sergile, eds. Biogeography of the West Indies: Patterns and Perspectives. 2nd ed. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. PDF file- Adasme, R. A., M. I. Williams, C. Guyer, and M. A.
Donnelly. in prep. Habitat and prey selection in two
species of Imantodes (Serpentes: Colubridae). Submitted to
Copeia: February 2005
- Steadman, D. W. and M. I. Williams. in prep. New Species and Prehistoric Records of Parrots (Psittacidae) from the West Indies. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History.
- Williams, M. I. in prep. Systematics of Neotropical Parrots (Psittaciformes) with Emphasis on Deroptyus and Triclaria.