Cagan sekercioglu biography sampler
Photographer and writer.!
My lab focuses on threatened biodiversity and ecosystems, causes and consequences of bird extinctions, including meta-analyses of a world bird ecology database.
Cagan Hakki Sekercioglu, Ph.D. cagan at stanford.edu
Senior Research Scientist
Center for Conservation Biology
Department of Biological Sciences Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305
Phone: (1) 650 724 0510 Fax: (1) 650 723 5920
I am a conservation ecologist, ornithologist, tropical biologist, and nature photographer at Stanford University Center for Conservation Biology.
My doctoral research focused on the causes and consequences of bird extinctions around the world. I have conducted ornithological fieldwork in Alaska, Angola, Colorado, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Turkey and Uganda to investigate the ecological factors behind the extinction-proneness of certain groups, such as tropical understory insectivores.
I have an extensive ongoing bird banding and radio tracking study in Costa Rica to understand the factors behind the disappearance and survival of tropical forest bird speci