Amazoncam Tambopata Leader
Mathias Tobler is an associate director for the Population Sustainability group at the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research. Mathias Tobler is a wildlife ecologist, He has a strong interest in the population and spatial ecology of large mammals and in the development and application of new technologies and analytical methods for wildlife studies. He has been studying larger mammals in the Peruvian Amazon for almost two decades. He also has a strong quantitative background and is interested in the application of new statistical methods to ecological research and conservation. For his Ph.D. in Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences at Texas A&M University He studied the ecology of lowland tapirs in Madre de Dios, Peru. Some of his main research interests are: 1) To understand the impact of different land use types on the community of large and medium-sized mammals in tropical forest ecosystems. 2) To advance analytical methods such as multi-species occupancy models and spatial capture-recapture models and their application to camera trap data. 3)To understand the spatial and population ecology of large keystone species such as jaguars, tapirs, peccaries and bighorn sheep to better inform conservation planning. 4) To develop database applications that help manage the vast amount of biodiversity data collected by today’s new technologies. Together with Mark Bowler He stated the AmazonCam Tambopata, also known as the Big Grid, which will help us track jaguars across space and time and will allow us to obtain novel data on their population dynamics. Mathias Tobler is based in San Diego but manages projects in Mexico, Peru, the US and South-East Asia. Some of his most recent research focuses on the impact of selective logging on large mammals in the Peruvian Amazon.
