Laboratory of Integrative Biology

I do most of my work on integrating information, methodologies, and approaches from different disciplines in order to answer questions I find interesting.  That is why my work cannot be boxed within a single discipline and the reason I call my lab Laboratory of Integrative Biology.

The figure on this page, is from Romero (2003).  It shows how I combined information tax records and historical events to explain the depletion of the oyster pearl (Pinctada imbricata) beds off the coasts of Cubagua, eastern Venezuela, at the beginning of the sixteenth century.

Romero, A. 2003. Death and taxes: the case of the depletion of pearl oyster beds in sixteenth-century Venezuela. Conservation Biology 17(4):1-12.