Contact Information
Phone:(808) 956-5950
Fax: (808) 956-3923
Email: moorman@hawaii.edu

University of Hawai`i at Manoa
3190 Maile Way, Room 101
Honolulu, HI 96822

Affiliations
Botany

Research Interests

• plant-animal interactions
• subsistnace hunting
• tropical ecology
• conservation biology

Dissertation Title:
To be announced

Statement
I am interested in the role frugivores play in tropical forest ecosystems. Recently
there has been great concern among conservation biologists regarding the depletion or
reduction of wildlife in tropical forests from subsistence hunting. Such decline in fauna
could cause serious cascading effects on forest structure and function through the disruption
of plant-animal interactions such as seed dispersal. To better understand such interactions I
plan to study seed dispersal by a rodent, the agoutis (Dasyprocta leporina Linnaeus) under
different hunting pressures in the Raposa Indigenous Area in the northern Brazilian Amazon.

Awards

• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Publications

• Whiteman, H.H., Gutrich, J.J., and R.S. Moorman. 1999. Courtship behavior in a polymorphic
  population of the tiger salamander Ambystoma tigrinum nebulosum. Journal of Herpetology,
  33(2):348-351.
  
  
• Howard, R.D., Moorman, R.S., and H.H. Whiteman. 1997. Differential effects of mate
  competition and mate choice on eastern tiger salamanders. Animal Behaviour, 53:1345