MS Research Project at SUNY ESF
I am working under Dr. James P. Gibbs supervision for my MS thesis research. My thesis research is the evaluation of sustainable harvesting as a conservation strategy for freshwater turtles, with a focus on tropical area. We do literature review to compare the life history traits (clutch size, clutch frequency, age at first reproduction, and survivorship) of temperate and tropical freshwater turtles species and do modelling to simulate their population dynamics. I hope this research will help us to better understand the utility of the concept of sustainable harvest as a viable option for turtle conservation.
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BS Research Project at Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB)
I worked under Prof. Dr. Djoko T. Iskandar supervision for my BS thesis research. My thesis research was on the systematics of Cyrtodactylyus agamensis complex. In this research, I tried to define this species complex and to describe its species composition using morphological approach.
I found that all C. agamensis complex specimens posses a large scale within precloacal grove area, with male specimen has a huge pore (precloacal pit) in this scale. This characteristic is unique and only found in this species complex. In addition, this research revealed that this species complex consists of at least six species and they are distributed in Bengkulu and West Sumatra, Indonesia. I am still curious to investigate further about this species complex. Several questions that I would like to address are: why this species evolved bigger precloacal pore (precloacal pit) compared to other species in this genus? what is the function of precloacal pit? why this species complex is only distributed in Sumatra? etc. |