Title
Assistant Professor

Department
Dept of Integrative Biology


Faculty URL
https://ib.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/razafindratsimao

Research Group
https://www.razafindratsima.org/

Email
onja@berkeley.edu


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Research Expertise and Interest
tropical ecology, community ecology, plant-animal interactions, primatology, biodiversity

Research Description
Onja Razafindratsima is an ecologist, broadly interested in tropical ecology, plant-animal interactions and community ecology. She also aims to apply her research findings to biodiversity conservation. Much of her work has been conducted in the tropical forests of Madagascar, with a focus on lemurs and plants. However, she has been collaborating on ecological research in other systems. She has been involved in projects that aims to:
provide new insights about the roles and impacts of frugivorous vertebrates in terrestrial systems as seed dispersal agents,
identify mechanisms that underlie the structure of ecological communities
characterize biodiversity responses to ecological changes (e.g., land use, defaunation, invasive species)
investigate the drivers and consequences of species extinctions
apply ecological research to guide forest restoration and biodiversity conservation
She often uses an integrative approach combining empirical work, such as field surveys and experiments, with simulation-based modeling and phylogenetic tools to address her research questions at various spatial and temporal scales.