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Dr. Carolina Baruzzi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida's North Florida Research and Education Center, specializing in wildlife ecology and conservation. Her research integrates habitat restoration, wildlife management strategies (e.g., hunting and fire regimes), and extension programs to bridge research and practical application. She focuses on game species, wildlife-plant interactions, and the ecological impacts of invasive species.
Her work emphasizes understanding how management practices influence wildlife populations and ecosystems. Key initiatives include promoting camera trapping techniques in educational settings and addressing challenges posed by invasive fire ants in field surveys. Dr. Baruzzi’s lab actively collaborates on large-scale projects like SNAPSHOT USA, which uses camera traps to monitor national wildlife trends.
Research interests span climate change effects on species distributions, trophic interactions, and ecosystem resilience. Her recent studies highlight the role of scavengers in ecosystem processes and the cascading effects of mass mortality events. She also investigates behavioral adaptations of ungulates to environmental stressors such as warming temperatures and habitat depletion.
Dr. Baruzzi’s contributions include developing guidelines to mitigate invasive species interference and methodologies for estimating wildlife body mass. Her work bridges ecological theory with applied conservation solutions, aiming to inform policy and land management practices.
