Acarai–Corentyne Corridor
Mammologist for Rapid Inventory 32 with the Field Museum, EPA Guyana, the Protected Areas Commission, and the University of Guyana.
I'm Dr. Arianne-Elise Harris, a Guyanese population ecologist studying how landscape disturbance and climate change reshape wildlife communities. I turn field evidence into clear research, art, and stories that help people see why biodiversity matters.
About
My research centres on population ecology — using long-term datasets to understand how landscape disturbance drives change at the community level. I work across bird, bat, and large-mammal systems, asking how populations respond when their habitats shift.
Trained in wildlife field techniques, neotropical biodiversity, and social-science data collection, I analyze data with an underlying ecological question, using Bayesian workflows. Because numbers alone rarely move people towards change, I also work in science communication — using illustration and storytelling to bring attention to topics focused on climate change, pollution, and biodiversity decline.
Research profile
Seven publications spanning wildlife communities, human-wildlife conflict, and science communication.
Research focus
Four threads run through my work — from the population dynamics of a single species to the statistics that let us see the whole community move.
Using long-term datasets to track how populations grow, decline, and shift over time — the backbone of understanding ecological change.
Investigating how landscape disturbance — from land-use to fragmentation — reshapes biodiversity at the community level across the neotropics.
Field research on birds, bats, and large mammals — measuring how these communities respond to a rapidly shifting landscape.
Analysing ecological and social-science data with Bayesian techniques in R — turning messy field reality into defensible inference.
Currently working on
Exploring phenotypic plasticity in understory birds and large mammal communities in logging concessions.
Selected publications
Research on wildlife communities, disturbance, human-wildlife conflict, and participatory science communication.
Project collaborations
Interested in collaborating on natural science illustration for NGOs, museums, and private projects; bird migration and morphological adaptations; and the wildmeat trade in Northern South America.
Mammologist for Rapid Inventory 32 with the Field Museum, EPA Guyana, the Protected Areas Commission, and the University of Guyana.
Lead researcher assessing long-term reduced-impact logging effects on bird and mammal communities in Guyana’s rainforest.
Projects with BirdLife International and GMCS creating public-facing education and awareness materials for shorebirds and mangrove habitats.
Collaborative work with WWF Guianas, Caiman House, the University of Florida, and the University of Kent on marine megafauna, black caiman conflict, and nature and wellbeing.
Science through art
Original wildlife and botanical illustration used to communicate ecology — grounded in field observation and made for social media, publishing, classrooms, and curious minds.
How I work
Every project moves the same way — from observation in the field to a story people can actually see.
Wildlife field techniques and neotropical biodiversity surveys — birds, bats, mammals, in their landscape.
Building long-term datasets, with ecological and social-science data collected side by side.
Bayesian modelling in R turns field reality into clear, defensible ecological inference.
Illustration brings the findings to life — for social media, publishing, and the classroom.
Education
Teaching
The strongest science is the kind people can see and feel. I spend my days reading long-term data — and my evenings turning what it means into images that travel further than a graph ever could.
Get in touch
Tell me about your research, project, classroom, or conservation story. I’m open to collaborations, illustration commissions, and science communication work.