About: This website is intended to share the Lab's work, exchange ideas, potentially develop new collaborations, and recruit new members.

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Institutions, understood in its simplest form as rules, are at the center of shaping human collective behavior, including our relationship with biodiversity. The Biodiversity Governance Lab at Colorado State University's Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, led by Dr. Ed Gallo-Cajiao, studies the role of institutions in biodiversity conservation with a focus on animal species, particularly vertebrates. Our  work is theoretically driven but empirically grounded drawing on institutional and ecological data. The Lab's mission is to contribute to conservation and governance scholarship as well as to conservation practice.