Integration of environmental data sets to describe and explore Amazonian biodiversity patterns, with enlistment of Earth-orbiting satellite remote sensing information

• Grant number: 16/08685-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: June 01, 2016
• End date: August 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Geosciences - Physical Geography
• Agreement: NSF - Dimensions of Biodiversity and BIOTA
• Principal Investigator: Thiago Sanna Freire Silva
• Grantee: Carlos Leandro de Oliveira Cordeiro
• Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas (IGCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 12/50260-6 - Structure and evolution of the Amazonian biota and its environment: an integrative approach, AP.BTA.TEM

Abstract

We will assess the current distribution of habitats, vegetation, and surface structure (geomorphology) of the Amazon basin, and their relationships to the underlying evolutionary and geologic processes from present to deep time. The research will employ integrated data sets from Earth-orbiting satellites and airborne sensors, to generate complex and innovative ecological datasets. These data with be then combined with local and regional ecological and phylogeographic datasets to better understand the processes that gave rise to modern Amazonian biodiversity, and predict future patterns. Data will also be combined to information on past environments, to explore patterns of taxonomic and phylogenetic endemism and species and lineage turnover. The results of these analyses will have a major impact on interpretations of the evolutionary history of the Amazon Basin. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MORAES, ANDREIA MAGRO; VANCINE, MAURICIO HUMBERTO; MORAES, ANDREZA MAGRO; DE OLIVEIRA CORDEIRO, CARLOS LEANDRO; PINTO, MIRIAM PLAZA; LIMA, ADRIANA ALMEIDA; CULOT, LAURENCE; FREIRE SILVA, THIAGO SANNA; COLLEVATTI, ROSANE GARCIA; RIBEIRO, MILTON CEZAR; et al. Predicting the potential hybridization zones between native and invasive marmosets within Neotropical biodiversity hotspots. GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION, v. 20, OCT 2019. (14/14739-0, 12/50260-6, 13/50421-2, 16/08685-0, 17/09676-8)