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Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde (CCBS) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
I am a professor of Ecology at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil, with a B.Sc. in Biology and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Ecology and Natural Resources. My research focuses on understanding the processes that shape tropical freshwater biodiversity and how environmental change alters ecosystem functioning and the services these systems provide to society. I combine observational data analysis, ecological modeling, computational simulations, and mesocosm experiments to address questions at the interface of community and ecosystem ecology. I have coordinated research projects supported by national and international agencies, including FAPESP, CNPq, CAPES (Brazil), The Rufford Foundation, The Royal Society (UK), and the NSF (USA). I am currently a CNPq Productivity Fellow and also engage in applied projects involving biodiversity monitoring, hydropower impact assessment, and the design and management of protected areas. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Understanding the organization of biodiversity on Earth has puzzled ecologists and biogeographers for centuries. For a long time, only part of these patterns around the globe was explained by deterministic processes related to environmental filters related to functional traits and biotic interactions, while much of the variation that disobeyed these rules were termed to be rather stochast…
Biodiversity on Earth is constantly reorganizing itself in face of anthropic impacts, including aquatic biodiversity. One of the greatest threats in this regard is the expansion of agriculture, including sugarcane in the state of São Paulo. In this crop it is possible to highlight the impact of pesticides and vinasse, a compound rich in nutrients from the alcohol refinement. The impacts o…
Ecological networks arise from different types of ecological interactions among organisms. Due to their high complexity, characterizing these networks has been a challenge for ecologists since their early descriptions. Their importance, however, cannot be understated, as an accurate structuring of these networks enhances understanding of the studied ecosystem. Many factors are debated for…
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The Metabolic Theory is one of the main theories used to understand food webs and energy flows in ecosystems. Generally, a decrease in population density is expected as individual body size of the species increases, thus sustaining the flow of energy that must flow from the smaller organisms to the larger ones. In this project, we will attempt to understand the disproportionality in size-…
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Temporal characterization is elementary to the understanding of ecosystem dynamics and the consideration of the natural variation in time is indispensable for the characterization of bioindicator communities. Due to the high stochasticity of tropical environments, there are currently few studies on the temporal variation of aquatic communities bioindicators of these regions. Thus, the pre…
Environmental filtering, predation and competition are thought to be major influential processes that drive community assembly. Besides this importance, only competition and environmental filtering are considered in community assembly frameworks. Predation can increase, decrease, or have no effect on the competition strength of prey communities, and therefore, actual inferences about the …
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