I am a biologist, master and doctor in Ecology and Natural Resources (UFSCar). I am currently an adjunct professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at UFSCar, where I teach ecology and statistical methods for the undergraduate course in Environmental Management and Analysis. I am a permanent professor in two Graduate Programs; Ecology and Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (current vice-coordinator), where I advise master's and doctoral students. My long-term research objective is to understand the processes that organize the amazing biodiversity of freshwater ecosystems, from the scale of rapids in small streams of the Atlantic Forest to the huge basin of the Rio da Prata. My research covers topics in numerical ecology, community ecology, limnology, ecological interactions, biogeography and biomonitoring. I have current and completed research projects funded by FAPESP, CNPq, Rufford Foundation and the Royal Society. I am involved in the internationalization of research through the coordination of the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services theme of the CAPES PrInt project at UFSCar. I am associate editor of Acta Limnologica Brasiliensia, a journal of the Brazilian Association of Limnology and I have acted as a reviewer in more than 30 national and international journals. (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…
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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Understanding the processes that structure natural communities is one of the ultimate goals of ecology. Among these processes, competition is fundamental in maintaining biodiversity. According to the Coexistence theory, for two or more species to coexist, it is necessary to follow the criterion of invasiveness, when they are able to invade a community and increase their abundance when rar…
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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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