master's at Energia Nuclear na Agricultura from Universidade de São Paulo (1986) and doctorate at Solo e Nutrição de Plantas from Universidade de São Paulo (1989). He is currently full professor at Universidade de São Paulo. Has experience in Ecology, acting on the following subjects: amazonia, amazônia, carbono, rio piracicaba and carbono 13. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Sugarcane ethanol is an alcohol-based renewable biofuel produced by the fermentation of sugarcane extract and molasses, and Brazil is the world's largest producer of it. Brazil is also the largest producer of sugar; hence, sugarcane agriculture in the country is quite extensive, covering an area of about 10 million ha of arable land and ranking as the third largest crop after corn and soy…
It is expected that an efficient isotopic geographic origin attribution model (MIAR) is one that presents a structure based on (I) a geographically comprehensive and structured database, (II) that has as input base information that encompass local, global and spatially dependent variations, (III) that present isoscapes built both on more accurate "machine learning" (ML) techniques and tha…
The Sustainable Agriculture Matrix (SAM) consortium will be a transdisciplinary and transnational network to guide pathways for sustainable agriculture by co-developing an indicator system and associated products that 1) measure agriculture sustainability from environmental, social, and economic dimensions and improve the accountability of countries' commitment to sustainable agriculture;…
Sugarcane ethanol is an alcohol-based renewable biofuel produced by the fermentation of sugarcane extract and molasses, and Brazil is the world's largest producer of it. Brazil is also the largest producer of sugar; hence, sugarcane agriculture in the country is quite extensive, covering an area of about 10 million ha of arable land and ranking as the third largest crop after corn and soy…
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Human activity has been largely responsible for the increase in deforestation in biomes such as the Amazon, the Atlantic Forest, and the Pantanal. Therefore, brands in the agricultural and forestry sectors are aware of the need for product origin certification as a competitive advantage, due to the growing global market demand for the adoption of sustainable production practices aligned w…
Green diesel is a fuel from renewable sources, e.g. waste oils, animal fats, fat from sewage sludge, and ethanol, which has been developed to partially or completely replace fossil diesel. However, this fuel has a similar composition to fossil diesel (e.g. paraffinic hydrocarbons), making it infeasible to differentiate the two fuels, using the official method to quantify biodiesel in a mi…
The illegal exploitation of timber is one, if not the primary, cause of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. As a consequence of this type of criminal activity, it is estimated that approximately 40% of the annual volume of extracted timber, whose source is unknown, is traded in domestic and international markets. Therefore, it becomes essential for both the scientific community and th…
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The sustainability of livestock production requires the intensification of grazing land, but for the decision of how, when and where this intensification should take place depends on the information as to the characterization of forage mass and their effects on variables related to sustainable livestock production developed in Brazil. The goal of this project is to compare at the same tim…
Sugarcane ethanol is an alcohol-based renewable biofuel produced by the fermentation of sugarcane extract and molasses, and Brazil is the world's largest producer of it. Brazil is also the largest producer of sugar; hence, sugarcane agriculture in the country is quite extensive, covering an area of about 10 million ha of arable land and ranking as the third largest crop after corn and soy…
This research work hypothesizes that the conversion of pasturelands to sugarcane fields and the intensification in pastureland management can change the dynamics of P pools, P speciation and the size and type of organic pools in the soil over time. Also, vinasse as an organic residue, can improve the efficiency of soil and fertilizer P used in sugarcane cultivation, by (a) acting as a P s…
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Climatic, geological and pedological factors influence the isotopic composition of the carbon, nitrogen, strontium and sulphur absorbed by trees, making these isotopes natural markers of geographical origin. This research proposes the application of multi-isotopes to determine the geographical provenance of commercial timber in the Amazon region. Isotopic methodology and isoscapes are pro…
Forensic entomology is an important tool in criminal investigations. During the decomposition process, carcasses undergo physical and chemical changes. Necrophagous organisms that feed on those decomposed tissues could reflect such chemical changes. In forensic applications, insect cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) have been used in chemotaxonomic identification, age estimation, and geographi…
Land use changes, especially those which disturb the soil and alter redox reactions, affect directly the phosphorus (P) dynamics and lability for plant uptake in the soil through changes in P losses via runoff or leaching and by changing the proportions of P accumulated in more recalcitrant pools. Since P is highly limited in tropical soils, turnover of organic P and the rapid recycling o…
Anthropic activities cause the increase of pollutants concentrations in the environment. These can interfere in energy and nutrient flow and, consequently, endanger aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Metal pollutants have been caused great concern due to their environmental persistence, toxicity and incorporation capacity in food webs. Mining is an important economic activity in the worl…
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