bachelor's at Ciências Biológicas from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1975), master's at Ecology from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1980) and doctorate at Ecology from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1987). Has experience in Ecology, focusing on Theorical Ecology, acting on the following subjects: interação inseto-planta, aranhas, chrysomelidae, araneidae and comportamento. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The Japi Mountain was situated between two metropolitan regions (São Paulo and Campinas) and has a protected area as EPA with 19 thousand hectares, with at least 10 thousand hectares of native forest. Several ecological researches have being made during these last 25 years. At December 1992, the municipality of Jundiai city, in convention with UNICAMP (State University of Campinas), it in…
The aim of this project is to inventory the Aracbnida and Myriapoda fauna of the State of São Paulo, within the BIOT A-FAPESP program. This study will be based on an extensive collection program, covering various different areas of the State of São Paulo and other states in the country, for a comparison between different fitogeographic areas and their fauna composition. In addition to São…
Studies on population dynamics address the variation in the number of individuals of a species and biotic factors such as prey availability, abiotic natural enemies and abiotic factors such as temperature and precipitation that affect them. In our study of spider population dynamics, we are using the spider Argiope argentata as a model species, in an anthropized area in the city of Campin…
Studies on population dynamics include the variation in the distribution of organisms in space and time as a function of intrinsic and extrinsic attributes. Orb-weaving spiders are targeted by parasitic wasps of the Polysphincta genus group, which typically maintain species-specific associations and can manipulate the web-building behavior of their hosts. Interactions that deviate from th…
Insect-plant nteractions are dominant in modern's terrestrial ecology. Studying them is extremely important for understanding biodiversity patterns, especially in the tropics where both groups have the greatest biodiversity. Network metrics are useful tools for investigating these patterns and providing answers about the ecological and evolutionary processes that shape these interactions.…
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Insects are the most diverse living beings on the planet, essential for the proper functioning of ecosystems. The co-evolution with the Angiosperms group made this high diversification possible, making it impossible to study the diversity and conservation of these animals without considering the interactions they establish with plants. The Cassidinae subfamily is one of the most diverse o…
Understand the functional significance of animal color patterns is one of the central themes in evolutionary ecologists' research. The order Araneae is widely used in studies on animal coloration given that it is a megadiverse and ubiquitous group, with several coloration patterns. The prey attraction hypothesis predicts that some spider species attract their prey by reflecting ultraviole…
The first case of extended male care in solitary spiders was described to the spider Manogea porracea at the Fazenda Nova Monte Carmelo, Estrela do Sul, MG. Males can remove humidity from egg sacs after raining, repair webs when they are damaged by wind, rain or other stochastic factors, avoiding egg sacs to fall on the ground and to be attacked by predators, and protect offspring against…
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The ability of some sit-and-wait spiders to actively attract their prey due to spectral properties has been attracting the interest of ecologists over the last years. Here we aim to test the prey attraction hypothesis in British spiders using a recently created photographic technique coupled to software programs and packages for image analysis. We will conduct the study in the around of P…
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