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Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Biologia (IB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences in 1997 at Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Master's degree (2001) and Ph.D. (2005) in Ecology at Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). He is a Full Professor at Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). He was coordinator of the Graduate Program in Ecology at UNICAMP (2012-2016). He is a Full Member of the Advisory Board of FAEPEX/UNICAMP. He coordinates the Laboratory of Multitrophic Interactions and Biodiversity at UNICAMP. He is currently coordinating a FAPESP Thematic Project on the impacts of climate change and land use on freshwater ecosystems. Visiting researcher at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, CA) (2009), Royal Holloway University of London (UK) (2009-2010 and 2013) and Queen Mary University of London (2016, 2017 and 2019). Coordinator of the 'sCaleWebs' working group at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv, Leipzig) (2018-2022). Coordinating researcher of a project funded by Newton Advanced Fellowships (The Royal Society), at Queen Mary University of London, UK (2018-2021). Researcher member of the Bromeliad Working Group (since 2010), of the Centre For the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity (CESAB, France, 2015-2018) and of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems sub-network of the Brazilian Research Network on Global Climate Change (Rede CLIMA - MCTi). Coordinated a CAPES-DFAIT exchange with Canada (2011-2013). Winner of the first CAPES Thesis Award (Biodiversity). Subject editor of the journal Biotropica (2018-2023). He has been a scientific advisor to FAPESP, CNPq, other Brazilian FAPs, and several funding agencies abroad. He works in several areas of Ecology. Keywords: functioning of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, climate change and land use, food webs, trophic cascades, natural and artificial microcosms, mesocosm experiments, latitudinal and altitudinal gradients, isotopic ecology, meta-analysis and syntheses in ecology, animal-plant interactions. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The transport and flux of resources and energy from donor ecosystems subsidize a huge amount and biomass of consumers from adjacent recipient ecosystems. These allochthonous resources (i.e., derived from different ecosystems) can be represented by nutrients and living organisms. The latter, e.g., the aquatic insects, actively reach adjacent terrestrial ecosystems and are consumed by terre…
Freshwater ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to climate change because (I) many species in these habitats have limited ability to disperse as the environment changes; (II) the temperature and availability of water are climate dependent; and (III) many systems are already exposed to several anthropogenic stressors. The aim of this project is to investigate the effects of global climat…
Subsidies are allochthonous resources that influence interactions in the receipt ecosystem. Subsidies of aquaticorigins benefit terrestrial predators and the food web. However, most studies are based on receipt communityresponses in relatively stable environments, without taking into account disturbances resulting from climate change.For example, the increase of extreme precipitation can …
Species affect on each other in complex ways, and ecological networks - such as food webs - describe how interactions connect species. Although ecological network theory has allowed predictions of how perturbations ricochet between species, it remains limited in several key respects. First, ecological networks are often only considered at small spatial scales, even though metacommunity th…
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Climate change (e.g., warming), along with land use (e.g., deforestation and agriculture), can affect decomposers' community structure in freshwaters, including fungi known as aquatic hyphomycetes (AHs). It is expected that biodiversity changes in fungi communities can accelerate the rates of leaf litter decomposition, an essential function for maintaining freshwater ecosystems. However, …
Interactions between plants and herbivores are among the most important factors shaping the dynamics of plant communities and governing the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Because herbivory results from numerous ecological and evolutionary processes, predicting variation in the amount of biomass consumed by insects over large spatial scales has proven challenging. One of the most t…
The transport and flux of resources and energy from donor ecosystems subsidize a huge amount and biomass of consumers from adjacent recipient ecosystems. These allochthonous resources (i.e., derived from different ecosystems) can be represented by nutrients and living organisms. The latter, e.g., the aquatic insects, actively reach adjacent terrestrial ecosystems and are consumed by terre…
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Camouflage is one of the most widely distributed anti-predatory strategies in nature. It is described in several taxa, from plants to animals, from current and extinct organisms. There are several camouflage strategies, each operating differently on the observer's sensory and cognitive systems. Many camouflage studies report an increase in prey detection and recognition time by predators,…
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Herbivory, including leaf consumption (folivory) and flower consumption (florivory) by insects, plays a crucial role in plant ecology and community structuring. However, significant gaps remain in understanding how environmental factors, such as climate and primary productivity, influence global variation in herbivory. The hypothesis of a latitudinal gradient in herbivory has been widely …
Fungi are key organisms for freshwater ecosystems, playing an important role in the leaf litter decomposition process. Changes in fungi biodiversity and productivity affect litter decomposition rates and contribute to secondary production and higher trophic levels. The role of fungi in neotropical freshwater ecosystems is still understudied, limiting the information regarding fungal respo…
Global changes, such as warming, agriculture, and deforestation, have significantly impacted the structure and functioning of communities in freshwater ecosystems. Ecological networks exhibit various characteristics that offer insights into community structure, but their dynamics are less well understood due to the difficulty in quantifying food webs at multiple time points. Detecting ch…
Anthropogenic activities have promoted changes on Earth climate and land vegetation cover and threatened the stability and maintenance of several Earth ecosystems worldwide. In a global change scenario, freshwater ecosystems are considerably more vulnerable given how environmental disturbances and conditions drive their functioning. Recent studies posit that overall ecosystem stability co…
Neotropical forests contain some of the highest plant and animal diversity of Earth's terrestrial ecosystems. In these forests, tank bromeliads stand out among other epiphytes due to their diversity, abundance, and the water storage capacity of their tanks. It has recently been verified that during rainfall events in a coastal rainforest site, part of the water in their tanks overflows an…
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