Thomas Michael Lewinsohn
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Biologia (IB) (Institutional affiliation for the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
B.Sc. in Biology (Ecology Major) from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1975), M.Sc. in Ecology (1980) and PhD in Ecology from UNICAMP, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1988). Full Professor of Ecology at Unicamp (retired 2016). Fellow of the Wissenschafts-Kolleg zu Berlin, 2018-2019, with Fellowship from EURIAS (European Network of Institutes of Advanced Studies). Resident fellow, Bellagio Center, Rockefeller Foundation, 2014. Research focuses on Community Ecology, biodiversity, and conservation policies, with both theoretical and comparative or experimental field studies on plant-insect interactions. Present and past consultant for many Brazilian and overseas funding agencies and organisms, including CNPq, Fapesp, European Science Foundation, UNEP and GEF/World Bank. Ad-hoc reviewer for more than 20 journals, including Science and Nature. Past president of the Brazilian Association for Ecological Science and Conservation (ABECO), 2008-2013. President of the 2nd Meeting of the Brazilian Association of Ecology, 2018. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
| Articles published in other media outlets (3 total): |
| BOL: Em tempos de covid-19, como a reação das autoridades fomenta a ansiedade (20/Mar/2020) |
| UOL: Em tempos de covid-19, como a reação das autoridades fomenta a ansiedade (20/Mar/2020) |
| Central das Notícias: Em tempos de covid-19, como a reação das autoridades fomenta a ansiedade (20/Mar/2020) |
- Genetic diversity and interaction structure of insects and plants, AP.R
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This proposal comprises two subprojects. Subproject 1, "Trophic specialization and genetic diversity of phytophagous insects", aims at evaluating how the genetic diversity of herbivorous insects is influenced by their trophic specialization and geographic extent. Microsatellite markers will be used to amplify specific regions of the herbivores' DNA, which will be used to compute measur...
- New approaches to host specificity analysis in the communities of tropical herbivores, AV.EXT
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Vojtech Novotny is Head of the Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and Professor of Ecology in the University of South Bohemia. He also directs the New Guinea Binatang Research Center in Papua New Guinea, where he leads a large team that investigates herbivorous insects and their interactions with host plants. In 20 years thei...
- Advances in ecological frameworks- towards process-oriented conservation and management, AO.R
- Networks in Ecology: Theory, Methods and Applications | Campinas - SP, AO.R.ESPCA
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The School explored conceptual bases, methods of analysis and complex network theory applications in ecology. Graphic interactions networks have always been one of the central problems in ecology, and its recent momentum gained with study the theory of complex networks. Currently, this is one of the most active areas of research in Ecology. Among the many fields of application of the th...
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- Trophic specialization and genetic structure in phytophagous insects, BP.DR
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Ecological specialization is a key promoter of speciation. Specialization influences genetic diversity, and hence contributes to the organization and differentiation of terrestrial communities. The investigation of how the ecological specialization of phytophagous insects shape their genetic diversity within and among host plants along their geographic range contributes to elucidate one...
- Diversification and trophic specialization in phytophagous insects, BP.PD
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Trophic specialization is among the most important concepts in ecological theory. By measuring the range of food resources, it is intimately related to the diversity of species and interactions in communities. Advances in ecophylogenetics and interaction networks provided a new toolset to the study of communities, although without integrating ecological interactions and phylogenetic con...
- Integrating alpha and beta diversity models with phylogenetic and functional diversity to select priority areas to protect terrestrial arthropods in Brazilian restingas, BP.PD
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The identification of protected areas with high conservation priority in order to halt biodiversity loss has been one of the greatest challenges to Conservation Biology. Hitherto, species richness and endemism, as well as political circumstances, have been the main criteria used to select areas to be preserved. However, this strategy does not ensure that a large part of functional diver...
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- Guilds and functional traits as drivers of trophic specialization in tropical herbivores, BE.EP.PD
Abstract
Host-plants are the key niche dimension for herbivore insects. Guilds of herbivores feed on different plant parts and acquire resources in varying ways. Herbivore and plant traits, as well as guild membership, may influence the specialization of herbivores. We will use a new phylogenetically controlled specialization metric to address the following questions in two papers: 1) How specia...
- Analysis of reef fish community structure of Atlantic Ocean, BE.EP.MS
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Communities assemblage may be influenced by ecological or evolutionary processes or stochastic events. In order to detect the relative contribution of each of these processes on the structure of Atlantic reef fish communities, the master project (2011/15086-2), to which this proposal is linked, focuses on investigating the species' distribution patterns regarding its phylogenetic relate...
| 1 / 1 | Ongoing research grants |
| 8 / 4 | Completed research grants |
| 23 / 10 | Completed scholarships in Brazil |
| 2 / 2 | Completed scholarships abroad |
| 34 / 17 | All research grants and scholarships |
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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)
| Publications | 25 |
| Citations | 632 |
| Cit./Article | 25.3 |
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ALMEIDA-NETO, MARIO; PRADO, PAULO I.; KUBOTA, UMBERTO; BARIANI, JOICE M.; AGUIRRE, GUILHERME H.; LEWINSOHN, THOMAS M.. Invasive grasses and native Asteraceae in the Brazilian Cerrado. PLANT ECOLOGY, v. 209, n. 1, p. 109-122, JUL 2010. Web of Science Citations: 24. (98/05085-2)
LEWINSOHN, THOMAS M.; FREITAS, ANDRÉ VICTOR LUCCI; PRADO, PAULO INÁCIO. Conservation of terrestrial invertebrates and their habitats in Brazil. Conservation Biology, v. 19, n. 3, p. 640-645, June 2005. (98/05101-8, 00/01484-1, 98/05085-2, 02/08558-6)
ALMEIDA, ADRIANA M.; PRADO, PAULO I.; LEWINSOHN, THOMAS M.. Geographical distribution of Eupatorieae (Asteraceae) in South-eastern and South Brazilian Mountain Ranges. Plant Ecology, v. 174, n. 1, p. 163-181, May 2004. (98/05085-2)
TRIGO, JOSÉ ROBERTO; LEAL, INARA ROBERTA; MATZENBACHER, NELSON IVO; LEWINSOHN, THOMAS MICHAEL. Chemotaxonomic value of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in southern Brazil Senecio (Senecioneae: Asteraceae). Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, v. 31, n. 9, p. 1011-1022, Sept. 2003. (98/05085-2)
ABREU, A. G.; SOLFERINI, V. N.. Genetic population structure and hybridization in two sibling species, Tomoplagia reticulata and Tomoplagia pallens (Diptera: Tephritidae). Genetics and Molecular Research, v. 7, n. 4, p. 1298-1311, 2008. Web of Science Citations: 1. (98/05085-2)
DIAS, ANDRE T. C.; TRIGO, JOSE ROBERTO; LEWINSOHN, THOMAS M.. Bottom-up effects on a plant-endophage-parasitoid system: The role of flower-head size and chemistry. AUSTRAL ECOLOGY, v. 35, n. 1, p. 104-115, FEB 2010. Web of Science Citations: 6. (98/05085-2)
ABREU‚ A.G.; PRADO‚ P.I.; NORRBOM‚ A.L.; SOLFERINI‚ V.N.. Genetic and morphological diagnosis and description of two cryptic species of flower head-infesting Tephritidae (Diptera). Insect Systematics and Evolution, v. 36, n. 4, p. 361-370, 2005. (98/05085-2)
MARINA R. BRAUN; MÁRIO ALMEIDA-NETO; RAFAEL D. LOYOLA; ANGELO P. PRADO; THOMAS M. LEWINSOHN. New host-plant records for neotropical agromyzids (Diptera: Agromyzidae) from Asteraceae flower heads. Neotropical Entomology, v. 37, n. 1, p. 97-99, Fev. 2008. (03/02548-1)
SEMIR‚ J.; JESUS‚ F.F.. A New Species of Minasia (Asteraceae‚ Vernonieae) from the Planalto de Diamantina‚ Minas Gerais‚ Brazil. NOVON, p. 233-235, 2004. (98/05085-2)
GROMBONE-GUARATINI‚ M.T.; SEMIR‚ J.; SOLFERINI‚ V.N.. Low allozymic variation in the Bidens pilosa L. complex (Asteraceae). BIOCHEMICAL GENETICS, v. 43, n. 7, p. 335-345, 2005. (98/05085-2, 99/05493-6)
DIAS, ANDRE T. C.; TRIGO, JOSE ROBERTO; LEWINSOHN, THOMAS M.. Bottom-up effects on a plant-endophage-parasitoid system: The role of flower-head size and chemistry. AUSTRAL ECOLOGY, v. 35, n. 1, p. 104-115, FEB 2010. Web of Science Citations: 6. (98/05085-2)
LOYOLA‚ R.D.; OLIVEIRA-SANTOS‚ L.G.R.; ALMEIDA-NETO‚ M.; NOGUEIRA‚ D.M.; KUBOTA‚ U.; DINIZ-FILHO‚ J.A.F.; LEWINSOHN‚ T.M.. Integrating economic costs and biological traits into global conservation priorities for carnivores. PLoS One, v. 4, n. 8, p. e6807, 2009.
ALMEIDA-NETO, MARIO; PRADO, PAULO I.; LEWINSOHN, THOMAS M.. Phytophagous insect fauna tracks host plant responses to exotic grass invasion. Oecologia, v. 165, n. 4, p. 1051-1062, APR 2011. Web of Science Citations: 18. (98/05085-2)
MARINA R. BRAUN; MÁRIO ALMEIDA-NETO; RAFAEL D. LOYOLA; ANGELO P. PRADO; THOMAS M. LEWINSOHN. New host-plant records for neotropical agromyzids (Diptera: Agromyzidae) from Asteraceae flower heads. Neotropical Entomology, v. 37, n. 1, p. 97-99, Fev. 2008. (03/02548-1)
ALMEIDA-NETO‚ M.; GUIMARAES‚ P.; GUIMARAES JR‚ P.R.; LOYOLA‚ R.D.; ULRICH‚ W.. A consistent metric for nestedness analysis in ecological systems: reconciling concept and measurement. OIKOS, v. 117, n. 8, p. 1227-1239, 2008. (06/04682-5)
PERRE, P.; FARIA, F. A.; JORGE, L. R.; ROCHA, A.; TORRES, R. S.; SOUZA-FILHO, M. F.; LEWINSOHN, T. M.; ZUCCHI, R. A.. Toward an Automated Identification of Anastrepha Fruit Flies in the fraterculus group (Diptera, Tephritidae). Neotropical Entomology, v. 45, n. 5, p. 554-558, OCT 2016. Web of Science Citations: 4. (14/16082-9)
JORGE, LEONARDO R.; PRADO, PAULO I.; ALMEIDA-NETO, MARIO; LEWINSOHN, THOMAS M.. An integrated framework to improve the concept of resource specialisation. ECOLOGY LETTERS, v. 17, n. 11, p. 1341-1350, NOV 2014. Web of Science Citations: 17. (98/05085-2)
MARTINS, LUCAS PEREIRA; MEDINA, ANDERSON MATOS; LEWINSOHN, THOMAS M.; ALMEIDA-NETO, MARIO. The effect of species composition dissimilarity on plant-herbivore network structure is not consistent over time. Biotropica, v. 52, n. 4, APR 2020. Web of Science Citations: 0.
MARTINS, LUCAS PEREIRA; MEDINA, ANDERSON MATOS; LEWINSOHN, THOMAS M.; ALMEIDA-NETO, MARIO. Trophic level and host specialisation affect beta-diversity in plant-herbivore-parasitoid assemblages. Insect Conservation and Diversity, v. 12, n. 5, p. 404-413, SEP 2019. Web of Science Citations: 0.
LOYOLA, RAFAEL D.; DE OLIVEIRA, GUILHERME; DINIZ-FILHO, JOSE ALEXANDRE FELIZOLA; LEWINSOHN, THOMAS M.. Conservation of Neotropical carnivores under different prioritization scenarios: mapping species traits to minimize conservation conflicts. DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS, v. 14, n. 6, p. 949-960, NOV 2008. Web of Science Citations: 28.
ALMEIDA, ADRIANA MONTEIRO DE; FONSECA, CARLOS ROBERTO; PRADO, PAULO INÁCIO; ALMEIDA-NETO, MÁRIO; DINIZ, SORAIA; KUBOTA, UMBERTO; BRAUN, MARINA REITER; RAIMUNDO, RAFAEL L. GALDINI; ANJOS, LUCIANO ALVES DOS; MENDONÇA, TEHRA GOMES; et al. Diversidade e ocorrência de Asteraceae em cerrados de São Paulo. Biota Neotropica, v. 5, n. 2, p. 1-17, 2005. (98/05085-2)
LEWINSOHN, THOMAS M.; PRADO, PAULO INÁCIO; JORDANO, PEDRO; BASCOMPTE, JORDI; OLESEN, JENS M.. Structure in plant-animal interaction assemblages. OIKOS, v. 113, n. 1, p. 174-184, 2006. (98/05085-2)
FONSECA, CARLOS ROBERTO; PRADO, PAULO I.; ALMEIDA-NETO, MÁRIO; KUBOTA, UMBERTO; LEWINSOHN, THOMAS M.. Flower-heads, herbivores, and their parasitoids: food web structure along a fertility gradient. Ecological Entomology, v. 30, n. 4, p. 36-46, Jan. 2005. (98/05085-2)
ALMEIDA-NETO, MÁRIO; LEWINSOHN, THOMAS M.. Small-scale spatial autocorrelation and the interpretation of relationships between phenological parameters. Journal of Vegetation Science, v. 15, n. 4, p. 437-582, Aug. 2004. (98/05085-2)
JESUS, FLAVIA F.; ABREU, ALUANA G.; SEMIR, JOAO; SOLFERINI, VERA N.. Low genetic diversity but local genetic differentiation in endemic Minasia (Asteraceae) species from Brazil. PLANT SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION, v. 277, n. 3-4, p. 187-196, FEB 2009. Web of Science Citations: 8. (98/05085-2)
ULRICH, WERNER; ALMEIDA-NETO, MARIO; GOTELLI, NICHOLAS J.. A consumer's guide to nestedness analysis. OIKOS, v. 118, n. 1, p. 3-17, JAN 2009. Web of Science Citations: 395.
PERRE, PAULA; LOYOLA, RAFAEL D.; LEWINSOHN, THOMAS M.; ALMEIDA-NETO, MARIO. Insects on urban plants: contrasting the flower head feeding assemblages on native and exotic hosts. URBAN ECOSYSTEMS, v. 14, n. 4, p. 711-722, NOV 2011. Web of Science Citations: 16.
RAIMUNDO‚ R.L.G.; FONSECA‚ R.L.; SCHACHETTI-PEREIRA‚ R.; TOWNSEND PETERSON‚ A.; LEWINSOHN‚ T.M.. Native and exotic distributions of siamweed (Chromolaena odorata) modeled using the genetic algorithm for rule-set production. WEED SCIENCE, v. 55, n. 1, p. 41-48, 2007. (98/05085-2)
NOBRE, PAOLA A. F.; BERGAMINI, LEONARDO L.; LEWINSOHN, THOMAS M.; JORGE, LEONARDO R.; ALMEIDA-NETO, MARIO. Host-Plant Specialization Mediates the Influence of Plant Abundance on Host Use by Flower Head-Feeding Insects. ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY, v. 45, n. 1, p. 171-177, FEB 2016. Web of Science Citations: 0. (98/05085-2)
NASCIMENTO, ANDRE R.; ALMEIDA-NETO, MARIO; ALMEIDA, ADRIANA M.; FONSECA, CARLOS R.; LEWINSOHN, THOMAS M.; PENTEADO-DIAS, ANGELICA. Disentangling the influence of plants and herbivores on the local diversity of parasitoids in the Brazilian Cerrado. Insect Conservation and Diversity, v. 8, n. 4, p. 313-321, JUL 2015. Web of Science Citations: 2. (98/05085-2)
LOYOLA, RAFAEL D.; KUBOTA, UMBERTO; DA FONSECA, GUSTAVO A. B.; LEWINSOHN, THOMAS M.. Key Neotropical ecoregions for conservation of terrestrial vertebrates. BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION, v. 18, n. 8, p. 2017-2031, JUL 2009. Web of Science Citations: 29.
NOBRE, PAOLA A. F.; BERGAMINI, LEONARDO L.; LEWINSOHN, THOMAS M.; JORGE, LEONARDO R.; ALMEIDA-NETO, MARIO. Host-Plant Specialization Mediates the Influence of Plant Abundance on Host Use by Flower Head-Feeding Insects. ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY, v. 45, n. 1, p. 171-177, FEB 2016. Web of Science Citations: 0. (98/05085-2)
NASCIMENTO, ANDRE R.; ALMEIDA-NETO, MARIO; ALMEIDA, ADRIANA M.; FONSECA, CARLOS R.; LEWINSOHN, THOMAS M.; PENTEADO-DIAS, ANGELICA. Disentangling the influence of plants and herbivores on the local diversity of parasitoids in the Brazilian Cerrado. Insect Conservation and Diversity, v. 8, n. 4, p. 313-321, JUL 2015. Web of Science Citations: 2. (98/05085-2)
JORGE, LEONARDO R.; NOVOTNY, VOJTECH; SEGAR, SIMON T.; WEIBLEN, GEORGE D.; MILLER, SCOTT E.; BASSET, YVES; LEWINSOHN, THOMAS M.. Phylogenetic trophic specialization: a robust comparison of herbivorous guilds. Oecologia, v. 185, n. 4, p. 551-559, DEC 2017. Web of Science Citations: 3. (14/16006-0, 14/16082-9)
SANZ-VEIGA, PRISCILA ANDRE; JORGE, LEONARDO RE; BENITEZ-VIEYRA, SANTIAGO; AMORIM, FELIPE W.. Pericarpial nectary-visiting ants do not provide fruit protection against pre-dispersal seed predators regardless of ant species composition and resource availability. PLoS One, v. 12, n. 12, DEC 6 2017. Web of Science Citations: 3. (14/16082-9)
BRAUN, MARINA REITER; DO PRADO, ANGELO PIRES; LEWINSOHN, THOMAS MICHAEL. New species of Neotropical Melanagromyza Hendel (Diptera: Agromyzidae) from Asteraceae flower heads. Zootaxa, n. 2279, p. 51-59, NOV 2 2009. Web of Science Citations: 2.
PIZO, MARCO AURELIO; ALMEIDA-NETO, MARIO. Determinants of fruit removal in Geonoma pauciflora, an understory palm of neotropical forests. ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH, v. 24, n. 6, p. 1179-1186, NOV 2009. Web of Science Citations: 9.
LOYOLA, RAFAEL DIAS; BECKER, CARLOS GUILHERME; KUBOTA, UMBERTO; BAPTISTA HADDAD, CELIO FERNANDO; FONSECA, CARLOS ROBERTO; LEWINSOHN, THOMAS MICHAEL. Hung Out to Dry: Choice of Priority Ecoregions for Conserving Threatened Neotropical Anurans Depends on Life-History Traits. PLoS One, v. 3, n. 5, p. e2120, 2008. Web of Science Citations: 40.
ALMEIDA-NETO‚ M.; R GUIMARÃES JR‚ P.; M LEWINSOHN‚ T.. On nestedness analyses: rethinking matrix temperature and anti-nestedness. OIKOS, v. 116, n. 4, p. 716-722, 2007. (03/02548-1)
LEWINSOHN‚ T.M.; ROSLIN‚ T.. Four ways towards tropical herbivore megadiversity. ECOLOGY LETTERS, v. 11, n. 4, p. 398-416, 2008.
ARAUJO, SABRINA B. L.; BORGES, MARCELO EDUARDO; VON HARTENTHAL, FRANCISCO W.; JORGE, LEONARDO R.; LEWINSOHN, THOMAS M.; GUIMARAES JR, PAULO R.; VAN BAALEN, MINUS. Coevolutionary patterns caused by prey selection. Journal of Theoretical Biology, v. 501, SEP 21 2020. Web of Science Citations: 0. (14/16082-9, 10/51395-7)
CORSO, GILBERTO; FERREIRA, GABRIEL M. F.; LEWINSOHN, THOMAS M.. Mutual Information as a General Measure of Structure in Interaction Networks. Entropy, v. 22, n. 5, MAY 2020. Web of Science Citations: 0. (16/24821-1)
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HACHICH, Nayara Fernanda. Estrutura espacial da biodiversidade de organismos recifais no Oceano Atlântico. Dissertação (Mestrado) - Instituto de Biologia. Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). (11/15086-2)
NETO, Mário Almeida. Efeito da degradação de habitat sobre a estrutura de interações entre plantas e insetos fitófagos. 167 f. Tese (Doutorado) - Instituto de Biologia. Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas. (03/02548-1)
DIAS, André Tavares Corrêa. Efeito da disponibilidade de recursos em um sistema com três níveis tróficos. 63 f. Dissertação (Mestrado) - Instituto de Biologia. Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas. (01/00851-3)
KUBOTA, Umberto. Fenologia da comunidade de Asteraceae, variação temporal e determinantes locais de riqueza de insetos endófagos de capítulos. 75 f. Dissertação (Mestrado) - Instituto de Biologia. Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas. (01/00852-0)
JORGE, Leonardo Ré. Reformulation of the concept of trophic specialization and its application to species and communities. Tese (Doutorado) - Instituto de Biologia. Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). (09/54806-0)