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Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Biologia (IB) (Institutional affiliation from 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). Emeritus Professor (2024), Professor of Ecology at Unicamp (retired 2016), currently Senior Research Associate. Senior researcher of the National Institute of Science and Technology (INCT) in Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity Conservation (EECbio, 2015-2014). 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. CNPq Research Fellow since 1994, currently Senior Research Fellow. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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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 measures…
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 their …
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Within a biological community, species interact in antagonistic and mutualistic ways, building complex networks. Nestedness and modularity are common topologies in such networks and, despite being distinct and negatively correlated patterns, several networks show some combination of both. A solution for this seeming paradox is a compound topology, in which patterns predominate at differen…
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 o…
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 const…
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Understanding of how plant-pollinator networks change across environmental gradients is currently limited by heterogeneity in spatial, temporal and taxonomic resolution of field data. Furthermore, new modeling and statistical tools are necessary to quantify the roles of neutral and deterministic factors in driving spatial network change. sINTERVAL (Interaction variation along altitudinal …
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 speciali…
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 relatedn…
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