CV Lattes
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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ) (Institutional affiliation for the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Graduated in Biological Sciences at the State University of Campinas (1983), Master in Plant Biology at UNICAMP (1986), PhD in Plant Biology at UNICAMP (1992) and professor at the University of São Paulo (since 1987). Currently (since 2001) he is Titular Professor of the Biological Sciences Department of ESALQ/University of São Paulo and was Coordinator of the BIOTA Program of FAPESP from 2004 to 2009. He works in the area of Ecology and Forest Restoration and is the coordinator of the Laboratory of Ecology and Forest Restoration (LERF/LCB/ESALQ/USP), now 22 years old (www.lerf.esalq.usp.br), where are available the students graduated from LERF (IC, Ms, DR and PD), their published works and projects completed and in progress. He is currently an advisor at the post-graduation program of the State University of Campinas (Plant Biology) and at the University of São Paulo (programs: Forest Resources and Applied Ecology). He has oriented 96 professionals at Ms, Dr and PD levels. He has published 262 articles in national and international journals and 99 books and book chapters. At LERF he coordinates the Rural Property Environmental and Agricultural Adequacy Program, with 4,250,000 ha of areas in the process of environmental suitability of rural properties in Brazil, mainly Floresta Atlântica e Amazônia, with more than 25,350Ha of restored riparian forests and more than 118,000ha of remaining forests recovered and protected. He was the coordinator of FAPESP's thematic project: "Ecological Restoration of Riparian Forests, Native Forests of Economic Production and Degraded Forest Fragments (in APP and RL), based on the Ecology of Restoration of Reference Ecosystems, aiming to scientifically test the precepts of the New Brazilian Forest Code", where he has more than 40 researchers involved, ranging from senior researchers, PhD students, master's students and scientific initiation students, which is being concluded in April 2020. In recent years (2010-2020) he has been a member of the Special Group of SBPC and ABC, for the improvement of the Brazilian Forest Code under evaluation in the STF, with several incursions in the Federal Chamber, Senate, Federal Executive and STF. He is also a member of the São Paulo State Compensation Chamber and a member of the TFCA Account Committee (use of Brazilian debt resources in biodiversity conservation). He has made an enormous effort in the production of non-academic publications to guide technicians and rural producers to good environmental practices and good public environmental policies, such as: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2ygqm4UOkI, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2tqWyYsrBU, http://www.lerf.eco.br/capa.asp?v=7, https://www.nature.org/media/brasil/manual-restauracao-mt.pdf, https://www.nature.org/media/brasil/cartilha-restauracao-mt.pdf, http://adaptaclima.mma.gov.br/conteudos/227. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This proposal seeks to create a nucleus of analysis and synthesis of nature-based solutions (the BIOTA SYNTHESIS) aimed at solving socio-environmental problems presented by the government of the state of São Paulo, with a focus on demands that have been put forward by the Secretariats of Infrastructure and Environment, Agriculture and Supply, and Health. The research approach is inspired …
Sand mining is an activity that causes undesirable environmental impacts on the soil, fauna and flora, leading to the loss of habitats, biodiversity and various ecosystem services. In the Metropolitan Region of Manaus, the main mining activity is the extraction of sand in Campinaranas from sandy soils. Campinaranas are vegetable portions in the middle of the forest, with typical flora and…
Restoration methods, policies, and supportive market and legal instruments have been developed to promote large-scale restoration in the Atlantic Forest region. To shift the scale of restoration from few thousands to millions of hectares a novel approach is needed. This project aims to explore the potential of restored forests for benefiting people and nature in the Atlantic Forest hotspo…
Dr. Carlo has conducted research on the functional relationship between frugivores (fruit-eating animals that disperse seeds) and plant communities for twenty years. Carlo has developed spatially-explicit models and empirical tests of frugivory and seed dispersal in heterogeneous landscapes. Carlo's work is highly relevant for restoration projects as most seeds in tropical forests are bir…
Professor D Karen D. Holl, from the University of California - USA, has a vast experience in developing long term projects in restoration ecology and in elaborating manuscripts for the international scientific community. She has been acting as a professor in the fields of forest ecology and environmental sciences for almost twenty years and is responsible for tropical forest restoration p…
Ecological restoration has been considered one of the main strategies for combining conservation and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural production in Brazil, although there are still many bottlenecks in that area. In this research proposal, we designed five sections to investigate the challenges for forest restoration in highly-modified landscapes, with the…
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Forest restoration stands out in the mitigation of human impacts on climate, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. However, it is still seen as an uncompetitive land use due to the high associated costs and low direct monetary return, leading to the urgency to boost the forest restoration opportunities, becoming it an environmental and economically attractive activity for multiple stakeho…
The state of São Paulo has a wide diversity of forest typologies, as consequence of the remarkable variation in climate, soil, and topography across its territory. In this context, the comprehension of the contribution of new forests to benefit people and nature rely on the proper identification of the tree species of these forests and on the assessment of their environmental functions in…
The Atlantic Forest has historically been degraded by human action. Such degradation has reduced this biome to small, degraded fragments that make a distinct contribution to biodiversity conservation. In recent decades, for various reasons, the restoration of new forests in the Atlantic Forest, dominated by natural regeneration, has outpaced deforestation. In view of this, the present stu…
The Atlantic Forest in one of the hotspots for biodiversity conservation, and is characterized by extensive landscapes and degraded natural fragments. Efforts and financial resources for the conservation of natural remnants and the restoration of degraded areas are necessary. In this sense, the main objective is to investigate the motivations and factors that led small, medium and large r…
This proposal aims to remedy, 36 years after the first measurement, an urban Semideciduous Seasonal Forest fragment spatially isolated from other fragments for at least 100 years, which has undergone significant changes in its composition and structure over time. The purpose of this remediation is to generate data that will allow the temporal changes (36 years) of structure (basal area an…
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Forest fragments protected as Conservation Units (CU) are essential for the maintenance of biodiversity, for the provision of ecosystem services, and, especially, for forest restoration initiatives, where they can be taken as reference vegetation. However, the monitoring of forest dynamics for almost 40 years of a CU, protected since the 80s, located in the state of São Paulo and belongin…
Agricultural systems are complex social-ecological systems that are managed by landowners to achieve the outcomes of interest, including food production, and other ecosystem services (ES), like soil fertility and water. In Brazil, the restoration of native forest vegetation on a large scale will only be achieved by fostering the effective participation of rural landowners in restoration e…
The accountability of ambitious restoration commitments for the next years requires more attention to the equity and priority of new social and human values and renew relationships with nature. To achieve socio-ecological goals in the 'UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration' (2021-2030), ecological restorationists need to cross intellectual and practical bridges beyond primary research throug…
The associations of organisms with each other and the environment, along with the process of evolutionary adaptation, make the interactions between the physical environment and forest communities not easily elucidated. Due to nature of the ecological data, it is necessary to use a method capable of handling non-linearities and noise. Artificial neural networks (ANN) are able to model data…
Forest restoration intends not only to increase species diversity, but to also restore ecological processes, such as seed dispersal. Therefore forest restoration techniques must involve the selection of plant species that when planted maximize seed dispersal. Few studies have addressed the return of functionality in restored tropical forest sites based on the analysis of plant-frugivore n…
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