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Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Instituto de Biociências (IB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduate at Ciências Biológicas from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1991), master's at Ecology from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1994) and ph.d. at Ecology from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1998). Has experience in Ecology, acting on the following subjects: mata atlantica, interacao animal-planta, dispersao de sementes, aves and frugivoria. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The visit of Dr. Pedro Jordano, one of the most respected ecologists of our time, with key contributions to the understanding of plant-animal interaction networks, seed dispersal ecology and biodiversity, aims to consolidate long-standing collaborations with a fruitful history of scientific production between the research groups involved, now brought together under the aegis of the CEPID …
Tropical forests play a major role in regulating the earth's climate through their effects on water cycles and their immense capacity to sequester and store atmospheric carbon. Because of their global preeminence and the threats they face, understanding the mechanisms governing community assembly, biodiversity, resilience, and emergent ecosystem functions of tropical forests is urgent. Fr…
Understanding the eco-evolutionary dynamics of species interactions requires disentangling intrinsic complexities involved in mutualisms, such as frugivory. Mutual gains are reciprocally crucial: for frugivores the nutritional gain, for plants the dispersal service, which is likely to drive the coupled evolution of interacting clades. The coevolution between vertebrates and plants has bee…
The most of plant diversity in tropical forests are composed of rare species. We question why these species persist at low densities if the coexistence of species is stable and the relative roles of the assembly by the niche versus assembly by dispersion are structuring these communities. We believe that frugivorous birds have great importance in this pattern of distribution of plants. Ou…
Understanding specialization (i.e., the limitation in the number of other species with which a particular species interacts) in plant-animal interactions is a central issue for the comprehension of evolution and maintenance of biotic interactions. Few cases of specialization among frugivorous animals and the fruits they eat are known, but the mechanisms promoting specialization remain elu…
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Increasing human activity and disturbance has led to intense degradation of natural ecosystems, highlighting the urgency of implementing strategies of ecosystem restoration. The applied nucleation technique, which involves tree planting in small patches to attract seed dispersers, has been identified as a cost-effective strategy to accelerate the regeneration of plant communities. However…
Duet is the coordination of songs between two individuals and functions in the defense of territories and the social partner. While the structure and function of duets are known in some animal species, information is still scarce regarding ontogeny, the mechanisms that promote synchronization, and the consequences of the degree of synchronization of duet songs for the fitness of the singe…
Understanding the eco-evolutionary dynamics of species interactions requires disentangling intrinsic complexities involved in mutualisms, such as frugivory. Mutual gains are reciprocally crucial: for frugivores the nutritional gain, for plants the dispersal service, which is likely to drive the coupled evolution of interacting clades. The coevolution between vertebrates and plants has bee…
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Rural and urban environments differ in several aspects with consequences for characteristics related to the behavior and personality of different groups of animals. However, little is known about how much of this behavioral differentiation between rural and urban populations is acquired or inherited, and how these differences can affect complex behaviors, such as the recognition of aposem…
Studies show that the modules commonly observed in networks of mutualistic interactions arise as a result of the correspondence between morphological characteristics of frugivores and plants, such as seed size and the size of the mouth or body mass of the frugivore. However, other relevant characteristics such as diet composition (eg, % fruits and insects in diets) and the dominant nutrie…
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Frugivorous birds play a crucial role in seed dispersal processes; however, their contributions to maintaining functional ecological interactions vary among species. Functional traits of birds such as morphology, physiology, and behavior interact with plant traits to shape the outcomes of mutualistic interactions. This research leverages a large-scale experimental framework to investigate…
Lek-mating systems, where males gather in space to display for females and females select mates and then solely care for their offspring, provide an ideal system for a novel integration of sexual selection and optimal foraging theory. Within these systems, the opportunities for strong sexual selection are possible because of strong variance in male reproductive success - few males actuall…
Specialization (i.e., the limitation in the number of other species with which a particular species interacts) between plants and frugivores are thought to be rare in nature, but we can find many cases of putative specialization scattered in the literature. The mechanisms mediating such interactions are even less known. The objective of this proposal is to produce a review of specializati…
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