graduation at Bacharelado em Ciências Biológicas from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2000), graduation at Licenciatura em Ciências Biológicas from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2001), master's at Ecology from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2003) and doctorate at Ecology from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2006). Has experience in Ecology, acting on the following subjects: defesa química, crotalaria, ecolgoia quimica, weeds and garp. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Intersexual selection is a mechanism in which individuals of one gender choose mates of the opposite gender based on morphological, chemical, and behavioral traits. This choice influences the evolution of exaggerated traits in the selected gender, potentially having ecological impacts. Selection may depend on signals of good health, such as resistance to diseases. Recent studies show that…
Although fungi have received little attention compared to other organisms, taxonomists and ecologists have managed to reveal fungal diversity in the Neotropics. A key finding concerns the apparent low diversity of certain guilds, such as the ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi, compared to temperate forests. A number of hypotheses attribute such low diversity of ECM - and lower density of fruitin…
Ecological interactions are central to biodiversity organization, forming ecological networks of interacting species. From an evolutionary point of view, ecological interactions modulate the natural selection due to interacting species. One of the main challenges in evolutionary ecology is to understand how ecological networks affect the outcomes of evolutionary process. An important step…
Mutualisms are ecological interactions that affect and are affected by ecological and evolutionary processes operating at the interacting species. In ecological communities, many types of mutualisms involve dozens of species, forming networks of ecological interactions. In the last two decades, a set of empirical studies revealed fundamental features of the network structure of mutualisti…
Ecological interactions shape fundamental aspects of species evolutionary dynamics. From a theoretical point of view, the evolutionary consequences of ecological interactions have been extensively studied using two-species models. However, in nature, one given ecological interaction is not isolated from other interactions. In a single locality, a vast array of ecological interactions can …
One of the most central questions in evolutionary ecology is to understand how the evolution of species traits is affected by ecological interactions. Currently, a well-developed set of theories is available to describe how ecological interactions, such as mutualisms, mold and are molded by evolution and coevolution. These theories focus on the study of pairwise interactions. We already k…
Intersexual selection is a mechanism in which individuals of one gender choose mates of the opposite gender based on morphological, chemical, and behavioral traits. This choice influences the evolution of exaggerated traits in the selected gender, potentially having ecological impacts. Selection may depend on signals of good health, such as resistance to diseases. Recent studies show that…
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Understanding how the interactions between animals and plants shape traits of animals and plants is a central issue in evolutionary ecology. With this in mind, the general objective of the present work is to investigate how the interactions between frugivorous birds and plants can shape the color of bird's plumage. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to assess this relationship both tod…
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Urban ecosystems can act as an environmental filter that only allows the establishment of species with specific life-history traits. These environmental filters can result in the homogenization of biological diversity. Understanding what traits set apart the animals able to colonize and establish in urban habitats from those who cannot is a crucial step towards understanding how organisms…
How the diversity of forms within species (polymorphism) is maintained in natural communities is one of the major questions in evolutionary biology. In these communities, mutualistic interactions is a strong selective pressure that drives the coevolution and may shape the amount of polymorphisms in populations of species. Polymorphisms are expected to be eroded by mutualistic coevolution,…
Species introductions are a major threat to biodiversity. Even if its impacts on the structure of mutualistic networks are increasingly known, its effects on coevolution between species are still poorly understood. Seed dispersal by animals is a key mutualism as it promotes the regeneration of plant communities, an important process to overcome the impacts of habitat loss and climate chan…
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