graduation at Ciencias Biológicas from Universidade de Brasília (1996), master's at Ecology from Universidade de Brasília (1999) and doctorate at Integrative Biology from University Of California Berkeley (2005). Has experience in Ecology, focusing on Ecology, acting on the following subjects: plant available water, ecofisiologia cerrado, cerrado, neotropical savannas and evapotranspiration. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Tropical grassy biomes (TGB), the world's ancient savannas and grasslands support outstanding biodiversity and provide key ecosystem services. Historical misunderstandings of TGB led to ineffective conservation and restoration practices. Upscaling restoration of TGBs requires tailored, evidence-based actions to ensure the effectiveness of restoration projects for biodiversity, ecosystem f…
Several ecosystems worldwide are subjected to droughts with certain frequency, and drought stress is a major driver of ecosystem functioning decreases, productivity losses, and disruptions in the carbon balance. Global climate change might aggravate issues related to drought stress, since more frequent and extreme droughts are expected in the future due to changes in the climate, and we s…
The FAPESP - Shell Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Innovation aims to be a world-class Centre for advanced studies with a focus on innovation towards sustainability and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. The Centre complements Fapesp's experiences in supporting high-level scientific research and technology development towards these fields. It aims to establish a world-class Centre…
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Tropical forestes play a major role in the global water and carbono cycle but understanding how these forests will respond to projected future drier climate remains uncertain. Therefore, unveiling the mechanisms underlying drought resilience remains one of greatest challenges in tropical forest ecology and ecohydrology. The Project aims to synthesize plant physiological and engineering ty…
Terrestrial ecosystems are currently undergoing unprecedented climate and human-induced disturbances, which are likely to push these systems towards changes in their physiognomies, structure, and functioning. It has been hypothesized that these new configurations may be alternative states of systems comprising vegetation-climate-disturbance interactions. The majority of the studies report…
Terrestrial ecosystems are major contributors to the global environment as they control significant exchanges of energy, water and other resources between the atmosphere, land surfaces and belowground. Detailed information on ecosystem function, including internai ecological processes, seasonal dynamics, vulnerability to perturbation and response to climate variability is urgently needed,…
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The increased extreme drought episodes as a result of the ongoing climate change represents a potentially irreversible threat to plant biodiversity loss. As a result of such changes, mass mortality of plant as well as changes in patterns of leaf phenology have been observed. Thus, there is a need to understand what are the internal biological factors that mediate these two phenomena. The …
Restoration initiatives of degraded areas in the Cerrado are essential for recovering biodiversity and various ecosystem services. Restoration processes are closely related to the knowledge and information acquired about the ecosystem intended to be restored. In other words, data on the richness, diversity, and distribution of typical species found in reference ecosystems are essential to…
Peatlands are one of the most relevant ecosystems for global carbon dynamics. They occupy only 3-8% of the earth's surface but store about 21% of all organic carbon in the soil. The maintenance of this stock occurs under anoxic conditions, decreasing the metabolic activity of the main decomposers and increasing the prevalence of methanogenic organisms. In environments that maintain anoxic…
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Future climate projections indicate increased temperature and aridity in regions experiencing seasonal drought and rainfall variability. Understanding plant strategies to adapt to these conditions is crucial. We aim to study tropical plants' drought-related traits using macroevolutionary and macroecological approaches, exploring phylogenetic relationships and environmental influences on d…
Drought events have been increasing in the last years and the tropical and mountain regions are pointed as the most fragile regions to climate change. However, there is a lack of understanding on how species response to extreme droughts. We have manipulated the water availability in an area of rock outcrops field (campos rupestres), a biodiversity hotspot in Brazilian Cerrado Domain. To g…
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