CV Lattes
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Biologia (IB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduate at Ciências Biológicas from Universidade de São Paulo (1970), master's at Botany from Universidade de São Paulo (1974) and ph.d. at Botany from Universidade de São Paulo (1978). Has experience in Botany, acting on the following subjects: polinização, beija-flores, mata atlantica, abelhas and biologia da polinização. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The research about pollination mutualisms started in Brazil in the XIX century, with Fritz Müller and its correspondences with Charles Darwin. Worldwide, only in the 1950s such research field developed studies with natural systems in a deeper ecological and evolutionary context. In Brazil, the research field re-initiated in the 1960 and 1970 decades, and is being developed in many researc…
The research field of Pollination and Floral Biology starts in Brazil in the XIX century with great names of the evolutionary theory such as Fritz and Hermann Müller and also Charles Darwin. However such research field started the study of natural system in deeper ecological and evolutionary context only in 1950 with the works of Stefan Vogel, Leendert van der Pijl and Knut Faegri. In Bra…
This proposal aims to invite and support the visit of Dr. Nickolas Waser to Brazil. Dr. Waser is a Professor at both, The University of Arizona and The University of California - Riverside and also a researcher at The Rocky Mountain Laboratory. Part of this project is funded by Unicamp by providing the visit of Dr. Mary Price at the same time. Waser and Price have been working together si…
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Floral and pollinator traits have an important role structuring plant-pollinator interactions at the community level, via 1) phenotypic complementarity or when legitimate interactions are restricted through 2) exploitation barriers. However, the relative importance of this dual role has been overlooked. Since pollination may be crucial for plant populations, the floral traits can influenc…
Mutualistic interactions are fundamental component of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, and our understanding of these interactions at the community level has greatly advanced due increasing use of complex network approaches. Studies have revealed some consistent patterns on the organization of the "web of life", and network structural properties are suggested to have strong implica…
Heinrich's hypothesis, from 1975, says that the more dissimilar are the non-rewarding flowers, the longer it should take pollinators to avoid the species. Reproductive biology studies in orchids tested this hypothesis, by comparing the fruit production in populations with and without floral polymorphism. However, few are the studies that take in account the floral visitors cognitive proce…
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Pollen limitation of plant reproduction occurs when seed set is reduced due to limited pollination quantity and/or quality. Community-wide studies are a promising approach to identify ecological and evolutionary drivers of pollen limitation, although rarely conducted. Moreover, each plant species may modify the pollination service of shared pollinators, influencing pollen limitation. This…
Many cases of flower polymorphism have been described for orchid species pollinated trough generalized food deception. The high variability in floral cues in deceptive systems has been interpreted as a mechanism disrupting the avoidance learning of pollinators. Several studies have tried to understand the role of color polymorphism in food deception, but experimental studies focusing on h…
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