CV Lattes
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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
I am a community ecologist interested in advancing our understanding of how biodiversity and large scale metacommunity dynamics persist in the face of environmental change. My most recent ongoing research has focused on investigating how temporal stability propagates from populations to metacommunities and what factors may mediate such spatial scaling. My long-term research goal is to better bridge basic and applied community ecology to improve our predictive ability of freshwater biodiversity dynamics under anthropogenic pressure. I am a tenured professor at the Department of Ecology in the Sa#771;o Paulo State University (UNESP, Brazil). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The unprecedented loss of biodiversity and the imminent threats of climate and environmental changes are among the most important challenges faced by humanity. Biodiversity continues to decline worldwide, mainly in response to urban and agriculture expansion over natural areas. In addition, climate change is projected to commit over one-third of the Earth's animal and plant species to ext…
Temporal variability in environmental conditions is used by organisms to adjust vital activities related to growth, reproduction and production of dormant, resistance stages. However, nature is also subject to unpredictable environmental change, which can generate equally unpredictable responses. In addition, most communities have complex dynamics generated by spatial flows. In this conte…
The study of variation in biotic communities - beta diversity - is highly important in our understanding of biotic homogenization. Despite increasing efforts, patterns in and processes underlying beta diversity are still poorly understood for many ecosystems. Understanding variation in biodiversity cannot be accomplished without regard to anthropogenic disturbance. While many studies have…
Metacommunities with greater connectivity are more resistant to invasion. Invasive species affect the diversity of local communities by intensifying competition and eventually leading species to local extinction. In plant communities, the community's resistance to invasion depends on factors such as the richness of native species and the recruitment of their propagules. Since 1940, the sp…
Over time fire acted as a selective force shaping biodiversity in savannas. Changing fire regimes can modify characteristic phytophysiognomies, which consequently has effects on biodiversity patterns. Management has been using fire as a way to control biological invasions in savannas. In the Brazilian tropical savanna, Cerrado, the invasive species with the greatest negative impacts are A…
The conversion of local and regionally heterogeneous natural systems to agriculture has been leading to a widespread local and regional habitat and fauna homogenization. However, community response to landscape changes is not always immediate (i.e., historical legacy in communities). Moreover, the way the landscape changes happened over time (dynamic of landscape changes) can also represe…
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Environmental change often alters the structure and dynamics of local communities, as well as their spatial structure. Understanding how local communities influence system-wide (metacommunity) properties has become a stimulating area of research, particularly in response to increasing climate variability, widespread anthropogenic disturbance, and global biodiversity losses. Despite import…
Acoustic signals are cues for multiple interactions involving signalers and the destined receivers. Multisource background noise impairs detection, causing deleterious effects on species fitness due to signal interference and confusion. Given the important role in competition and reproduction success, character displacement on acoustic signals can emerge based on the role of background no…
The conversion of native forest to human activities reduces and isolates natural habitats, and is linked to biodiversity loss at multiple-scales. Assemblages' responses to forest loss are complex and not unidirectional as some species are negatively affected by forest loss, while others species are favored by forest reduction. A key issue to investigate the effect of forest loss on assemb…
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