CV Lattes
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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura (CENA) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Bachelor's at Agronomy at Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz by Universidade de São Paulo (1984), master's in Agronomy (ESALQ) and doctoral degrees in Science at Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura/USP in 1990 and 1997. He is currently professor at the University of São Paulo. Practice areas: Ecosystem Ecology, Applied Ecology, Functioning of Tropical Ecosystems (especially the Amazon, Atlantic Forest and Pantanal), Tropical Soils and Natural Altered Biogeochemical Cycles (especially carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen), Watersheds and Applications of Radioactive and Stable Isotopes in Environmental Studies and Agroecosystems. Accredited graduate courses: CENA (Chemistry in Environment and Agriculture) and Interunit CENA and ESALQ (Applied Ecology) and in undergraduate courses: Biology, Environmental Management, Agronomy and Forestry of ESALQ. Minister undergraduate disciplines: Ecology of Ecosystems, Isotopic Ecology, Pollution of Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems and Integrated Analysis in Watersheds, and in graduate, Isotopic Ecology. Head of Division of Functioning of Ecosystems and member of the Deliberative and Research Council of the CENA. Member of the coordination of FAPESP's Biology area (2009-2018). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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São Paulo stands as one of the world's largest megacities, boasting a population exceeding 12 million inhabitants. However, the city's haphazard growth in recent decades has led to significant social, economic, and environmental challenges, rendering it particularly susceptible to the impacts of global climate change. Urban forestry emerges as a key factor in enhancing cities' resilience …
Fires are increasing in Amazonia, transforming C storage. The evaluation of fire effects has traditionally focussed on aboveground C. However, soil organic carbon (SOC) can store half of total tropical forest C 19 and the impact of fire on existing SOC and the fate of new charcoal (pyrogenic C; PyC) is unknown. SOC loss, transformation and gain may have important implications for the C ba…
Brazil, as a signatory to global climate agreements, is committed to building and reporting its estimates of atmospheric Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions and removals. Along with the burning of fossil fuels, changes in land use and land cover are the main processes responsible for GHG emissions in Brazil. However, due to the size of our country and the difficulties of generating robust scie…
According to Caughley (1994), the need for human intervention in the wildlife at the population level has only four alternatives: increase a population that has been depleted, decrease a population that has expanded unduly, achieving the maximum sustainable yield of a population with economic value, or just keep an "eye" in populations that do not fit these categories. It is no coincidenc…
Microorganisms drive the ecosystem processes on which all of life depends, yet we know much less about their biodiversity than we do for plants and animals. Microbial ecology is increasingly sophisticated in estimating the phylogenetic, genetic, and functional dimensions of microbial biodiversity, but integration of these dimensions has proven elusive. This project will combine recent adv…
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This research aims to construct ecosystem services and resilience curves in tree species in the city of São Paulo by monitoring key physiological processes and characterizing environmental conditions. To construct the curves, primary physiology data will be obtained, such as: growth and carbon accumulation through dendometry; promotion of thermal comfort through measurements of sap flow, …
In the Amazon, land use change impacts extend beyond converted agricultural landscapes. Human disruption severely affects the regional water cycle, worsening climate extremes like prolonged droughts. Evident in the deforestation arc (Cerrado-Amazon transition) amidst agricultural frontier expansion, this process is degrading nearby primary forests, heightening forest flammability, and inc…
To create the geo-spatial database these project will first compile the data on SOC and its fractions produced by the project and from the literature review. As climatic, topographic, fire regime, biomass, land cover and soil characteristics vary across Amazonian regions and this variation can be reflected in the region's SOC patterns, the project will additionally compile continuous spat…
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This subproject in the more specific area Ofherpetology will address the collection of snake specimens, focusing on snakes and their prey of the viperid family (Bothrops and Crotalus), and may eventually collect other snake genres by the pit fall traps method. In Crotalus durissus terrificus, the rattle (rattle) will be used, separated in sequences, where each follow-up presented a distin…
This project is guided by the question: "Integration of the methane for the production and consumption functional dimensions will allow us to predict the effect of land use changes to the CH4 cycle?". This proposal aims at evaluating the aspects of the methane production, by measuring the rate of production or methane concentration in the soil. Also, we aim at verifying how this rate/conc…
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Data on food web are essential to effective wildlife management, especially in agricultural landscapes. Although it is scarce for most neotropical species, including the threatened maned wolf. Since this charismatic canid is an omnivore predator of several prey species, it could be a key-species on ecological investigations of ecosystems trophic function and services. Therefore, this proj…
In Brazil, 90% of 26 000 snakebites are caused by Bothrops and the species Bothrops atrox predominant in the Brazilian Amazon. The region of Santarem (PA) is associated with 92% of snakebites, of which 20% are considered serious. This high incidence may be related to the floristic diversity of the scenarios in the region, enabling the existence of an amplitude of this genre. Through the u…
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