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 Ciencias Biologicas Bach/Lic from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2007). Has experience in Ecology, focusing on Ecology (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Widespread fragmentation of Amazon tropical forests magnifies the compounding effects of climate change and human disturbances and threatens one of the Earth's most diverse and important ecosystems. Fragmentation causes natural disturbances such as droughts, heat waves, and windthrows to interact in new ways with human-caused changes to land use, climate, fire, and defaunation along vulne…
Anthropogenic pressures, such as habitat conversion and hunting, have led to extinctions of animal species or reductions in their populations, a phenomenon known as defaunation, which is expected to cause cascading effects through the loss or relaxation of ecological interactions. Large-bodied mammals are among the main species affected by defaunation processes, and in the Neotropics, the…
The Amazon Forest has the highest diversity among all biomes and hosts a considerably rich fauna of terrestrial vertebrates. Yet, the accelerated rates of habitat loss and fragmentation and the long history of hunting in certain parts of the Amazon have resulted in high levels of defaunation. Because defaunation is highly selective with large-bodied species often declining first followed …
Deforestation, fragmentation, and climate change are altering the vegetation structure in the Amazon Forest. Such disturbances increase heat and dryness in forests near edges leading to a decrease in canopy height and an increase in canopy openness. The interactions between fragmentation and regional drying/warming also intensify wildfire regimes increasing the threats to forest species a…
Habitat loss and climate changes will shape the future of Amazonian ecosystems, with significant implications for the different facets of diversity. Climate models predict that the highest changes in temperature and reduction in precipitation, as well as longer dry seasons, will take place in Southeast Amazon (SEA) region. Besides environmental changes, this is the region where the Amazon…
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The effects of an ecological interaction can influence other species even if they do not directly interact with any of the species involved. Such indirect effects can profoundly affect community dynamics and ecosystem processes. Due to the complexity generated by the multiple interactions and indirect effects on trophic networks, changes in predator diversity can generate non-linear and u…
Mutualistic interactions such as seed dispersal interactions are considered architects of biodiversity and can serve as tools in management plans for degraded areas. The ecological networks approach to the study of seed dispersal interactions is capable of generating insights into the structure and dynamics of communities, allowing the analysis of various ecological systems and the unders…
Ecological interactions connect populations of different species locally, while dispersal between localities connect populations in the landscape, forming metacommunitites. In a metacommunity, the evolutionary processes and the dispersal dynamics can alter the local patterns of interactions between species over time. Understanding how these eco-evolutionary dynamics and the spacial dynami…
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Human presence is often associated with changes in the dynamics of local biodiversity, and by the late Pleistocene human influence intensified, resulting in extinction events worldwide. Their presence in mammalian trophic networks resulted in direct and indirect effects that might have accelerated mammal faunal turnover. In predator-prey relationships, the level of specialization of the p…
Deforestation in the Amazon extends beyond vegetation loss, leading to forest degradation through increased exposure to fire, extreme climate events, and edge effects. These disturbances elevate tree mortality and disrupt ecological processes such as seed dispersal, compromising forest resilience. Here, I aim to investigate how tree mortality driven by different disturbances-fire, drought…
The rapid destruction of ecosystems driven by human activities is leading to an unprecedented loss of biodiversity. By identifying and projecting areas with a high probability of hosting undiscovered species while also being at significant risk, we can strategically prioritize resources and conservation efforts. Here, we aim to integrate data on the global discovery probability of tetrapo…
Ecological interactions connect different species in a locality, and species dispersal between localities connects populations regionally, forming a metacommunity. In metacommunities, the patterns of interactions and their changes over time are determined by eco-evolutionary processes and spatial dynamics. Understanding how these mechanisms shape interaction patterns is key to preserving …
A recurrent pattern found in the fossil record is the replacement of entire clades by ecologically similar lineages. These phenomena suggest ecological interactions between taxa in different clades may interfere with the evolutionary dynamics of a given lineage. In this project we propose to develop diversification models that include mechanistic components likely to underlie these macroe…
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