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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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 role of ecological interactions in shaping diversity patterns over wide time scales is one of the central issues in macroevolution, with a long history of studies and debates. Despite this, the consequences of different types of interactions in the evolutionary dynamics of lineages are still uncertain. In this project, I will seek to elucidate the role that trophic relationships betw…
Predation plays a crucial role in the ecosystem functioning and in the communities' composition. The density regulation functions performed by predators have consequences on lower trophic levels, generating trophic cascades that are disrupted when predators become functionally extinct. Anuran amphibians show an important role in food webs, because they represent a link between terrestrial…
The study of trophic ecology is essential to comprehend the role of a species in the ecosystem and to make predictions concerning its population dynamics. Carnivores play a central role in ecological communities, regulating the populations of prey and other sympatric carnivores through direct and indirect effects. Therefore, information concerning the trophic niche of carnivores is fundam…
Understanding how ecological interactions affect origination and extinction of clades is essential for the understanding of how ecological processes can generate diversification patterns in large scales of time and space. The use of models is a necessary strategy for the study of evolution on the geological scale, mainly due to the limitations of the fossil record. This project aims to de…
Science popularization in developing countries like Brazil faces the consequences of deficient educational systems, because the inherent challenges of communicating complex scientific topics are extrapolated by society's poor understanding of science and its methods. This difficulty of dealing with a deficient educational system is exactly one of the main factors that give urgency to scie…
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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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