CV Lattes
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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
I am an Associate Professor of Tropical Forestry at the Department of Forest Sciences, ?Luiz de Queiroz? College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo (ESALQ / USP), where I coordinate the Laboratory of Tropical Forestry (LASTROP). I?m currently the vice-coordinator of the Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact and am an affiliated member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (2021-2025). I have a degree in Agronomy and a PhD in Sciences from ESALQ /USP. My research and outreach projects aim to develop knowledge and technology to manage and restore tropical forests in an economically viable way and with social inclusion, aiming at balancing the coexistence of these forests with agro-pastoral land uses in human-modified landscapes. I have sought to develop innovative models of forest restoration and commercial production of native species to promote the large-scale recovery of degraded areas and maximize the benefits for biodiversity and human well-being. In 2018 I received the Bunge Award, on Ecosystem Services for Agribusiness. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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In recent decades, Brazil's Atlantic Forest has experienced a dramatic turnaround, from being one of the worlds most endangered biodiversity hotspots to record levels of forest re-growth and almost no new deforestation. However, consolidating these gains requires allowing new forests to mature without being re-cleared. Various interventions from fines to payments for environmental service…
This proposal seeks to create a nucleus of analysis and synthesis of nature-based solutions (the BIOTA SYNTHESIS) aimed at solving socio-environmental problems presented by the government of the state of São Paulo, with a focus on demands that have been put forward by the Secretariats of Infrastructure and Environment, Agriculture and Supply, and Health. The research approach is inspired …
Forest restoration and afforestation with native tree species has therefore recently received a wide international attention as a crucial opportunity for mitigating climate change (CC). Yet, the ongoing increase in biotic and abiotic stress driven by CC puts forests under threat. In the face of CC, adaptation and mitigation by forests are ultimately linked, because the ability of forests …
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Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) has been considered as a primary source to model the structure and function of a forest canopy through the indicators leaf area index (LAI) and vertical canopy profiles of leaf area density (LAD). However, little is known about the effects of the laser pulse density and the grain size (horizontal binning resolution) of the laser point cloud on the estimation …
Ecological restoration has been considered one of the main strategies for combining conservation and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural production in Brazil, although there are still many bottlenecks in that area. In this research proposal, we designed five sections to investigate the challenges for forest restoration in highly-modified landscapes, with the…
Riparian areas currently concentrate most of the efforts of forest restoration in Brazil. Since there are no laws regulating the use of pesticides in these areas, the dilemma to use or not herbicides in riparian forest restoration is present in most projects, especially in those based on Payments for Ecosystem Services schemes regarding the recovery of native vegetation in watersheds of i…
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In a previous part of this work (see TT3 proposal #2), we aimed to analyzed trees and soil attributes of forests undergoing secondary succession. The motivation to do this was to understand more about the potential of natural regeneration in different ecoregions within Brazilian Atlantic Forest (BAF), to use its conduction as a method for large-scale forest restoration. It is very importa…
Tropical forests hold ecosystems of huge wealth in biodiversity and provide a great diversity of ecosystem services critical to human well-being. However, these are regions where deforestation and forest degradation are historically more intense. The Atlantic Forest, for instance, has a great diversity of soils, relief, and vegetation that together generate habitats for unique species. Th…
Forestry and forest restoration are promising activities to mitigate climate change, as forests have a high capacity of sequestering carbon in a short period of time. Mixed tree plantations for sustainable wood production can be a viable, scalable and economically accessible strategy to reconcile economic and environmental benefits, and to reduce the vulnerability of plantations to climat…
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This thematic project aims to generate knowledge in order to improve large-scale forest restoration and monitoring. It is very important to understand how new forests affect people's lives, and to use it as a means to turn population into allies of forest restoration. This work aims to understand how features of vegetation (size, location, quality of new forests) impact ecosystem function…
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The accountability of ambitious forest and landscape restoration pledges rely on the development of cost-effective methods for characterizing and monitoring undergoing restoration. New remote sensing tools, such as lidar and hyperspectral sensors, have demonstrated great potential for achieving these goals, yet the estimation of tree demography and diversity by these technologies is still…
Many studies use small footprint LiDAR technology to estimate canopy structure variables,such as forest height, leaf area vertical profiles and biomass stocks, for use in ecologicalmonitoring and modeling. Thus, it is critical to develop universal approaches to estimate theseforest structural parameters from LiDAR to allow comparison among LiDAR devices, surveysconducted under different c…
In highly deforested agricultural landscapes, second-growth forests are important biodiversity refuges for native species. Similarly, tree plantations may house many native species and provide important environmental services, while providing resources for landowners. Using historical maps to identify second-growth forests with ages from 7-53 years in agricultural landscapes of the Atlant…
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