Graduate at Biological Scinces - Universidade de São Paulo (1979), Master's in Botany - Universidade de São Paulo (1982), Ph.D Botany - Universidade de São Paulo (1989). Experience in Botany, focusing on Plant Systematics, developing research projects on: 1. floristics and phytogeography of montane vegetation in Minas Gerais and Bahia, Brazil; and 2. systematics, phylogeny, structural evolution, diversification and biogeography of members of the Order Sapindales, mainly Rutaceae and Simaroubaceae. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Herbaria and their components (exsiccates, xylaria, fruit collections, spirit collections and samples preserved in silica gel) play a central role in biological research, providing the basis for studies way beyond Taxonomy, since several areas of science demand high quality data that may be obtained from biological collections. Access to the massive amount of records from herbaria represe…
Regions with high levels of species richness and endemism in the globe have called major attention of scientists for at least two centuries. The Neotropics is the most representative region in these terms, comprising a "giant puzzle" of different heterogeneous environments, each one with a set of endemic species that have arisen as a consequence of both geological and short-time scale dri…
Sapindales are currently considered a monophyletic group, and are part of Eudicots Malvids. This order comprises nine families, ca. 5200 species, 473 genera, mostly occurring in tropical and temperate regions of the world. About 40% of Sapindales species diversity is concentrated in the Neotropical region, where the order is represented by six families (Anacardiaceae, Burseraceae, Meliace…
Asteraceae is a cosmopolitan family of flowering plants showing higher diversity in grasslands, savannas and montane forests. This project aims to study two of its largest genera, Baccharis L., with about 400 species, occurs in grasslands, savannas and upper montane forests, while Mikania Willd., comprising about 450 species, predominates in forests, but is also present in open vegetation…
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The floristic richness in the state of Espírito Santo (ES) is underestimated: many regions are at the beginning of scientific documentation. Since monographs, floras and taxonomic revisions are key resources for the design of conservation and management projects, the "Flora of Espírito Santo" was stablished as a research program which is underway. In the family Rutaceae (order Sapindales)…
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Brazil is home to a great number of species of living organisms and high levels of endemism, notably in the Mata Atlântica domain, recognized as a world biodiversity hotspot. In relation to plants, some groups are particularly rich or almost restricted to that phytogeographical domain, as is the case of the Rutaceae, an angiosperm family with 56 species registered in the Mata Atlântica, a…
Assessing the identity, distribution and use of different plant groups from different environments is essential to fill knowledge gaps and to contribute to the strategic planning of Brazil's biota conservation. Specifically, continuous efforts have documented the use of particular species of native cacaos especially from the second half of the 20th century, followed by the emergence of th…
Speciation is a key evolutionary process that has generated the enormous species richness levels of South America. Modern methods of molecular systematics and genomic data are currently used to generate high-resolution phylogenies, which are essential for the study of speciation patterns and processes. In this sense, novel studies that assess changes decurrent from different speciation mo…
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The "cacao group" is composed by 38 species of Amazonian trees from the genera Theobroma L. and Herrania Goudot (Malvaceae, Byttnerioideae). Both genera gather c. 11,300 thousand specimen collections found at herbaria, and almost half of these samples, i.e., 5,400 (48% of all exsiccates), are found at American collections of New York, Washington DC, Saint Louis and Chicago. Concurrently, …
The Neotropics comprises different heterogeneous environments harboring a set of endemic species that have arisen as consequence of both geological and short-time scale drivers. The tribe Sauvagesieae (Ochnaceae) is one of those groups and its greatest species richness occurs in mountain areas within the region, i.e., along the Brazilian Espinhaço Range, the Amazon-Guyana region, and some…
Mapping biogeographical patterns is essential to understand the evolution and diversification of lineages, especially in currently understudied taxonomic groups, such as the plant family Malvaceae. The family is particularly diverse in the Neotropics, with a high number of species endemic to this region, but currently is unclear if the existing network of protected areas network offers su…
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| 49 / 24 | Completed scholarships in Brazil |
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