B.Sc. in Biology from University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil (1998-2002), M.Sc. in Remote Sensing from the National Institute for Space Research, Brazil (2003-2004), Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Victoria, Canada (2004-2009), with postdoctoral experience from University of California Santa Barbara (2010) and the National Institute for Space Research (2010-present), funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). Assistant professor at the Geography Department of São Paulo State University (UNESP), Rio Claro campus, from 2013 to 2019. Since Feb/2019, I am a Lecturer in Ecosystem Change and Environmental Informatics at the Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences ofUniversity of Stirling, Scotland. My research seeks to understand the dynamics and functioning of tropical ecosystems, combining geomatics (remote sensing, GIS , spatial analysis), in situ data acquisition and experiments, and statistical and spatial modeling. I am particularly interested in characterizing the influence of spatial and temporal landscape dynamics on ecological and biogeochemical processes, and to understand the possible effects of climate change and human activities on the distribution, structure, diversity and phenology of plant communities in tropical wetlands, grasslands, and forests. On a broader scale, I am specially interested in the interface between Ecology, Geosciences and Computer and Information Sciences, and on the development and application of novel technologies for ecosystem research. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The e-phenology is a multidisciplinary project that explores innovative solutions for plant monitoring in the tropics, combining research in Computer Science, Phenology, and Ecology. On-the-ground phenological observations preclude large areas of study and are laborious and time consuming. Near-surface remote phenology with digital cameras is still area-limited but reduces considerably ma…
We propose a new evolutionary and environmental synthesis of Amazonian biodiversity that will seek to answer 11 key research questions on 4 target-taxa (butterflies, plants, birds, primates): Question 1 asks where biodiversity is distributed in Amazônia. We will develop the most complete georeferenced database to date for Amazonian vascular plants and terrestrial vertebrates and then use …
The reform of Brazilian state initiated in the 1990's redefined the role of the State due to the means of governance and management of its economic and social resources. Changes in the offer of services directly affected as environmental public policies and favored as concessions of use and outsourcing of services become part of the reality of Protected Areas (PAs) due to the absence of f…
We will assess the current distribution of habitats, vegetation, and surface structure (geomorphology) of the Amazon basin, and their relationships to the underlying evolutionary and geologic processes from present to deep time. The research will employ integrated data sets from Earth-orbiting satellites and airborne sensors, to generate complex and innovative ecological datasets. These d…
Predicting the impact of climate change on ecosystems requires understanding how local processes influence diversity across environmental gradients. Explaining diversity patterns has been a central issue in community and ecosystem ecology, and more recently in macroecology. Both biotic and abiotic mechanisms have been shown to explain diversity patterns across gradients, and trait-based …
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Neotropical biodiversity has intrigued scientists over more than a century. Recent advances in molecular techniques and phylogenetic tools are providing new clues for diversification processes in Neotropical Biomes, such as Amazon forests. New phylogenetic evidence suggests Neotropical clade diversification patterns are profoundly influenced by ecology, and geographical effects may be les…
Fire regime is described by a range of important attributes such as fire frequency, intensity, severity, seasonality, size distribution or fire return interval. The complexity of fire shapes have been also identified as a key component of fire regimes, and the fire patch identification from pixel-level information recently emerged as an additional way of providing informative features abo…
Functional traits are defined as any attribute that influences establishment, survival, and individual fitness, being closely coupled to the environment and to biotic interactions. Spatial and temporal variations in resource utilization by plants result in chemical, metabolic, structural, and phenological differences, influencing the optical properties of leaves and canopies. These variat…
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