CV Lattes
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Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Instituto de Biociências (IB) (Institutional affiliation for the last research proposal) Birthplace: Bélgica
graduation at Ciências Biológicas from Universidade de Liege (2003), master's at Master en biologie des organismes et écologie from Université de Liège (2005) and doctorate at Ciências from Universidade de Liege (2009). Has experience in Ecology, focusing on Ecology, acting on the following subjects: plant-animal interactions, seed dispersal, frugivory, spatial pattern and dung beetles. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The resilience of neotropical primates in anthropogenic landscapes depends on the connectivity among forest patches, their movement capacity in different vegetation structures, and their responses to varying resource availability, competition level, and human impact. For some primate species, such as the endangered Black Lion Tamarin (BLT - Leontopithecus chrysopygus), that are rare and d…
Habitat fragmentation is one of the major threats to biodiversity the impacts of which is usually measured by species richness. However, changes in species richness do not inform about the consequences on ecosystem functioning and other measures, such as functional diversity, are needed. Primates represent between 25 and 40% of tropical frugivore biomass and are considered to play a key r…
Despite more than 30 years of research about the BLT, there are very little empirical information about the group structure and social relationships of the species. Many information is actually inferred from congeneric species for which such information is available. Therefore, it is urgent to obtain field data for the BLT to verify how much they differ or not from their congeners. We thu…
A black lion tamarin group (BLT, Leontopithecus chrysopygus) has been discovered inCarlos Botelho State Park in 2013. Since then, except a monitoring of the group bythe Manaca Institute, no attempt has been conducted to understand the ecology of thespecies in this sub-montane forest, largely differing from the semi-deciduous habitatwhere it is usually found. In addition, in this area, the…
Endozoochorical seed dispersal maintains forest community structure and dynamics, thus being an underpinning process for tropical forest biodiversity. In this scenario, Neotropical primates play a major role by dispersing seeds throughout their home ranges. However, high levels of forest degradation and fragmentation have modified their habitat into fragments of distinct sizes, shapes, an…
Changes in the forest structure due to habitat degradation can shape the connectivity and permeability of arboreal habitat and cause behavioral changes in animals, such as in their movement and activity budget. Ultimately, such behavioral changes can affect their reproduction rate and the survival of individuals. For this reason, understanding the movement patterns and the energy expendit…
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In tropical forests, a domain heavily used and historically destroyed by the human population, frugivorous primates make an important contribution to its regeneration by defecating viable seeds. Their role as seed dispersers is inherently dependent on their movement patterns that directly affect the spatial distribution of dispersed seeds. Many factors, such as fragment size and shape, re…
Movement-related energy expenditure reflects how animals fare in altered habitats. The endangered black lion tamarins (BLT), Leontopithecus chrysopygus, can have their movement affected by changes in forest structure due to fragmentation, being good candidates to study the relation between the forest characteristics and movement-related energy expenditure. In this context, Dynamic Body Ac…
Ecological interactions fuel the coevolution of flowering plants and animals. An assembly of frugivorous species act as mutualists and antagonists for several plant species, and simultaneously with abiotic factors, phylogenetic and developmental constraints, form a web-like system, which is usually described by a network approach. The role of large vertebrates, such as primates, has not b…
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