Bachelor's at Agronomy at Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz by Universidade de São Paulo (1984), master's in Agronomy (ESALQ) and doctoral degrees in Science at Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura/USP in 1990 and 1997. He is currently professor at the University of São Paulo. Practice areas: Ecosystem Ecology, Applied Ecology, Functioning of Tropical Ecosystems (especially the Amazon, Atlantic Forest and Pantanal), Tropical Soils and Natural Altered Biogeochemical Cycles (especially carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen), Watersheds and Applications of Radioactive and Stable Isotopes in Environmental Studies and Agroecosystems. Accredited graduate courses: CENA (Chemistry in Environment and Agriculture) and Interunit CENA and ESALQ (Applied Ecology) and in undergraduate courses: Biology, Environmental Management, Agronomy and Forestry of ESALQ. Minister undergraduate disciplines: Ecology of Ecosystems, Isotopic Ecology, Pollution of Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems and Integrated Analysis in Watersheds, and in graduate, Isotopic Ecology. Head of Division of Functioning of Ecosystems and member of the Deliberative and Research Council of the CENA. Member of the coordination of FAPESP's Biology area (2009-2018). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Brazil, as a signatory to global climate agreements, is committed to building and reporting its estimates of atmospheric Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions and removals. Along with the burning of fossil fuels, changes in land use and land cover are the main processes responsible for GHG emissions in Brazil. However, due to the size of our country and the difficulties of generating robust scie…
Fires are increasing in Amazonia, transforming C storage. The evaluation of fire effects has traditionally focussed on aboveground C. However, soil organic carbon (SOC) can store half of total tropical forest C 19 and the impact of fire on existing SOC and the fate of new charcoal (pyrogenic C; PyC) is unknown. SOC loss, transformation and gain may have important implications for the C ba…
According to Caughley (1994), the need for human intervention in the wildlife at the population level has only four alternatives: increase a population that has been depleted, decrease a population that has expanded unduly, achieving the maximum sustainable yield of a population with economic value, or just keep an "eye" in populations that do not fit these categories. It is no coincidenc…
Microorganisms drive the ecosystem processes on which all of life depends, yet we know much less about their biodiversity than we do for plants and animals. Microbial ecology is increasingly sophisticated in estimating the phylogenetic, genetic, and functional dimensions of microbial biodiversity, but integration of these dimensions has proven elusive. This project will combine recent adv…
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 …
Very little is known about the biogeochemistry of micro and meso scale rivers in the amazon region. Even less is known about the possible changes in the biogeochemical cycles resulting from the conversion of pastures to forests, which is the most common land use change in the region. Therefore, the main objective of this proposal is to study and understand how the conversion of forests in…
This subproject in the more specific area Ofherpetology will address the collection of snake specimens, focusing on snakes and their prey of the viperid family (Bothrops and Crotalus), and may eventually collect other snake genres by the pit fall traps method. In Crotalus durissus terrificus, the rattle (rattle) will be used, separated in sequences, where each follow-up presented a distin…
The process of environmental degradation in arid and semi-arid regions has intensified due to anthropic and natural factors. In this context, the semi-arid northeast is inserted, which is configured as a region of high degree of vulnerability and susceptibility to the effects of environmental changes and the desertification process. Thus, this project aims to analyze and evaluate the envi…
This project is guided by the question: "Integration of the methane for the production and consumption functional dimensions will allow us to predict the effect of land use changes to the CH4 cycle?". This proposal aims at evaluating the aspects of the methane production, by measuring the rate of production or methane concentration in the soil. Also, we aim at verifying how this rate/conc…
Despite the great biological importance of the Atlantic Forest, this is finds seriously threatened by human action through, for example, the change in land use, being left about 8% of its original cover. This devastation includes degradation of its water systems which are linked to important processes such as energy transfer and nutrient cycling in the ecosystem. Much of the energy in aqu…
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Data on food web are essential to effective wildlife management, especially in agricultural landscapes. Although it is scarce for most neotropical species, including the threatened maned wolf. Since this charismatic canid is an omnivore predator of several prey species, it could be a key-species on ecological investigations of ecosystems trophic function and services. Therefore, this proj…
In Brazil, 90% of 26 000 snakebites are caused by Bothrops and the species Bothrops atrox predominant in the Brazilian Amazon. The region of Santarem (PA) is associated with 92% of snakebites, of which 20% are considered serious. This high incidence may be related to the floristic diversity of the scenarios in the region, enabling the existence of an amplitude of this genre. Through the u…
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