CV Lattes
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Biologia (IB) (Institutional affiliation for the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
He has completed the undergraduate course of Biological Sciences in the Universidade de São Paulo (1972) and the PH. D. in Botany (Ecology) in the Universidade de São Paulo (1980). Teacher in the Department of Plant Biology since March/1974, he became Full Professor in 2008. He has developed researches on the ecology of natural plant populations and communities, especially in the Cerrado, Atlantic forest and Caatinga. He retired in December/2018, and has experience in Plant Ecology, acting on the following subjects: community ecology, population ecology, phytogeography. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Structural characteristics of xylem, such as wood density and mechanical strength, are strongly correlated with drought-induced embolism across wood plant species. Lianas play a key role in forest dynamics and ecosystem processes. The relationship between wood and hydraulic traits of lianas and trees in community-level has still been poorly studied in tropical forests. We aim to compare w…
Lianas have a key role in the maintenance of species diversity and processes in the ecosystem, especially in tropical regions, but the role of abiotic and biotic variables in structuring liana communities is not yet known. This project aims to investigate the relative importance of dispersion limitation (floristic similarity decay in function of geographic distance), environmental limitat…
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The structure and size of a tree community may be influenced by biotic and abiotic factors. Disturbances may have great influence on community structure. In plant communities, the death of individuals is one of the most important forms of disturbance. Studying the mortality in a community can provide information on a wide variety of phenomena ranging from structure and composition to dyna…
Studies on phylogenetic structure of communities are leading to a deeper understanding of biogeography, macroecology and evolution of ecosystems and, in Brazil, this new approach has been applied to scientific enquiries relating the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest phytogeographic domains. Caatinga has been historically one of the least studied phytogeographic areas of Brazil. Nevertheless, in…
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This project aims to assess biogeographic patterns in the Caatinga biome. An extensive bibliographic survey was made in order to collect floristic and phytosociological papers made in the Brazilian Caatinga. These surveys will be used for the preparation of the thesis' chapters. The first chapter will address sampling in the Caatinga and methodological subjects, such as sampling effort by…
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