He holds a degree in Agronomy from UNHEVAL (1977), a Masters in Agricultural Production from UNALM (1988), and a Ph.D. in Plant Physiology from the Federal University of Viçosa (1994), with a scholarship from the Latin American Botany Network. He is currently an Associate Professor MS-5 (3) at the University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto Campus (USP / RP). He works in the area of Plant Physiology and Crop Physiology, mainly on the following topics: Ecophysiology of photosynthesis and carbon sequestration; Physiology of plants under abiotic stress; Plant physiology in response to climate change; Photosynthesis and productivity of tropical and subtropical plants. Pioneer in Brazil in the use of Open Top Chambers (OTC), Free-air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment (FACE), and Temperature Free-air Controlled Enhancement (T-FACE) systems to study plant responses in future climate simulation. Research on abiotic stress aims at the physiological and biochemical characterization of genetic variability and resistance mechanisms of plants to light, water, oxidative, saline, and thermal stress. Research on the biological impact of global environmental change aims to elucidate the effects of increased CO2, temperature, and water restriction on the physiology and productivity of cultivated plants, pastures, and forest species, in a future climate simulation. Ad hoc consultant for FAPESP, CNPq, FAPEMIG, FAPESB, The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, and scientific revisor for several national and international journals. He was the Coordinator of the Biological Sciences Course at USP / RP, leading the process of reformulating the Course. He was President of the FFCLRP Graduation Committee and a Member of the USP Graduation Council. Member of the Brazilian Society of Plant Physiology, American Society of Plant Biologists, and the International Society of Photosynthesis Research. He was President of the São Paulo Botanical Society. He coordinated the thematic project in the FAPESP Research Program on Global Climate Change. He coordinated a project on climate change financed by CNPq / ANA / CAPES. It maintains research collaboration with several Brazilian institutions and international collaboration with the University of Illinois, Campus Urbana (UIUC); University of Illinois, Campus Chicago (UIC); University of Columbia, New York; United States Department of Agriculture, USA; University of Barcelona; Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain; Instituto di Biometeorologia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Climate change and its effects are the biggest environmental challenges we face today. More frequent and more intense extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, and heat waves that significantly impact food production are recent evidence of climate change. To face climate change, there are two approaches: Adaptation, developing ways of living with climate change, with adjustments to…
Background, Aims and Methods: Information on the effects of increases in air temperature on tropical systems is lacking. We investigated the effects of a 2 °C temperature increase over ambient air for 30 days on an established tropical pasture (in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil) dominated by the legume Stylosanthes capitata Vogel, using a T-FACE (temperature free-air controlled enhance…
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Anthropogenic climate change is one of the most important challenges that humans will face in the next decades. The increase in the atmospheric temperature associated with changes in climate patterns significantly impact livestock production and ecosystems productivity. However, tropical and subtropical ecosystems were less studied when compared to temperate ecosystems. This knowledge gap…
The Industrial Revolution was a landmark in the development of new technologies and of access to new sources of energy. However, from that period was initiated an intense carbon transfer to the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels, causing an increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration ([CO2]). According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the increase of [CO2], and …
As a result of climate change caused by increased concentrations of greenhouse gases are expected increase in temperature and more frequent extreme weather events such as droughts, floods and more intense heat waves. Although it is well recognized that tropical pasture has a potential for high productivity, the impact of climate change on the performance of pasture has not been studied cr…
The intensification of use of fossil fuels and land use change has been reported as the major source of the unprecedented increasing of atmospheric CO2 concentration. Until 1750, the concentration of this Greenhouse Gas (GHG) was approximately 280 ppm and now exceeds 400 ppm, with an increase rate higher than 2 ppm per year. Following this trend is expected an average concentration of 800…
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Anthropogenic activities increased atmospheric CO2 concentration from pre-industrial values of 270 µmol mol-1 to the current 400 µmol mol-1, leading to a continuous increase in the global surface temperature. Climate models indicate that earth surface temperature anomaly may reach values of up to 2ºC until 2100 if Paris Agreement goals were not achieved. These environmental alterations wi…
This study proposes to evaluate the effects of the water soil shortage and increased air temperature on carbon dynamic and water use efficiency of a forage species, Panicum maximum, given that in Brazil it is one of the most important forage species used as livestock fodder. These parameters are very important on the understanding of the climate change effects on this species productivity…
The global atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas (GHG) has increased significantly over time as a result of human activities. The increase in CO2 causes several changes in vital processes of plants with C3 and C4 metabolism, such as photosynthesis and respiration. Based on isotopic analysis of carbon and nitrogen plant, soil and air, which allows to investiga…
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