CV Lattes
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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Geociências (IGC) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Graduated at the School of Agronomical Engineering of the University of São Paulo (1979), Master of Sciences from University of Cincinnati and PhD in Zoology and Botany at The Ohio State University. Research interests involve the use of fossil pollen and spores in lake sediments in order to reconstruct vegetation and climate of the Quaternary in Brazil. Recent research interests also involve the use of diatoms and other siliceous bioindicators in environmental studies of the Quaternary of Brazil. Research Associate - The Field Museum of Natural History- Chicago (1992-2002; 2015 - Present). Graduated in journalism at the Casper Libero School of Social Comunication in São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Professor of Paleontology and Micropaleontoloy at the Department of Sedimentary and Environmental Geology (DGSA) of the Institute of Geosciences (IGc) of the University of São Paulo (USP). E-mail: paulo.deoliveira@usp.br. Tel. Laboratory of Micropaleontology/DGSA/IGc/USP +55 11 3091-1988. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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One of the major research problems of South American Archeology is to explain the unequal process of emergence of social hierarchies, political centralization, and state along the continent. Throughout the twentieth century, archaeologists have proposed that the Central Andres would have been a kind of nuclear area where elements such as urbanism, sedentary life and agriculture would have…
This project will evaluate the impact of past climate change on mountain ecosystems and their genetic diversity from around the world, and forecast potential impacts of future climate change. Employing primarily existing fossil records from Morocco, Cameroon, South Africa, China, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil, VULPES will carry out a multi-disciplinary integration of quantified climat…
Two great innovations regarding the origins of the American man were generated in the last five years, and will be of paramount importance for a radical change in the current ideas about the subject. First, biological anthropologists working in Brazil and USA were able to demonstrate that the cranial morphology of the first known americans, called Paleoindians, has no similarity with that…
This scientific initiation project, linked to the Young Investigator Grant Phase 2 FAPESP 2018/15123-4, will carry out a pioneering determination of modern pollen spectra obtained from surface soils of different physiognomies of the igapó forests of the Negro River, Amazonia. These pollen signatures are essential information for paleoecological studies of the late Quaternary in the Amazon…
After the 1990s, with increasing scientific evidence of widespread human interference in Amazonian landscapes, a new paradigm was developed for the Amazon. Before seen as a pure and untouched ecosystem, the Amazon is now considered to be home to ancient urban processes, cultural activities, among which stand out a long history of domesticating plants in sync with significant changes in th…
In the lower course of the Negro River is located the Anavilhanas Archipelago, the North of Amazon Basin. The Anavilhanas Archipelago is one of the largest fluvial island systems on earth and covered by Igapó Forest. However, the formation of Igapó Forest and record of the pre-colonial human populations in Anavilhanas region is still unknown, particularly during the Holocene. The sediment…
The present Scientific Initiation project, linked to the FAPESP-NSF PIRE Thematic Project2017 (Partnership for International Research and Education) Proc. 2017 / 50085-3, has as its main objective to analyze the palynological content, i.e. pollen grains and spores, preserved in the sediments of the Lagoa Azul, located in Cavernas do Peruaçu National Park. Among the objectives of this stud…
During the late Pleistocene, several vegetation shifts occurred in the Amazon in response to the series of climatic oscillations that affected both hemispheres. Since the vegetation intrinsically relates to the climate, past climatic oscillations invariably affected plant communities. However, an open question remains concerning how and to what extent these interactions took place due to …
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Vegetation dynamics in the Amazon Basin and associated paleoclimatic and ecological variabilities have been a focus of research for scientists across the globe. For instance, sedimentological and geomorphological studies from the lower Negro River, in the northwest of the Brazilian Amazon, yielded many essential baseline datasets to understand environmental variations in the past. However…
Fire has been a key force in shaping landscapes in the tropics along with Quaternary climate changes. Despite its importance, millennial-scale interactions of fire, vegetation, and climate in Brazilian ecosystems are poorly known due to the scarcity of high-resolution Quaternary archives. Marine sediments collected off large drainage basins are excellent archives of continental environmen…
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