Featuring articles, key events, interviews, project outcomes, and media content

Outreaching articles 

My outreach article featured at Journal of Ecology blog.

An article at The Conversation featuring our research at the reservoir of Balbina Dam, Central Amazon.

Public engagement writing to the 'The Science Breaker' website and app.

Mini-documentaries, movies, public activities, talks...

Minidoc produced by my lab to promote our science to the general public, showing images of our team expedition to the Amazon in search of ecological interactions. PT only.

Our social return to the local communities that have received our project at the Middle Juruá region, at the heart of the Brazilian Amazon. We delivered a pocket guide (in Portuguese and English) about the frugivores species that feed on açaí (Euterpe precatoria) - a palm widely used in peoples diet and as a source of income throughout the Amazon.

Co-organizer of the Symposium:
Ecological Networks in the Anthropocene: Impacts, Patterns, and Resilience at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, held in Oaxaca, Mexico. 2025 

We produced a mini documentary about our study on frugivory interactions in forest, agroforestry and restored areas of the Atlantic Forest and it was exhibited during the Atlantic Forest Week 2025, at the Environment Museum, within the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden. The full documentary (Portuguese only) is available here.

Organizer of talks for distinct institucional events. 2025.

Speaker at Belgium Economic Mission to Brazil 2024: Enhancing biodiversity and sustainable practices at Fairmont Rio de Janeiro.
Talk:  Socio-ecological systems in the Amazon.

Organizer, moderator and speaker of the Symposium 12: "Frugivory Networks Across Scales", together with Paulo Guimarães Jr (USP). International Frugivory and Seed Dispersal Symposium, Ilhéus, Brasil. 2024

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Invited speaker at the oral session "On the role of plant-enemy interactions in shaping tropical forest communities across ecological gradients", as part of the Barro Colorado Island – 100 years Centennial Science Symposium, organized by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and held in Gamboa, Panamá on June 17-20, 2024. My talk was entitled: "“The interplay between defaunation and phylogenetic diversity affects leaf damage by natural enemies in tropical plants".

Invited participant at CNPq/Sinbiose - NSF/ESIIL workshop on Data Synthesis to further North-South global collaborations. Brasília - DF, 2024.

Invited participant at the International Workshop: "Pollination networks in fragmented landscapes". Unicamp, São Paulo. Nov 2023.

Co-organizer of the open round-table entitled: 'People and Plants - the importance of creating networks', at the 19th National Science and Technology Week at the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden. Oct 2022.

Invited speaker - Seminar about the Amazon and its different point of views

Lab opened to received the participants of the National Week of Science and Technology 2024

Invited participant at 'The Scientist Warning' Movie, featured by William J. Ripple and presented by Oregon State University and the Alliance of World Scientists.

Opening talk of the 2022 Scientific Seminars of the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden Research Institute - Portuguese only.

Brazilian Meeting of Ecology (RABECO) 2021
Chair and organizer of the symposium: "The ecological and evolutionaty implications of the webs of life" - Portugue only.

Invited contributor to the global campaign called 'The International Scholars Warning on the Corporate-Capture of the Climate Agenda and Need for a Real Green Revolution'
urging communities to lead their own ‘emergency response’ after ‘failure’ of COP26 to slash dangerous greenhouse gas emissions. Promoted by 'Facing Future'.

Invited Panelist at the "Merging social, economic and ecological networks for sustainable and resilient food systems". Royal Society Resilient Futures Challenge-led project. Talk: Seed dispersal networks in human-modified landscapes and their potential to enhance conservation, restoration and food security. Newcastle University. 2020.

Translation of the promotional video "Searching for the Stresemann's Bristlefront" from the National Centre for Wild Birds Research and Conservation (ICMBIo/CEMAVE).

Interviews

Interview to Radio USP - Ambiente é o meio - discussing the Atlantic Forest restoration from the perspective of network theory and ecological processes at the landscape scale. (PT only)

I was invited to take part of a National Radio Program to discuss the restoration of the Atlantic Forest in the context of ONU SDG and pre COP 30 in Belém, Brazil. Radio Brasil de Fato organized the program based on our recent paper using network theory to understand plant restoration (Rother, Emer et al. 2025). Program in Portuguese.

Interview for 'Brasil Rural - Radio Nacional' (2024) - " Pragas consideradas prejudiciais podem ajudar na biodiversidade" (Portuguese only, https://radios.ebc.com.br/brasil-rural/2024/02/pragas-consideradas-prejudiciais-podem-ajudar-na-biodiversidade)

Interview for 'Radio Unesp' (2019) - The loss of plant-animal interactions - ecological, evolutionary and social implications ( Portuguese only, www.radio.unesp.br/entrevistas).

Interview for, and assistance producer of, 'BBC Radio 4' (2012) - Amazonia - keeping it alive.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rws2v

Main media coverage

Our article describing the beaties and challenges of working with a socio-ecological system in the Amazon.

Sharing some findings from my 4-y postdoc at FAPESP newsletter. FAPESP finances cutting-edge research from public institutions in Brazil.

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Public engagement to promote Science and Public Universities in Brazil.

Infographic to communicate our findings published in Science Advances (doi10.1126/sciadv.aav6699) to the general public interested in Biodiversity and Conservation.