Current projects

Socio-ecological networks: food security, ecological services and biodiversity conservation in tropical forests. 4y Project financed by FAPERJ, in colab with Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden and Instituto Juruá.

* Study case 1: The sustainability of the comanagement of Arapaima gigas in Western Brazilian Amazon: a spatial metapopulation perspective.

* Study case 2: The sustainability of the açaí extractivism in Western Brazilian Amazon and in the Southeast Atlantic Forest.

Current collaborations

Tsiino Hiwiida: Revelando múltiplas dimensões da biodiversidade de plantas e fungos no Alto Rio Negro. Projeto multiparcerias financiado pela Iniciativa Amazônia + 10. Colaboradora.

TROPCOLNET. Led by Dr. Ana Benitez, from the Museo Nacional de Madrid, Spain. This will uses ecological networks in the heart of the Amazon to understand defaunation impacts on vertebrate communities.

Projeto: Explorando a Flora de Samambaias e Licófitas Riqueza, Diversidade e Conexões Etnobotânicas em Áreas Montanhosas na Amazônia. Pesquisador Responsável ALYSSON SILVA DA MATTA BARBOSA.

*Ana Flores, UNAM, Mexico. Milpa socioecological system - an ecological perspective.

* Ignácio Berón, CONYCET - Argentina. Biogeographic metanetworks from Argentina.

* Sérgio Cardoso, Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden. Frugivory of endemic palm species.

Past leading projects

Metanetwork of seed-dispersal interactions in the Atlantic Forest.

The ecological theater and the evolutionary play of seed-dispersal interactions.

Defaunation effects on plant-herbivory and plant-pathogens interactions. Working with Natalia Mello and Mauro Galetti in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil.

Ant-myrmecophyte networks and the effects of dam-induced fragmentation in the Central Amazon

Intraspecific variation on invaded pollination networks. Working with Jane Memmott to unveil the mysteries of balsam (Impatiens glandulifera) invasion in temperate ecosystems.

Multiple effects of alien species on pollination networks (PhD thesis)

Projeto Mosaico II - Ecological Processes. The effects of timber tree plantations on native and exotic seedlings. Logo: Floresta Nacional de São Francisco de Paula.

Past collaborative projects

* Fernando Gonçalves, Zurich University. Pollen-bat networks from Pantanal.

* Débora Rother, UFSCAR. Restoration metanetworks in the Atlantic Forest.

Associated researcher at Observatório Covid-19 BR - an independent, non-profit organization created to fast-generated scientific information about the new coronavirus in Brazil to inform decision-makers.

Restoration of plant-herbivore interactions. A collaborative work with Rafael Domingos and Gislene Ganade, from UFRN to understand how plant diversity influences the recovery of insect herbivores on time.

Ponds metanetwork - an approach for toad-bacteria interactions. Contributing to Decio Correa PhD thesis from Texas University to investigate the ecological aspects of these intriguing interactions at the local and regional spatial scale.

Avian seed-dispersal networks in fragments of Southern Bahia. A collaborative work with Ícaro Menezes and José-Carlos Morante-Filho to test how forest cover affect the functionality of seed-dispersal networks in one of the richest areas of the Atlantic Forest.