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My main interest is to understand how the heterogeneity of environmental conditions, created either by nature or anthropic action, affects the diversity and structure of sessile communities and also the manifestation of different
phenotypes in ascidians and bryozoans.
Besides, I also have the goal of understanding the importance of local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity to the connectivity of close populations.
I am an ichthyologist (Vertebrate Zoology; Compared Biology). My main goal is to understand the relationship between morphological and functional diversity in fishes (mainly Actinopterygii). Recently I started to evaluate how fish feeding activity affects the structure of sessile communities and the role of herbivore fishes in the resilience of reef systems. I am also interested in the conservation of neotropical marine and freshwater habitats and fishes, behavior ecology, scientific diving and underwater monitoring in medium and long-term.
I have interests in evaluating how diversity patterns and the structure of benthic communities are modified by touristic visitation. Besides, I look for changes in the reproductive investment and in the production of chemical compounds caused by trampling in macroalgae.
My major interest is in processes that structure biological communities. I am attempting to establish the relative contribution of deterministic processes (e.g. species interactions such as predation and competition) and stochastic processes (e.g. randomness of recruitment) on the dynamic and structure of marine sessile communities.
My main focus is on the ecology and taxonomy of Ascidiacea species from Rio de Janeiro coast. My goal is to make an inventory of ascidian species and to understand how exotic species act with native ones in the structure of ascidian assemblages in rocky shores, mainly in upwelling areas.
My interest is to evaluate how benthic organisms, especially algae, respond to anthropic effects, both locally (touristic visitation) and globally (climate changes). In this scenario, I want to understand the load capacity of marine and coastal areas in- and outside Conservation Units, and also provide long-term monitoring programs in these areas. I also have interests in developing participatory monitoring programs (Citizen Science) and to understand the environmental perception of different public, aiming the implementation of interpretation and environmental education activities.
I have interests in community ecology, their structure and development, and in processes that are important to generate and maintain diversity. I investigate these questions with experimental approaches, using shallow subtidal sessile communities as models. Specifically, I am interested in how predation and historical contingency (e.g. priority effects) affect communities since early (recruitment) up to late succession, and also these effects on the occurrence of exotic species, a very common issue in coastal areas. Now I intend to investigate latitudinal variation on predation effects in Brazilian coast, and also how different levels of anthropic impacts may affect the extent of how predators structure sessile communities.
I am a biologist with interdisciplinary acting. I have experience in ecology of aquatic systems, environmental education and in science propagation and popularization, focusing in the environment and health. Recently I am studying the influence of herbivory in the interaction between algae and corals in the north coast of São Paulo, Brazil.
My main interest is to understand the population dynamic resulting of temporal and spatial variation in the settlement of encrusting organisms in a rocky shore area. I also aim to relate this dynamic with the larvae pool in the water column and with the size of adult populations in the sessile communities nearby.
I am interested in marine ecology and conservation. I am attempting to understand how spatial heterogeneity affects the structure and diversity of marine sessile communities of shallow subtidal, participating as a Scientific Initiation student in a larger research project in the Araçá Bay, São Sebastião – SP.
I am interested in ecology, mainly in marine sessile community ecology and in the abiotic factors that affect them. Inside community ecology, my goal is to evaluate if the increase of substrate complexity affects the community living on it, quantifying attributes as richness of species and individuals abundance.
I have interests in community ecology and I am working with sessile communities and their associated mobile fauna. My goal is to understand if the increase of substrate complexity affects the structure of the associated community fauna.
Former members
Ms. Gabriela Pastro – Master candidate UFABC 2013-2015
Ms. André Souza – Master candidate UFABC 2013-2015
Felipe Souza Dutra – Master candidate UFABC 2013-2015
Heloísa Romeu Filgueiras – PDPD UFABC 2012-2013
Victor Cyrillo da Silva – Undergrad Student UFABC 2013-2014
Vitoria Perez – PDPD UFABC 2013-2014
I am interested in community ecology, especially benthic communities of rocky shore and their conservation, combining it to Citizen Science in order to develop participatory monitoring programs, to promote environmental education and science popularization.
I am studying the potential impacts of climate changes on benthic organisms of hard-bottom substrate, applying protocols proposed by ReBentos (Monitoring Network for Coastal benthic Habitats) in Pernambuco beach, Guarujá – SP. I am also interested in the socio-ecological management of ecosytems, studying the application of SWOT analysis for the conservation of Tivela mactroides, a mollusk bioindicator of beach quality, in Caraguatatuba – SP.
My main interest is in bioinvasion ecology, especially in how local community biotic and abiotic factors, coupled with the invasive species biology, affect processes related to biological invasion. I am also interested in the monitoring and management of invasive organisms and in their ecological relations with other community organisms.
My main interest is monitoring and evaluating changes in diversity and structure of benthic communities in rocky shores, especially macroalgae communities, caused by abiotic impacts related to global climate changes.
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