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O BiMaLab conecta pessoas de muitas instituições que trabalham em vários projetos, enfocando os processos e padrões de diversidade de vertebrados e regras de montagem de comunidades. A maioria de nós estuda mamíferos, aves ou ambos, mas estamos recebendo novos pesquisadores trabalhando em outros organismos. A maioria está sediada em Porto Alegre, Brasil, mas somos basicamente uma rede de pessoas de muitos lugares com uma paixão pelo estudo de padrões ecológicos e evolutivos e conservação da natureza. Temos orgulho de ser um exemplo de igualdade de nacionalidade e de gênero na pesquisa.

Maria João Ramos Pereira (PhD Universidade de Lisboa 2011)
Professora Assistente do Departamento de Zoologia, UFRGS. Membro do PPGBAN e PPGEcologia, UFRGS. Colaboradora do CESAM e Unidade de Vida Selvagem, UACoordenadora do BiMaLab, na sua pesquisa Maria João integra estudos em ecologia, filogeografia e genética de populações, ecologia de agentes infecciosos e modelagem ecológica, para compreender padrões ecológicos e evolutivos da diversidade de vertebrados. Em 2019 e novamente em 2021 foi eleita Vice-Presidente da Sociedade Brasileira para o Estudo de Quirópteros SBEQ. Vice-Presidente da Sociedade Brasileira de Mastozoologia para o mandato 2024-2027.

Flávia Pereira Tirelli (PhD, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2017)
Flávia is a FAPERGS/CNPq 07/2022 postdoctoral fellow at the Bird and Mammal Evolution, Systematics and Ecology Lab at UFGRS, coordinated by Prof. Maria João Pereira. Working on the project “How do felines coexist in the Atlantic Forest-Pampa ecotone in Rio Grande do Sul? Investigating a global biodiversity hotspot for the group”, among several other projects on the ecology and conservation of terrestrial mammals. She is a permanent lecturer at the PPG-Animal Biology (PPGBAN), UFRGS, supervising undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students. Flávia is a member of the Instituto Pró-Carnívoros, an advisor to the Instituto Curicaca, a member of the GAT in the PAN dos Pequenos Felinos and the PAT Campanha Sul-Serra do Sudeste. In addition, Flávia acts as taxon coordinator (Felidae) for the definition of the conservation status of Brazilian carnivores (CENAP-ICMBio) and is the coordinator of Geoffroy’s Cat Working Group (international network for the conservation of the big cat and sympatric felids). She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Brazilian Society of Mastozoology (2021-2024) and of the Cat Specialist Group/IUCN.

Lilian Sander Hoffmann (PhD, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 2004)
Currently doing post-doctoral studies at the PPG Environmental Oceanography (PPGOA), UFES, with the project “Passive acoustic monitoring (MAP) and its implications for access to cetacean biodiversity and the impacts of anthropogenic noise in the coastal waters of Espírito Santo”. She is a collaborating researcher with the Archipelago and Oceanic Islands Program/MCTIC/Brazilian Navy, where she works on bioacoustics, behavior, ecology, genetics and cetacean conservation. She has experience in Zoology, with an emphasis on marine mammals, working mainly on the following topics: bioacoustics, animal behavior and social organization, but with a special interest in studies involving the evolution and function of animal communication systems.

Izidoro Sarmento do Amaral (PhD, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2023)
Project: Expanding knowledge about Tadarida brasiliensis (i. Geoffroy, 1824) (chiroptera, molossidae) in South America: genetic diversity, population structure, demographic history and predictive distribution
PhD (2023) in Diversity and Wildlife Management from the UNISINOS, he currently serves on the board of the Brazilian Society for the Study of Chiroptera (SBEQ), 2023-2025. During his master’s degree (2019), he evaluated the activity and death patterns of bats in wind towers. He is interested in the ecology and monitoring of mammals, bat conservation and environmental licensing of projects in the electricity sector.

Luana Biz (MSc, Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense, 2019)
Project: Macroecological processes and patterns of diversity of ectoparasites (Streblidae and Nycteribiidae) of bats (Chiroptera) evaluated under the paradigms of island biogeography and epidemiological modeling.
Aluno de doutorado no PPGEcologia/UFRGS. She is interested in the ecology and parasitology of mammals, especially bats. She is currently trying to understand the patterns of interaction between bats and their ectoparasitic flies on a macroecological scale, with the study area being the entire Neotropical Region. Within its questions, it also aims to evaluate processes of extinction and coextinction, working as a main factor with the shelter ecology of bats, and which key species are essential for maintaining networks of functional interactions. And finally, how the classic theory of island biogeography can explain parasitic patterns in cave-dwelling bats.

Rogério Nunes Oliveira (MSc Universidade Estadual de Goiás, 2019)
Project: Spatial and trophic ecology of Panthera onca: evaluations at the global and rgional scales
Aluno de doutorado no PPGBAN, UFRGS, o Rogério trabalhou com mamíferos, principalmente felinos. Seu projeto de doutorado foca a conservação do maior felino neotropical, a onça-pintada (Panthera onca) em toda a sua distribuição neotropical. Durante a graduação trabalhou com aspectos do sucesso reprodutivo de espécies vegetais nativas do Cerrado e no mestrado investigou se Fidicina mannifera (Cicadidae) poderia promover um pulso de nutrientes em duas fitofisionomias do Cerrado.

Marina Ochoa Favarini (MSc, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2011)
Project: Behavior and ecology of the maracajá cat in anthropized areas of the Pampa biome region.
She is currently a PhD student at the PPG in Animal Biology (PPGBAN) . She works in the areas of Animal Ecology and Conservation, with a focus on small cats and other Neotropical carnivores. She is a researcher at the Instituto Pró-carnívoros, working on the Pampa Feline Conservation Project. She is also a member of international working groups such as Geoffroy’s Cat Working Group, Pampas Cat WG, Ocelot WG and Tiger Cat Conservation Initiative, which focus on conservation practices. She has worked professionally as a freelance environmental consultant in the areas of mastozoology and environmental education.

Cíntia da Costa (MSc, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 2021)
Project: Evaluating the effects of fire on bat communities in neotropical savannas.
She is mainly interested in the ecology, biogeography, evolution, environmental impact and conservation of mammals, especially tropical bats. In her master’s thesis, she assessed the connectivity of the Pampa landscape for bats of different space-use guilds using occupancy models based on acoustic detection. Cíntia coordinated the Communication Secretariat of the Brazilian Society for the Study of Chiroptera (2019-2023).

Patrícia Paludo (MSc Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2021)
Project: Historical and contemporary patterns and processes responsible for the acoustic diversity of Pampa birds.
PhD student in Animal Biology . I am a Biologist with a degree in Biological Sciences from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). I have a master’s degree in Animal Biology from the Postgraduate Program in Animal Biology at UFRGS, in which I researched the relationship between the occupation of Pampas grassland bird species and changes in the landscape. I am currently investigating the pattern of acoustic diversity of birds in the Pampa biome and the processes that led to this diversity on a macroevolutionary and biogeographic scale. I am interested in the areas of Ornithology, Biogeography, Bioacoustics, Environmental Education and Diversity in the Sciences.

Diego Esquivel (MSc, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 2021)
Project: Systematics and evolution of neotropical bats of the tribe Phyllostomini (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae).
Diego holding a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Colombia, has completed his Master’s and is now pursuing his PhD. His graduate studies focused on the systematics and evolution of the neotropical bat genus Lophostoma. Diego’s research journey began with examining bat diversity patterns in the eastern foothills of Colombia. Currently, he delves into the cryptic diversity of neotropical bats, specifically the neotropical tribe Phyllostomini, employing cutting-edge genomic tools, morphological analyses, and geometric morphometrics. His academic interests encompass systematics, taxonomy, evolution, and conservation of mammals, particularly bats. Diego’s work is pivotal in uncovering hidden biodiversity and understanding evolutionary processes among these fascinating creatures.

Ana Mastella (MSc, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 2018)
Project: Chemical Profiling in Non-Invasive Mammal Monitoring
Ana terminou seu mestrado em PPGBAN, UFRGS, e seus interesses de pesquisa incluem múltiplos aspectos da biologia e ecologia de mamíferos. Ela tem interesse particular em desenvolver métodos alternativos não-invasivos de identificação de espécies, focando principalmente carnívoros, e seu projeto de Mestrado que visou distinguir os felinos neotropicais por cromatografia fecal.

Jordani Dutra (MSc, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 2022)
Project: Effects of defaunation of large felids on the ecology of small and medium carnivores in the Upper Paraná Atlantic Forest.
PhD student in Animal Biology; PPGBAN. He completed his degree and master’s degree in carnivore ecology, with an emphasis on Procyonidae and Mephitidae in the Atlantic Forest and Pampa. He was an undergraduate and master’s student at BiMa-lab.

Marcelo Gehlen de Oliveira (MSc, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 2022)
Project: Eco-evolutionary processes in Cingulata: temporal pattern, habitat suitability and eco-morphology of 21 armadillo species
PhD student at PPG Animal Biology (PPGBAN).Marcelo worked with systematics through morphometric approaches during his graduation and with spatial and temporal ecology of Xenarthra during his master’s, now developing a doctoral thesis incorporating various analytical methods in order to complement the little scientific knowledge available on the order Cingulata, the armadillos, throughout the Neotropical region.

Orlando Fabián Hernández Leal (MSc, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 2024)
Project: Effect of agricultural intensification, microclimate and prey availability on the biodiversity and activity of insectivorous bats in the savanna ecoregion of Brazil-Uruguay.
Aluno de doutorado no PPGECO – UFRGS. Orlando is interested in research and conservation of Neotropical mammals, mainly using acoustic tools to detect bats. Currently trying to assess the direct and indirect impacts of different levels of agricultural intensification on insectivorous bats and their potential prey in the Pampa biome.

Luisa Simões Pires Fabricio (Graduate Student, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)
Project: Description of the acoustic repertoire of birds of the South American Icteridae
Estudante de mestrado no PPGECO – UFRGS, interested in bird bioacoustics. Her thesis aims to describe the acoustic repertoire of passerines of the Icteridae family that inhabit the Pampa.

Mariana Guimarães Xavier da Costa (Graduate Student, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)
Project: Site occupancy of small wild cats and the effects of a historically unprecedented flood on their spatial use.

Estudante de mestrado no PPGBAN– UFRGS. Researching ecological patterns of small wild cats in southern Brazil. She is a volunteer with the Geoffroy’s Cat Working Group and the Felinos do Pampa research and conservation initiative, both focused on the conservation of Neotropical felids.

Larissa Oliveira Gonçalves (PhD, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 2018)

Project: Prioritization for conservation: strategies for maintaining ecological connectivity on highways for endangered mammals.

Larissa is a posdoctoral at the Bird and Mammal Evolution, Systematics and Ecology Lab at UFGRS. She has a bachelor’s degree (2010) and a master’s degree (2013) in Biological Sciences and a doctorate (2018) in Ecology from the UFRGS. She works on planning measures to mitigate the environmental impacts of highways and on developing methodological and analytical protocols to assist in public policy. She is interested in the areas of ecology and biodiversity conservation, with a focus on assessing the environmental impacts caused by road infrastructure.

Elisa Berlitz Ilha (MSc, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 2019)

Project: Social structure and individual variation in a population of river dolphins (Tursiops gephyreus) cooperating with artisanal gillnet fishing.

Elisa has a bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and a master’s degree from the Graduate Program in Animal Biology (UFRGS). She is a doctoral student in the Graduate Program in Ecology (UFRGS) and technical manager of the Botos da Barra Project (CECLIMAR/CLN/UFRGS). She works in environmental monitoring and photo-identification of the population of Lahille’s dolphins (Tursiops gephyreus) residing in Barra do Rio Tramandaí (RS); in political advocacy for conservation (safeguarding and management instruments); and in communication (from the dialogue of traditional and scientific knowledge). She has experience and interest in cetacean data collection (on board, fixed point, and strandings), distribution and habitat use models, and conservation biology. She has experience and interest in ethnoecology; questionnaires, interviews, oral biographical methods, and participatory methodologies with fishing communities. She has experience in managing socio-environmental projects.

Maria Camila Valdés Cardona (BSc, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2021)

Project: Evaluation of acoustic recording subsampling schemes to measure the activity and functional diversity of insectivorous bats in the Colombian Llanos.

Camila has a bachelor degree in Biology and is a master’s student in Ecology at UFRGS. My main interests are bioacoustics and bat ecology, seeking to understand how they respond to habitat disturbances and landscape changes, especially those caused by human activities. My master’s project seeks to develop methodologies for analyzing large bioacoustic datasets and to assess the activity and functional diversity of insectivorous bats in the Colombian Llanos.

Giancarlo Nappi (BSc, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2023)

Project: Population density and daily activity pattern of Lycalopex gymnocercus

Giancarlo is master’s student in the Animal Biology Program at UFRGS, his thesis focuses on the study of canid populations in the Pampa biome.

Vinícius Rocha de Morais (Environmental Management Technologist, 2022, UNIASSELVI)

Project: Conservation evidence: an assessment of the impact of conservation actions for neotropical small cats in the Americas

Vinícius has a Bachelor degree in Environmental Management from the Leonardo da Vinci University Center (UNIASSELVI) and is master’s student in the Animal Biology Program at UFRGS. He worked for five years as an environmental monitor for the Rio Grande do Sul State Secretariat for the Environment and Infrastructure (SEMARS) at Itapeva State Park (Torres/RS). He currently works as an assistant researcher at the Pro-Carnivores Institute, managing conservation actions for the little spotted cat on the northeast coast of Rio Grande do Sul, through the “Felinos de Itapeva” project. Since 2022, he has received funding from SWCCF, the MbZ Fund, and support from other Brazilian and international institutions. Since 2021, he has also served as an assistant researcher for the TCCI working group and, more recently, for the GCWG group. He prefers non-invasive research methods and is interested in terrestrial mammal ecology, statistics applied to ecology, wild cat conservation, socio-environmental education, and human-cat coexistence initiatives. He works especially with the Atlantic Forest biome and the species Leopardus guttulus.

Alumni

Diego Dalmolin (PhD Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2019)
We tragically lost Diego to lymphoma in June 2023. Diego, who graduated in Biological Sciences from the UNIVATES University Centre in 2012, completed his PhD at PPGBAN, UFRGS. His research focused on amphibian ecology, conducted in collaboration with the Laboratório de Ecologia e Evolução de Vertebrados Terrestres at UNISINOS. Diego’s work delved into patterns of species richness, distribution, and co-occurrence across various spatial and temporal scales. Beyond his academic pursuits, Diego was known for his remarkable humanity and unwavering dedication as a science educator in state and municipality schools throughout the Porto Alegre region.

Danielle Franco (PhD Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2021)
Interested mainly in ecology and bird conservation, Dani recently concluded her PhD on the project Conservation of birds in the Atlantic Forest: present and future of deforestation and climate change at multiple scales. Graduated in Biological Sciences and with an MSc in Animal Biology from UFRGS, she was research fellow under the SISBIOTA project in the same university from 2011 to 2013. Presently she works in the private sector, in the area of sustainble farming chains.

Adriana Arias Aguilar (PhD Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2021)
Adri concluded her PhD at PPGBAN, UFRGSe seus interesses de pesquisa incluem a ecologia de mamíferos, especialmente de morcegos neotropicais. Se interessa principalmente, no estudo dos sons emitidos por espécies de morcegos e como esses sons podem ser usados para entender alguns processos ecológicos. Seu trabalho tem concentrado-se principalmente no uso da bioacústica como ferramenta para estudar os padrões de atividade de morcegos insetívoros em diferentes condições de paisagem e clima e na identificação acústica de espécies.
Furthermore, she is interested in bat conservation and in illustration as a tool for environmental education. She coordinated the Campos Sulinos Secretariate of the Brazilian Bat Research Society – SBEQ. She is now teaching at Tropical Ecology Courses in Costa Rica.

Alex Otesbelgue (BSc, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2022)
Project: Is the sound emitted by hives of a species of stingless bee (Jataí) altered when they are exposed to insecticide contamination of the air?
Biologist, master’s student in PPGECO. He has participated in several research projects on the reproduction, development and behavior of stingless bees, as well as analyzing the effects of pesticides on these animals. He is currently interested in bioacoustics.

Maria Eduarda Soares Alberti (Bachelor’s degree, Universidade de Passo Fundo, 2023)
Project: Population density and activity of Leopardus guttulus (Hensel, 1872) in its distribution limit in southern Brazil
Master’s student at PPGBAN/UFRGS, Maria Eduarda is interested in the research and conservation of small neotropical cats. She is currently a volunteer with the Brazilian Society of Mastozoology, Geoffroy’s Cat Working Group and the Felinos do Pampa conservation project.

Filipe Ferreira (MSc Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2021)
Project: Influence of grazing and fire on abandoned fields in Campos Sulinos / Fauna Digital do Rio Grande do Sul
Filiipe é bacharel e licenciado em Ciências Biológicas (UFRGS). Se interessa por todos os grupos de mamíferos, especialmente primatas e carnívoros. Tem interesse particular em conservação, evolução, biogeografia, taxonomia e sistemática. Atualmente, trabalha em mídias digitais para a conservação animal através da criação do Fauna Digital do Rio Grande do Sul and is developing his PhD at PPGBotânica/UFRGS.

Lana Resende de Almeida (PhD Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2021))
During her PhD research Lana investigated several ecological aspects of neotropical mustelids. During her MSc Lana worked on tthe influence of the quality of water on the occurence of the Neotropical Otter. Her research interests within mammalogy are ecology and conservation of carnivores. She graduated in Biological Sciences, UFRJ and was a CNPq fellow during her graduation period (2009-2013). In addition, she holds a postgraduate degree in Environmental Licensing and Management from UCAM (2019). She is now a post-doc in mammalian conservation at UFSB.

Rafael Imlau Cardoso (PhD Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2021)
Rafael é graduado em Ciências Biológicas (2013) e possui mestrado (2016) em Ecologia. No seu doutorado em PPGEcologia/UFRGS, he applied several methods from community ecology and macroevolution to investigate ecological and evolutionary patterns and processes that have shaped the diversity of New World bats. He now teaches at IFFar,

Dênis Sana (PhD Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2021)
Dênis trabalhou no Setor de Fauna do Departamento de Biodiversidade da Secretaria de Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (SEFAU/DBIO/SEMA-RS), between 2014 and 2016. Specialist in biology and ecology of mammals, he is a research associate of the Instituto Pro-Carnívoros since 1998, and presently its Vice-President. He focuses on the study, management and conservation of the big Neotropical cats, puma and jaguar and he concluded his PhD on those topics in 2021. His current interests include the practical and legal aspects of nature and wildlife management abnd he is currently working in ICMBIO.

Ana Catarina Lino (PhD Universidade de Aveiro 2019)
Ana terminou o doutorado na UA, em colaboração com a UFRGS e UFMS. Her current research focused the genetic consequences of habitat heterogeneity in tropical bats. She graduated in Biology and Geology and has an MSc in Applied Biology (Ecology, Biodiversity and ecosystem management).

Filipa Peste (MSc Universidade de Évora 2008)
Filipa é atualmente estudante de doutorado na UA, em colaboração com a UFRGS, UnB e UFRJ. Filipa investiga o lado brilhante da noite, já que seu projeto de doutorado tem como objetivo revelar a fauna críptica de morcegos do hotspot de biodiversidade do Cerrado. Filipa se formou em 2002, na UA, e até o momento sua pesquisa enfocou vários aspectos da ecologia e conservação de aves e mamíferos, incluindo o uso de aves como indicadores de qualidade ambiental ou a busca de soluções integradas para manejo da biodiversidade em parques eólicos, particularmente a mitigação e compensação de impactos em aves e morcegos.

Mateus Zimmer (BSc Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2019)
Mateus é formado em Ciências Biológicas pela UFRGS. Ele continua seus estudos no BiMaLab durante seu mestrado no PPGEcologia/UFRGS. Ele foi o primeiro voluntário de iniciação científica no BiMa-Lab e também foi bolsista de iniciação científica na Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul His main interests include ecology, systematics and evolution of carnivores, especially of the Canidae and Ursidae. He now works at IDSM.

Valéria Machado (MSc Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2022)
Valéria graduou-se em Ciências Biológicas na UFRGS. Terminou recentemente o seu mestrado no PPGBAN, UFRGS. Sua dissertação enfocou aspectos biogeográficos dos Mammalia. Ela interessa-se por ecologia, comportamento e conservação de mamíferos. Durante sua graduação estudou a diversidade do comportamento reprodutivo e cuidado parental em mamíferos e os fatores genéticos e epigenéticos relacionados ao fenótipo comportamental.

Beatriz Ribeiro de Figueiredo (MSc Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2022)
Beatriz concluded her master’s at PPGBAN, UFRGS. Seus interesses incluem comportamento animal, ecologia e conservação de mamíferos, principalmente carnívoros. Em sua dissertação ela avaliou diferenças em Nasua nasua entre a Mata Atlântica e o Pampa no sul do Brasil.

Erika Sant’Anna Petzhold (MSc Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2021).
Graduated in Biological Sciences, Erika’s main interests include ecology, evolution and conservation of birds. She concluded her MSc at PPGBAN/UFRGS and in her dissertation she evaluated the landscape connectivity for birds from different trophic guilds in the Pampa.

Valentino Juarez Silva
Valentino é aluno de graduação da UFRGS. Interessa-se principalmente por evolução e zoologia. No BiMaLab trabalhou com a coleção Chiroptera.

Manoel Fontoura Rodrigues (PhD Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul 2013)
Postdoc researcher at BiMa-Lab until 2017, Manoel graduated in Biological Sciences, UFRGS (2006). Mestre e Doutor em Zoologia pela PUCRS (2009 e 2013). Manoel possui experiência em genética e conservação, focando principalmente nas áreas de taxonomia, genética de populações, evolução, ecologia e conservação de mamíferos neotropicais.

Josh Nightingale (MSc Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2016)
Josh recently finished his PhD at UA. During his master at BiMaLab, he got his degree under the IMAE . Se interessa principalmente por ecologia de aves, especialmente pela migração, bem como pela conservação de áreas úmidas. No seu segundo ano de mestrado no PPGEcologia/UFRGS, foi responsável pelo projeto Qualidade do habitat e estratégias de forrageamento do maçarico-branco, Calidris alba, na Lagoa do Peixe, RS, Brasil. Josh graduou-se em Ecologia na UEA tendo passado um ano na UNM.

Carmen Dionísio (MSc Universidade de Aveiro 2016 & Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul 2017)
Carmen se interessa por ecologia e conservação de aves. Foi pesquisadora no PELD – Serra da Bodoquena na UFMS e responsável pelo projeto Resposta dos papagaios à mudança ambiental: ecologia e caracterização de espécies emblemáticas na conservação da biodiversidade. Graduou-se em Biologia, UA e foi bolsista do EcoAves, UFT de 2012 a 2013.

Thais Stefanski Chaves (MSc Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2017)
No seu mestrado no PPGBAN, UFRGS Thais focou aspectos de gestão e eficácia das áreas protegidas, e em estudos ecológicos aplicados à gestão de áreas protegidas e da vida selvagem. Ela se formou em Ciências Biológicas, UFRGS e especializou-se como Técnica em Monitoramento e Controle Ambiental, IFRS. After travelling the South East Asia and Australia, she is now a successful confectioner in Porto Alegre.

Amrita Menon (MSc Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2017)
Amrita colaborou no BiMalab ao abrigo do IMAE no PPGEcologia/UFRGS. Se interessa principalmente por ecologia e conservação de mamíferos. Sua dissertação enfocou as influências de diferentes usos da terra na diversidade de morcegos usando a bioacústica como ferramenta e também validando o uso da análise automática de chamados de ecolocalização. Graduada em Ciências Ambientais pela UoB em 2013 e trabalhou em tartarugas marinhas na Índia antes do mestrado pelo IMAE. Ela está atualmente de volta à Índia trabalhando em gerenciamento de unidade de conservação.

Gisele Bolze (MSc Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2019)
Gisele concluded her MSc at PPGBAN, UFRGSe, em sua dissertação, ela avaliou o uso do habitat e os padrões de atividade de jaguatirica no limite sul da Mata Atlântica brasileira. Seus interesses de pesquisa incluem ecologia e conservação de carnívoros, especialmente de pequenos felinos neotropicais. É formada em Ciências Biológicas pela UFRGS.

Rhian Vilar da Silva Vieira (MSc Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2019)
Rhian concluded his MSc at PPGBAN/UFRGS. He is interested in studies of biogeography, ecology and conservation of carnivores. His research was focused on ecological niche modeling and potential distribution of the genus Procyon.

Pedro Blaya Luz (MSc Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2019)
Pedro fez mestrado no PPGEcologia/UFRGSPedro formou-se em Ciências Biológicas, UFRGS, e trabalhou com tartarugas marinhas durante a maior parte de sua graduação, tanto com fêmeas nidificantes quanto com filhotes, no Projeto TAMAR, e com animais encalhados na UFRGS. Em sua dissertação, Pedro modelou encalhes de tartarugas marinhas no litoral do Rio Grande do Sul.

Fernanda Ribeiro da Silva (MSc Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2019)
Fernanda trabalhou como bióloga no Zoológico de Canoas, onde lidava com animais silvestres mantidos ilegalmente em cativeiro ou que chegavam ao zoológico devido a conflitos entre humanos e animais selvagens. Seus interesses incluem o gerenciamento da vida selvagem, especialmente a tomada de decisões sobre o destino de animais mantidos ilegalmente em cativeiro. Em seu mestrado, ela investigou a origem dos animais recebidos em zoológicos da região de Porto Alegre com o objetivo final de contribuir para uma melhor tomada de decisão sobre seu destino e, quando possível, seu retorno à natureza.

Isadora Brauner Lobato (MSc Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2019)
Isadora fez seu mestrado no PPGEcologia/UFRGS. Seus interesses de pesquisa incluem ecologia e conservação de mamíferos. Ela tem interesse particular em ecologia populacional, principalmente de morcegos. Em sua dissertação a Isa focou ecologia populacional do morcego de cauda livre brasileiro. Ela se formou em Ciências Biológicas na UFPel.

Paula Elisa Horn (MSc Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2019)
Paula concluded her MSc at PPGBAN, UFRGS. Ela avaliou os efeitos potenciais de alterações antrópicas na paisagem sobre a densidade populacional e na ocupação do gato-maracajá (Leopardus wiedii), um pequeno felino arborícola, na Floresta Atlântica do sul do Brasil.

Paloma Linck (MSc Universidade de Aveiro 2021)
Paloma focused her research at BiMaLab on spatial-temporal patterns of activity and population density of Puma concolor (Carnivora: Felidae). Her main research interests are carnivore ecology, conservation, and biogeography. She is now a PhD student at the University of Aveiro, Portugal.

Ítalo Rakowski (BSc Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2017)
Ítalo graduated at UFRGS. His main interestes were conservation, ecology, evolution and biogeography of mammals. In his undergraduate dissertation he evaluated the importance of zoos for environmental education.

Natielle Pires (BSc Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2017)
Natielle is focused her undergraduate dissertation research on spatial-temporal patterns of activity of the lesser grison Galictis cuja (Carnivora, Mustelidae). Se interessa por sistemática, ecologia, etologia e conservação de mamíferos, com ênfase nos mustelídeos.

Pedro Papini (BSc Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2018)
Pedro graduated in Biological Sciences. Between 2016 and 2018 he worked has volunteer scientific initiation fellow at BiMa-Lab. He was mainly interested in the study of primates, with focus on their ecology, evolution, behavior and conservation.

Mariana Scain Mazzochi (MSc Universidade Federal do Rio Grande 2023)
Graduated at UFRGS, Mariana was a scientific iniciation fellow at BiMa-Lab. Within ornithology, her main research interests are ecology, systematics, conservation and migration, especially of shorebirds and seabirds. She concluded her MSc at PPGO/FURG, where she worked with marine birds.

João Luís Carvalho (PhD Universidade de Aveiro 2019)
João has a PhD from the University of Aveiro. His areas of interest are population biology, ecology and management of ungulates and carnivores in the Iberian Peninsula. As a PhD student he evaluated the role of bottom-up processes on disease and population dynamics of large herbivore populations.

Milene Matos (PhD Universidade de Aveiro 2011)
Colaboradora da Unidade de Vida Selvagem, Departamento de Biologia, UA & CESAM. Sua pesquisa abrange conservação da biodiversidade, gestão de recursos naturais e educação ambiental. Milene é especialista em comunicação e divulgação científicas, coordenando vários projetos sobre sustentabilidade, visando construir pontes entre ciência e pessoas. Milene é a responsável pela imagem da Unidade de Vida Selvagem e a autora do lindo logotipo do BiMa-Lab.