People – LEFF | Laboratório de Ecologia Filogenética e Funcional

Leandro Duarte

I am a community ecologist. My research aims at investigating the multiple ways evolutionary history (genetic and/or phylogenetic relatedness, ecological traits) and environmental gradients drive the distribution of species, groups of species and/or entire clades at different spatial scales, from local sites to biomes. More recently, I have incorporated the human dimension into my research program in order to assess the impacts of land use on biodiversity patterns. Over the last years (or a few more perhaps…) I have acted as Associate Editor of Journal of Vegetation Science and Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. The human beside me provides me food and home, and that’s all you need to know about him.

Curriculum, Link to Research Gate, and contact: duarte.ldas@gmail.com

Bianca Machado Aguiar

Bianca is a undergraduated student of Biology at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Currently, she assists in a research that monitores the biodiversity of frugivorous butterflies of the pampa biome. She is interested in understanding the composition of the butterfly community in this biome, as well as their adaptive strategies and functional responses, since the pampa is in constant degradation.

Curriculum and contact: machadob742@gmail.com

Marcelo Schwade

Bachelor of Physics graduated at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Currently attending Masters Degree in Ecology at the same university and in love with biological themes. He works with simulations of eco-evolutionary dynamics, seeking to understand the effects of space-time heterogeneity on speciation patterns, extinction and evolution of species attributes.

Curriculum and contact: marceloh.schwade@gmail.com

Viviana Tedesco de Salles

Viviana is a undergraduated student of Biology at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Currently, she is responsible for scientific dissemination of the project “Avaliação e monitoramento de bioindicadores em agroecossistemas”. She is interested in the field of birds and mammals ecology as well as its divulgation.

Curriculum and contact: vivianatsalles@gmail.com

Gabriel Gonçalves

Gabriel is a biologist with Master degree in Ecology at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Currently he has a DTI scholarship linked to INCT-EECBio, and works with ant-plant interactions and ants communities in Pampa biome.

Curriculum and contact: ggbarbosa96@outlook.com

Cristian Castillo

Biologist graduated at Universidade del Sucre, in Colombia. Today, Cristian is attending Masters Degree in Ecology at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). He is interested in the natural history, ecology and behavior of neotropical amphibians, as well as the functional and taxonomic response of these organisms to anthropized environments.

Gabriel Dubal

Gabriel is a undergraduated student in Biology at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). He is starting in the lab, and is interested in exploring and analyzing macroecological patterns in the current biodiversity configuration.

Curriculum and contact: g.dubalr@gmail.com

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