About me

I am passionate about nature,
today I try to understand it using a data scientist tools.

I am a biologist interested in macroecology and data synthesis. I have a degree in Biological Sciences from UNIVAP (SP, Brazil) and a Master's degree in Animal Biology from UFMS (MS, Brazil). I am currently a Ph.D. student. in Ecology and Conservation also from UFMS in Campo Grande (MS, Brazil). My current project consists of using functional biogeography approaches to understand processes and mechanisms in the diversification of terrestrial vertebrates from the Atlantic Forest. I am also a researcher at the NGO Projeto Dacnis developing works focused on natural history and ecology on a local scale.

Skills

During my career, I spent time in zoology with a strong background in field research and developing some natural history and taxonomy research. Over time, I found in ecology the theory and methods that I needed to answer broader questions. Also developing common skills with a data scientist.

  • Programming skills in R and Python
  • Statistical and phylogenetic methods
  • Field biologist
  • Data science
  • Drink coffee and beer
  • Problem-solving

Main publications

Non-equilibrium processes prevail in shaping species richness and trait diversity of terrestrial vertebrates in a global hotspot In prep

Herein, we use phylogenetic, traits diversity and spatial data to answer about evolutionary mechanisms and processes in vertebrates in the Atlantic Forest.

The effects of morphology, phylogeny and prey availability on trophic resource partitioning in an anuran community

Here we are empirically the trophic niche partition in an anuran community, also considering prey traits.

A new species of Odontophrynus (Anura, Odontophrynidae) from the southern portion of the Mantiqueira mountains

Using an integrative approach, we described a new species of Odontophrynus to the Mantiqueira mountain range, in southeastern Brazil.

Another publications

2022

A new species of Odontophrynus (Anura, Odontophrynidae) from the southern portion of the Mantiqueira mountains

Accept in European Journal of Taxonomy

Filling the knowledge gaps of Paratelmatobius mantiqueira (Anura:Leptodactylidae): tadpole, acoustic repertoire, and life history traits

Accept in Journal of Natural History

2021

The effects of morphology, phylogeny and prey availability on trophic resource partitioning in an anuran community

Basic and Applied Ecology

Natural history of the large pit viper Bothrops jararacussu: habitat use, movement patterns, and home range

Herpetological Conservation and Biology

Ecological niche explains the sympatric occurrence of lined ground snakes of the genus Lygophis (Serpentes, Dipsadidae) in the South American Dry Diagonal

Herpetologica

Hidden by the name: a new fluorescent pumpkin toadlet from the Brachycephalus ephippium group (Anura: Brachycephalidae)

PLOS One

2020

Paratelmatobius mantiqueira Pombal & Haddad, 1999 (Anura: Leptodactylidae): New specimens and rectification of the type locality of a rare species from the Serra da Mantiqueira, southeastern

Zootaxa

Dietary selectivity and sexual size dimorphism of Chiasmocleis mehelyi (Anura: Microhylidae) in a Cerrado area of southwest Brazil

North-Western Journal of Zoology

Natural history of the marsupial frog Gastrotheca albolineata (Anura: Hemiphractidae) in lowland Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Phyllomedusa: Journal of Herpetology

Oral disc microanatomy and redescription of the tadpole of rare Giant Torrent Frog Megaelosia boticariana Giaretta and Aguiar, 1998 (Anura, Hylodidae) and comments on the natural history

Zootaxa

2019

Composition of anuran species in Parque Natural Municipal Augusto Ruschi in Paraíba Valley, São Paulo, Brazil

Herpetology Notes

Interaction between ostracods and anurans: a review and new records in Brazil

Phyllomedusa: Journal of Herpetology

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