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Our Team.
LAB LEADER
Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF)
I am an associate professor at the Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF). I have a Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences and a Master's degree in Ecology at the Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP) and graduated with a Ph.D. in Ecology at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). I was a post-doc working with community and metacommunity ecology in the Intituto de Biodiversidade e Sustentabilidade (NUPEM/UFRJ). I have used mammals as my study model to test ecological questions in most of my studies. Currently, I teach and advise at the Biological Sciences undergrad course at UENF. Also, I am advising in two graduate programs: "Environmental Sciences and Conservation" at UFRJ and "Ecology and Natural Resources" at UENF.
Associate researchers
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Pablo is interested in understanding the evolution of mammalian diversity in the Neotropics (especially rodents and marsupials) and how it has responded to recent human impacts. He is an Associate Professor at NUPEM and the Curator of the NUPEM mammal collection.
Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro
Leandro is a postdoc and an teach at the Program of Ecology and Natural Resources (UENF). He studies ecology and conservation of reptiles and amphibians.
Universidade Federal Do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)- Museu Nacional
Gabby is an anatomist and functional morphologist. She has a bachelor and masters in Zoology (UFRJ 2015, 2017), and it's currently a PhD candidate in Zoology at UFMG and Harvard University (2019-2023). Gabby is currently investigating the myology evolution of American marsupials through comparative anatomy, physical and digital dissections.
Doctoral students
Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF)
Juan wants to know how environmental variables and interactions (inter and intraspecific) affect the shape and size of rodent skulls in populations and communities in the northeast of Brazil.
Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF)
Ian is interested in understand the trophic ecology of the small mammals in fragmented landscapes of the Atlantic Forest, by means of isotopic analysis.
Master's students
Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF)
Amanda evaluates activity pattern, sociality level and natural history of Trynomys eliasi, a rare threatened and endemyc spiny rat from Atlantic Forest.
Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF)
Wendel evaluates the mercury dynamics in the soil and hair of black-eared opossums (Didelphis aurita) to understand how this element cycles in a forest environment.
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Guilherme is seeking to understand patterns of diversity and distribution of small tropical mammals through community ecology and biogeography.
Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF)
Maria Eduarda works with the faecal virome and viral diversity of the black-eared opossum (Didelphis aurita).
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Victoria aims to assess the efficacy of canopy bridges as a conservation strategy to increase landscape connectivity for didelphid marsupials in areas fragmented by oil pipelines.
Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF)
Sophia works evaluating the viral diversity of two species of the genus Bothrops and how it's influenced by ontogeny and environmental complexity.
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Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Giovanna is measuring habitat use and biodiversity patterns of medium and large size mammals in areas of forest restoration in Atlantic Rainforest.
Undergraduate students
Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF)
Lorena studies parasitological analysis of black-eared opossum (Didelphis aurita) from forest and urban ecosystems.
Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF)
Larissa studies natural history and ecology of tropical mammals focusing on the gray slender opossum (Marmosops incanus) in the Atlantic forest.
Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF)
Ana Clara studies the behavior and activity Pattern of the black-eared opossum (Didelphis aurita) at the Atlantic Forest .
Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF)
Isabela studies the activity pattern and behaviour of the gray slender opossum (Marmosops incanus).
Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF-CEDERJ)
Douglas is making an inventory of non-flying mammals in the Municipality of São Francisco de Itabapoana RJ, he also works for the environment department at this municipality.
Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF)
Arthur studies the behavior pattern and period of activity of the black and white tegu (Salvator merianae) in the Atlantic Forest.
Graduates of the lab
Universidade Federal Do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Victor worked with geometric morphometry and rapid morphological changes in rodents.
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