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On 2 September, the world watched in horror as Brazil’s National Museum, housing a vast collection of more than 20 million biodiversity and cultural artifacts, was engulfed in flames. A link to our Letter in Science about this tragedy is here.

The University of Florida has just pushed a press release about a paper by our Ph.D. student Ernane Vieira Neto [website]. Congratulations Ernane!   UF student’s research shines a light on Brazilian ecosystems [caption id=“attachment_9368” align=“alignright” width=“500”] Road cutting through a mixture of natural areas and agriculture in Brazil’s Cerrado (Photo by Emilio Bruna).

Our lab members' interests range from trying to understand the consequences of deforestation in the Amazon for plants to how international collaboration influences the impact of research papers. Below are some of what we consider our major accomplishments in four areas of research, with links description of the results pdf’s of the articles.

Hi all, We will be having a discussion with Herton Escobar about how he became a science journalist, how he gets ideas for stories, how he approaches writing and reporting, etc.

There’s lots of angst about the lamentable proposal funding rates at the NSF, on which many ecologists and evolutionary biologists are dependent. DEB is funding 3-7% of the proposals submitted to its panels, which is only about half of those recommended for funding, but as most panelists will tell you there are plenty of really good proposals that aren’t recommended for funding.

“Publicação científica e rede de interações de autoria na America Latina” 2 de junho de 2014 – 11h Auditorio 2 do Centro Didático Dr. Emilio Bruna, editor chefe da Biotropica, estudou a publicação dos melhores jornais da área de Ecologia e descreve o perfil das autorias e as mudanças de produtividade que ocorreram em 18 países da America Latina nas últimas décadas.

Posting on behalf of a new colleague here, Dr. Denis Valle. -—— Postdoctoral position available on hydroelectric dam impact on human disease in the Brazilian Amazon region, University of Florida A postdoctoral position is currently available at the University of Florida to study the impact of hydroelectric dams on human disease in the Brazilian Amazon region.

[caption id=“attachment_468” align=“aligncenter” width=“405”] Heliconia acuminata is pollinated by Phaethornis hummingbirds.[/caption] Marina Côrtes did a supeb PhD in which she investigated the processes influencing spatial genetic structure in populations of Heliconia acuminata at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project in Manaus (her advisor was my friend and collaborator Dr.

Cris Jurinitz, a recent PhD from the University of São Paulo I co-advised with Alexandre Oliveira, has just published one of her thesis chapters in Biotropica. In it, she describes how early-stage survival of two shade-tolerant species is affected by canopy openness, litter depth, ontogenetic stage, and conspecific neighborhood in the understories of secondary forest fragments in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.