Nathália Silva

Nathália stayed in December 2021 and January and February 2022 and worked helping to plan the next BIOBRAS summer school that would take place in Brazil in February, giving a lecture on Brazilian biomes, talking about the culture and how to prepare for the trip to Brazil. She also talked about her doctoral project on the functional ecology of tropical Atlantic forests in Brazil and kept doing her research in the Institute while there.

Rodrigo was present between December 2021 and February 2022 working on the thesis project entitled Campos de Altitude – High Altitude Grasslands: a tropical montane ecosystem threatened by Global Change. This project is dedicated to investigating at a landscape level the impacts of global climate change on the High Altitude Grasslands of the mountainous regions of southern and southeastern Brazil. We also investigated the possibility of invasive species reaching these ecosystems. Species distribution modeling and remote sensing techniques constitute the methodological approach of the project.

Ricardo Meireles

Ricardo was present from April to May 2019 where he was able to discuss the direction of his doctoral research. He worked with a genus of birds from open habitats and distributed throughout South America, using species distribution modeling. He also participated in a course given by Ricardo Solar and Jan Lemman on neglected ecosystems in Brazil