Staff and Associate Members
Prof. Dr. Marcel Okamoto Tanaka
Research co-leader
Department of Environmental Sciences
Federal University of São Carlos
Contact: marcel@ufscar.br
Curriculum vitae
Commmunity structure, Ecosystem functioning, Environmental management
Prof. Dr. Andréa Lúcia Teixeira de Souza
Research co-leader
Department of Environmental Sciences
Federal University of São Carlos
Contact: altdesouza@gmail.com
Curriculum vitae
Plant population ecology, Ecology of riparian ecosystems, Ecology applied to the restoration of degraded areas
Prof. Dr. Luciano Elsinor Lopes
Department of Environmental Sciences
Federal University of São Carlos
Contact: lucianolopes@ufscar.br
Curriculum vitae
Effects of density and habitat fragmentation on the demography of plant species, mainly on the plant-pollinator interaction
Spatial heterogeneity at multiple scales; Environmental management; Management of socioenvironmental projects
Prof. Dr. Vandoir Bourscheidt
Department of Environmental Sciences
Federal University of São Carlos
Contact: vandoir@gmail.com
Curriculum vitae
Climatology; Storm formation; Remote sensing; Geoprocessing
Prof. Dr. Victor Satoru Saito
Department of Environmental Sciences
Federal University of São Carlos
Contact: victor.saito@gmail.com
Curriculum vitae
Assembly of communities and metacommunities with functional and phylogenetic information; Quantitative methods for biodiversity and biomonitoring; Computational methods for simulations in ecology
Dr. Julio Cesar Pascale Palhares
Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Embrapa Embrapa Southeast Livestock
São Carlos - São Paulo
Associate Researcher
Contact: julio.palhares@embrapa.br
Curriculum vitae
Impact of animal production on water resources; Water demand for livestock activities; Indicators of environmental performance
Dra. Maria Teresa Zugliani Toniato
Forest Institute
Jaú - São Paulo
Associate Researcher
Contact: mate_zt@yahoo.com.br
Curriculum vitae
Structure, diversity and dynamics of São paulo state forests
Profa. Dra. Silvia Rahe Pereira
Anhanguera-Uniderp University
Campo Grande - Mato Grosso do Sul
Associate Researcher
Contact: silviarahe@gmail.com
Curriculum vitae
Ecology applied to the restoration of degraded areas, seed germination
Dr. Valdemir Antônio Laura
Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Embrapa
Embrapa Beef Cattle
Campo Grande - Mato Grosso do Sul
Associate Researcher
Contact: valdemir.laura@embrapa.br
Curriculum vitae
Seeds, forage plants, abiotic stress, Silvicuture and cattle farming systems, restoration of degraded areas and recomposition of legal reserves