RESICLIM
Team & participating institutions

Adrian González-Chavez

Bachelor’s in biology at the Universidad de Los Andes in Mérida, Venezuela (2012) and got his masters and PhD at the University of São Paulo in Ecology.  For his masters he work in the Bee Lab and the Landscape Ecology and Conservation lab, looking at the effects of land use on bee diversity and pollination service through fruit set experiments in coffee fields (2013 – 2016). For the PhD he continued to study the forest contribution to agricultural production, by analyzing regional crop productivity across the whole Atlantic Biome under the supervision of Jean Paul Metzger and Luísa G. Carvalheiro (2016 -2022). Currently he is on his first postdoctoral research performing a meta-analysis of the response of plant-pollinator networks structure to air pollutants (Nitrogen phosphorus and Ozone). The research is part of the FCT-CAPES RESICLIM project and is being develop in collaboration at the University of Coimbra (2022 – 2023). 

Waira Machida

is a Japanese-Bolivian Ph.D. student, master in ecology (UnB, 2021), and graduated in biology (UnB, 2019). She's interested in plant ecology, functional ecology, and morphometric geometrics. She´s currently interested in the effects of the vegetation structure in the pollinator community. She is doing part of her PhD in Universidade de Lisboa under the project FCT-CAPES RESICLIM (Set 2022-Aug 2023), also in collaboration with University of Oxford.

Email: wsmbio [at] gmail [dot] com

CV:http://lattes.cnpq.br/4217835717384763

André Coutinho

Bachelor in Biology and Master in Ecology at University of Brasilia, Brazil. He is currently a PhD student in Ecology and Evolution at Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG, Brazil). In his thesis, he is investigating how plant functional traits can be used to improve ecological restoration. He is developing a framework to improve species selection for trait-based restoration. He is doing part of his Ph.D. at Universidade de Lisboa under the project FCT-CAPES RESICLIM (Set 2022-Aug 2023), where he is applying the framework to improve species selection for the restoration of ecosystem services in Portugal and Brazil.

Carla Faleiro Tinoco

Bachelor in Ecology and Environmental Analysis from the Federal University of Goiás (UFG, 2014), did her MSc in Ecology from the University of Brasília (UnB, 2017) and PhD in Ecology and Evolution from the Federal University of Goiás (UFG, 2022). Currently (March 2023 to February 2024) she is doing postdoctoral work at the FlowerLab of the University of Coimbra linked to the FCT-CAPES RESICLIM project. She investigates the effect of increased nutrient availability on plant-herbivore interactions and its implications for ecological restoration in dystrophic environments. 

Juan Cancela (CE3C-UL)

Catarina Siopa (UC - FlowerLab)

Bachelor’s in biology and a master’s in Ecology (UCoimbra, Portugal). Currently, she is a PhD student in FLOWer Lab, CFE (UCoimbra, Portugal), working on pollination services and their importance for worldwide crops and on pollination biology and dynamics at both landscape and orchard level, using sweet cherry (Prunus avium) as a study system. As part of the FCT-CAPES RESICLIM project (May 2022 - July 2022), she further developed a study on pollinator importance of crops, in collaboration with Luísa Carvalheiro Lab at the UFG, Brazil. 

André Filipe Ribeiro Henriques (CE3C-UL)

Is a Portuguese PhD student, with a bachelor’s in Biology and a MSc in Evolutionary and Development Biology at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal). He is interested in implementing population genomics approaches to study the evolutionary and ecological diversification of natural populations, and the genomic process of adaptation to their environments.

For his MSc, he worked in the Computational Biology and Population Genomics group (CoBiG2), under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Octávio S. Paulo (CoBiG2, CE3C) and Prof. Dr. Luísa G. Carvalheiro (UFG, CE3C). He looked for the molecular basis of adaptation and the mechanisms underlying the evolution of wild bees populations inhabiting both small-scale farming and natural landscapes. Using population genomic approaches, he identified SNPs and/or genomic regions that were associated with several ecological and land use variables that characterized those agricultural habitats. His PhD is a follow-up to his MSc, and he will try to detect convergent local adaptation occurring among several replicates of urban areas, small-scale farming landscapes and natural landscapes. He wants to understand if i) these species are adapting to these novel types of environments, ii) the functional response associated with the signatures of selection that is detected in the genome of these species., iii) the adaptation process is more repeatable at the genomic level than it might be expected, given the putative highly polygenic basis of the adaptative response, and the potential for considerable genetic redundancy.

The research is part of the FCT-CAPES RESICLIM project (2023-2024).

Email: andrefrhenriques (at) gmail (dot) com

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