Contact and CV

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Universidade Federal de Pelotas

Departamento de Ecologia, Zoologia e Genética

Instituto de Biologia, Prédio 23, Campus Universitário, Capão do Leão, RS, Brasil, CEP 96160-000 (zip code)

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“The price of light is less than the cost of darkness” A. C. Nielsen

Current position

• 2021-present - Adjunct Professor,  Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil

Past positions

• 2021- 2021- CAPES/PRINT 'Young Talent' Fellow - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (LEEF Lab)

• 2020-2020  - Postoctoral Researcher - University of Wyoming, Laramie, US (Tarwater Lab)

• 2017-2020  - Postoctoral Researcher - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA & U.S. Army Corp of Engineers (Sperry lab), working on the Hawaii VINE project

Education

• 2013-2017. PhD in Ecology. University of Campinas (UNICAMP), working with Dr. Marlies Sazima. Thesis: "Plant-pollinator networks in the tropics: lessons from plant-hummingbird interactions"

• 2014-2015. Phd internship. Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate (CMEC), University of Copenhagen, working with Dr. Bo Dalsgaard

• 2011-2013. MSc in Ecology at UNICAMP. Thesis on the processes structuring a tropical mutualistic plant-hummingbird network (results here)

• 2006-2010. Bachelor in Biological Sciences. University of Pelotas, UFPEL, working with Dr. Ana Rui

Curriculum

Research Gate profile here

Google Scholar profile here

Full curriculum 'Lattes' in portuguese here

Grants

2024-2028. Instituto Serrapilheira (co-funding with FAPERGS): Seed dispersal and climate change in the Atlantic Forest? J. Vizentin-Bugoni. 710,000.00 BRL 

2023-2025. FAPERGS. Identifying keystone species in seed dispersal networks in southern Brazil. 28,000.00 BRL

2024-2028 Research Grant. SERDP. Temporal variation and resiliency of seed dispersal network in Hawaii.  Sperry, JP Kelley, C Tarwater, J. Foster, D. Drake, J. Vizentin-Bugoni. ~USD 2,000,000.00 

2022-2026 Research Grant. National Science Foundation (USA): Structure and resilience of antfollower bird networks in tropical forests in Panama: Sperry, JP Kelley, C Tarwater, H. Pollock, J. Vizentin-Bugoni. ~700,000.00 USD

2020-2021 Research Grant. SERDP-SON. "Predicting impacts of species loss on ecosystem resilience: an experimental test of a novel theoretical framework" PI's: J.  Sperry, JP Kelley, C Tarwater, J. Foster, D. Drake, J. Vizentin-Bugoni. USD 197,475

2019 Research Grant. Microsoft AI for Earth. “A new path forward for conservation in hotspots: Using AI and network theory to rapidly assess biotic interactions” (funding for storage and deep-learning web services and consultation with Microsoft data scientist).  PI's: JP Kelley, C Tarwater, A Martinez, J Vizentin-Bugoni; USD 15,000; 

2016 Research grant: CNPq Universal  (Brazil). "Genetics, ecology and evolution of flower breeding drosophilids" [Genética, ecologia e evolução de Drosophilidae (Insecta: Diptera) com oviposição restrita a flores. PI: Juliana Cordeiro; co-PI: H. Schimtz, M. Deprá, J Vizentin-Bugoni. R$ (BRL) 30,000

PROPOSAL REVIEWER FOR

• National Agency for Research (France)

• Swiss National Science Foundation (Switzerland )

• National Science Center (Poland)

• Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ecología Tropical, CIBET (Costa Rica)

MANUSCRIPT REVIEWER FOR

• Acta Botanica Brasilica

• Biodiversity Data Journal

• Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

• Biology Letters

• Brazilian Journal of Ornithology

• BMC Ecology

• Canadian Journal of Zoology

• CheckList

• Conservation Biology

• Current Zoology

• Ecography

• Ecological Complexity

• Ecological Indicators

• Ecology

• Ecology Letters

• Ecology and Evolution

• Ecoscience

• Flora

• Functional Ecology

• Global Ecology and Biogeography

• Ibis

• Iheringia

• Integrative Zoology

• Journal of Animal Ecology

• Journal of Ecology

• Journal of Field Ornithology

• Journal of Natural History

• Journal of Pollination Ecology

• Journal of Tropical Ecology

• Landscape and Urban Planning

• Methods in Ecology and Evolution

• New Phytologist

• Nordic Journal of Botany

• Oecologia

• Oecologia Australis

• Oikos

• Ornithology Research

• Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

• Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation

• Proceedings of the Royal Society B

• Rodriguésia

• Scientific Reports

• Sociobiology

• Systematics and Biodiversity

• The Science of Nature (Naturwissenschaften)

• The Wilson Journal of Ornithology

• Trends in Ecology and Evolution

MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD

• CheckList - the journal of biodiversity data (2016-2017, Subject Editor, Ornithology)

• CheckList - the journal of biodiversity data (2016-2016, Assistant Editor)