Lab members
Jef Vizentin-Bugoni
Principal investigator, lab leader
Professor of Ecology at Universidade Federal de Pelotas.
Jef is interested in the ecology, evolution and conservation of animal-plant interactions. He often uses network analyses and null models to investigate how interactions are organized and how they define community structure and functioning. Pollination and seed dispersal interactions are his main study systems.
In his free time, Jef likes practicing yoga, playing soccer and spending time in nature, especially birdwatching.
Current members
Graduate students
Fernanda Machado Teixeira
Fernanda is investigating which traits define keystone species in a seed dispersal network in Southern Brazil. She loves birdwatching and is an excellent photographer.
Juliana Hinz Wolter
Ju is investigating how individual traits in a plant population filter out the bird species that consume their seeds. She also loves birdwatching.
Undergraduate students
Marcos Pizzato de Azeredo
Marcos is studying interactions among plants and flower-dwelling mites that use hummingbirds to move from flower to flower.
Victor Kenzo Fernandes Tanaka
Victor is helping to create a regional seed collection and is investigating seed dispersal by non-flying mammals.
Bruna Razeira Wahast
Bruna is helping to create a regional seed collection and is investigating how morphological matching between bills and seeds influence seed dispersal
Arthur Fattah Rosani
Arthur is beginning to investigate frugivory interactions on a keystone plant species in S Brazil
Gabriel Henrique Silva dos Santos
Gabriel is beginning to use molecular tools to investigate frugivory interactions in Southern Brazil
Extra-lab students
Lis Bacchieri Cavalheiro
Lis is to be a PhD student at UNESP. She investigates processes shaping hawkmoth-plant interactions under the primary supervision of Professor Felipe Amorim.
Former students
Lis Bachieri Cavalheiro
Master in Animal Biology - Lis investigated the role of evolutionary histories in shaping mutualistic hawkmoth-plant interactions. Her resuts are currently under review.
Andreza Lautenschleger
BSc in Biology - Andreza studied the structure of mutualistic hawkmoth-plant interactions and its drivers. Here results are published in Ecological Entomology
Maiara Vissoto
Master in Animal Biology. Maiara investigated individual specialization on seed dispersers in a plant population Her results are published in Oecologia and Journal of Ornithology. Maiara is currently a PhD student at UFMS.
Main active collaborators
Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign
Professor at University of Wyoming
Project: Hawaii-VINE Project
Postdoc at University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign
Army Ant Followers Project
Professor at Federal University of Minas Gerais
Plant-hummingbird interactions in urban areas
Professor at University of Copenhagen
Macroecology of hummingbird-plant interactions
Professor at Federal University of Pelotas
Flower-breeding drosophilids and plants ecology and evolution
Professor at Federal University of Pelotas
Ecology of grassland birds | Ecology of frugivore birds
Professor at Federal University of Pelotas
Plant-hawkmoth interactions
Felipe W. Amorim
Professor at Universidade Estadual Paulista - Botucatu
Plant-hawkmoth interactions