Investigating Gondwanan legacies, long-distance dispersal and evolutionary refugia in Sub-Antarctic island systems. Projected supervised by Dr. Mario Mairal (UCM, Spain) with international collaboration. 2026-2029. Project website.
Herbivory and florivory in tropical plants: patterns and processes driving its variation. Project led by Dr. Tatiana Cornelissen (UFMG, Brazil). 2019-2022.
Herbivory in infertile environments through the quantitative analysis of herbivore damage, and physical, chemical and phenological defense characteristics along ecological gradients. Project led by Carolina S. Oliveira during her PhD, supervised by Dr. Fernando A. O. Silveira (UFMG, Brazil). 2017-2020.
MUSGONET: effects of urbanization on mosses abundance, diversity and richness worldwide. Project led by Dr. Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo with international collaboration (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain). 2018-2022.
BIODESERT: to determine biological feedbacks and ecosystem resilience under global change with a new perspective of dryland desertification. Project led by Dr. Fernando T. Maestre with international collaboration (Dryland Ecology and Global Change Lab, URJC, Spain). 2016-2020.
Research biases and knowledge gaps in fragmentation patterns in Brazil and effects on biodiversity. Project supervised by myself (UFMT, Cuiabá, Brazil). 2018-2020.
Fragmentation patterns of Atlantic coastal forests in northern Spain and effects on their threatened fern species, such as Culcita macrocarpa and Woodwardia radicans, Ibero-macaronesian endemic species. MSc project supervised by Dr. Luis G. Quintanilla (URJC, Madrid, Spain). 2007-2008.
Doctoral stay with Dr. Sophie Karrenberg (Evolutionary Biology Center, Uppsala Univeristy, Sweden) studying mechanisms of habitat adaptation and mating barriers in a closely related hybridizing species pair of campions, Silene dioica and S. latifolia, by means of marker loci (SSR-microsatellites) under selection. 2011.
Partial collaboration in the study of pollination networks of alpine ecosystems in northern Spain (Picos de Europa National Park). Project led by Silvia SantamarĂa during her PhD (URJC, Madrid, Spain). 2010-2011.
