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Here you find information about our current lab members. After almost 15 years at USP I was lucky to have the opportunity to work with a special group of people. Information on former lab members is available here 

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Our lab also host students as trainees, please click here.
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Paulo R. Guimarães Jr. (Miúdo)
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Full Professor at the Departamento de Ecologia, IB - USP
Interests: how ecological networks shape and are shaped by ecological and coevolutionary processes. I explore this problem by integrating data and natural history of ecological interactions, network science, and mathematical modelling.

Selected publications:

​Guimarães, P. R. 2020. The structure of ecological networks across levels of organization. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 51:433-460.

Guimarães, P.R., M. M. Pires, P. Jordano, J. Bascompte, J. N. Thompson. 2017. Indirect effects drive coevolution in mutualistic networks. Nature 550: 511–514.

Guimarães, P.R., P. Jordano, J. N. Thompson. 2011. Evolution and coevolution in mutualistic networks. Ecology Letters 14: 877-885 [PDF]. See also the article in Science highlighting this study: [Editors' Choice].  

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Kate Maia
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Postdoc 
Interests: structural transitions in ecological networks
​Fellowship: FAPESP

Selected publications:

Maia, K. P., F. M. D. Marquitti, I. P. Vaughan, J. Memmott, R. L. G., Raimundo. 2021. Interaction generalisation and demographic feedbacks drive the resilience of plant-insect networks to extinctions. Journal of Animal Ecology. (in press).

Maia, K. P., I. P. Vaughan, J Memmott. 2019. Plant species roles in pollination networks: an experimental approach. Oikos 128:1446-1457.

Maia, K. P., C. Rasmussen, J. M. Olesen, P. R. Guimarães. 2019. Does the sociality of pollinators shape the organisation of pollination networks? Oikos  128: 741-752.​​
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Currently, Kate is a visiting scholar at Jens-Christian Svenning's Lab at Aarhus Universitet
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Caroline Dracxler
​Postdoc 
Interests: networks of antagonisms and mutualisms
​Fellowship: FAPESP

Selected publications:

Dracxler, C. M. & Kissling, W. D. 2021. The mutualism–antagonism continuum in Neotropical palm–frugivore interactions: from interaction outcomes to ecosystem dynamics. Biological Reviews (early view)

Mittelman, P., Dracxler C. M., Santos-Coutinho, P. R. O. & Pires, A. S. 2021. Sowing forests: a synthesis of seed dispersal and predation by agoutis and their influence on plant communities. Biological Reviews 96: 2425-2445.


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Erika M. Santana
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Postdoc  (co-supervised by Carlos J. Melián, EAWAG, Switzerland)
Interests: interface between social and ecological networks
​Fellowship: Schweizerische Nationalfonds (SNF, Switzerland) e CNPq
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Andrés Rojas
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PhD student - Ecology (USP)
MBA student - Data Science e Analytics (USP/ESALQ)
Interests:
 networks of competitors
​Fellowship: CAPES
Co-supervisor: Paulinha Assis
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Publications
Rojas, A., D. G. Muniz, D. Solano-Brenes, G. Machado. 2021.  Nest-site selection in a neotropical arachnid with exclusive male care: proximate cues and adaptive meaning. Ethology (in press).

​Rojas, A., D. Solano-Brenes, D. G. Muniz, G. Machado. 2019. Gone with the rain: negative effects of rainfall on male reproductive success in a nest-building arachnid. Behavioral Ecology 30: 1145-1156. 
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​Leandro G. Cosmo
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PhD student - Ecology (USP)
Interests: fitness consequences of coevolving networks
​Fellowship: FAPESP

Publications

Cosmo, L. G., Yamaguchi, L. F., Felix, G. M., Kato, M. J., Cogni, R., Pareja, M. 2021. From the leaf to the community: Distinct dimensions of phytochemical diversity shape insect–plant interactions within and among individual plants. Journal of Ecology. (in press)

Cosmo, L.G., A. R. Nascimento, R. Cogni, A. V. L. Freitas. 2019. Temporal distribution in a tri-trophic system associated with Piper amalago L. in a tropical seasonal forest. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 13: 1-6.

Cosmo, L. G., E. P. Barbosa, A. V. L.  Freitas. 2014. Biology and morphology of the immature stages of Hermeuptychia atalanta (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 50: 82-88.
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Currently, Leandro is a visiting student at Jordi Bascompte's Lab at Universität Zürich.
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Lucas Nascimento (Taio)
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PhD student - Ecology (USP)
MBA student - Data Science e Analytics (USP/ESALQ)
Interests: frugivory and the evolution of color patterns in birds
Fellowship: FAPESP

​Selected publications:
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​Nascimento, L. F., P. R. Guimarães, R. E. Onstein, W. D. Kissling, M. M. Pires. 2020. Associated evolution of fruit size, fruit color and spines in Neotropical palms. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 33: 858-868.
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Currently, Lucas is a visiting student at Daniel Kissling's Lab at Universiteit van Amsterdam
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​​​Pâmela Friedemann
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PhD student - Ecology (USP)
Interests: individual-based networks of plants and seed dispersers
​Fellowship: CAPES
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Currently, Pâmela is a visiting student at Dan Bolnick's Lab at University of Connecticut.
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Daniela Gomes
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Undergrad student - Biological Sciences (USP)
Interests: super-generalists & network dynamics
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Stefani Pires Caldeira
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Undergrad student - Biological Sciences (USP)
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​Daniela Coelho (Dani)
Lab Technician​ (2023 - FAPESP)
PhD in Ecology - USP (2022)
Research: Network structure of snake-resource interactions
​Fellowship: CAPES

Publications
Pinto-Coelho, D., M. Martins, and P. R. Guimarães. Network analyses reveal the role of large snakes in connecting feeding guilds in a species-rich Amazonian snake community. Ecology and Evolution (in press).​
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Alice
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Alice joined the lab in 2012.

Alice is interested in butterflies, but also in toucans, flowers, hummingbirds, sacis, and Wonder Woman. She is now testing predictions of entropy-based theories, using her bedroom as studied system.
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Marina
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Marina joined the lab in 2015.

Marina is interested in whales, mermaids, perching birds, colorful unicorns and in applications of Chaos Theory to the dynamics of toy models.
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Artwork by Rodolfo G. Batista 
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