I am a Brazilian ecologist interested in community ecology, species interactions (particularly between plants and animals) and restoration. My research focuses on identifying the mechanisms driving forest recovery: how plant and animal communities, their interactions, and ultimately ecosystem functioning recover as agricultural land is abandoned and forests regenerate.
During my PhD, carried out as part of the first phase of the Reassembly Project, I investigated the recovery of seed dispersal interaction networks, their functions, and their effects on plant regeneration along the Reassembly chronosequence of forest recovery.
As a postdoctoral researcher in SP 1, I now aim to broaden these questions beyond a single interaction type, searching for cross-taxa patterns that reveal the general mechanisms underpinning the recovery of plant and animal communities. My work combines empirical network data with synthesis approaches to understand what drives reassembly; and what this means for the conservation and restoration of tropical forests.
