Lab Head

Adriano Garcia Chiarello

PhD Students

Marcella Pônzio

She investigates the influence of different landscape features on mammal communities in agroecosystems of the Cerrado domain (Brazilian savanna).

Monique Martins

Works with ecology and conservation of medium and large mammals in Protection Areas, focusing on species monitoring.

Nielson Pasqualotto

PhD Candidate in Applied Ecology, investigates the main drivers of the European hare invasion in the Neotropics and its impacts to native mammal species.

Ricardo Sampaio

PhD student in comparative biology, investigates the traditional human ecological knowledge about subsistence hunting, species diversity and occupancy modeling of game species in Sustainable Use Reserves in the Brazilian Amazon.

Roberta Paolino

Works with community and population ecology, occupancy and density estimates of mammals and birds, and human dimensions of conservation.

Vinicius Alberici

PhD Candidate in Applied Ecology, investigates the impacts of roads on medium and large-sized mammals in the Brazilian Cerrado, particularly the giant anteater.

MSc Students

Pollyana Sanches

Evaluation of the population viability of two primate species living in a fragment near the urbanization growing zone of Ribeirão Preto (São Paulo-BR).

Undergrads

Ana Letícia Figueiredo

Has experience on small neotropical mammals identification, right whale ground monitoring, faunistic survey and development of didactic materials. Has interest in Ecology, Conservation Biology, Environmental Education and Management of Protect Areas.