post-doc
I am a community ecologist, focusing on how biodiversity is structured under global changes. I am specifically interested on testing ecological theories on how biodiversity is originated through ecological succession and how species are assembled into communities (e.g., assembly rules), to understand the effects of global changes on biodiversity. My main study topics are:
- Soil community dynamics during the succession of deglaciated terrains after glacier retreat.
- The effects of human impacts, such as deforestation and gold-mining, in Neotropical rivers.
To conduct my research, I combine environmental DNA and traditional inventories to generate comprehensive datasets. This allows to measure the biodiversity of communities in a multifaceted way, considering both taxonomic and functional diversity.