Symposia
S1 - Ecological research on the impacts of climate change in Brazil: history and new perspectives
Monday, August 20 10h30 - 12h00
Organizers: Sandra Müller (UFRGS) and Adriane Muelbert (University of Leeds)
Impact of climate change on Brazilian ecosystems
Adriane Esquivel Muelbert (University of Leeds)
Climate change and the future of the Amazon
Carlos Afonso Nobre (INPE)
Climate change: altered ecosystems, shaken societies
David Lapola (Unicamp)
S2 - Empirical modeling of dynamic systems and detection of causality in ecological systems - theory and practice
Monday, August 20 10h30 - 12h00
Organizer: Paulo Inácio Prado (USP)
Introduction to empirical modeling of dynamic systems
Paulo Inácio Prado (USP)
A criterion of causality from the dynamics of natural systems
Roberto Kraenkel (UNESP)
Applications of EDM in ecology and epidemiology
Brenno Cabella (UNESP)
S3 - Diversity and ecosystem processes in brazilian continental waters: pressures and changes
Monday, August 20 10h30 - 12h00
Organizer: Roger Mormul (UEM)
Trophic dynamics and alternative stable states in the structure of populations and communities
José Luiz de Attayde (UFRN)
Biotic homogenization in continental aquatic environments: causes and consequences
Danielle Katharine Petsch (UFG)
Biological invasions and their impacts on the diversity and functioning of aquatic ecosystems
Roger Mormul (UEM)
S4 - Integrating Brazilian biodiversity: the contributions of the PPBio Program
Monday, August 20 15h00 - 16h30
Organizers: Gerhard Ernst Overbeck (UFRGS) and Carlos Eduardo Grelle (UFRJ)
Biological effect of amount of habitat and fragmentation on the Atlantic Forest biome
Carlos Eduardo Grelle (UFRJ)
Soil gradients, distance isolation, and rivers determine the distribution of animal and plant communities in the Amazon
Cristian de Sales Dambros (UFSM)
Diversity patterns in the Southern Fields: environmental filters, space and interactions among trophic groups
Gerhard Ernst Overbeck (UFRGS) e Luciana Menezes (UFRGS)
S5 - The search for causal mechanisms: energetic and metabolic models in ecology
Monday, August 20 15h00 - 16h30
Organizer: Marcus Vinícius Vieira (UFRJ)
Mechanistic models of species distribution based on physiological parameters and the metabolic theory of ecology
Fernanda Cassemiro (UFG)
Interrelation between energy metabolism, thermal balance and vulnerability to climatic changes in bats
Ariovaldo Cruz Neto (UNESP)
Energetic and metabolic models in population ecology and animal movement
Marcus Vinícius Vieira (UFRJ)
S6 - Restoration and monitoring of ecosystem functions
Monday, August 20 15h00 - 16h30
Organizer: Marcos Carlucci (UFPR)
Use of functional traits in restoration: optimizing diversity and stability in the provision of functions
Marcos Carlucci (UFPR)
Ecological processes and functioning of ecosystems: applications in the monitoring of restoration
Milena Rosenfield (UFRGS)
Functionality and ecosystem services of the Atlantic Forest
Márcia Marques (UFPR)
S7 - Biodiversity conservation and public policy
Tuesday, August 21 10h30 - 12h00
Organizer: Isabela Varassin (UFPR)
Databases as tools for public policy
Antônio Saraiva (USP)
The Brazilian Plant-Pollinator Interaction Network
Kayna Agostini (UFSCAR)
The interface between BPBES and REBIPP
Carlos Alfredo Joly (Unicamp)
S8 - Integration of experiments and modeling in large current projects in the Amazon
Tuesday, August 21 10h30 - 12h00
Organizer: David Lapola (Unicamp)
Manipulative experiments at the ecosystem scale: effects of nutritional limitations and increase of atmospheric CO2 in amazonian forests
Carlos Quesada (INPA)
Do we have an answer for SLOSS? What comes after SLOSS based on long-term monitoring in the Amazon from the perspective of the PDBFF?
José Luís Camargo (INPA)
The perfect formula for the degradation of amazonian forests: interactions among fire, drought and forest fragmentation
Paulo Brando (IPAM)
S9 - Microbial Ecology: diversity and ecosystem processes
Tuesday, August 21 10h30 - 12h00
Organizer: Fernando Andreote (Esalq-USP)
How can the prediction of the microbiome be used to assess environmental health
Diogo Jurelevicius (UFRJ)
Microbial ecology in soils and the connection with plant development
Fernando Andreote (ESALQ-USP)
Microbiomas of built environments: how urbanization is changing the microbial communities that live with us
Luciana Paulino (UFABC)
S10 - Historical ecology: history of environments and the environments of the history of Brazil
Wednesday, August 22 10h30 - 12h00
Organizer: Rogério Oliveira (PUC-RJ)
Theoretical bases and applications of historical ecology and historical geography
Alexandro Solórzano (PUC-Rio)
The Atlantic Forest and the Amazon Forest in the history of Brazil: a comparative approach
José Augusto Pádua (UFRJ)
Linking historical legacies and biodiversity in the Atlantic forest
Rogério Oliveira (PUC-RJ)
S11 - Ecology of invasions in Brazil: interfaces with ecological theory and conservation
Wednesday, August 22 10h30 - 12h00
Organizer: Rafael Zenni (UFLA)
Distribution and impacts of invasive fish in watersheds in southeastern Brazil: research and management priorities
Marina Lopes Bueno (UFLA)
Ecology and management of invasive alien plants in the Atlantic Forest: priorities for research and action
Michele de Sá Dechoum (UFSC)
Invasive species distribution in Brazil and impacts of invasive plants in the Cerrado and Caatinga biomes
Rafael Zenni (UFLA)
S12 - Trophic interactions and ecosystem functions in the face of global changes
Wednesday, August 22 10h30 - 12h00
Organizer: Ricardo Solar (UFMG)
Changes in nutrient availability alter tree ant communities in the Cerrado
Ricardo Solar (UFMG)
Impacts of climate change and changes in land use on insect-plant interactions
Tatiana Cornelissen (UFSJ)
The collapse of trophic interactions at habitat edges and its implications for ecosystem functioning
Cristina Banks-Leite (Imperial College)
S13 - Citizen science: an efficient tool for biodiversity conservation
Wednesday, August 22 15h00 - 16h30
Organizer: Blandina Viana (UFBA)
The potential of citizen science for the monitoring of pollinators in Brazil
Blandina Viana (UFBA)
Citizen scientist: participatory bird monitoring in Brazil
Pedro Develey (BirdLife International & Save Brasil)
Citizen science: social participation guaranteeing the success of reforestation in agrarian reform rural settlements
Rafael Chiaravalloti (IPÊ)
S14 - Molecular and genomic approaches in ecology
Wednesday, August 22 15h00 - 16h30
Organizer: Rodrigo Cogni (USP)
Genomes as time machines: neotropical birds as models
Fabio Raposo do Amaral (Unifesp)
Landscape genomics
Marina Côrtes (Unesp)
Adaptations in times of recent climate change: integrating ecology, evolution and genomics into a model organism
Rodrigo Cogni (USP)
S15 - Fire in different brazilian biomes
Wednesday, August 22 15h00 - 16h30
Organizer: Luiz Aragão (INPE)
Forest fires in the tropics: causes and consequences for the functioning of ecosystems
Luiz Aragão (INPE)
The formation of a fire storm in the Amazon
Paulo Monteiro Brando (IPAM)
Cerrado burns: how often?
Heloisa Miranda (UnB)