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Introduction
Doctor in Experimental Epidemiology Applied to Zoonosis at FMVZ / USP. Master's degree in Biology (Ecology) by INPA (2007), DVM at UEL (2002). Works as Environmental Analyst since 2007, had occupied position as veterinarian and head of IBAMA Wildlife Trial Center in Manaus-AM (2007-2008). From 2009 to date, works at Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio), on the National Center for Research and Conservation of Reptiles and Amphibians (RAN) since 2010. Has experience in the areas of Epidemiology, Conservation Medicine, Invasive Species Management, Ecology and Herpetology, working on Brazilian Biodiversity Conservation with emphasis on Squamata.
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October 2009 - present
Position
- analista ambiental
Description
- O RAN é um centro especializado do ICMBio, reconhecido como um Centro de referência na geração e gestão de informações que subsidiam a implantação de medidas de conservação e de aprimoramento das políticas ambientais voltadas aos répteis e anfíbios.
Education
May 2015 - May 2019
January 2005 - January 2007
January 1998 - January 2002
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Publications (26)
Salmonella infection can pose serious health issues, especially to children, elders or immunosuppressed humans. Wild populations of reptiles can reach Salmonella prevalence of up to 100% and the direct or indirect transmission from reptiles to humans have been extensively reported. Fernando de Noronha (FN) is an inhabited oceanic archipelago in the...
Abstract. The golden lancehead pitviper (Bothrops insularis) is a critically endangered species endemic to the Queimada Grande Island, a federally protected area located 33 km off the southern coast of São Paulo State, Brazil. Adults have specialized diet, preying upon migrating birds, and the species’ reproductive efficiency is quite lower than it...
Anthropogenic factors have significantly influenced the frequency, duration, and intensity of meteorological drought in many regions of the globe, and the increased frequency of wildfires is among the most visible consequences of human-induced climate change. Despite the fire role in determining biodiversity outcomes in different ecosystems, wildfi...
O Pantanal vem sofrendo diferentes ameaças ao longo dos anos, as quais têm alterado suas paisagens e prejudicado o pulso de inundação. Desde 2020, uma das maiores preocupações relativas à conservação de biodiversidade do bioma é a mudança do regime de fogo e os impactos dos grandes incêndios. O aumento na frequência e na intensidade de incêndios é...
O propósito deste livro é contribuir em ações de educação na área de
Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde e disseminar informações sobre
serpentes de interesse médico no estado do Tocantins. Aspectos como
sintomatologia dos casos, reconhecimento dos sintomas, assim como a
identificação da serpente causadora do acidente são abordados, uma
vez que estas in...
Rodents are maintenance hosts of numerous pathogens, and both their density and the pathogen prevalence determine the risk they pose to other animals or humans. However, density is often overlooked. We investigated a capture‐mark‐recapture‐sampling strategy to study introduced mice (Mus musculus) and Leptospira as a model and demonstrate the advant...
Invasive species are on the rise. It is a global problem and early detections of
alien species may be the key to control and eradicate potentially invasive populations.
Thus, we gathered information of amphibian and reptile species that were
introduced to or from the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, in the northeast of
Brazil. We found that at l...
Editorial Por que a Iniciação Científica é essencial? A ciência brasileira passa, neste momento, por um dos maiores desafios de sua história. Cortes nos investimentos para a pesquisa, o declínio nas oportunidades de colocação no mercado de trabalho e o conspícuo desinteresse na formação de cientistas qualificados têm corroído a esperança de muitos...
Anthropogenic factors have significantly influenced the frequency, duration, and intensity of meteorological drought in many regions of the globe, and the increased frequency of wildfires is among the most visible consequences of human-induced climate change. Despite its role in determining biodiversity outcomes in different ecosystems, wildfires c...
Neste capítulo traremos uma revisão sobre os Planos de Ação Nacionais para Conservação de Espécies Ameaçadas de Extinção (PAN), focados na herpetofauna, e como essa ferramenta auxilia a gestão e as políticas públicas. Discorremos como o PAN é conduzido de forma colaborativa e objetiva identificar, orientar e priorizar ações para combater as ameaças...
Vertebrates introduced in non-native habitats have contributed to several extinctions in the modern era, with direct effects mainly over birds, mammals and reptiles on islands. Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, in tropical Atlantic Ocean, is a World Heritage natural site, holding the most diverse breeding seabird community off Brazil, in addition to...
Biological invasion is one of the main threats to native biodiversity. For a species to become invasive, it must be voluntarily or involuntarily introduced by humans into a nonnative habitat. Mammals were among first taxa to be introduced worldwide for game, meat, and labor, yet the number of species introduced in the Neotropics remains unknown. In...
Fernando de Noronha (FN) is an oceanic archipelago in the northeast coast of Brazil, approximately 360 km away from the continent. It is composed of 21 islands and the biggest (also named Fernando de Noronha) has 16.4 km² and is inhabited since the 17th century. The archipelago is an important breeding site for several marine birds, including regio...
Although chemical interactions play an essential role in lizard social behavior, the chemical composition of the femoral gland secretions that many lizards use for communication is known for only a few species, mainly European Lacertids. The tegu lizard, Salvator merianae, is the only species of the Teiidae family for which there is available infor...
Invasive mammals such as rats are associated with negative impacts on native fauna and their eradication on islands around the world has been proved to result in substantial conservation gains. Fernando de Noronha is an archipelago located off the north-east coast of Brazil and has records of native fauna negatively impacted by introduced rats. We...
A Mata Atlântica Nordestina é um dos centros de biodiversidade mais ameaçados do mundo. Sua área foi historicamente suprimida pela pecuária e monocultura de cana-de-açúcar desde
o Brasil-colônia. Atualmente encontra-se altamente fragmentada e os poucos remanescentes de
vegetação ainda nativa são de grande prioridade para conservação, abrigando alta...
A avaliação dos répteis brasileiros foi coordenada pelo Centro Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação de Répteis e Anfíbios (RAN), que avaliou todas as espécies continentais de Testudines (tartarugas, cágados e jabutis - 31 espécies), Crocodylia (jacarés - 6 espécies) e Squamata (lagartos, serpentes e anfisbênias - 690 espécies), e pelo Centro Nacional...
In this paper, an overview of introduced cat and rodent impacts on islands, and methods for their control and eradication, are presented. Fernando de Noronha, an inhabited oceanic island of Brazil, is used as a case study to illustrate the challenges of cat and rodent management on inhabited islands. Cat impacts have been recorded for 175 vertebrat...
Cat management campaigns have been implemented on several islands worldwide. However, few successful campaigns have occurred on permanently inhabited islands. Cats are known for causing severe impacts on the native insular fauna, posing an important threat to biodiversity. Moreover, this species is also responsible for zoonosis maintenance and tran...
Ornithodoros capensis sensu lato (s. l.) is a worldwide-distributed group of soft ticks that parasitize birds in insular and continental lands. It is currently composed of 11 morphologically closely related species. Several viral and bacterial pathogens, and particularly Coxiella-like endosymbiont organisms have been described coexisting with ticks...
Since its original description from the Amazonian region, the tick species Amblyomma goeldii Neumann, 1899 has been misidentified with Amblyomma rotundatum Koch, 1844 in different countries of the Neotropical region. Because of this, some authors have considered that the only confirmed records of A. goeldii were from French Guyana. Herein, we revie...
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