Fieldwork and study systems
Fieldwork
I have carried out fieldwork across Atlantic Forest, Amazon, Cerrado, Caatinga and extreme habitats such as Amazon cangas and continental and marine inselbergs, focusing on long-term plots, trait sampling and demographic monitoring.
My fieldwork spans a wide range of Neotropical ecosystems, from humid forests to seasonally dry and open vegetation, including:
- Atlantic Rainforest – from lowland to montane forests along elevational gradients
- Amazonian forests – intact and human‑modified tropical forests
- Cerrado – savanna and forest–savanna transitions
- Caatinga – seasonally dry tropical forests
- Amazonian cangas – ferruginous rocky outcrops under extreme edaphic and climatic conditions
- Inselbergs – both continental and coastal/maritime rocky outcrops, hosting highly specialized and often endemic plant communities.
Across these systems, I combine vegetation surveys, demographic monitoring, experiments and trait measurements to understand how environmental gradients, disturbance and insularity shape plant communities, plant interactions and ecossystem functioning.
Fieldwork video
Below are short videos presenting my fieldwork in the Atlantic Forest.