Aline Lopes
A5016973000- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
- Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Plant responses to water stress
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Environmental and biological studies
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
- Geography and Environmental Studies
- Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Growth and nutrition in plants
- Soil Management and Crop Yield
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Fern and Epiphyte Biology
- Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis
- Marine and coastal plant biology
National Institute of Amazonian Research
2016-2025
Centro Universitário Cesumar
2024-2025
Universidade de Brasília
2018-2024
Institut Sophia Agrobiotech
2022
Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement
2022
Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Brasília
2021
Universidade Nilton Lins
2017-2018
Amazon (Germany)
2014
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
2014
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
2014
Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear understanding how ecological communities respond environmental change across time space.3,4 While increasing availability global databases on has advanced knowledge biodiversity sensitivity changes,5,6,7 vast areas tropics remain understudied.8,9,10,11 In American tropics, Amazonia stands out as world's most diverse rainforest primary source Neotropical biodiversity,12 but remains among...
Unlike most rivers globally, nearly all lowland Amazonian have unregulated flow, supporting seasonally flooded floodplain forests. Floodplain forests harbor a unique tree species assemblage adapted to flooding and specialized fauna, including fruit-eating fish that migrate into floodplains, favoring expansive areas. Frugivorous are forest-dependent fauna critical forest regeneration via seed dispersal support commercial artisanal fisheries. We implemented linear mixed effects models...
Abstract Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used in ecology and conservation. Presence-only SDMs such as MaxEnt frequently use natural history collections (NHCs) occurrence data, given their huge numbers accessibility. NHCs often spatially biased which may generate inaccuracies SDMs. Here, we test how the of predictions relates to a spatial abundance model, based on large plot dataset for Amazonian tree species, using inverse distance weighting (IDW). We also propose new pipeline...
Abstract The Balbina hydropower dam in the Central Amazon basin, established Uatumã River 1980s, is emblematic for its socio‐environmental disaster. Its environmental impacts go far beyond reservoir and dam, however, affecting floodplain forests (igapó) downstream area (dam shadow), which have been assessed using a transdisciplinary research approach, synthesized this review. Floodplain tree species are adapted to regular predictable flood pulse, with high‐ low‐water periods occurring during...
Abstract Amazonia’s floodplain system is the largest and most biodiverse on Earth. Although forests are crucial to ecological integrity of floodplains, our understanding their species composition how this may differ from surrounding forest types still far too limited, particularly as changing inundation regimes begin reshape tree communities critical ecosystem functions they underpin. Here we address gap by taking a spatially explicit look at Amazonia-wide patterns tree-species turnover...
Abstract Aim Amazonia hosts more tree species from numerous evolutionary lineages, both young and ancient, than any other biogeographic region. Previous studies have shown that lineages colonized multiple edaphic environments dispersed widely across Amazonia, leading to a hypothesis, which we test, should not be strongly associated with either geographic regions or forest types. Location Amazonia. Taxon Angiosperms (Magnoliids; Monocots; Eudicots). Methods Data for the abundance of 5082 in...
The Amazonian wetlands cover a vast area subject to monomodal flood pulse with an annual amplitude averaging 10 m, which defines aquatic phase and terrestrial of great biological importance.According the geological origin catchment areas, physical chemical properties wetland will vary, being defined two major groups, várzeas igapós.Although herbaceous plants do occur in types, higher species richness densities are typical where species, particularly C 4 may exhibit high biomass values net...
Abstract: This review presents the current knowledge regarding South American wetlands and summarizes major outcomes of implementation Ramsar Convention on Wetlands International Importance for continent. America is wettest continent Earth, with accounting ~20% its area. harbor an exceptional rich biodiversity also including many endemic plant animal species. They provide numerous ecosystem services in terms provisioning material goods, regulating biogeochemical cycles, providing habitat,...
Introdução: A Síndrome de Burnout (SB) pode ser caracterizada por três pilares principais para serem estudados, como a exaustão pungente, despersonalização e redução da realização profissional. fadiga emocional ocorre quando há sentimentos esgotamento ou falta energia um período prolongado estresse conflito psicológico. E as instituições falham em não abordar auxiliar o assunto. Objetivo: Realizar uma análise doença os motivos que levaram estudantes medicina desenvolverem SB durante sua...
A diverse group of invasive grasses from tropical and subtropical Africa Asia has spread throughout the Neotropics over last decades. Despite their strong ecological impact, current future distribution patterns these in region according to climate change is poorly investigated. We chose ten high potential grass species used niche modeling project geographic within under four scenarios (current, SSP1-2.6, SSP3-7.0 SSP5-8.5 for 2100). Current climatically suitable areas were estimated account...
The large flood pulse of the Amazon basin is a principal driver environmental heterogeneity with important implications for ecosystem function and assembly natural communities. Understanding species ecological response to thus key question theories coexistence, resource management, conservation. Yet these remain largely undescribed most species, in particular trees. high tree diversity Negro River floodplain makes it an ideal system begin filling this knowledge gap. We merged historical...
Using 2.046 botanically-inventoried tree plots across the largest tropical forest on Earth, we mapped species-diversity and species-richness at 0.1-degree resolution, investigated drivers for diversity richness. only location, stratified by type, as predictor, our spatial model, to best of knowledge, provides most accurate map in Amazonia date, explaining approximately 70% species-richness. Large soil-forest combinations determine a significant percentage variation alpha-diversity Amazonian...
Climate change may affect the chemical composition of riparian leaf litter and, aquatic organisms consequently, breakdown. We evaluated effects different scenarios combining increased temperature and carbon dioxide (CO2) on detritus Hevea spruceana (Benth) Müll. decomposers (insect shredders microorganisms). hypothesized that simulated climate (warming elevated CO2) would: i) decrease leaf-litter quality, ii) survival breakdown by shredders, iii) increase microbial fungal biomass. performed...
ABSTRACT The Amazonian white-sand vegetation presents a set of unique features, such as the dominance few species, high endemism and low species richness, which differentiate it from other forests. Soil parameters have long been recognized main drivers (WSV) characteristics. However, how they influence composition, richness structure this type is still poorly understood. In study we investigated variation in floristic composition between patches soil-vegetation relations three central WSV...
Aquatic herbaceous macrophytes grow in profusion the Amazon fertile varzea floodplains. A large number of species occur but only a few are particularly abundant, supporting food chains, contributing substantially to carbon and nutrient cycles. Their growth role ecosystem depend, among other, on its life cycles habits, floating or semi-aquatic. Although last decades, petroliferous activity intensified Central region so did oil spills, effect petroleum native aquatic plants is unknown. The...
Abstract Aim To investigate the geographic patterns and ecological correlates in distribution of most common tree dispersal modes Amazonia (endozoochory, synzoochory, anemochory hydrochory). We examined if proportional abundance these could be explained by availability agents (disperser‐availability hypothesis) and/or resources for constructing zoochorous fruits (resource‐availability hypothesis). Time period Tree‐inventory plots established between 1934 2019. Major taxa studied Trees with a...
The consensus is that Amazonian white-sand ecosystems (campinaranas) shelter several endemic plant species. However, recent studies have shown most species are generalists, and they also occur in other Neotropical ecosystems. To investigate this issue, we analyzed the proportion of endemic/specialist a checklist trees, palms, shrubs sampled between 2014 2020 campinarana patches Uatumã Sustainable Development Reserve (USDR), central Amazon. We provide description...
Abstract In a time of rapid global change, the question what determines patterns in species abundance distribution remains priority for understanding complex dynamics ecosystems. The constrained maximization information entropy provides framework such systems by quantitative analysis important constraints via predictions using least biased probability distributions. We apply it to over two thousand hectares Amazonian tree inventories across seven forest types and thirteen functional traits,...