Gustavo Oliveira-Santos

Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences at Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC - 2006), obtained his master's degree in Ecology and Conservation at Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS - 2009) and his PhD in Ecology at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ - 2013).   

Gustavo has broad interests in Ecology. He has dedicated much of his efforts in understanding animal populations (demography and movement). Furthermore, he loves to develop analytical tools to tackle different issues in animal behavior. Currently, he is professor in the Ecology Department from the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, advising undergrad and graduate students in the Animal Biology Program and in the Ecology and Conservation Program. He strongly warrants that Flamengo is the best soccer team in the world. 
Pâmela C. Antunes
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Marcos Tortato
Marcos works with population and movement ecology of carnivores (mainly small felides) at Atlantic Forest. Currently, he is carrying out his PhD in Ecology by understanding the changes in demographic parameters and movement modes of Leopardus guttulus under different landscape managements.
Thiago Matheus
Thiago investigates the effects of release/translocation of fauna on the receptor population. In his PhD in Ecology he is studying experimentally how the introduction of new individuals affect the survivorship, permanece and spatial sexual structure of the resident population.
Vitor Q. A. Sanches
Vitor investigates the perceptual capacities of small rodents and marsupials. In his Phd project in Ecology, he is experimentally translocating individuals at different distances from forest patches to understand how small animals perceive, move and navigate across the non-forest matrices.
Patrícia Shibuya
Patrícia investigates the perceptual capacities of forest frogs. In her Phd project in Ecology, she is experimentally translocating individuals at different distances from forest patches to understand how they perceive, move and navigate across the non-forest matrices.
Márcia Marrie
Marrie is working with movement and population ecology of freshwater turtles. In her Master in Animal Biology, she is VHF- and GPS-tracking Phrynops geoffroanus to estimate its home range size and core areas, as well as using capture-mark-recapture methods to estimate demographic parameters as density and apparent survivorship.
Samara Medeiros
Samara investigates the perceptual capacities of forest frogs. In her Master project in Ecology, she is experimentally translocating individuals faraway from forest patches to investigate their navigation capabilities. Specifically, she is releasing individuals under different visual and sound cues to investigate which senses are used during path integration.
Larissa Lopes
Ana C. França
Larissa works with population and movement ecology of freshwater turtles in urban rivers. In her scientific initiation in Biological Sciences, she is VHF and GPS-tracking, as well as capturing and marking Phrynops geoffroanus in a small urban stream.
Ana is using temporal series of capture-mark-recapture of fresh water turtles in urban rivers to figure out the body growth curve of this organism. His research will allow to assign the age (in years) for each captured individual based on its size, aiming estimate the age structure for this turtle population.
Matheus H. Justino
Matheus is carrying out his monograph in Biological Sciences by investigating the movement ecology of freshwater turtles. Specifically, he is VHF-tracking Phrynops geoffroanus to figure out how far it can move (home range size), if there are relevant urban barriers to its movement, and if there is sexual differences in the home range sizes.
Cláudia Kanda
 
Cláudia is visiting us to try to understand the sociobiology of jaguars (Panthera onca) in Pantanal. She is carrying out his master thesis in Ecology by GPS-tracking the fine-scale movement of simultaneous jaguars.