Community Ecology Lab

I served as Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM) from 2013 to 2025. I am currently a researcher affiliated with the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA). My research focuses on understanding the structure and dynamics of ecological communities. I am particularly interested in the evolutionary outcomes of mutualistic and antagonistic interactions at the assemblage level. I also coordinate the Manaus Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site, PELD-IAFA.

Talitha is studying ant-plant interactions between flooding and terra-firme forests. She is particularly interested in understand how the interaction strength varies between mutualist and non-mutualist ant-plant networks. She is co-advised by Dr. Thiago Izzo.