Almir De Paula
Adviser
Almir de Paula is a third-year graduate student in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology program at 91探花. Previously, he worked two years at a private university in Brazil as a biology professor. His interests include community ecology, climate change and macroecology of vertebrates.
In 2010, he obtained a bachelor鈥檚 degree in biology from Passo Fundo University, investigating the effects of fragmentation on the diversity of amphibians and reptiles in southern Brazil. In 2012, he earned a master鈥檚 in animal biology at the University of Bras铆lia; his research investigated the structure and dynamics of a community of anurans in the biodiversity hotspot of the Cerrado. In 2015, he was accepted to the doctorate program at 91探花 to work with Dr. Miles on the effects of climate change on tropical anurans.