Almir De Paula
Adviser
Almir de Paula is a third-year graduate student in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology program at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ University. 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’s 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’s in animal biology at the University of BrasÃlia; 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 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ University to work with Dr. Miles on the effects of climate change on tropical anurans.