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Almir De Paula

Almir DePaula, portrait
Graduate Student
Life Sciences Building 231

Adviser

Dr. Donald Miles

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 Brasília; 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.