Danilo Neves

Life Sciences

Ecologist Danilo Neves is originally from the cerrado (grasslands) of Goiás, but he studied biological sciences and earned a master’s in plant biology at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul. His Ph.D. in plant biology from the Federal University of Minas Gerais included a sandwich fellowship at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh. Neves then returned to Edinburgh for his post-doctorate and later completed post-docs at the University of Arizona in the United States and the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, England. He returned to UFMG to take up a teaching position in the Botany Department. In his free time, he enjoys hiking and living in nature.

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Open Calls

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Projects

Unraveling the importance of anthropogenic and climatic factors on the evolution of Amazonian landscapes
Geosciences, Life Sciences

The project tries to understand the impact of human societies and the anthropogenic and climatic legacies on biodiversity and the evolution of Amazonian landscapes over the past millennia. Utilizing the infrastructure of archaeological excavations in Sambaquis, an interdisciplinary approach will be developed to analyze plants, molluscs, vertebrate fauna, and sediments. The biodiversity around Sambaquis will be compared with data from other areas of the Amazon, seeking evidence of climate changes focused on precipitation to distinguish the effects of natural and human pressures on the landscape.

Amount invested

Grant 2023: R$ 31.915,00
  • Topics
  • Biodiversity
  • threatened ecosystems
  • tropical biomes