Module of Advanced Topics in Biodiversity (Theoretical)

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Marcílio Fagundes

Syllabus:

Structure, function, and evolution of diaspores. Intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms regulating seed germination. Dispersal syndromes and mechanisms. Behavioral, ecological, and evolutionary interactions between plants and dispersal agents. Seed-pathogen-herbivore interactions.

Bibliography:

BASKIN, C. C., and J. M. BASKIN. 1998. Seeds: Ecology, biogeography, and evolution of dormancy and germination. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

BEWLEY, J. D., and M. BLACK. 1994. Seeds: Physiology of development and germination. 2d ed. Language of Science. New York: Plenum.

FENNER, M., ed. 2000. Seeds: The ecology of regeneration in plant communities. 2d ed. Wallingford, UK: CABI.

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Lemuel Olívio Leite

Syllabus:

Main biogeographic theories: Refuge Theory, Rivers as Barriers, and Ecological Gradient. Biogeographic patterns and processes in the Neotropical region. Island biogeography and applications.

Bibliography:

Brown, J. H. & Lomolino, M. V. 2006. Biogeografia. 2ª edição. Ribeirão Preto: FUNPEC Editora. 691 p.

Carvalho, C. J. B. & Almeida, E. A. B. 2010. Biogeografia da América do Sul. Padrões e Processos. São Paulo: Roca. 306 p.

Martins, C. Biogeografia e ecologia. 5. ed. São Paulo: Nobel, 1992. 115 p.

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Marcílio Fagundes

Syllabus:

Morphofunctional and evolutionary aspects of flowers; flowering phenology; reproductive systems; pollinator syndromes; plant-pollinator interactions and community organization.

Bibliography:

DAFNI, A. Pollination ecology: a practical approach.Oxford: Oxford University, 1992. 250 p.

ENDRESS, P. K. Diversity and evolutionary biology of tropical flowers. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1994. 511 p.

FAEGRI, K. & PIJL, L. VAN DER. The principles of pollination ecology. 3 ed. London: Pergamon, 1979. 244 p.

GILBERT, L. E. & RAVEN, P. H. Coevolution of animals and plants. Austin: University of Texas, 1975. 246 p.

JONES, C. E. & LITTLE, R. J. Handbook of experimental pollination ecology. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1983. 558 p.

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Walter Santos de Araújo

Syllabus:

Biomonitoring and bioindication. Introduction to insects. Insects and Brazilian environmental legislation. Indicator taxa. Bioindication categories. Biomonitoring scales. Terrestrial biomonitoring. Aquatic biomonitoring. Case studies and examples.

Bibliography:

BROWN, K.S. Diversity, disturbance, and sustainable use of Neotropical forests: insects as indicators for conservation monitoring. Journal of Insect Conservaton, v. 1, p. 25-42, 1997.

SIDDIG, A.A.H. et al. How do ecologists select and use indicator species to monitor ecological change? Insights from 14 years of publication in Ecological Indicators. Ecological Indicators 60: 223-230. 2016. 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Dario Alves de Oliveira

Syllabus:

Biodiversity at risk. Bioprospecting and biopiracy – Concepts. Wildlife trafficking. Molecular extraction. Anti-biopiracy enforcement instruments.

Bibliography:

MACHADO, Angelo B. M.; DRUMMOND, Gláucia Moreira; PAGLIA, Adriano Pereira (Ed.) BRASIL. Livro vermelho da fauna brasileira ameaçada de extinção. Brasília, DF: MMA; Belo Horizonte, MG: Fundação Biodiversitas, 2008.

PRIMACK, Richard; RODRIGUES, Efraim. Biologia da conservação. Londrina: E. Rodrigues, 2001. 

ANGELL, Márcia. A verdade sobre os laboratórios farmacêuticos. Como somos enganados e o que podemos fazer a respeito. Record. 3ª edição. Rio de Janeiro/São Paulo. 2008.

TACHINARDI, Maria Helena. A Guerra das Patentes - Conflito Brasil X EUA Sobre Propriedade Intelectual. Editora Paz e Terra. 1993

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Geraldo Wilson Fernandes

Syllabus:

Tropical and temperate comparisons of herbivory and plant defenses in forests. Mutualistic relationships between plants and animals. Composition of ant-plant symbiosis in tropical systems. Distribution of extrafloral nectaries in woody flora of tropical communities. Antagonistic relationships between plants and animals. Community patterns in natural and agricultural systems.

Bibliography:

M.BEGON, C.R. TOWNSEND, J.L. HARPER. 2007. Ecologia: De individuos a ecossistemas,4 ed. Artmed.

PRICE PW, LEWINSOHN TM, FERNANDES GW, BENSON WW, (eds.). 1991  Plant-animal interactions. Evolutionary ecology in tropical and temperate regions.  New York, Wiley-Interscience 639 pp. 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Maurício Lopes de Faria

Syllabus:

Concept of biodiversity and conservation biology in relation to the current extinction crisis. Diversity loss, major extinction events, nature conservation theory, percolation threshold and corridor theory.

Bibliography:

CAUGHLEY, G & GUNN, A. Conservation Biology in Theory and Practice. 460p., 1995.

PRIMACK, B. R & RODRIGUES, E. 2001. Biologia da Conservação. Londrina: Ed. Midiograf. (Livro-texto)

LEWINSOHN, T. M. e PRADO, P. I. 2002. Biodiversidade brasileira – síntese do estado atual do conhecimento. São Paulo: Editora Contexto. 176 p.

MYERS, N., MITTERMEIER, R. A., MITTERMEIER, C. G., FONSECA, G. A. e KENT, J. 2000. Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities. Nature 403: 853-858.

SOULÉ, M. E. 1986. Conservation Biology: the Science of scarcity and diversity. Sunderland: Massachusetts. Sinauer Associates Inc. 584p. 

TERBORGH, J., VAN SCHAIK, C., DAVENPORT, L., RAO, M. 2002. Tornando os parques eficientes: estratégias para a conservação da natureza nos trópicos. Curitiba: Editora UFPR. 518 p.

WILSON, E. O. Biodiversidade. Rio de Janeiro, Editora Nova Fronteira. 1997. 

WILSON, E. O. 2002. O futuro da vida: um estudo da biosfera para a proteção de todas as espécies, inclusive a humana. Rio de Janeiro: Ed. Campus. 242 p. 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Maurício Lopes de Faria

Syllabus:

Canon of ecological studies, the search for patterns and its fallacy. Determinism versus chance. Null models and chaos in ecology.

Bibliography:

GOTELLI NICHOLAS J. 1996.Null Models in Ecology. Smithsonian. Washington DC. 368pp. 

J. M. CUSHING, R. F. COSTANTINO,B. DENNIS,R. DESHARNAIS,S. M. HENSON. 2003. Chaos in Ecology: Experimental Nonlinear Dynamics. Academic Press, London U.K. 245pp. 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Frederico de Siqueira Neves

Syllabus:

Theoretical framework of canopy ecology and techniques for forest canopy research development. Overview of canopy research in Brazil. Case studies of plant-animal interactions.

Bibliography:

LOWMAN, Margaret D.; MOFFETT, Mark. The ecology of tropical rain forest canopies. Trends in ecology & evolution, v. 8, n. 3, p. 104-107, 1993. 

RUSSELL, Graham; MARSHALL, Bruce; JARVIS, Paul G. Plant canopies: their growth, form and function. Cambridge University Press, 1990. 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Henrique Maia Valério

Syllabus:

Microbial biodiversity. Plant-associated microbiota: nitrogen fixers, mycorrhizal fungi, endophytes, epiphytes, and pathogen control strategies in plants. Molecular ecology of genetic/functional variability in plant-associated microorganisms. Proteomics and metabolomics of microbial interactions with vascular plants.

Bibliography:

AZEVEDO, J.L. (1998) Genética de Microrganismos. Ed. Universidade Federal de Goiás. Goiânia, 478p. DOBEREINER, J. & PEDROSA, F. O. (1987) Nitrogen-fixing bacteria in nonleguminous crop plants. Science Tech. Publication, Madison, 154p.

ISAAC, S. (1992). Fungal-Plant interaction. Chapman & Hall, London, 418p.

MELO, I.S. & AZEVEDO, J.L. (1997) Microbiologia Ambiental. Ed. EMBRAPA, Jaguariúna, 438p.

MELO, I.S. & AZEVEDO, J.L. (1998) Ecologia Microbiana. Ed. EMBRAPA, Jaguariúna, 486p.

REDLIN, S.C. & CARRIS, L.M. (1996) Endophytic fungi in grasses and woody plants. APS Press. Am Phytopathol. Soc. St. Paul, Minnesota, 223p.

STACEY, G.; BURRIS, R.H. & EVANS, N.J. (1992) Biological Nitrogen fixation. Chapman & Hall, New York. 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Ronaldo Reis Junior

Syllabus:

Natural selection, ecology, and behavior. Hypotheses in behavioral ecology. Economic decisions and the individual. Behavior coevolution in interspecific interactions. Sexual conflict and sexual selection. Parental care and mating systems. Signals and communication systems.

Bibliography:

Étienne Danchin; Giraldeau, L.-A. & Cézilly, F.Étienne Danchin; Giraldeau, L.-A. & Cézilly, F., ed. (2008), Behavioural Ecology, Oxford.

Krebs, J. R. & Davies, N. B. (1996), Introdução à Ecologia Comportamental, Atheneu. 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Anderson Medeiro dos Santos

Syllabus:

Concepts of habitat fragmentation and loss. Main causes of fragmentation. Consequences of fragmentation on landscapes, communities, and populations. Fragmentation and population dynamics. Fragment and matrix characteristics and their relationships with population dynamics and community structure. Genetic consequences.

Bibliography:

CUSHMAN, S.A. (2006) Effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on amphibians: A review and prospectus. Biological Conservation, 128(2): 231–40. 

EHRLICH, P.R. (1995) The scale of the human enterprise and biodiversity loss. In: Lawton, J.H., May, R.M. (Eds.), Extinction Rates. Oxford University Press. 

FAHRIG, L. (2003) Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Biodiversity. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, Vol. 34, pp. 487-515. 

KEYGHOBADI, N. (2007) The genetic implications of habitat fragmentation for animals. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 85(10): 1049–64 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Magno Augusto Zaza Borges

Syllabus:

Effects of parasitism on host populations, communities, and biodiversity. Population and community ecology of parasites. Biodiversity and dilution effect. Ecology of zoonoses.

Bibliography:

Goater TM, Goater CP, Esch GW. Parasitism: the diversity and ecology of animal parasites. Cambridge University Press; 2013 Dec 16.

Poulin R. Evolutionary ecology of parasites. Princeton university press; 2011 Jun 27.

Thomas F, Guégan JF, Renaud F, editors. Ecology and evolution of parasitism. New York: Oxford University Press; 2009. 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: José Francisco Gonçalves Junior

Syllabus:

Different levels of ecological organization. Ecosystem definition. Energy flows and matter cycling. Primary productivity: limiting factors and global patterns. Decomposition. Types of natural ecosystems. Urban and agricultural ecosystems. Anthropogenic changes in ecosystems at local and global scales.

Bibliography:

Forbes, S.A. 1887. The lake as a microcosm. Bulletin of the Peoria Scientific Association 1887:77-87. 

Wu, J. e O.L. Loucks. 1995. From balance of nature to hierarchical patch dynamics: a paradigm shift in ecology. The Quarterly Review of Biology 70: 439-466. 

O’Neill, R.V., D.L. DeAngelis, J.B. Waide e T.F.H. Allen. 1986. A hierarchical concept of ecosystems. Princeton University Press. Princeton. 

Ab"Sáber, A. 2003. Os domínios de natureza no Brasil. Ateliê Editorial. Cotia. 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Magno Augusto Zaza Borges

Syllabus:

Origin of parasitism and evolution of host-parasite systems. Host-parasite relationships. Host exploitation strategies. Host specificity. Spatial distribution of parasites. Parasite infracommunities. Component communities and parasite fauna.

Bibliography:

Goater TM, Goater CP, Esch GW. Parasitism: the diversity and ecology of animal parasites. Cambridge University Press; 2013 Dec 16.

Poulin R. Evolutionary ecology of parasites. Princeton university press; 2011 Jun 27.

Thomas F, Guégan JF, Renaud F, editors. Ecology and evolution of parasitism. New York: Oxford University Press; 2009. 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Ronaldo Reis Junior

Syllabus:

General introduction to chemical ecology; Chemical interactions and mediations for resource acquisition; Chemical ecology and territoriality; Chemical ecology of plant defense; Chemical ecology of animal defense; Chemical ecology and reproduction; Chemical ecology and social interactions; Applied chemical ecology.

Bibliography:

Breithaupt, T. & Martin T. (2011) Chemical communication in crustaceans. New York: Springer Verlag.

Del-Claro, K. & Torezan-Silingardi, H. M. (Eds.) (2012) Ecologia das Interações Plantas-Animais: Uma Abordagem Ecológico-Evolutiva. Technical Books.

Dicke, M. & Takken, W. (Eds.) (2006) Chemical Ecology: From Gene to Ecosystem. Springer.

Müller-Schwarze, D. (2006) Chemical ecology of vertebrates. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Souza-Filho, A.P. (Ed.) (2008) Ecologia química: a experiência brasileira. Embrapa Amazônia Oriental.

Wajnberg, E. & Colazza, S. (Eds) (2013) Chemical Ecology of Insect Parasitoids. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Waldney Pereira Martins

Syllabus:

Community characterization: structure, quantity and stability. Resistance, Resilience, Elasticity and Amplitude. Multiple Stability States. Mathematical models of stability.

Bibliography:   

BEGON, M.; TOWNSEND, C. R.; HAPER, J. L. Ecologia: de indivíduos a ecossistemas. 4. ed. Porto Alegre: Artmed, 2007. 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Ronaldo Reis Junior

Syllabus:

An evolutionary approach to behavior: proximate and distal causes. Behavioral development. Control and organization of behavior. Evolution and adaptation of behavior.

Bibliography:

Alcock, J. (2011). Comportamento animal: uma abordagem evolutiva. 9ª ed. Porto Alegre: Artmed. 606pp.

Dawkins, M. S. (2007), Observing Animal Behaviour: Design and analysis of quantitative data, Oxford University Press.

Barnard, C. J. (2003). Animal behavior : mechanism, development, function, and evolution. 726p. 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Luiz Alberto Dolabela Falcão

Syllabus:

Patterns and processes influencing the distribution of genetic lineages across geographic landscapes; reconstruction of lineage history and diversification; phylogeography and conservation.

Bibliography:

Avise, JC. (2000) Phylogeography: the history and formation of species.

Dantas, JPM. (2013) Introdução à Filogeografia aplicada a conservação biológica de Vertebrados Neotropicais. 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Márcio Antônio Silva Pimenta

Syllabus:

Objectives and importance of biodiversity conservation. Endangered species: identification. Causes of extinctions. Comparative analysis of conservation strategies in natural areas and germplasm banks. Genetics and extinction.

Bibliography:

J.C. AVISE &; J.L. HAMRICK. 1996. Conservation Genetics. Case Histories from Nature. Chapman &; Hall, New York, N.Y.

R. FRANKHAM, J.D. BALLOU &; BRISCOE, D.A. 2002. Introduction to Conservation Genetics, Cambridge, UK, 617 pp.

P.L. FIEDLER &; J.K. JAIN. 1992. Conservation Biology. The Theory and Pratice of Nature Conservation, Preservation and Management. Chapman and Hall.

V. LOESCHKE, J. TOMIUK &; S.K. JAIN. 1994. Conservation Genetics. Birkhauser-Verlag.

B. SCHIERWATER, B. STREIT, G.P. WAGNER &; R. DE SALLE. 1994. Molecular Ecology and Evolution: Approaches and Applications. Birkhauser Verlag, Basel, Switzerland. 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Márcio Antônio Silva Pimenta

Syllabus:

Natural Resources: Concepts and principles of Natural Resource Management. Biodiversity Management. Sustainable development. Economic valuation of natural resources.

Bibliography: 

May, P.H. (Org.). Economia do meio ambiente: teoria e prática. 2 ed. Rio de Janeiro: Elsevier, 2010. 379 p.

Reis, L.B.; Fadigas, E. A.A.; Carvalho, C.E. Energia, recursos naturais e a prática do desenvolvimento sustentável. Barueri, SP: Manole, 2005. 415p. (Coleção Ambiental).

Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis. Gestão de Recursos Naturais. MMA/IBAMA, Brasília, 2000. 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Luiz Alberto Dolabela Falcão

Syllabus:

Evolution of interactions; agonistic and antagonistic interactions; gradualism; role of interactions in community structure.

Bibliography:

BEGON, M.; TOWNSEND, C. R.; HAPER, J. L. Ecologia: de indivíduos a ecossistemas (2007). 4 ed. Artmed.

TOWNSEND, C.R.; BEGON, M.; HARPER, J. L. Fundamentos em ecologia (2009). 3 ed. Artmed 576pp.

RICKLEFS, R. E. Economia da Natureza (2010). 6 ed. Guanabara Koogan 536pp. 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Walter Santos de Araújo

Syllabus:

History of interaction network studies. Introduction to network theory. Species-level descriptors. Network-level descriptors. Antagonistic vs. mutualistic networks.

Bibliography:

Dormann et al. (2009) Indices, graphs and null models - analyzing bipartite ecological networks. The Open Ecology Journal 2: 7-24.

Lewinsohn et al. (2006) Structure in plant-animal interaction assemblages. Oikos 113: 174-184.

Rosa, A.M. (2002). Elementos para uma teoria geral das redes (Redes e Imitação). In: Marcos, M.L. Miranda, J.B. (org.). A Cultura das Redes, pp. 93-114. 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Geraldo Aclecio Melo

Syllabus:

Overview of plant metabolism; Main classes of secondary metabolites and their biosynthetic pathways; Secondary metabolites and biological functions; Human uses and potential applications of secondary metabolites; Occurrence in plants.

Bibliography:

DAY, P.M. & HARBORNE, J.B. Plant Biochemistry. London, UK, Academic Press, 1997, 571p. 

WINK, M. Biochemistry of Plant Secondary Metabolism. Annual Plant Reviews, volume 2.

TAIZ, L.; ZEIGER, E. Fisiologia Vegetal. 3. ed. São Paulo: Artmed Editora, 2013. 719p. 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Mário Marcos do Espírito Santo

Syllabus:

Local population dynamics. Extinction and colonization. Levins' model. Rescue effect. Donor-receiver model. Mainland-island model. Structured metapopulation models. Metapopulation conservation and management.

Bibliography:

Gotelli N. J. 2009. Ecologia. 4ª ed. Ed. Planta.

Hanski, I. 1999. Metapopulation Ecology. Oxford.

Begon M., Townsend C. R., Harper J. L. 2007. Ecologia: de indivíduos a ecossistemas. 4ª ed. Ed. Artmed. 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Mário Marcos do Espírito Santo

Syllabus:

Exponential growth with environmental and demographic stochasticity effects. Logistic growth with random and periodic variations in carrying capacity. Applications of stochastic models.

Bibliography:

Gotelli N. J. 2009. Ecologia. 4ª ed. Ed. Planta.

Begon M., Townsend C. R., Harper J. L. 2007. Ecologia: de indivíduos a ecossistemas. 4ª ed. Ed. Artmed.

Begon, M., Mortimer, M. & Thompson, D . J. 1996. Population Ecology: A Unified Study of Animals and Plants, 3a. Ed. Wiley-Blackwell. 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Maurício Lopes de Faria

Syllabus:

Deterministic population models. Fundamentals of linear algebra. Use of matrices in population modeling.

Bibliography:

M.BEGON, C.R. TOWNSEND, J.L. HARPER. 2007. Ecologia: De individuos a ecossistemas,4 ed. Artmed. 

H. ANTON, C. RORRES. 2012. Álgebra Linear com Aplicações - 10.ed. Wiley&Sons 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Mário Marcos do Espírito Santo

Syllabus:

Types of land use changes and their main drivers; global change patterns and their direct/indirect consequences; conservation strategies; environmental and development policies; establishment of protected areas and their environmental/social consequences; international agreements; REDD+.

Bibliography:

Lambin, E. F., H. Geist. 2006. Land-Use and Land-Cover Change Local Processes and Global Impacts. Springer, Berlin.

Naeem, S., D. E. Bunker, A. Hector, M. Loreau, C. Perrings. 2009. Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Alier, J.M., 2007. O ecologismo dos pobres. São Paulo: Contexto. 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Marcílio Fagundes

Syllabus:

Patterns in natural communities: Regional processes (latitudinal gradient, island biogeography theory, vicariance biogeography); local processes (trophic cascade theory, intermediate disturbance hypothesis, ecological succession). Energy flow and productivity in natural systems; landscape ecology: management of degraded areas.

Bibliography:

BEGON, M.; TOWNSEND, C. R.; HARPER, J. L. 2007. Ecologia: de indivíduos a ecossistemas, 4 ed. Artmed, Porto Alegre.

GOTELLI, N. J. 2007 Ecologia. Ed. Planta, Londrina.

MORIN, P. J. 2011. Community ecology, 2nd ed. Wiley ­Blackwell, Oxford.

ROSENZWEIG, M. L. 1995. Species diversity in space and time. Cambridge University, Cambridge. 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Ana Paula Glinfskoi Thé

Syllabus:

Concept and theoretical framework of ethnoecology; concept and examples of traditional ecological knowledge ("TEK"); sociobiodiversity concept; environmental analysis through socio-ecological systems; adaptive community-based management approaches; the ethnoconservation perspective.

Bibliography:

Berkes, Fikret. 2004. Rethinking community based conservation. Conservation biology. Vol. 18. Issue 3. 612-630.

COLCHESTER, Marcus. Resgatando a natureza: comunidades tradicionais e áreas protegidas. Etnoconservação: novos rumos para a proteção da natureza nos trópicos. São Paulo: Hucitec, p. 225-256, 2000.

Diegues, Antonio Carlos. “Etnoconservação da natureza: enfoques alternativos.” Etnoconservação: novos rumos para a proteção da natureza nos trópicos. São Paulo: Hucitec 2 (2000): 1-46. 

F Berkes, J Colding, C Folke. Rediscovery of traditional ecological knowledge as adaptive management. Ecological applications, 2000 - Eco Soc America.; Folke, C. 2004. 

Traditional knowledge in social–ecological systems. Ecology and Society 9(3): 7.; GOMEZ-POMPA, A.; KAUS, A. 1992. Taming the Wilderness Myth. BioScience, v. 42, n. 4, p. 271–279. 

KALIKOSKI, Daniela Coswig; SEIXAS, Cristiana Simão; ALMUDI, Tiago. Gestão compartilhada e comunitária da pesca no Brasil: avanços e desafios. Ambiente & Sociedade, v. 12, n. 1, p. 151-172, 2009.

Posey, Darrell Addison. “Indigenous management of tropical forest ecosystems: the case of the Kayapo Indians of the Brazilian Amazon.” Agroforestry Systems 3.2 (1985): 139-158.

TOLEDO, V. M. e BARRERA-BASSOLS, N. A etnoecologia: uma ciência pós-normal que estuda as sabedorias tradicionais.; TOLEDO, Victor M. Etnoecology. A Conceptual Framework for the Study of Incligenous Knowledge of Nature. In: STEPP, J.; WYNDHAM, F.S. and ZARGER, R.K. (edt.) Ethnobiology and Biocultural Diversity. Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Etnobiology. The International Society of Ethobiology, 2002: 511-522.

Turner et al. “Traditional Ecologycal knowledge and Wisdom of aborigenals people in Britsh Columbia”. Ecological Applications 10 (5). 2000 pp 1275-1287. 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Márcio Antônio Silva Pimenta

Syllabus:

Natural resources: concepts, classification, geographic distribution and utilization. Society and Nature. Global strategies for natural resource conservation. Planet Earth.

Bibliography:

Matos, K. M. C. Valoração Econômica do Meio Ambiente. São Carlos: RIMA, 2004. 

Bensusan, N. Conservação da Biodiversidade em áreas Protegidas. Rio de Janeiro: FGV, 2006.

Rickleft, R. A economia da natureza. 3a Ed. Rio de Janeiro. Ed. GuanabaraKoogan, 1996. 

Mendes, P. C. Recursos Naturais. Uberlândia: ROMA, 2007. 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Mário Marcos do Espírito Santo

Syllabus:

Ecological succession models; factors affecting flora and fauna regeneration; chronosequences; functional and ecosystem service regeneration; ecological interactions across successional gradients; assisted regeneration.

Bibliography:

Walker, L. R., Walker, J., Hobbs, R. J. 2007. Linking Restoration and Ecological Succession. Springer, Berlin.

Begon M., Townsend C. R., Harper J. L. 2007. Ecologia: de indivíduos a ecossistemas. 4ª ed. Ed. Artmed.

Chazdon, R.L., 2014. Second growth: the promise of tropical forest regeneration in an age of deforestation. University of Chicago Press. 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Anderson Medeiros dos Santos

Syllabus:

Tree architecture. Forest dynamics - ecological succession. Temporal changes in forest composition and structure. Ecological effects of anthropogenic actions on natural ecosystems.

Bibliography:

FRANZ, H.A. Ecologia florestal. Santa Maria: UFSM, 1978. 230p. 

M. CRAWLEY, 1997. Plant Ecology. 2ed. Blackwell Science Ltd. 

Level: Master's and Doctoral

Required: No

Workload: 15 hours

Credits: 1

Instructor: Márcio Antônio Silva Pimenta

Syllabus:

Reproductive systems. General theory of inbreeding. Effective population size. Relatedness measures. Reproductive isolation. Gene flow. Speciation mechanisms. Speciation modules.

Bibliography: 

Avise, J.C. 2000. Phylogeography. The History and Formation of Species. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Matioli, S. R.; Fernandes, F. M. C. Biologia molecular e evolução. São Paulo: Holos, 2012.

Ridley, M. (2006). Evolução. 3ª ed. ArtMed Editora, Porto Alegre, RS. 752p.

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