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Gustavo Quevedo Romero Versão em português
Advisor to the General Coordination – Biological Sciences 1
Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences in 1997 at Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Master's degree (2001) and Ph.D. (2005) in Ecology at Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP).
He is a Full Professor at Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). He was coordinator of the Graduate Program in Ecology at UNICAMP (2012-2016). He is a Full Member of the Advisory Board of FAEPEX/UNICAMP. He coordinates the Laboratory of Multitrophic Interactions and Biodiversity at UNICAMP. He is currently coordinating a FAPESP Thematic Project on the impacts of climate change and land use on freshwater ecosystems.
Visiting researcher at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, CA) (2009), Royal Holloway University of London (UK) (2009-2010 and 2013) and Queen Mary University of London (2016, 2017 and 2019). Coordinator of the 'sCaleWebs' working group at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv, Leipzig) (2018-2022). Coordinating researcher of a project funded by Newton Advanced Fellowships (The Royal Society), at Queen Mary University of London, UK (2018-2021).
Researcher member of the Bromeliad Working Group (since 2010), of the Centre For the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity (CESAB, France, 2015-2018) and of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems sub-network of the Brazilian Research Network on Global Climate Change (Rede CLIMA - MCTi).
Coordinated a CAPES-DFAIT exchange with Canada (2011-2013). Winner of the first CAPES Thesis Award (Biodiversity). Subject editor of the journal Biotropica (2018-2023). He has been a scientific advisor to FAPESP, CNPq, other Brazilian FAPs, and several funding agencies abroad.
He works in several areas of Ecology. Keywords: functioning of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, climate change and land use, food webs, trophic cascades, natural and artificial microcosms, mesocosm experiments, latitudinal and altitudinal gradients, isotopic ecology, meta-analysis and syntheses in ecology, animal-plant interactions.