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15/01/2016Science: Dr. João Meira-Neto, Dr. Vânia Esteves and Dr. Renata Meira have published an eLetter about Samarco´s disasterRE: Preventing and mitigating mining disasters with tangible actions Mr. João Augusto Meira-Neto [Ph.D.], Full Professor Laboratory of Ecology and Evolution of Plants - LEEP, Universidade Federal de Viçosa Other Contributors: Ms Vânia... -
21/12/2015LEEP´s pos-docs published studies relating defaunation with carbon storage in ScienceThe post-docs Luiz Magnago and Mariana Rocha from LEEP published las December a study relating defaunation with carbon storage. Carbon storage is widely acknowledged as one of the most valuable forest ecosystem services. Deforestation, logging, fragmentation, fire, and climate change have significant... -
17/09/2015Paper led by Dr. Markus Gastauer has been accepted by Ecology and EvolutionThe hypothesis of Sympatric Speciation as the dominant Generator of Endemism in a Global Hotspot of Biodiversity Markus Gastauer1,3*, Amílcar Walter Saporetti-Junior1,3, Luiz Fernando Silva Magnago1,3, Jeannine Cavender-Bares2 and João Augusto Alves Meira-Neto1,3* Allopatric... -
30/04/2015LEEP has participated of a meeting in the University of Muenster (WWU)LEEP (UFV) participated of a meeting in the University of Muenster (WWU) during April 27th up to 29th. The meeting is an activity of the INSPECTED.Net project financed by European Union in colaboration with University of Lisbon, University of Bayreuth as well. The project investigates the invasion... -
08/04/2015An enhanced calibration of a recently released megatree for the analysis of phylogenetic diversityDated or calibrated phylogenetic trees, in which branch lengths correspond to evolutionary divergence times between nodes, are important requirements for computing measures of phylogenetic diversity or phylogenetic community structure. The increasing knowledge about the diversification and evolutionary... -
05/03/2015LEEP's seminars every Thursday afternoonThere will be a meeting today to organize the 2015's seminars of LEEP.