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Ecology, Insect Ecology, Community Ecology, Scarabaeinae, Conservation

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Employment (4)

Lancaster University: N/A, GB

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Lancaster University - Pure

Lancaster University: Lancaster, GB

2023-08-01 to present | Senior Research Associate (Lancaster Environment Centre)
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Cássio Alencar Nunes

Universidade Federal de Lavras: Lavras, MG, BR

2019-12-01 to present | Post-doc position (PNPD) (Departamento de Ecologia e Conservação)
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Cássio Alencar Nunes

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais: Belo Horizonte, MG, BR

2019-09-01 to 2019-11-30 | Post-doc position - PROECOS project (Laboratório de Ecologia de Bentos)
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Education and qualifications (3)

Universidade Federal de Lavras: Lavras, MG, BR

2015-08-01 to 2019-08-16 | Ph.D. (Departamento de Biologia)
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Cássio Alencar Nunes

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais: Belo Horizonte, MG, BR

2013-03-01 to 2015-02-27 | Master ( Instituto de Ciências Biológicas)
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Cássio Alencar Nunes

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais: Belo Horizonte, MG, BR

2008-03 to 2012-12 | Graduation (Instituto de Ciências Biológicas)
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Professional activities (1)

British Ecological Society: London, London, GB

2018-08 to 2020-07
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Funding (1)

Rainforest Fauna in the Anthropocene: an integrated approach to understanding impacts of climate and land use change (RAINFAUNA)

2023-03-01 to 2026-06-29 | Grant
Natural Environment Research Council (Swindon, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.13306948
GRANT_NUMBER: NE/X015262/1
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Works (25)

Complex temporal dynamics of insect metacommunities along a tropical elevational gradient

Ecography
2025-01 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1111/ecog.07455
Part of ISSN: 0906-7590
Part of ISSN: 1600-0587
Contributors: Frederico Neves; Pedro Giovâni da Silva; Flávio Camarota; Cássio Alencar Nunes; Joaquín Hortal; CASTRO, F.S.; Beirão, MV; Letícia Fernanda Ramos; Ricardo Solar; Geraldo Fernandes
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The efficacy of acoustic indices for monitoring abundance and diversity in soil soundscapes

Ecological Indicators
2024-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.112954
Part of ISSN: 1470-160X
Contributors: Oliver Metcalf; C.A. Nunes; C. Abrahams; F.B. Baccaro; T. Bradfer-Lawrence; A.C. Lees; E.M. Vale; J. Barlow
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Facilitation and allelopathy mediate phylogenetic and functional diversity under Atlantic Rainforest trees

Flora
2024-06-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2024.152552
Part of ISSN: 0367-2530
Contributors: Cristiani Spadeto; Daniel Negreiros; Cássio Cardoso Pereira; Cássio Alencar Nunes; Lorena Abdalla de Oliveira Prata Guimarães; Sustanis Horn Kunz; Geraldo Fernandes
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Soil arthropod community responses to restoration in areas impacted by iron mining tailings deposition after Fundão dam failure

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
2023-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-023-11843-0
Part of ISSN: 0167-6369
Part of ISSN: 1573-2959
Contributors: Letícia Gonçalves Ribeiro; Aline Oliveira Silva; Kátia Augusta Vaz; Jessé Valentim dos Santos; Cássio Alencar Nunes; Marco Aurélio Carbone Carneiro
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Ecology in South America: Present state and future prospects

Austral Ecology
2023-11-14 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1111/aec.13457
Part of ISSN: 1442-9985
Part of ISSN: 1442-9993
Contributors: Rafael Zenni; Alan Andersen; Nigel Andrew; Andre Dias; Julian F. Quintero-Galvis; Natalia Perez Harguindeguy; Pedro Jaureguiberry; Verónica Laura Lozano; Cássio Alencar Nunes; Martin Pareja et al.
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Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Current Biology
2023-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.06.077
Part of ISSN: 0960-9822
Contributors: Raquel L. Carvalho; Angelica F. Resende; Jos Barlow; Filipe M. França; Mario R. Moura; Rafaella Maciel; Fernanda Alves-Martins; Jack Shutt; Cassio A. Nunes; Fernando Elias et al.
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Structure and composition of the nematode community in a restoration area affected by iron tailings

Pedobiologia
2023-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.pedobi.2023.150864
Part of ISSN: 0031-4056
Contributors: Letícia Gonçalves Ribeiro; Heriksen Higashi Puerari; Aline Oliveira Silva; Kátia Augusta Vaz; Jessé Valentim dos Santos; Cássio Alencar Nunes; Marisângela Viana Barbosa; Mara Rúbia da Rocha; José Oswaldo Siqueira; Carneiro, M.A.C
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Linking land-use and land-cover transitions to their ecological impact in the Amazon

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2022-06-27 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2202310119
Part of ISSN: 0027-8424
Part of ISSN: 1091-6490
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Spatio-temporal variation in dry season determines the Amazonian fire calendar

Environmental Research Letters
2021-12-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac3aa3
Part of ISSN: 1748-9326
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Temperature and productivity distinctly affect the species richness of ectothermic and endothermic multitrophic guilds along a tropical elevational gradient

Oecologia
2021-08-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-021-05011-9
Part of ISSN: 0029-8549
Part of ISSN: 1432-1939
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Cássio Alencar Nunes

Functional redundancy of Amazonian dung beetles confers community‐level resistance to primary forest disturbance

Biotropica
2021-07-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/btp.12998
Part of ISSN: 0006-3606
Part of ISSN: 1744-7429
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Cássio Alencar Nunes

Drought-driven wildfire impacts on structure and dynamics in a wet Central Amazonian forest

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2021-05-26 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0094
Part of ISSN: 0962-8452
Part of ISSN: 1471-2954
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Cássio Alencar Nunes

High Temporal Beta Diversity in an Ant Metacommunity, With Increasing Temporal Functional Replacement Along the Elevational Gradient

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
2020-11-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2020.571439
Part of ISSN: 2296-701X
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Cássio Alencar Nunes

Habitat generalists drive nestedness in a tropical mountaintop insect metacommunity

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
2020-06-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blaa059
Part of ISSN: 0024-4066
Part of ISSN: 1095-8312
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Fire? They don't give a dung! The resilience of dung beetles to fire in a tropical savanna

Ecological Entomology
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/een.12705
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Patch and landscape effects on forest-dependent dung beetles are masked by matrix-tolerant dung beetles in a mountaintop rainforest archipelago

Science of The Total Environment
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.09.195
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Advertisement calls of topotypes of Elachistocleis matogrosso (Anura: Microhylidae)

SALAMANDRA
2018 | Journal issue or edition
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Cássio Alencar Nunes

Advertisement calls of topotypes of Elachistocleis matogrosso (Anura: Microhylidae)

Salamandra
2018 | Journal article
WOSUID: WOS:000425154800014
Contributors: Jessica R Mudrek
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Linking Biodiversity, the Environment and Ecosystem Functioning: Ecological Functions of Dung Beetles Along a Tropical Elevational Gradient

Ecosystems
2018-01-30 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-017-0216-y
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Patterns of taxonomic and functional diversity of termites along a tropical elevational gradient

Biotropica
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/btp.12365
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2-s2.0-84987616101
Contributors: Nunes, C.A.; Quintino, A.V.; Constantino, R.; Negreiros, D.; Reis Júnior, R.; Fernandes, G.W.
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Cerrado to rupestrian grasslands: Patterns of species distribution and the forces shaping them along an altitudinal gradient

Ecology and Conservation of Mountaintop Grasslands in Brazil
2016 | Book
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-29808-5_15
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2-s2.0-84978289073
Contributors: Fernandes, G.W.; Almeida, H.A.; Nunes, C.A.; Xavier, J.H.A.; Cobb, N.S.; Carneiro, M.A.A.; Cornelissen, T.; Neves, F.S.; Ribeiro, S.P.; Nunes, Y.R.F. et al.
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Dung beetles along a tropical altitudinal gradient: Environmental filtering on taxonomic and functional diversity

PLoS ONE
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0157442
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2-s2.0-84976602864
Contributors: Nunes, C.A.; Braga, R.F.; Figueira, J.E.C.; De Siqueira Neves, F.; Fernandes, G.W.
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Effects of a possible pollinator crisis on food crop production in Brazil

PLoS ONE
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0167292
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2-s2.0-84999873168
Contributors: Novais, S.M.A.; Nunes, C.A.; Santos, N.B.; D'Amico, A.R.; Fernandes, G.W.; Quesada, M.; Braga, R.F.; Neves, A.C.O.
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Sentinelas das mudanças climáticas

Ciência Hoje
2016 | Magazine article
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Mechanisms of pH control in the midgut of Lutzomyia longipalpis: Roles for ingested molecules and hormones

Journal of Experimental Biology
2011 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.051490
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2-s2.0-79955001660
Contributors: Santos, V.C.; Nunes, C.A.; Pereira, M.H.; Gontijo, N.F.
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