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Macroecology, Biogeography, Macroevolution, Biodiversity Conservation, Spatial Ecology, Zoology, Conservation Biogeography, Animal Ecology, Global change, Species discovery
Brazil, United States

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Employment (4)

Universidade Federal da Paraíba: João Pessoa, BR

2024-08 to present | Professor Adjunto (Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia)
Employment
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Mario Moura

Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP): Campinas, Sao Paulo, BR

2022-09 to 2024-08 | Visiting Professor (Departamento de Biologia Animal)
Employment
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Mario Moura

Federal University of Paraíba: Areia, PB, BR

2020-02 to 2022-02 | Visiting Associate Professor (Departmento de Biociências)
Employment
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Mario Moura

Yale University: New Haven, CT, US

2018-06 to 2020-02 | Postdoctoral Associate Researcher (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
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Mario Moura

Education and qualifications (6)

Yale University: New Haven, CT, US

2018-06-04 to 2020-02-03 | Postdoctoral Associate Researcher (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Education
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Mario Moura

Universidade Federal de Uberlandia - Campus Umuarama: Uberlandia, MG, BR

2016-06-13 to 2018-06-16 | Postdoctoral researcher (Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação de Recursos Naturais)
Education
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Mario Moura

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

2012-09-05 to 2016-06-09 | Ph.D in Ecology (Departamento de Biologia Geral)
Education
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Mario Moura

Yale University: New Haven, CT, US

2015-08-12 to 2016-04-31 | Visitant Assistant in Research (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Education
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Mario Moura

Universidade Federal de Viçosa: Viçosa, MG, BR

2009 to 2011 | Master's degree (Departamento de Biologia Animal)
Education
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Mario Moura

Universidade Federal de Viçosa: Viçosa, MG, BR

2004 to 2009 | Bachelor's degree (Departamento de Biologia Animal)
Education
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Mario Moura

Professional activities (9)

Universidade Federal da Paraíba: Areia, PB, BR

2022-02 to present | Professor colaborador (Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade)
Invited position
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Mario Moura

Plos Climate: Cambridge, GB

2021-07 to present | Associate Editor
Service
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Mario Moura

Ecology and Evolution Journal: London, GB

2019-01 to present | Associate Editor
Service
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Mario Moura

Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul: Campo Grande, MS, BR

2017-11 to present | Collaborator (Graduate Program in Ecology and Conservation)
Invited position
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Mario Moura

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution: Lausanne, CH

2021-10 to 2024-02 | Associate Editor
Service
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Mario Moura

Universidade Federal de Viçosa: Vicosa, MG, BR

2017-11 to 2019-07 | Collaborator (Graduate Program in Animal Biology)
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Mario Moura

Brazilian Council of Biology: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, BR

2018 | Title of Expert in Biogeography
Distinction
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Mario Moura

Brazilian Council of Biology: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, BR

2018 | Title of Expert in Ecology
Distinction
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Mario Moura

Check List Journal: São Paulo, BR

2010-01 to 2014-12 | Editorial board member
Service
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Mario Moura

Funding (6)

Big Data & Biodiversity Conservation: Assessing the Impact of Biodiversity Knowledge Accumulation on Conservation Planning

2022-09 to 2024-08 | Contract
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (Campinas, Sao Paulo, BR)
GRANT_NUMBER:

21/11840-6

Part of GRANT_NUMBER: 22/12231-6
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Mario Moura

Mapping species discoveries: patterns and processes underlying the Linnean Shortfall

2016-06 to 2018-06 | Salary award
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Uberlândia, BR)
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Mario Moura

The role of environmental heterogeneity on diversity of Neotropical vertebrates

2013 to 2016 | Salary award
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (Brasília, Distrito Federal, BR)
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Mario Moura

Systematic, Biology and Conservation of the herpetofauna from Serra do Brigadeiro mountain range, Southeastern Brazil

2009-11 to 2012-05 | Contract
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, BR)
GRANT_NUMBER:

APQ-02370-09

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Mario Moura

Herpetofauna from Serra do Brigadeiro, an Atlantic Forest remain in Minas Gerais, Southeastern Brazil

2009-04 to 2011-02 | Salary award
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Brasilia, Distrito Federal, BR)
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Mario Moura

Community composition of leaf-litter frogs and lizards from an Atlantic Forest remain in Southeastern Brazil

2009 to 2012 | Grant
Idea Wild (CO, CO, US)
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Mario Moura

Works (50 of 67)

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Climate change threatens amphibians and species representation within protected areas in tropical wetlands

Journal of Applied Ecology
2025-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Matheus O. Neves; Olivier Broennimann; Heidi K. Mod; Bruna E. Bolochio; Diego J. Santana; Antoine Guisan; Mario R. Moura
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Global Patterns of Taxonomic Uncertainty and its Impacts on Biodiversity Research

Systematic Biology
2025-02-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Jhonny J M Guedes; Mario R Moura; Lucas Jardim; José Alexandre F Diniz-Filho
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Temporal trends in global reptile species descriptions over three decades

Systematics and Biodiversity
2024-12-31 | Journal article
Contributors: Jhonny J. M. Guedes; Hidalgo Valentim Gomes De Lima; Lucas R. Mendonça; Rosana Chen-Zhao; José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho; Mario R. Moura
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Macroecological correlates of Darwinian shortfalls across terrestrial vertebrates

Biology Letters
2024-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Jhonny J. M. Guedes; José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho; Mario R. Moura
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A phylogeny-informed characterisation of global tetrapod traits addresses data gaps and biases

PLOS Biology
2024-07-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Mario R. Moura; Uma Ramakrishnan; Karoline Ceron; Jhonny J. M. Guedes; Rosana Chen-Zhao; Yanina V. Sica; Julie Hart; Wendy Dorman; Julia M. Portmann; Pamela González-del-Pliego et al.
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Reply to: Estimates of the number of undescribed species should account for sampling effort

Nature Ecology & Evolution
2024-02-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Mario R. Moura; Walter Jetz
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Climate change should drive mammal defaunation in tropical dry forests

Global Change Biology
2023-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Mario R. Moura; Gibran A. Oliveira; Adriano P. Paglia; Mathias M. Pires; Bráulio A. Santos
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Pervasive impacts of climate change on the woodiness and ecological generalism of dry forest plant assemblages

Journal of Ecology
2023-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Mario R. Moura; Fellipe A. O. do Nascimento; Lucas N. Paolucci; Daniel P. Silva; Bráulio A. Santos
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Climate change should drive mammal defaunation in tropical dry forests

2023-08-17 | Preprint
Contributors: Mario R. Moura; Gibran A. Oliveira; Adriano P. Paglia; Mathias M. Pires; Bráulio A. Santos
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Environmental drivers of tropical forest snake phenology: Insights from citizen science

Ecology and Evolution
2023-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Letízia M. G. Jesus; Jhonny J. M. Guedes; Mario R. Moura; Renato N. Feio; Henrique C. Costa
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Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Current Biology
2023-07-19 | Journal article
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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Mario Moura

Species out of sight: elucidating the determinants of research effort in global reptiles

Ecography
2023-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Jhonny J. M. Guedes; Mario R. Moura; José Alexandre F. Diniz‐Filho
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A phylogeny-informed characterisation of global tetrapod traits addresses data gaps and biases

2023-03-06 | Preprint
Contributors: Mario R. Moura; Karoline Ceron; Jhonny J. M. Guedes; Rosana Chen-Zhao; Yanina V. Sica; Julie Hart; Wendy Dorman; Julia M. Portmann; Pamela Gonzalez-del-Pliego; Ajay Ranipeta et al.
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Unwrapping broken tails: Biological and environmental correlates of predation pressure in limbless reptiles

Journal of Animal Ecology
2023-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Mario R. Moura; Henrique C. Costa; Arthur D. Abegg; Esmeralda Alaminos; Teddy Angarita‐Sierra; Weverton S. Azevedo; Hugo Cabral; Priscila Carvalho; Sonia Cechin; Nathalie Citeli et al.
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Environmental and biological correlates of migration phenology of tropical leaf‐litter anurans

Austral Ecology
2022-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Jhonny J. M. Guedes; Renato N. Feio; Mario R. Moura
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Pervasive impacts of climate change on the woodiness and ecological generalism of dry forest plant assemblages

2022-03-06 | Preprint
Contributors: Mario R. Moura; Fellipe A. O. do Nascimento; Lucas N. Paolucci; Daniel P. Silva; Bráulio A. Santos
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Shortfalls and opportunities in terrestrial vertebrate species discovery

Nature Ecology & Evolution
2021-03-22 | Journal article
Contributors: Mario R. Moura; Walter Jetz
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A new tale of lost tails: Correlates of tail breakage in the worm lizard Amphisbaena vermicularis

Ecology and Evolution
2020-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Jhonny J. M. Guedes; Henrique C. Costa; Mario R. Moura
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Identifying factors that boost species discoveries of global reptiles

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2020-11-20 | Journal article
Contributors: Jhonny J M Guedes; Renato N Feio; Shai Meiri; Mario R Moura
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Dataset of occurrences and ecological traits of amphibians from Upper Paraguay River Basin, central South America

Nature Conservation
2020-09-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1314-3301
Part of ISSN: 1314-6947
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Mario Moura

Functional richness shows spatial scale dependency in Pheidole ant assemblages from Neotropical savannas

Ecology and Evolution
2019-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Karen Neves; Mario R. Moura; Jonas Maravalhas; Renata Pacheco; Marcio R. Pie; Ted R. Schultz; Heraldo L. Vasconcelos
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Geographical and socioeconomic determinants of species discovery trends in a biodiversity hotspot

Biological Conservation
2018-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Mario R. Moura; Henrique C. Costa; Marco A. Peixoto; André L.G. Carvalho; Diego J. Santana; Heraldo L. Vasconcelos
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Assessing the synergism among environmental gradients: Towards a better understanding of macroecological hypotheses

Frontiers of
2017 | Journal article
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Mario Moura

Environmental constraints on the compositional and phylogenetic beta‐diversity of tropical forest snake assemblages

Journal of Animal Ecology
2017-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Mario R. Moura; Henrique C. Costa; Antônio J. S. Argôlo; Walter Jetz; Lesley Lancaster
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Historical and contemporary correlates of snake biogeographical subregions in the Atlantic Forest hotspot

Journal of Biogeography
2017-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Mario R. Moura; Antônio J. Argôlo; Henrique C. Costa
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The role of environmental gradients on vertebrate diversity

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
2016 | Other
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Mario Moura

Disentangling the Role of Climate, Topography and Vegetation in Species Richness Gradients

PLOS ONE
2016-03 | Journal article
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Mario Moura

Notes on the unexpected reproductive behavior of Scinax luizotavioi (Caramaschi & Kisteumacher, 1989) (Anura, Hylidae)

Herpetologia Brasileira
2015 | Journal article
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Mario Moura

Integrating life-history traits and amphibian upland habitat use in a Neotropical hotspot

Acta Oecologica
2015-11 | Journal article
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Mario Moura

A tale of lost tails: pseudoautotomy in the Neotropical snake genus Drymoluber (Serpentes: Colubridae)

Canadian Journal of Zoology
2014-09 | Journal article
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Mario Moura

A new species of Proceratophrys (Anura: Odontophrynidae) from the middle São Francisco River, southeastern Brazil

Salamandra
2013 | Journal article
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Mario Moura

Em Destaque: Proceratophrys carranca

MG-Biota
2013 | Journal article
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Mario Moura

New records and geographic distribution of Corythomantis greeningi Boulenger, 1896 (Amphibia: Hylidae)

Check List
2013 | Journal article
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Mario Moura

New records of snakes (Reptilia: Squamata) in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Check List
2013 | Journal article
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Mario Moura

Vocal repertoire of Sphaenorhynchus palustris (Anura, Hylidae), with notes on S. botocudo Sphaenorhynchus palustris (Anura, Hylidae), with notes on S. botocudo

Salamandra
2013 | Journal article
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Mario Moura

Zachaenus carvalhoi (Carvalho's Bug-eyed Frog). Reproduction

Herpetological Review
2013 | Journal article
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Mario Moura

Taxonomic revision of Drymoluber Amaral, 1930 (Serpentes: Colubridae)

Zootaxa
2013-09 | Journal article
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Mario Moura

Rediscovery of Phalotris concolor (Serpentes: Dipsadidae: Elapomorphini)

Zoologia
2013-08 | Journal article
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Mario Moura

Advertisement call and distribution of Dendropsophus berthalutzae (Anura: Hylidae)

Salamandra
2012 | Journal article
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Mario Moura

Bothrops moojeni (Squamata, Viperidae) predation on Hypsiboas crepitans (Anura: Hylidae) in southeastern Brazil

Herpetology Notes
2012 | Journal article
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Mario Moura

First record of Itapotihyla langsdorffii (Duméril and Bibron, 1841) (Amphibia: Hylidae) from a Cerrado region in Minas Gerais state, Brazil

Check List
2012 | Journal article
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Mario Moura

New records of Trachycephalus mambaiensis (Amphibia: Hylidae) from a Cerrado region in Minas Gerais state, Brazil

Check List
2012 | Journal article
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Mario Moura

Notes on the diet of Philodryas nattereri (Squamata: Colubridae) in southeastern Brazil

Salamandra
2012 | Journal article
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Mario Moura

Scinax fuscomarginatus (Brown-bordered Snouted Treefrog). Amelia

Herpetological Reivew
2012 | Journal article
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Mario Moura

The advertisement call of Haddadus binotatus (Spix, 1824) (Anura; Craugastoridae)

Zootaxa
2012 | Journal article
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Mario Moura

Herpetofauna da Serra do Brigadeiro, um remanescente de Mata Atlântica em Minas Gerais, sudeste do Brasil

Biota Neotropica
2012-03 | Journal article
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Mario Moura

A cobra-de-duas-cabeças na percepção dos moradores do povoado de Itatiaia, Minas Gerais

Biotemas
2011 | Journal article
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Mario Moura

First account of distress calls in leiuperid frogs with a description of the advertisement call of topotypic Physalaemus maximus

Salamandra
2011 | Journal article
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Mario Moura

Herpetofauna da Serra do Brigadeiro, um remanescente de Mata Atlântica em Minas Gerais, Sudeste do Brasil

Universidade Federal de Viçosa
2011 | Other
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Mario Moura

Morphological variation and geographical distribution of Luetkenotyphlus brasiliensis (Gymnophiona: Siphonopidae)

Phyllomedusa
2011 | Journal article
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Mario Moura
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Peer review (11 reviews for 7 publications/grants)

Review activity for Biodiversity and conservation. (1)
Review activity for Insectes sociaux (1)
Review activity for Journal of Insect Conservation (1)
Review activity for Nature (1)
Review activity for Nature communications (1)
Review activity for PloS one. (5)
Review activity for Scientific data. (1)