I'm Ana
I'm a Brazilian living abroad to do research.
At the moment, I'm a post-doc at the ECO-N Research Training Group, affiliated with the Faculty of Economics of the University of Leipzig.
I think a lot about class, gender, the northeast of Brazil, and international solidarity. I also think about about the differences of doing (ecological) research in the North and in the Global South, and the standards of what is professionalism and seriousness.
My biggest reference in Ecology is probably Chico Mendes.
(Bonato Asato)
Research Interests
Buenos Aires. Picture by Johnny Miller
Phenology must be when Nature's poetry is most clear. I have studied plant phenology above and below the ground (that means, leaf and root), and the phenology of soil organisms, in tropical and temperate ecosystems, in forests and grasslands, and in observational and experimental settings.
Root scan from the Jena Experiment, 2021.
2. Biodiversity & Ecosystem Functioning
Spoiler: do you know specialization? I'm not very fond of that...
1. Phenology
For a long part of my career, when a fellow ecologist asked about what I work with, "Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning" would probably be a major part of the answer. Here, I'm interested in understand how biodiversity loss affects the performance of ecosystem functions in ecological communities, as well as the deliver of ecosystem services, mainly in urban settings.
Canopy cover in the Centro de Lancamento Barreira do Inferno, 2016
3.Environmental Justice & Inequalities
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer, sicker, and more marginalized. That pattern in even clearer in cities, where green spaces and ecosystem services are produced mostly in wealthy neighborhoods, while heat waves and "natural" catastrophes concentrate in poorer areas. I'm interested in understanding the mechanisms that can lead to better urban environmental policy and involved redistribution of ecosystem services to achieve environmental justice.
Commons are a type of resource or service from which it's hard or impossible to exclude people from benefiting. I'm interested in understand how people can manage the Commons that lead far away from tragedy (in opposition to Hardin's "Tragedy of the Commons").
4.The Commons
Academic History
Technician in Environmental Control
Instituto Federal de Educacao, Ciencia e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Norte
B.Sc. Biology
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
M.Sc. Ecology
Universität Leipzig & German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
Ph.D. Life Sciences
supervised by Prof. Dr. Adriano Caliman
supervised by Prof. Dr. Adriano Caliman
supervised by Prof. Dr. Nico Eisenhauer
Inspiration
Many things have influenced me to take the ways I did, and to think the way I do - in life and in Science. Here are some documentaries, books, movies, notes, etc., that I recommend getting to know.