Dear colleagues,
My current post-doctoral project funded by the
Brazilian FAPESP aims at understanding the
climatic cues that trigger phenology in the
Neotropics over broad latitudinal scales, in
collaboration with Patrícia Morellato (UNESP,
Brazil), and Carlos Peres (UEA, UK). I am
conducting a meta-analysis that includes every
phenological study carried out in the Neotropics
with fruiting information. After an intensive
research, I have detected almost 200 studies that
fulfil our requirements: 12 or more months of
monitoring and more than ten species sampled.
However, there is an astounding lack of
information for some areas in the Neotropics,
like Southern Amazon (Mato Grosso, Tocantins )
and other countries besides Brazil, Costaa Rica, and Panama.
I am therefore asking your help for detecting
any kind of paper or grey literature of fruiting
phenology in the Neotropics that I might be
missing. I think that I am correctly updated with
the indexed papers, but I am sure that there are
many PhD and MSc theses with this information
that I ignore, as well as other technical reports
that you might know. In addition, if you have an
original dataset including this information and
would be keen to share these data, I would highly
appreciate your contribution. All the data
sources will be conveniently acknowledged and
referenced in the literature list. Getting as
many study areas as possible is critical for
having a better understanding of the seasonality
of fruiting phenology over the Neotropics.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Best wishes,
Irene Mendoza
(<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected])
You can see an abstract of my project here:
<http://www.bv.fapesp.br/en/bolsas/147401/climatic-correlates-of-fruiting-seasonality-across-the-neotropics/>http://www.bv.fapesp.br/en/bolsas/147401/climatic-correlates-of-fruiting-seasonality-across-the-neotropics/
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Dr Irene Mendoza Sagrera
Postdoctoral Fellow
Departamento de Botânica
Plant Phenology and Seed Dispersal Research Group
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
Avenida 24-A nº 1515 - CEP 13506-900
Rio Claro - Sao Paulo - Brazil
+55 19 3526-4223
