Research Projects

Area of Concentration: Ecology

Research Line – Characterization of the Biodiversity

Evaluation of the Biogenic Methane Generation in the Ponta Grossa and Irati Formations, Paraná Basin

Coordinator: André Oliveira Sawakuchi

Starting Date: 01/01/2014

Funding: National Council of Scientifc and Technological Development – (Reseach Support)

Baseline Survey of the Lower Xingu River Rapids, Brazil: a highly diverse, globally unique, and immediately imperiled ecosystem

Coordinator: Leandro Melo de Sousa

Starting Date: 01/01/2013

Funding: NSF – National Science Foundation – (Financial Aid)

Composition, Spatial Distribution and Interactions between Planktonic Communities in a Natural Lake, Threatened by the Formation of a Reservoir, Municipality of Altamira-PA

Coordinator: Nadson Ressyé Simões da Silva

Starting Date: 01/01/2012

Funding: Foundation for Research Support of the State of Pará – (Financial Aid)

Diversity and Distribution of Reophilic Fish on the Xingu River, with Emphasis on the Loricariidae Family

Coordinator: Leandro Melo de Sousa

Starting Date: 01/01/2014

Funding: National Council of Scientifc and Technological Development – (Reseach Support)

ECOGEN: ecology of gelatinous plankton on the north coast of Brazil

Coordinator: José Eduardo Martinelli Filho

Starting Date: 01/01/2014

Funding: Federal University of Pará – (New Doctor Support Program)

Influence of Litologies on the Underground Fauna Standards in the State of Pará – Nucleation of the Research Group on the Underground Biology in the Amazon

Coordinator: Janice Muriel Fernandes Lima da Cunha

Starting Date: 01/01/2011

Funding: Foundation for Research Support of the State of Pará – (Financial Aid)

Atlantic Forest and Amazon Forest: diversity and potentialities of agaricales, polyporales, gastteromycetes and zoosporic fungi

Coordinator: Noemia Kazue Ishikawa

Starting Date: 01/01/2010

Funding: National Council of Scientifc and Technological Development – (Reseach Support)

Serpentifauna of Three Municipalities of the Brazilian Transamazônica

Coordinator: Emil José Hernández Ruz

Starting Date: 01/01/2012

Funding:

Research Line – Conservation and Biodiversity Maneuver

Risk Analysis Anthropic Impacts through Biological and Ecological Indicators as Tools for Monitoring the Environmental Quality of the Amazonian Coast with the Assistance of a Mobile Laboratory

Coordinator: Marcus Vinicius Domingues

Starting Date: 01/01/2015

Funding: Foundation for Research Support of the State of Pará – (Financial Aid)

The Role of Rivers in the Carbon Cycle in the Amazon

Coordinator: Tatiana da Silva Pereira

Starting Date: 01/01/2014

Funding: National Council of Scientifc and Technological Development – (Reseach Support)

Sustainable Production of Mucuans in Marajó-PA: strategies and advances in domestication

Coordinator: Diva Anelie de Araujo Guimarães

Starting Date: 01/01/2014

Funding: Foundation for Research Support of the State of Pará – (Financial Aid)

Research and Conservation of Small Cetaceans in Two Sectors of the Brazilian Coast

Coordinator: Tommaso Giarrizzo

Starting Date: 01/01/2011

Funding: Foundation for Research Support of the State of Pará – (Financial Aid)

Testing the Dendrochronological Potential of Amazonian Arboreal Species: a case study of two forest ecosystems (terra firme and mangrove) aiming at the conservation of forest resources

Coordinator: Moirah Paula Machado de Menezes

Starting Date: 01/01/2008

Funding: Foundation for Research Support of the State of Pará – (Financial Aid)