Rodrigo Castro-Souza visits us for three months

Posted by Joaquín Hortal | Apr 5, 2024 | English, News | 0 |

Rodrigo Antônio Castro-Souza (a.k.a. Pirilo), a PhD student from the Federal University of Mato Grosso (Cuiabá, Brazil) has joined the group for a three-month exchange, until June 2024, during the last year of his doctoral studies.

Pirilo began his scientific career working with alpha taxonomy of cave crickets. During his master’s degree he became interested in Macroecology and Ecoinformatics. In his PhD he is mapping the ignorance (or lack of knowledge) about the global biodiversity of Orthoptera (Arthropoda, Insecta), seeking to understand processes and patterns of such ignorance, as well as developing new methods to quantify several shortfalls in biodiversity information.

During his stay at MNCN he will develop a new chapter of his thesis, investigating how taxonomic changes may affect the Linnean shortfall for Orthoptera.

You can follow Rodrigo Castro-Souza’s research at Google Scholar or ResearchGate.

About The Author

Joaquín Hortal

I am a biogeographer with broad interests in macroecology, community ecology, island biogeography, insect ecology, evolution, and biodiversity research. My main research aim is to determine why biodiversity – and in particular community structure – is geographically distributed the way it is, and to identify the processes that domain the spatial and temporal dynamics of ecological assemblages. I work as Scientific Researcher at the Department of Biogeography and Global Change of the Natural History Museum in Madrid (MNCN), a research institute of the Spanish Scientific Council (CSIC). I am also External Professor at the Departamento de Ecologia of the Federal University of Goiás (UFG) in Brazil, and Associate Researcher of the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c) of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon in Portugal.