Nomination for the CAPES Thesis Award 2024
The Evaluation Committee of the CAPES Thesis Award – 2024 Edition of the UFSC Graduate Program in Ecology, appointed by ORDINANCE No. 06/2024/PPGECO, OF APRIL 12, 2024, is pleased to announce the nomination of Fernanda Carolina da Silva’s thesis for this year’s award.
Fernanda Carolina da Silva’s thesis, entitled “Spatio-Temporal Patterns and Processes of Taxonomic and Functional Diversity of Reef Fishes in a Temperature Transition Zone”, supervised by Prof. Sergio Ricardo Floeter and co-supervised by Prof. Juan Pablo Quimbayo Agreda, was recommended by the committee for its exceptional quality and scientific contribution to the field of Community Ecology. The paper can be found at this link: https://tede.ufsc.br/teses/PECO0223-T.pdf
In addition, we are honored to award an Honorable Mention to Aline Pereira Cruz for her thesis “Amerindian Legacies in the Subtropical Forests of South America” (under the supervision of Prof. Nivaldo Peroni), in recognition of the excellence of her research and the importance of the study for understanding cultural and ecological legacies.
