Vitor
Freitas Gomes
Postdoctoral Researcher, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Postdoctoral Researcher
Member of the Amazon Research Group of the University of Turku and member of the Amazon Tree Diversity Network (ATDN).
Contact
Areas of expertise
Bioinformatics
Ecology
Programming Languages
Biogeography
Biodiversity
Conservation
Species Distribution Modeling
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Global Change
Amazonia.
Biography
Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences (UFPA - 2018) awarded 'with honors', including a sandwich period at Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Leiden, Netherlands); Master in Local Development and Management (UFPA - 2012) and Bachelor in Data Processing (CESUPA - 2005). Winner of the 2019 CAPES Thesis Award in Environmental Sciences.
Teaching
Docent at the Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia (UFRA), Biological Sciences Program - Tropical Botany; and at Centro Universitário do Pará (CESUPA), Computer Science Program.
Research
I am an environmental and data scientist interested in understanding how species diversity and distribution respond to global change.
Publications
Food insecurity under global human-induced changes: Plants of the future in the Amazonian biome (2025)
Biological Conservation
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Floodplain forests drive fruit-eating fish diversity at the Amazon Basin-scale (2025)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Functional composition of the Amazonian tree flora and forests (2025)
Communications Biology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Geography and ecology shape the phylogenetic composition of Amazonian tree communities (2024)
Journal of Biogeography
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains (2024)
Nature Ecology and Evolution
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Phylogenetic conservatism in the relationship between functional and demographic characteristics in Amazon tree taxa (2024)
Functional Ecology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities (2024)
Nature
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
The biogeography of the Amazonian tree flora (2024)
Communications Biology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research (2023)
Current Biology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora (2023)
Communications Biology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )