Dear Phenology 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, Costa 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
(alternative email address: [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/
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
