CV

Bernardo Brandão Niebuhr Dos Santos
Position:    Researcher

  Telephone: +47 406 41 783
  E-mail: bernardo.brandao@nina.no
 Department:  NINA Oslo

Knowledge areas
I work in the intersection between landscape ecology and movement ecology. I am interested in understanding how landscape changes derived from land use change, industrial development, and anthropogenic activities affect biodiversity and ecological processes, and how interactions between species in turn affect their surrounding environment. 
I dedicate my research efforts to (1) understand changes in ecological processes, (2) develop methods to assess these changes, and (3) provide knowledge for conservation and restoration actions.

Interests: landscape ecology, animal movement, spatial planning, landscape resilience and restoration, ecological interactions, seed dispersal, mathematical models, cumulative impacts.  

Key qualifications
Key skills:
  • GIS: R, GRASS GIS, PostGIS, QGIS, OGR, GDAL, Google Earth Engine
  • Data analysis: R, GLMs, Bayesian statistics
  • Programming: R, Python, Julia, shell script

Education
2018. PhD in Ecology and Biodiversity, State University of São Paulo, Brazil
2013. Masters in Ecology and Conservation, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil.
2011. Masters in Education, Environment, and Development, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil.
2009. BSc. in Physics, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil.

Languages
  • Portuguese 
  • English
  • Spanish
  • French (basic)
  • Norwegian (basic)
  • Swedish (basic)

Worked in
2019-2021. Postdoc at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden
2018-2019. Associate researcher at the National Center on Terrestrial Mammals, from Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio/CENAP), Atibaia, Brazil.




Publications:

Norwegian Institute for Nature Research

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