Demography

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For plants facing climate change, staying alive beats reproducing

Media from our paper in Nature Communications

What makes some plant populations more resilient than others to year-to-year environmental change? Not reproduction or growth, but simply surviving: and it depends most on aridity, not temperature

Jul 22, 2026

Gabriel Santos

Disponibilidade de água exerce maior influência na sobrevivência das plantas do que o aumento da temperatura

Estudo publicado na revista Nature Communications avaliou a resiliência das espécies vegetais no contexto das mudanças climáticas

Portuguese version of midia highlight produced by Oxford Communications

Jul 22, 2026

Gabriel Santos

Nature communications is finally out!

In this paper we used a sexy metric to assess the population response to environmental variability. Spoiler: Life-history traits are very little important when phylogeny is accounted! Check the details!

Jun 6, 2026

Gabriel Santos

MOSAIC: an integrative trait to demographic analyses

MOSAIC is a trait database designed by and for comparative demographers.MOSAIC contains existing databases + new data records for >300 species of animals and plants.MOSAIC makes available behavior, morphometry, habitat, functional traits, and other data available

Oct 30, 2025

Gabriel Santos

Projects

Demography and Population Viability Analyses of Microendemic Plants from Amazonian Cangas

Since 2024, I have been working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Vale Institute of Technology, focusing on 34 critical and priority plant species in the Cangas of the…

Jul 25, 2026

Gabriel Santos

MOSAIC: an integrative trait to demographic analyses

A trait database designed by and for comparative demographers.MOSAIC contains existing databases + new data records for >300 species of animals and plants.

Oct 30, 2025

Gabriel Santos