Hi there.I am a fixed-term Adjunct Lecturer at the Centre for Biological Sciences at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Marine Studies, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil. My academic background includes both theoretical and empirical experiences, mainly in animal ecology. I received my BSc degree in Biology at Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil) in 2008, and my MSc degree in Ecology at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2011). During the MSc, I was supervised by Dr. Paulo César Simões-Lopes (UFSC) and co-supervised by Dr. Paulo R. Guimarães Jr (Universidade de São Paulo, USP, Brazil), with a 2-year scholarship provided by the Brazilian Ministry of Education (CAPES). I also collaborated as a voluntary researcher at the Aquatic Mammals Lab (LAMAq, UFSC, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil) and Instituto Baleia Jubarte (Caravelas, BA, Brazil). I received a PhD from the Department of Biology, Dalhousie University (Canada, Halifax, NS, 2016), supervised by Dr. Hal Whitehead, and with doctorate scholarships from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq, Brazil) and Killam Trusts (Canada), and with additional grants from Animal Behaviour Society (ABS, USA) and Cetacean Society International (CSI, USA). In my first year as a postdoctoral researcher I worked at the Department of Ecology and Zoology, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Research interestsI am fascinated by emergent patterns and strategies in Nature. Within the general area of biology I am most interested in behavioural ecology and the ecology of interactions both among species and individuals. For that I have been using network theory, mainly to understand interindividual social interactions. My main current research projects aim to describe patterns of non-human societies, reveal the potential mechanisms that generate them and model spread of information through the population. I have been mainly using whales and dolphins as models, due to their high motility and high cognitive capability that confers plasticity and complexity to their social systems, in addition to exciting field work challenges. Some of the ongoing research projects that I am involved also adopt network thinking to explore processes at the population (e.g. social behaviour among terrestrial and aquatic vertebrates) and community levels (e.g. seed dispersal, cleaning mutualism, endoparasite community, agonistic behaviour), but my recent interest has been expanding from empirical and descriptive natural history to in silico experimental modelling.
Areas of interest: Behavioural Ecology, Sociobiology, Social Networks, Animal societies, Behaviour, Ecology, Ecological Networks, Population Ecology |
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Dr. Mauricio Cantor Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia Centro de Ciências Biológicas Campus Universitário, Trindade Caixa Postal 5102 CEP 88040-970, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil Phones: +55 (48) 3721-4737; +55 (48) 3721-7150 Email: m.cantor [at] ymail [dot] com ResearcherID, ORCID, ResearchGate |
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