Dr. Mauricio Cantor Oregon State University Marine Mammal Institute Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Sciences Hatfield Marine Science Center Gladys Valley Marine Studies Building, Office #356 2030 SE Marine Science Drive, Newport, OR 97365, USA Email: mauricio.cantor 'at' oregonstate 'dot' edu Phone: +1 (541) 8670-357 |
Oi.I am a biologist fascinated by emerging strategies in Nature. The overarching goal of my research is to better link behavioural ecology to the ecology of interactions, both among individuals and among species, by combining theoretical models with empirical data. I am mostly interested in understanding how animal social systems emerge from simple rules among interacting individuals, and how selection acts on the individual sociality and the emergent collective social patterns. I primarily use cetaceans as research models due to their behavioural diversity, learning ability and social complexity—not to mention the exciting fieldwork challenges that come with studying them. My empirical work combines classical methods with emerging technologies for collecting and processing data; and relies on multiple statistical and modelling methods for analyzing the resulting large volume of data. My theoretical work has been inspired by sociobiology, complex systems and network theory to produce conceptual frameworks and in silico experiments in animal ecology. My areas of interest include: behavioural ecology, sociobiology, animal behaviour, behavioural evolution, cultural transmission, population ecology, community ecology, ecological networks, quantitative ecology, ecological modelling, and analyses of biological data.
BioI am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Sciences, Marine Mammal Institute and Marine Studies Initiative of the Oregon State University, and I am based in Newport, USA.
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I received a PhD from the Department of Biology, Dalhousie University (Canada, Halifax, NS) in 2016, a MSc degree in Ecology at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Florianópolis, SC, Brazil) in 2011, and a BSc/teaching degree in Biology at Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Campinas, SP, Brazil) in 2008. |
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