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Rafael Barbizan Sühs

Postdoctoral fellow

Clemson University

Biography

I’m a field ecologist with research interests in vegetation ecology, historical ecology and biological invasions.

Currently, I am a postdoctoral fellow at Clemson University (USA) and Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), in Brazil. We are trying to understand how and why some invasive plants become superinvaders across the Americas.

I am also a collaborator at the laboratories of Human Ecology and Ethnobotany (ECOHE), Laboratory of Diversity and Conservation (divEcon) and Lab on Ecology of Biological Invasions, Management and Conservation (LEIMAC) at UFSC.

Interests

  • Vegetation Ecology
  • Historical Ecology
  • Diversity and Conservation
  • Biological Invasions
  • Above-belowground interactions
  • Seed rain
  • Remote Sensing

Education

  • PhD in Ecology, 2019

    Federal University of Santa Catarina

  • MSc in Geoecology, 2013

    Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

  • BSc in Biology, 2010

    University of Santa Cruz do Sul

Skills

R

Statistics

UAVs (Drones)

Inventories

Team leading

Scientific communication

Accomplish­ments

Grant to develop a project with Paraná Pine (Araucaria angustifolia)

I have been awarded a grant to develop a project with an endangered species in southern Brazil.
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Projects

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Feral pigs in Brazilian highlands

Impacts of feral pigs in subtropical highlands

Invasive Alien Species in Brazil

Compiling Invasive Alien Species in Brazil

Crinodendron brasiliense

Unveiling biological and ecological aspects of a narrow endemic and endangered species of montane cloud forests in southern Brazil

Salix × rubens invasion

Alien invasive willow in Brazilian subtropical highlands

Araucaria angustifolia

How land use and management affect Araucaria populations?

Drones in ecological research

How useful are drones in ecological research?

PELD / PPBio - Biodiversity Programs

Long term ecological research (PELD) and Program for Biodiversity Research in Brazil (PPBio) in Atlantic forest

Recent Publications

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Soil microbial communities limit nurse tree seedling performance across forest–grassland gradients

The slow pace of forest expansion over grasslands may be mediated by belowground biotic interactions

Georeferenced database of invasive non-native species occurrences in Brazil

187,160 georeferenced records of 489 invasive species of fauna, flora, and algae across Brazilian terrestrial, freshwater and marine …

Factors explaining species richness of invasive plants in Neotropical forests

Higher temperature seasonality and accessibility were strong positive predictors of invasive plant richness.

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