LABEF - UFPR

The Functional Community Ecology Laboratory (LABEF), from the Department of Botany, Biological Sciences Sector at the Federal University of Paraná, hereby announces this call for applications outlining the rules of the selection process for students to participate in the project identified below:

SEI Process No.: 23075.066008/2025-27
Project title: Ecological Restoration for Climate Resilience
Partner institutions: Federal University of Paraná, Federal University of Santa Maria, Fundação Araucária, and FUNPAR.

For more information, please access the full call for applications at the link below:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FpZR6aHQQYUXjALmhmI23XpVgWluXykL/view?usp=drive_link

We welcome Gabrielle Rodrigues Souza and Amanda Tomazi as new members of LABEF. Both are students at PPG Ecology and Conservation in UFPR, pursuing a PhD and a Masters degree, respectively.

LABEF completed 6 years on June 24, 2023

Welcome to Labef, Elielson Lucas Ferreira, who joined the Postgraduate Program in Ecology and Conservation at Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR).

Welcome Josué Barbi Araldi, who joined as mater's student in the Postgraduate Program in Ecology and Conservation at Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR).

Placing Brazil's grasslands and savannas on the map of science and conservation.

Tree species of the Araucaria Mixed Forest: which, how many and how threatened are they?

Article titled: "Detectability of the critically endangered Araucaria angustifolia tree using multiscale approach with Worldview-2, Google Earth Engine and UAV Lidar", accepted in Land.

Welcome to LABEF Ciro and Ingrid..., new students of Academic Volunteer Program – AVP, and Jessica and Bruna.., scientific initiation students - IC

Article titled: “Functional traits reveal coastal vegetation assembly patterns in a short edaphic gradient in southern Brazil”, available in Flora.

Welcome back, Licet Fernanda Calambáz Trochez, the first PhD student in LABEF, who joined the Postgraduate Program in Botany at Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR).

The book Atlantic Forest has been recently published, with our chapter: “The Southern Atlantic Forest: Use, Degradation, and Perspectives for Conservation”.

Article titled: “Elevational shifts in phylogenetic diversity of angiosperm trees across the subtropical Brazilian Atlantic Forest”, available in Early View in Austral Ecology

Welcome to LABEF, Raissa Jardim e Maíra Michalak, who joined Master’s in the Postgraduate Program in Ecology and Conservation (PPGEco) at UFPR.

Welcome to LABEF, Jéssica Aparecida Pereira!

Article titled: “Functional traits and ecosystem services in ecological restoration”, published in Restoration Ecology,

Welcome Josué Barbi Araldi, new intern of LABEF!

Welcome Ursula Morais de Souza, new PIBIC scholarship (Institutional scientific initiation scholarship program, of the Brazilian funding agency).

March and April/2020: In these months happened four Master’s defenses in LABEF: Ana Carolina Petisco de Souza (PPGEco), Felipe Saad (PPGEco), Andressa Zanela (PPGBot) and Licet Fernanda Calambás Trochez (PPGEco).

Welcome Adler Dvorak Barboza, new intern in LABEF!

Collaboration in article with a global database of functional traits TRY, published in Global Change Biology: “TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access”.

Article published in Journal of Vegetation Science: “Mass effects explain sapling community assembly in Araucaria mixed forest metacommunities”.

Welcome Giulia Fischer Maccori, new Master’s student of LABEF, in the Postgraduate Program in Botany at UFPR.

Welcome Gabriela Muller and Luan Burda, new students of Academic Volunteer Program – AVP in LABEF!

Article about ecological strategies based on functional traits of woody plants living along contrasting habitats (savannas and seasonal forests) in Cerrado. This article is published in Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics.

Article about deep time influences in phylogenetic structure of local communities, published in Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, in collaboration with Pille Gerhold, Serban Proches and Andreas Prinzing.

Welcome to LABEF new Master’s students: Andressa Zanella in Postgraduate Program in Botany at UFPR, and Ana Carolina Petisco de Souza, Licet Fernanda Calambás Trochez and Felipe Saad in Postgraduate Program in Ecology and Conservation at UFPR.

Article published in Ecology about the need for phylogenetic correction in analysis relating community attribute means (CWM) and environmental variables.

Welcome Bruna Zorek, first scientific initiation student with PIBIC scholarship (Institutional scientific initiation scholarship program, of the Brazilian funding agency) in LABEF!

LABEF was installed in room number 428 in Department of Botany at UFPR.

Today was created the Community Functional Ecology Laboratory, in a plenary meeting of the Department of Botany, UFPR.