Alexandre Aleixo

Alexandre Luis Padovan Aleixo (born August 27, 1973 in Ribeirão Preto , São Paulo ) is a Brazilian ornithologist and evolutionary biologist . His research focus is the neotropical avifauna .

Life

Aleixo is the son of Luiz Manoel Aleixo and Odila Aparecida Padovan Aleixo. He completed his elementary, middle and high school years in Campinas and graduated from high school in December 1991. In December 1995 he obtained a bachelor's degree in biology from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) and the following year he started a master's degree in ecology at the same university. His master's thesis was a study on the effects of forest fragmentation on local bird communities in the Mata Atlântica in Brazil, which he presented in July 1997. In August of the same year, Aleixo moved to the United States to begin his doctoral studies at Louisiana State University . In August 2002, he was with the thesis Molecular systematics, phylogeography, and population genetics of Xiphorhynchus (Aves: Dendrocolaptidae) in the Amazon basin led by V. James Remsen and Frederick H. Sheldon for Ph.D. PhD. Aleixo has been a research assistant at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi since 2003 , where he was curator of the ornithological collection from 2005 to 2019. In the same year he became curator of the ornithological department of the Natural History Museum of Helsinki University ( LUOMUS ).

Aleixo's research encompasses the neotropical molecular bird systematics and the biogeography of the Amazon . He has written over 170 articles and book chapters on the conservation, distribution, systematics and taxonomy of Neotropical birds. Since 2011 he has been chairman of the taxonomy sub-committee of the Comitê Brasileiro de Registros Ornitológicos and he is co-editor of the bird magazine Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia, which is sponsored by the Sociedade Brasileira de Ornitologia (SBO). As part of his work, he also advises undergraduate and postgraduate students at the Universidade Federal do Pará in Belém , where he is a member of the Zoology Committee.

In 2006 Aleixo and José Fernando Pacheco set up the monogeneric family Donacobiidae for the reed spotter . In 2010 he was co-author of the first descriptions of the genera Certhiasomus (next to R. Terry Chesser , Santiago Claramunt , Robb T. Brumfield and Joel Cracraft ) and Pseudasthenes (next to Remsen, Brumfield, Chesser and Claramunt). In 2013, along with Andrew Whittaker and Bret M. Whitney, he was involved in the first description of the subspecies Polioptila guianensis attenboroughi of the cayenne mosquito catcher and with Whitney in the first description of the subspecies Campylorhamphus probatus cardosoi of the dark- backed scythesbill .

literature

• Molecular systematics, phylogeography, and population genetics of Xiphorhynchus (Aves: Dendrocolaptidae) in the Amazon basin , dissertation at Louisiana State University, 2002 (with a short biography on page 134)

Web links

• Bibliography at Google Scholar
• Curriculum Vitae at Escavador (Portuguese)
• Profile at the Field Museum of Natural History