Gustavo A. Bravo

Gustavo Adolfo Bravo Mora (born December 1979 in Bogotá , Colombia ), mostly Gustavo A. Bravo , is a Colombian ornithologist and evolutionary biologist . His research focus is the neotropical avifauna .

Life

Bravo is the son of José Vicente Bravo and María Inés Mora. During his childhood, he and his parents visited the Llanos in eastern Colombia, where, due to his fascination for biodiversity, he made the decision to embark on a professional career as a biologist. In 1997 he took part in the biology program of the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá and after field studies in the Amazon region under the direction of the Centro de Investigaciones Ecológicas La Macarena, he specialized in ornithology, in particular in bird biology.

During his research he investigated the use of river habitats in space and time by the fish-eating bird community in the Orinoco Basin . After completing his bachelor's degree in 2002, Bravo received a position as a young scientist at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute, where he headed the “Colombian Bird Sanctuaries” project in the Conservation Biology program until 2005 . In the same year Bravo joined the Department of Biological Sciences at Louisiana State University in to a doctorate in biology under the direction of James Van Remsen, Jr. and Robb T. Brumfield to start. During his studies, Bravo took part in expeditions of the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural History to Peru and also conducted field studies in Colombia and Brazil. As part of his PhD thesis Phenotypic and niche evolution in the antbirds (Aves, Thamnophilidae) , with which he received his PhD in 2012, he conducted research on the niche and phenotypic evolution of ant birds by integrating phenotypic , phylogenetic and distribution data.

From 2013 to 2016 Bravo completed his postdoctoral phase at the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) at the Zoological Museum of the Universidade de São Paulo . Since 2016 he has been a research associate at the Department of Organismic Biology and Evolutionary Biology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University .

Bravo's research program aims to study the patterns and mechanisms behind bird diversity in the Neotropic . His projects include the genomic basis of the phenotypic divergence with regard to environmental influences on the ant bird family, the systematics of pantropical diversification of songbirds , the phenotypic development and niche evolution in the ant birds (Thamnophilidae), the biogeography of the caatinga, the systematics and species boundaries neotropical Songbirds, inventory of little-known areas in South America, and study of scientific collections.

With Mario Cohn-adhesive Bravo 2013 described the black-necked Ameisenfänger ( Herpsilochmus praedictus ), the Aripuanaameisenfänger ( Herpsilochmus stotzi ) and Olivschulter-Ameisenschnäpper ( Hypocnemis Rondoni ) and with Bret M. Whitney subspecies Epinecrophylla amazonica dentei the Amazon ants panties . In the same year he established the ant bird genera Ammonastes , Ampelornis , Aprositornis , Hafferia , Inundicola , Poliocrania and Sciaphylax with Brumfield and Morton L. Isler .

literature

• Phenotypic and niche evolution in the antbirds (Aves, Thamnophilidae) , dissertation at Louisiana State University, 2012 (with a short biography on pages 168–169)

Web links

• Curriculum Vitae at Escavador (Portuguese)
• Official website of Gustavo A. Bravo (English)