Robson Waldemar Avila

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Robson Waldemar Ávila (born March 22, 1978 ) is a Brazilian herpetologist and biologist .

Life

Ávila graduated from the Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul with a degree in Life Sciences in 2000 . In 2005 he graduated from the same university with a Masters in Ecology and Conservation . In the same year he was a lecturer in field ecology and wildlife ecology at Universidade Católica Dom Bosco . In 2009 he received his doctorate in general and applied biology from the Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" with the dissertation Padrões de infecção por helmintos em comunidades de lagartos do Brasil central . Since 2011 he has been Professor of Biosciences with a focus on Herpetology at the Universidade Regional do Cariri . From 2014 to 2015 he did research as a postdoc at the Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM).

Ávila's projects include the conservation of biodiversity at the landscape level, studies on climate change and anthropogenic disturbances, reptiles and amphibians in the sub-region of the Rio Tapajós in Brazil, the ecology of lizard parasites, the phylogenetic systematics and species delimitation of the crocodile caiman using an integrative taxonomic approach, the Nematode family Rhabdiasidae in the Brazilian Caatinga as well as studies on the environmental impact of the implementation of the Parnaiba - Delta wind complex on the coastal avifauna of Piauí , Brazil.

First descriptions by Robson Waldemar Ávila

Since 2010, Ávila has co-authored numerous initial descriptions , including:

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personal data
SURNAME Ávila, Robson Waldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian herpetologist and biologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1978