Dr Samanta Iop
Visiting Scholar
I am an ecologist focused on identifying and testing the influences of deterministic and stochastic processes that form and change biological communities. To do so, I explore spatial environmental patterns in the South Brazilian grasslands, using amphibians as a model study group. I have a special interest in identifying these patterns on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic facets of biodiversity. I am currently affiliated with the Universidade Federal do Pampa (Brazil) and funded by the Neotropical Grassland Conservancy.
Personal website: www.samantaiop.weebly.com