Joao Augusto Alves Meira-Neto

Graduate at Biology from Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP (1986), master's and Ph.D. at Botany from Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP (1991 and 1997, respectively). Investigates vegetation, ecosystem ecology, functional ecology and phylogenetic structure of communities. His main subjects are neotropical forests, savannas and grasslands. Coordinator of LEEP, Laboratory of Ecology and Evolution of Plants (www.leep.ufv.br) at Universidade Federal de Vicosa.