Pablo Rodrigues Goncalves

My research interests are focused on understanding the origin of biodiversity and how it has responded to recent human impacts. To address these two major themes, I study Neotropical small mammals, specifically cricetid rodents of the subfamily Sigmodontinae. Given their high species diversity and ubiquity, sigmodontines offer excellent cases to study how taxonomic and ecological diversification takes place, and to understand how recent global and local changes affect species persistence.