Biography

My research interests include the effects of global warming on the distribution and conservation of organisms, methodological aspects of ecological niche modeling, and how ecological and environmental processes affect bird life histories. Methods include ecological niche models, R stats, R programming, spatial analyses. Currently working on threats that climate change poses to the biodiversity of cabrucas (traditional cocoa agroforests) of southern Bahia and how cabrucas can mitigate impacts of a warming climate.

Interests
  • Ecology
  • Conservation
  • Climate Change
  • Biogeography
  • Ecological Niche Modeling
Education

  • PhD Ecology, 2012

    Universidade de Brasília

  • MsC Ecology and Evolution, 2008

    Universidade Federal de Goiás

  • Biological Sciences, 2004

    Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Skills

R
Ecological Niche Modeling
Statistics

Featured Publications

Climate change is expected to restructure forest frugivorous bird communities in a biodiversity hot‐point within the Atlantic Forest
Flavio Mariano Machado Mota, Neander M. Heming, Jose Carlos Morante-Filho, Daniela Custodio Talora
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Cabruca agroforestry systems reduce vulnerability of cacao plantations to climate change in southern Bahia
Neander M. Heming, Goetz Schroth, Daniela C. Talora, Deborah Faria
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The five million bird eggs in the world’s museum collections are an invaluable and underused resource
Miguel Angelo Marini, Linnea Hall, John Bates, Frank D Steinheimer, Robert McGowan, Luis Fabio Silveira, Dario A Lijtmaer, Pablo Luis Tubaro, Sergio Cordoba-Cordoba, Anita Gamauf, Harold F Greeney, Manuel Schweizer, Pepijn Kamminga, Alice Cibois, Laurent Vallotton, Douglas Russell, Scott K Robinson, Paul R Sweet, Sylke Frahnert, Rene Corado, Neander M. Heming
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Ecological and environmental factors related to variation in egg size of New World flycatchers
Neander M. Heming, Miguel A. Marini
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Recent Publications

Gabriela Alves-Ferreira, Flavio M. M. Mota, Daniela C. Talora, N. M. Heming (2023). phyloraster: an R package to calculate measures of endemism and evolutionary diversity for rasters. Ecography, in Press https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06902.

Neander M. Heming, Flavio M. M. Mota, Daniela C. Talora, Waldney P. Martins (2023). Impacts of climate change and habitat loss on the distribution of the endangered crested capuchin monkey ({mph{Sapajus robustus}}). American Journal of Primatology e23562. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23562.

Source Document

Flavio M. M. Mota, Gabriela Alves-Ferreira, Daniela C. Talora, Neander M. Heming (2023). divraster: an R package to calculate taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity from rasters. Ecography e06905. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06905.

Leonardo E. Lopes, M. N. M. Baptista, J. N. Reis, J. F. Pacheco, N. M. Heming (2023). Two centuries of ornithological exploration of the Rio Doce basin, southeastern Brazil. Part I – A history of the landscape, its explorers, and their collections. Zootaxa, 5343(01) 001–030. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5343.1.1.

Miguel Angelo Marini, Marcelo Assis, Nadinni Oliveira De Matos Sousa, Leonardo Esteves Lopes, Neander M. Heming (2023). Oological collections and egg collectors of Brazilian birds: an overview. Arquivos de Zoologia, 54(1) 1–14. https://doi.org/10.11606/2176-7793/2023.54.01.

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Publications Under Review

Tatiane Lima { oopsortsilvada Silva}, Neander M. Heming, Miguel A. Marini (2023). Breeding biology of mimetic species based on secondary data sources should address misidentifications: the case of the Lesser Kiskadee {mph{Philohydor lictor}} (Aves: Tyrannidae). Journal of Natural History, Under Review.

Sumaya Oliveira Costa da Silva Freire, Flavio M. M. Mota, Daniela C. Talora, Neander M. Heming (2023). Ameaças e estado de conservação de vertebrados terrestres da região cacaueira do sul da Bahia, Brasil. Oecologia Australis, Under Review.

Julio A. B. Monsalvo, Marcelo Assis, Neander M. Heming, M. A. Marini (2023). Review of the breeding biology of Rufous Crab-hawk {mph{Buteogallus aequinoctialis}} across its distribution. Journal of Natural History, Under Review.

Software

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All diversity evolutionary null models
divraster: Diversity Metrics for Raster Data
Alpha and beta calculations using rasters for taxonomic (TD), functional (FD), and phylogenetic (PD) dimensions. Spatial and temporal beta diversity can be partitioned into replacement and richness difference components. Functions to calculate standardized effect size for functional and phylogenetic alpha diversity and the average traits are available.
Jul 1, 2023
see on CRAN see on GitHub
divraster: Diversity Metrics for Raster Data
phyloraster: Evolutionary Diversity Metrics for Raster Data
Phylogenetic indices (such as phylogenetic diversity (Faith 1992), phylogenetic endemism (Rosauer et al. 2009), and weighted endemism (Laffan et al., 2016)) for presence-absence rasters.
Jun 1, 2023
see on CRAN see on GitHub
phyloraster: Evolutionary Diversity Metrics for Raster Data
SESraster: Raster Randomization for Null Hypothesis Testing
Randomization of presence/absence species distribution raster data for calculating standardized effect sizes and testing null hypothesis. The randomization algorithms are based on classical algorithms for matrices (Gotelli 2000, doi:10.2307/177478) implemented for raster data.
Jun 1, 2023
see on CRAN see on GitHub
SESraster: Raster Randomization for Null Hypothesis Testing

Projects

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All Atlantic Forest Cerrado birds anura
Desvendando o efeito das mudanças climáticas nos padrões de diversidade de anuros neotropicais
Efeito das mudanças climáticas nos padrões de diversidade de anuros neotropicais.
Desvendando o efeito das mudanças climáticas nos padrões de diversidade de anuros neotropicais
Impacto dos cenários climáticos sobre grupos ecológicos de aves florestais da Mata Atlântica
Efeito das mudanças climáticas nos padrões de diversidade de aves florestais da Mata Atlântica.
Impacto dos cenários climáticos sobre grupos ecológicos de aves florestais da Mata Atlântica

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