André Megali Amado
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André Megali Amado
I’m interested in how microbes act in the carbon cycle in freshwater and marine ecosystems.
I’m currently focused in understanding why heterotrophic bacteria mineralize carbon faster in the tropical ecosystems and which factors drives the high temporal and spatial variability in the metabolic (especially respiratory) processes in lower latitude ecosystems.
Thus, I am currently looking at the relationship between the stoichiometric composition (C:N:P) in bacterial biomass and their resources, as well as their metabolic behavior.
Email: amado@ufrnet.br or andre.amado@ufjf.edu.br
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Curriculum vitae
Some selected Publications:
- Amado, A.M., Meirelles-Pereira, F., Vidal, L.O., Sarmento, H., Suhett, A.L. Farjalla, V.F., Cotner, J.B. & Roland, F.. Tropical freshwater ecosystems have lower bacterial growth efficiency than temperate ones. Frontiers in Microbiology (Online), v. 4, p. 167, 2013.
- Sarmento, H., Amado, A.M., Descy, J.P.. Climate change in tropical fresh waters (comment on the paper -Plankton dynamics under different climatic conditions in space and time by de Senerpont Domis et al ., ). Freshwater Biology, 2013.
- Farjalla, V.F., Amado, A.M., Suhett, A.L., Meirelles-Pereira, F.. DOC removal paradigms in highly humic aquatic ecosystems. Environmental Science and Pollution Research International, v. 1, p. 1, 2009.
