Gonçalo Ferraz is professor of population biology at the Department of Ecology of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. He conducts research on distribution and abundance of birds, frogs, mosquitoes, fish and other organisms that can be counted. His work in the Amazon region aimed at understanding how understory birds recolonize secondary growth forests based on acoustic-detection and bird-banding data. He mentored more than twenty graduate students, one of whom was Alejandra Muñoz, first author of the paper presented in this blog entry.

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