Malva Isabel Medina Hernández
 

Malva Hernández in caatinga forest in Brazil.


  

Malva Isabel Medina Hernández completed her doctorate in Biological Sciences
in 2001 and currently works at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil, where she teaches Community Ecology and Conservation Biology. Her research focuses on the ecology of dung beetles, mostly in areas of the Atlantic rainforest, in Caatinga ecosystems (arid lands), and in the Amazonian forest in Brazil. She uses dung beetles as bioindicators of the effects of major habitat modification, such as the introduction of monoculture, and also in the restoration of deforested or destroyed habitats.
 

Malva Isabel Medina Hernández
 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
CCB-Depto. Ecologia e Zoologia
Caixa Postal 476, 88010-970
Florianópolis, SC – Brasil

EMAIL: malvamh@yahoo.com

TEL/FAX: 55-48-37219099

URL: http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.jsp?id=K4784485J1
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  SCARAB PUBLICATIONS:

Hernández, M.I.M. 2002. The night and day of dung beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) in the Serra do Japi, Brazil: elytra colour related to daily activity. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 46: 597-600.

Hernández, M.I.M. 2005. Artrópodes: Besouros Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera) da área do Curimataú, Paraíba. Pp. 369-380. In: F.S. de Araújo, M.J.N. Rodal & M.R.V. Barbosa (org.), Análise das Variações da Biodiversidade do Bioma Caatinga: Suporte a Estratégias Regionais de Conservação. Ministério do Meio Ambiente. ISBN 85-87166-76-X.

Endres, A.A., M.I.M. Hernández, & A.J. Creão-Duarte. 2005. Considerações sobre Coprophanaeus ensifer (Germar, 1824) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) em um remanescente de Mata Atlântica no Estado da Paraíba, Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 49(3): 427-429.

Endres, A.A., A.J. Creão-Duarte, & M.I.M. Hernández. 2007 Diversidade de Scarabaeidae s. str. (Coleoptera) da Reserva Biológica Guaribas, Mamanguape, Paraíba, Brasil: uma comparação entre Mata Atlântica e Tabuleiro Nordestino. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 51(1): 67-71.

Silva, F.A.B., M.I.M. Hernández, S. Ide, & R. C. de Moura. 2007.Comunidade de escarabeíneos (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) copro-necrófagos da região de Caruaru, Pernambuco, Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 51(2): 228-233.

Hernández, M.I.M. 2007. Besouros escarabeíneos (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) da Caatinga paraibana, Brasil. Oecologia Brasiliensis, 11(3): 356-364.

Gardner, T. A., M. I. M. Hernández, J. Barlow, & C. A. Peres. 2008. Understanding the biodiversity consequences of habitat change: the value of secondary and plantation forests for neotropical dung beetles. Journal of Applied Ecology, 45: 883-893.

Gardner, T.A., J. Barlow, I.S. Araujo, T.C. Ávila-Pires, A.B. Bonaldo, J.E. Costa, M.C. Esposito, L.V. Ferreira, J. Hawes, M.I.M. Hernandez, M.S. Hoogmoed, R.N. Leite, N.F. Lo-Man-Hung, J.R. Malcolm, M.B. Martins, L.A.M. Mestre, R. Miranda-Santos, A.L. Nunes-Gutjahr, W.L. Overal, L. Parry, S.L. Peters, M.A. Ribeiro-Junior, M.N.F. da Silva, C. da Silva Motta, & C.A. Peres. 2008. The Cost-Effectiveness of Biodiversity Surveys in Tropical Forests. Ecology Letters, 11: 139-150.

Filgueiras, B.K.C., C.D.M. Liberal, C.D.M. Aguiar, M.I.M. Hernández, & L. Iannuzzi. 2009. Attractivity of omnivore, carnivore and herbivore mammalian dung to Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) in a tropical Atlantic rainforest remnant. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 53(3): 422-427.

Hernández, M.I.M.& F.Z. Vaz-de-Mello. Accepted. Seasonal and spatial species richness variation of dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae s. str.) in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 53(4).

Hernández, M.I.M., L.R. Monteiro, & M.E. Favila. Accepted. The role of body size and body shape in understanding competitive interactions within a community of neotropical dung beetles. Journal of Insect Science.


 
 

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