I am a PhD candidate in the Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Graduate Program co-advised by Drs. Mikhail Matz and Mathew Leibold. I started my career in biology as a herpetologist but rapidly became fascinated by the challenging questions in the field of ecology. During my bachelor’s and master’s thesis I studied the ecological and evolutionary aspects of amphibian metacommunities. For my PhD research I decided to change the scale of my study system, and I am now studying the community and metacommunity ecology of host-associated bacterial communities. Amphibians are still involved, but while before they were the organisms inhabiting different habitats, now I see them as the different habitats, and the bacteria inhabiting them are the organisms I am interested. By means of empirical and theoretical approaches, my ultimate goal is to apply and to adapt the ecological theory to the study of host-associated bacterial communities.
PhD candidate in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, in progress
The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
MSc in Ecology, 2013
State University of Campinas, SP, Brazil
BSc in Biology, 2010
State University of São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Teaching License Degree in Biology, 2010
State University of São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Unraveling the Role of Evolutionary History on Skin and Gut Microbial Communities of Anuran Amphibians
Parallel projects and collaborations
Diversity, stability, and impacts on host performance
Up to date publications can be found on my ResearchGate or Google Scholar.
L. SCHIESARI, A.S. MONTEIRO, P. ILHA, N. POPE, D.T. CORREA. 2018. The ecology of a system of natural mesocosms: Rock pools in the Atlantic Forest. Freshwater Biology, DOI: 10.1111/fwb.13118. PDF
L. SCHIESARI, D.T. CORREA 2015. Consequences of agroindustrial sugarcane production to freshwater biodiversity. Global Change Biology and Bioenergy, 8(3):644-657. PDF
-Featured on GCBB cover (Under the Covers).
C.G. BECKER, D. RODRIGUEZ, L.F. TOLEDO, A.V. LONGO, A.C. LAMBERTINI, D.T. CORREA, D.S. LEITE, C.F.B. HADDAD, K.R. ZAMUDIO. 2014. Partitioning the net effect of host diversity on an emerging amphibian pathogen. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281, 20141796. PDF
-Media Coverage.
C.O. ARAUJO, F. MAFFEI, D.T. CORREA, G.M. MOYA, B.T.M. NASCIMENTO, S.M.A. SANTOS. 2014. Lizards from Estação Ecológica de Santa Bárbara, a remnant of Cerrado in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. CheckList, 10(5), 1038-1043. PDF
M. GUIMARÃES, D.T. CORREA, T.A.L. OLIVEIRA, S. SERRANO-FILHO, R.J. SAWAYA. 2014. One step forward: contrasting the effects of Toe clipping and PIT tagging on frog survival and recapture probability. Ecology and Evolution, 4(8), 1480-1490. PDF
D.T. CORREA, M. GUIMARÃES, T.A.L. OLIVEIRA, M. MARTINS, R.J. SAWAYA. 2013. Toe-clipping vital to amphibian research. Nature, 493(7432), 305. Letter to Editor, non peer-reviewed. PDF
-Media coverage.
C.O. ARAUJO, D.T. CORREA, S.M.A. SANTOS. 2013. Anurans of the Estação Ecológica de Santa Bárbara, a remnant of open Cerrado formations in the state of São Paulo. Biota Neotropica, 13, 1-11. PDF
C.O. ARAUJO, D.T. CORREA, R.J. SAWAYA. 2010. Snake assemblage of Estação Ecológica de Santa Bárbara, SP: a Cerrado remnant in Southeastern Brazil. Biota Neotropica, 10(2), 235-245. PDF
Teaching Assistant
Ecology (2018) - The University of Texas at Austin
Limnology and Oceanography (2016, 2017) - The University of Texas at Austin
Field Biology (2014, 2015, 2016) - The University of Texas at Austin
Co-instructor