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3867
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66

Overview

Alpina Begossi is affiliated with the State University of Campinas in Brazil with a research focus primarily in Environmental Science. Their work encompasses several interconnected subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Aquatic Science, and Molecular Biology.

The primary topics covered in their research involve fish biology, ecology, and behavior; coral and marine ecosystems studies; fish ecology and management studies; identification and quantification in food; marine and fisheries research; and gender diversity and inequality.

Begossi has contributed to a number of recent papers addressing interdisciplinary and social justice themes within marine and aquatic environments. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Breaking down barriers: The identification of actions to promote gender equality in interdisciplinary marine research institutions" (2022, One Earth)
  • "Just Aquatic Governance: The Amazon basin as fertile ground for aligning participatory conservation with social justice" (2021, Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems)
  • "Fishers' multidimensional knowledge advances fisheries and aquatic science" (2022, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
  • "150 years of anthropogenic impact on coastal and ocean ecosystems in Brazil revealed by historical newspapers" (2021, Ocean & Coastal Management)
  • "Building leaders for the UN Ocean Science Decade: a guide to supporting early career women researchers within academic marine research institutions" (2022, ICES Journal of Marine Science)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Begossi include Priscila F. M. Lopes, Renato Azevedo Matias Silvano, Gustavo Hallwass, Carolina T. Freitas, and Paula Evelyn Rubira Pereyra.

Their publications frequently appear in scholarly venues such as Ethnoscientia - Brazilian Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology, Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, One Earth, and Ocean & Coastal Management.

Best Publications

  • Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being: three challenges for designing research for sustainability

    Elena M. Bennett;Wolfgang Cramer;Alpina Begossi;Georgina Cundill

  • Use of ecological methods in ethnobotany: diversity indices

    Alpina Begossi

  • Medicinal Plants in the Atlantic Forest (Brazil): Knowledge, Use, and Conservation

    Alpina Begossi;Natalia Hanazaki;Jorge Y. Tamashiro

  • Ethnobotany of caiçaras of the Atlantic Forest coast (Brazil)

    Silvia C. Rossato;HermóGenes F. De LeitãO-Filho;Alpina Begossi

  • Diversity of plant uses in two Caiçara communities from the Atlantic Forest coast, Brazil

    Natalia Hanazaki;Jorge Y. Tamashiro;Hermógenes F. Leitão-Filho;Alpina Begossi

  • ECOLOGIA HUMANA: UM ENFOQUE DAS RELACÕES HOMEM-AMBIENTE

    Alpina Begossi

  • When does this fish spawn? Fishermen's local knowledge of migration and reproduction of Brazilian coastal fishes

    R. A. M. Silvano;P. F. L. MacCord;R. V. Lima;A. Begossi

  • Fishermen's local ecological knowledge on Southeastern Brazilian coastal fishes: contributions to research, conservation, and management

    Renato Azevedo Matias Silvano;Alpina Begossi

  • Local knowledge on a cosmopolitan fish ethnoecology of Pomatomus saltatrix (Pomatomidae) in Brazil and Australia

    R.A.M. Silvano;A. Begossi

  • Temporal Stability in Fishing Spots: Conservation and Co- Management in Brazilian Artisanal Coastal Fisheries

    Alpina Begossi

  • Food taboos and folk medicine among fishermen from the Tocantins River (Brazil)

    Alpina Begossi;Francisco Manoel de Souza Braga

  • Ethnobotany of Atlantic Forest coastal communities: Diversity of plant uses in Gamboa (Itacuruçá island, Brazil)

    Gisela M. Figueiredo;Hermógenes F. Leitão-Filho;Alpina Begossi

  • Fishing spots and sea tenure : incipient forms of local management in Atlantic Forest coastal communities

    Alpina Begossi

  • Compensation for environmental services from artisanal fisheries in SE Brazil: Policy and technical strategies

    Alpina Begossi;Peter Herman May;Priscila Fabiana Macedo Lopes;Luiz E. C. Oliveira

  • Uses of Fish and Game by Inhabitants of an Extractive Reserve (Upper Juruá, Acre, Brazil)

    A. Begossi;R.A.M. Silvano;B.D. do Amaral;O.T. Oyakawa

  • FOOD CHAIN AND THE REASONS FOR FISH FOOD TABOOS AMONG AMAZONIAN AND ATLANTIC FOREST FISHERS (BRAZIL)

    Alpina Begossi;Natalia Hanazaki;Rossano M. Ramos

  • Fisheries, tourism, and marine protected areas: Conflicting or synergistic interactions?

    P.F.M. Lopes;S. Pacheco;M. Clauzet;R.A.M. Silvano

  • Contributions of ethnobiology to the conservation of tropical rivers and streams

    R.A.M. Silvano;A.L. Silva;M. Ceroni;A. Begossi

  • What can be learned from fishers? An integrated survey of fishers’ local ecological knowledge and bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix) biology on the Brazilian coast

    Renato Azevedo Matias Silvano;Alpina Begossi

  • Suggestions for fixing top-down coastal fisheries management through participatory approaches

    P.F.M. Lopes;E.M. Rosa;S. Salyvonchyk;V. Nora

  • Ethnoichthyology of Southern coastal fishermen : cases from Búzios Island and Sepetiba Bay (Brazil)

    A. Begossi;J. L. De Figueiredo

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria Grazia Pennino
Maria Grazia Pennino Spanish Institute of Oceanography
Ralf Seppelt
Ralf Seppelt Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Henry P. Huntington
Henry P. Huntington Ocean Conservancy
Louis Lebel
Louis Lebel Chiang Mai University
Peter H. Verburg
Peter H. Verburg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Benis Egoh
Benis Egoh University of California, Irvine
Patrick Meyfroidt
Patrick Meyfroidt Université Catholique de Louvain
Petra Tschakert
Petra Tschakert Curtin University
Fikret Berkes
Fikret Berkes University of Manitoba
Sandra Lavorel
Sandra Lavorel Grenoble Alpes University

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