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Overview

Ana Carolina Carnaval is affiliated with the City University of New York in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, and Genetics.

The scientist's work encompasses a range of main topics, including:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Genetic diversity and population structure

They have published numerous articles in well-known academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Biogeography
  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • Ecography
  • Global Change Biology
  • Molecular Ecology

Selected recent papers by Ana Carolina Carnaval include:

  • Integrating remote sensing with ecology and evolution to advance biodiversity conservation, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Human impacts outpace natural processes in the Amazon, 2023, Science
  • Seeing the forest through many trees: Multi-taxon patterns of phylogenetic diversity in the Atlantic Forest hotspot, 2020, Diversity and Distributions
  • Environmental correlates of taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity in the Atlantic Forest, 2021, Journal of Biogeography
  • The effect of past defaunation on ranges, niches, and future biodiversity forecasts, 2022, Global Change Biology

Ana Carolina Carnaval has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Fabián A. Michelangeli
  • Lúcia G. Lohmann
  • Juan M. Guayasamin
  • Carmen Ulloa Ulloa
  • Andrea Paz

In addition to articles, they have contributed to book publications. One notable book is Neotropical Diversification: Patterns and Processes, published in 2020 by Springer International Publishing.

Best Publications

  • Stability Predicts Genetic Diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Hotspot

    Ana Carolina Oliveira de Queiroz Carnaval;Michael J. Hickerson;Célio Fernando Baptista Haddad;Miguel Trefaut Urbano Rodrigues

  • Historical climate modelling predicts patterns of current biodiversity in the Brazilian Atlantic forest

    Ana Carolina Carnaval;Craig Moritz

  • PaleoClim, high spatial resolution paleoclimate surfaces for global land areas

    Jason L. Brown;Daniel J. Hill;Aisling M. Dolan;Ana C. Carnaval

  • Integrating remote sensing with ecology and evolution to advance biodiversity conservation

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  • Prediction of phylogeographic endemism in an environmentally complex biome.

    Ana Carolina Carnaval;Eric Waltari;Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues;Dan Rosauer

  • Amphibian Declines in Brazil: An Overview1

    Paula Cabral Eterovick;Ana Carolina Oliveira De Queiroz Carnaval;Diva Maria Borges‐Nojosa;Débora Leite Silvano

  • The origin and maintenance of montane diversity: integrating evolutionary and ecological processes

    Catherine H. Graham;Ana C. Carnaval;Carlos Daniel Cadena;Kelly R. Zamudio

  • Latitude, elevational climatic zonation and speciation in New World vertebrates

    Carlos Daniel Cadena;Kenneth H. Kozak;Juan Pablo Gomez;Juan Luis Parra

  • Human impacts outpace natural processes in the Amazon

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  • Distribution models for the amphibian chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Costa Rica: proposing climatic refuges as a conservation tool

    Robert Puschendorf;Robert Puschendorf;Ana C. Carnaval;Jeremy VanDerWal;Héctor Zumbado-Ulate

  • Biome stability in South America over the last 30 kyr: Inferences from long-term vegetation dynamics and habitat modelling

    Gabriel C. Costa;Arndt Hampe;Marie‐Pierre Ledru;Pablo A. Martinez

  • Natural History Collections as Emerging Resources for Innovative Education

    Joseph A. Cook;Scott V. Edwards;Eileen A. Lacey;Robert P. Guralnick

  • A tale of two niches: methods, concepts, and evolution

    Jason L. Brown;Ana C. Carnaval

  • Amphibian Chytrid Fungus Broadly Distributed in the Brazilian Atlantic Rain Forest

    Ana Carolina Oliveira de Queiroz Carnaval;Robert Puschendorf;Oswaldo Luiz Peixoto;Vanessa Kruth Verdade

  • Demographic processes in the montane Atlantic rainforest: molecular and cytogenetic evidence from the endemic frog Proceratophrys boiei.

    Renata Cecília Amaro;Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues;Yatiyo Yonenaga-Yassuda;Ana Carolina Carnaval;Ana Carolina Carnaval

  • Molecular phylogeny and morphometric analyses reveal deep divergence between Amazonia and Atlantic Forest species of Dendrophryniscus

    Antoine Fouquet;Renato Recoder;Mauro Teixeira;José Cassimiro

  • AMPHIBIAN DNA SHOWS MARKED GENETIC STRUCTURE AND TRACKS PLEISTOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE IN NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL

    Ana Carolina Carnaval;John M. Bates;John M. Bates

  • Inferring responses to climate dynamics from historical demography in neotropical forest lizards

    Ivan Prates;Ivan Prates;Alexander T. Xue;Alexander T. Xue;Jason L. Brown;Jason L. Brown;Diego F. Alvarado-Serrano;Diego F. Alvarado-Serrano

  • Variable responses of skinks to a common history of rainforest fluctuation: concordance between phylogeography and palaeo-distribution models

    Adnan Moussalli;Craig Moritz;Stephen E. Williams;Ana Carolina Carnaval

  • A mid-Pleistocene rainforest corridor enabled synchronous invasions of the Atlantic Forest by Amazonian anole lizards

    Ivan Prates;Ivan Prates;Danielle Rivera;Danielle Rivera;Miguel Trefaut Urbano Rodrigues;Ana C Carnaval;Ana C Carnaval

  • Phylogeography of Four Frog Species in Forest Fragments of Northeastern Brazil—A Preliminary Study

    Ana Carolina O. Q. Carnaval

  • A Leap Further: The Brazilian Amphibian Conservation Action Plan

    V K Verdade;P H Valdujo;A C Carnaval;L Schiesari

Frequent Co-Authors

Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues
Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues Universidade de São Paulo
Jason L. Brown
Jason L. Brown Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Craig Moritz
Craig Moritz Australian National University
Michael J. Hickerson
Michael J. Hickerson City University of New York
Célio F. B. Haddad
Célio F. B. Haddad Sao Paulo State University
Nathan J. Sanders
Nathan J. Sanders University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jeremy VanDerWal
Jeremy VanDerWal James Cook University
Robert P. Anderson
Robert P. Anderson City College of New York
Lúcia G. Lohmann
Lúcia G. Lohmann Universidade de São Paulo
Renato Goldenberg
Renato Goldenberg Federal University of Paraná

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