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Glauco Machado is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with significant focus on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. The scope of their work also covers subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Genetics, Ecology, and Paleontology.

The main research topics Machado addresses include Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Plant and Animal Studies, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Subterranean Biodiversity and Taxonomy, Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior, and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Machado include:

  • Benefits and costs of female and male care in amphibians: a meta-analytical approach, 2023, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • It is not always about body size: evidence of Rensch's rule in a male weapon, 2021, Biology Letters
  • Differential allocation in a gift-giving spider: males adjust their reproductive investment in response to female condition, 2021, BMC Ecology and Evolution (authored by Diego Solano-Brenes)
  • Function predicts the allometry of contest-related traits, but not sexual or male dimorphism in the amazonian tusked harvestman, 2022, Evolutionary Ecology (authored by Alexandre V. Palaoro)
  • Function of a multimodal signal: A multiple hypothesis test using a robot frog, 2021, Journal of Animal Ecology (authored by Vinícius Matheus Caldart)

Machado frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Alexandre V. Palaoro
  • Solimary García-Hernández
  • Bruno A. Buzatto
  • Erika M. Santana
  • Daniel S. Caetano

Their work has been published in various scientific venues, with multiple publications appearing in:

  • Evolutionary Ecology
  • Animal Behaviour
  • Integrative Zoology
  • Journal of Arachnology
  • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Best Publications

  • Using δ13C stable isotopes to quantify individual-level diet variation

    Márcio S. Araújo;Márcio S. Araújo;Daniel I. Bolnick;Glauco Machado;Ariovaldo A. Giaretta

  • Harvestmen: the biology of Opiliones

    Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha;Glauco Machado;Gonzalo Giribet

  • Selecting terrestrial arthropods as indicators of small-scale disturbance: A first approach in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

    Marcio Uehara-Prado;Juliana de Oliveira Fernandes;Ayr de Moura Bello;Glauco Machado

  • Sexual selection and static allometry: the importance of function

    William G. Eberhard;William G. Eberhard;William G. Eberhard;Rafael Lucas Rodríguez;Bernhard A. Huber;Bretta Speck

  • Harvestman (Arachnida: Opiliones) species distribution along three Neotropical elevational gradients: an alternative rescue effect to explain Rapoport's rule?

    Mário Almeida‐Neto;Glauco Machado;Ricardo Pinto‐da‐Rocha;Ariovaldo A. Giaretta

  • Comparing species richness among assemblages using sample units: why not use extrapolation methods to standardize different sample sizes?

    Adriano S. Melo;Rodrigo A. S. Pereira;Adalberto J. Santos;George J. Shepherd

  • Daily activity schedule, gregariousness, and defensive behaviour in the Neotropical harvestman Goniosoma longipes (Opiliones: Gonyleptidae)

    Glauco Machado;Rafael L. G. Raimundo;Paulo S. Oliveira

  • Reproductive biology of the neotropical harvestman ( Goniosoma longipes ) (Arachnida, Opiliones: Gonyleptidae): mating and oviposition behaviour, brood mortality, and parental care

    Glauco Machado;Paulo S. Oliveira

  • The ecological tale of Gonyleptidae (Arachnida, Opiliones) evolution: phylogeny of a Neotropical lineage of armoured harvestmen using ecological, behavioural and chemical characters

    Daniel S. Caetano;Glauco Machado

  • Chemical Defense in Harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones): Do Benzoquinone Secretions Deter Invertebrate and Vertebrate Predators?

    Glauco Machado;Patricia C. Carrera;Armando M. Pomini;Anita J. Marsaioli

  • Sexually dimorphic legs in a neotropical harvestman (Arachnida, Opiliones): Ornament or weapon?

    Rodrigo H. Willemart;Francini Osses;Marie Claire Chelini;Rogelio Macías-Ordóñez

  • Effects of maternal care on the lifetime reproductive success of females in a neotropical harvestman

    Bruno A. Buzatto;Gustavo S. Requena;Eduardo G. Martins;Glauco Machado

  • Diversity and abundance of litter frogs at altitudinal sites at Serra do Japi, southeastern Brazil

    Ariovaldo Antonio Giaretta;Ricardo J. Sawaya;Glauco Machado;Márcio S. Araújo

  • Intrapopulation Diet Variation in Four Frogs (Leptodactylidae) of the Brazilian Savannah

    Márcio S. Araújo;Márcio S. Araújo;Sérgio F. dos Reis;Ariovaldo A. Giaretta;Glauco Machado

  • Resource defense polygyny shifts to female defense polygyny over the course of the reproductive season of a Neotropical harvestman

    Bruno A. Buzatto;Glauco Machado

  • Conditional male dimorphism and alternative reproductive tactics in a Neotropical arachnid (Opiliones)

    Bruno A. Buzatto;Gustavo S. Requena;Rafael S. Lourenço;Roberto Munguía-Steyer

  • Alarm communication: a new function for the scent-gland secretion in harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones).

    Glauco Machado;Vinícius Bonato;Paulo S. Oliveira

  • Parental investment and the evolution of subsocial behaviour in harvestmen (Arachnida Opiliones)

    G. Machado;R.L.G. Raimundo

  • Mating system and exclusive postzygotic paternal care in a Neotropical harvestman (Arachnida: Opiliones)

    Tais M. Nazareth;Glauco Machado

  • Build-up mechanisms determining the topology of mutualistic networks

    Paulo R. Guimarães;Glauco Machado;Marcus A.M. de Aguiar;Pedro Jordano

Frequent Co-Authors

Ariovaldo Antonio Giaretta
Ariovaldo Antonio Giaretta Federal University of Uberlândia
Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha
Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha Universidade de São Paulo
Paulo S. Oliveira
Paulo S. Oliveira State University of Campinas
Paulo R. Guimarães
Paulo R. Guimarães Universidade de São Paulo
Daniel I. Bolnick
Daniel I. Bolnick University of Connecticut
William G. Eberhard
William G. Eberhard Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Adriano B. Kury
Adriano B. Kury Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Gregory I. Holwell
Gregory I. Holwell University of Auckland
Regina H. Macedo
Regina H. Macedo University of Brasília
André V. L. Freitas
André V. L. Freitas State University of Campinas

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