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Ivan Sazima is affiliated with the State University of Campinas in Brazil. Their work primarily centers on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a strong focus on ecology and related subfields. The main areas of study include ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, and plant science.

Their research spans several key topics, including plant and animal studies, ecology and vegetation dynamics, plant parasitism and resistance, amphibian and reptile biology, wildlife ecology and conservation, marine and fisheries research, and avian ecology and behavior.

Ivan Sazima has contributed to multiple publication venues. Frequent outlets for their research include:

  • Ornithology Research
  • Food Webs
  • Ichthyological Research
  • Biota Neotropica
  • Functional Ecology

Their recent papers demonstrate a range of ecological interests. Notable publications include:

  • "Ecological mechanisms explaining interactions within plant-hummingbird networks: morphological matching increases towards lower latitudes," 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "The influence of biogeographical and evolutionary histories on morphological trait-matching and resource specialization in mutualistic hummingbird-plant networks," 2021, Functional Ecology
  • "The moving gardens: reef fishes grazing, cleaning, and following green turtles in SW Atlantic," 2021, Acervo Digital da Universidade Estadual Paulista (Universidade Estadual Paulista)
  • "Plankton-feeding aggregation and occasional cleaning by adult butterflyfish, Chaetodon striatus (Chaetodontidae), in Southwestern Atlantic," 2022, UNESP Institutional Repository (São Paulo State University)
  • "Patterns of taxonomic and functional diversity in the global cleaner reef fish fauna," 2021, Journal of Biogeography

The collaborative nature of their work is reflected in frequent coauthorship with several researchers. The most frequent collaborators are:

  • Marlies Sazima
  • Pietro K. Maruyama
  • Jeferson Vizentin-Bugoni
  • Andréa Cardoso Araujo
  • Oscar Humberto Marín-Gómez

Best Publications

  • Hummingbird-Pollinated Floras at Three Atlantic Forest Sites1

    Silvana Buzato;Marlies Sazima;Ivan Sazima

  • Ecological and phylogenetic correlates of feeding habits in neotropical pitvipers of the genus Bothrops

    Marcio Roberto Costa Martins;Otávio Augusto Vuolo Marques;Ivan Sazima

  • Amphibian Declines in Brazil: An Overview1

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

  • Similarities in feeding behaviour between some marine and freshwater fishes in two tropical communities

    I. Sazima

  • Behavioural defences of anurans: an overview

    L. F. Toledo;I. Sazima;Celio Fernando Baptista Haddad

  • South‐western Atlantic reef fishes: Zoogeographical patterns and ecological drivers reveal a secondary biodiversity centre in the Atlantic Ocean

    Hudson T. Pinheiro;Hudson T. Pinheiro;Luiz A. Rocha;Luiz A. Rocha;Raphael M. Macieira;Alfredo Carvalho-Filho

  • Bat-pollinated Flower Assemblages and Bat Visitors at Two Atlantic Forest Sites in Brazil

    Marlies Sazima;Silvana Buzato;Ivan Sazima

  • An Assemblage of Hummingbird-pollinated Flowers in a Montane Forest in Southeastern Brazil

    I. Sazima;Silvana Buzato;Marlies Sazima

  • Structure of an anuran community in a montane meadow in southeastern Brazil: effects of seasonality, habitat, and predation

    Ivan Sazima;Paula Cabral Eterovick

  • The snake assemblage of the Pantanal at Poconé, Western Brazil: Faunal composition and ecological summary

    Christine Strussmann;Ivan Sazima

  • Underwater observations of piranhas in western Brazil

    Ivan Sazima;Francisco A. Machado

  • Specialization in Plant-Hummingbird Networks Is Associated with Species Richness, Contemporary Precipitation and Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity

    Bo Dalsgaard;Bo Dalsgaard;Bo Dalsgaard;Else Magård;Jon Fjeldså;Ana M. Martín González

  • Bat Pollination of the Passion Flower, Passiflora mucronata, in Southeastern Brazil

    Marlies Sazima;Ivan Sazima

  • Predators of the nest building gladiator frog, Hyla faber, in southeastern Brazil

    Ivan Sazima;Marcio Martins;Silvia G. Egler

  • Marine Ornamental Trade in Brazil

    S. R. Floeter;I. Sazima

  • Scale-eating in characoids and other fishes

    Ivan Sazima

  • Fish Biodiversity of the Vitória-Trindade Seamount Chain, Southwestern Atlantic: An Updated Database

    Hudson T. Pinheiro;Eric Mazzei;Rodrigo L. Moura;Gilberto M. Amado-Filho

  • The reef fish assemblage of the Laje de Santos Marine State Park, Southwestern Atlantic: annotated checklist with comments on abundance, distribution, trophic structure, symbiotic associations, and conservation

    Osmar J. Luiz;Alfredo Carvalho-Filho;Carlos E. L. Ferreira;Sergio R. Floeter

  • BREEDING-BEHAVIOR OF THE PUMPKIN TOADLET, BRACHYCEPHALUS-EPHIPPIUM (BRACHYCEPHALIDAE)

    Jose P. Pombal;Ivan Sazima;Celio F. B. Haddad

  • Bat pollination of Encholirium glaziovii , a terrestrial bromeliad

    Ivan Sazima;Stefan Vogel;Marlies Sazima

  • The nested structure of marine cleaning symbiosis: is it like flowers and bees?

    Paulo R Guimarães;Cristina Sazima;Sérgio Furtado dos Reis;Ivan Sazima

Frequent Co-Authors

Marlies Sazima
Marlies Sazima State University of Campinas
Sergio R. Floeter
Sergio R. Floeter Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Marcio Martins
Marcio Martins Universidade de São Paulo
Rodrigo L. Moura
Rodrigo L. Moura Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Jansen Zuanon
Jansen Zuanon National Institute of Amazonian Research
Carlos E. L. Ferreira
Carlos E. L. Ferreira Fluminense Federal University
Bo Dalsgaard
Bo Dalsgaard University of Copenhagen
Ronaldo B. Francini-Filho
Ronaldo B. Francini-Filho Universidade de São Paulo
Célio F. B. Haddad
Célio F. B. Haddad Sao Paulo State University
Carsten Rahbek
Carsten Rahbek University of Copenhagen

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