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Julio Louzada is affiliated with the Federal University of Lavras in Brazil and specializes in environmental science with a focus on nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, and ecology. Their research activity extends into subfields such as ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and paleontology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics including ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, conservation, biodiversity and resource management, plant and animal studies, and Scarabaeidae beetle taxonomy and biogeography. Other notable areas of interest include species distribution and climate change, wildlife ecology and conservation, and the effects of fire on ecosystems.

Julio Louzada has contributed to multiple academic publications, with some recent papers listed as follows:

  • Integrated terrestrial-freshwater planning doubles conservation of tropical aquatic species, 2020, Science
  • Climatic and local stressor interactions threaten tropical forests and coral reefs, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Linking land-use and land-cover transitions to their ecological impact in the Amazon, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • El Niño impacts on human-modified tropical forests: Consequences for dung beetle diversity and associated ecological processes, 2020, Biotropica
  • Ivermectin impacts on dung beetle diversity and their ecological functions in two distinct Brazilian ecosystems, 2022, Ecological Entomology

Their academic collaboration network includes frequent co-authors such as Fernando Zagury Vaz-de-Mello, Jos Barlow, Filipe França, Érika Berenguer, and César M. A. Correa.

Julio Louzada has published regularly in venues such as Biotropica, Ecological Entomology, Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, Austral Ecology, and Acta Oecologica.

Best Publications

  • Ecological functions and ecosystem services provided by Scarabaeinae dung beetles

    Elizabeth Nichols;S. Spector;Julio Louzada;Trond H. Larsen

  • Anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests can double biodiversity loss from deforestation

    Jos Barlow;Jos Barlow;Jos Barlow;Gareth D. Lennox;Joice Ferreira;Erika Berenguer

  • How pervasive is biotic homogenization in human‐modified tropical forest landscapes?

    Ricardo Ribeiro de Castro Solar;Ricardo Ribeiro de Castro Solar;Jos Barlow;Jos Barlow;Joice Ferreira;Erika Berenguer

  • Brazil's environmental leadership at risk

    J. Ferreira;L. E. O. C. Aragao;Jos Barlow;P. Barreto

  • Dung beetle community and functions along a habitat-disturbance gradient in the Amazon: a rapid assessment of ecological functions associated to biodiversity.

    Rodrigo Fagundes Braga;Vanesca Korasaki;Ellen Andresen;Julio Louzada

  • Dung beetles as indicators of tropical forest restoration success: Is it possible to recover species and functional diversity?

    Lívia Dorneles Audino;Julio Louzada;Julio Louzada;Liza Comita;Liza Comita

  • A social and ecological assessment of tropical land uses at multiple scales: the Sustainable Amazon Network

    Toby A. Gardner;Toby A. Gardner;Joice Ferreira;Jos Barlow;Alexander C. Lees

  • Towards environmentally sustainable agriculture in Brazil: challenges and opportunities for applied ecological research

    Joice Ferreira;Renata Pardini;Jean Paul Metzger;Carlos Roberto Fonseca

  • Second rate or a second chance? Assessing biomass and biodiversity recovery in regenerating Amazonian forests.

    Gareth D. Lennox;Toby A. Gardner;Toby A. Gardner;James R. Thomson;James R. Thomson;Joice Ferreira

  • Carbon-focused conservation may fail to protect the most biodiverse tropical forests

    Joice Ferreira;Gareth D Lennox;Toby A Gardner;Toby A Gardner;James R Thomson;James R Thomson

  • Do space‐for‐time assessments underestimate the impacts of logging on tropical biodiversity? An Amazonian case study using dung beetles

    Filipe França;Filipe França;Julio Louzada;Julio Louzada;Vanesca Korasaki;Vanesca Korasaki;Hannah Griffiths;Hannah Griffiths;Hannah Griffiths

  • Integrated terrestrial-freshwater planning doubles conservation of tropical aquatic species

    Cecília G. Leal;Cecília G. Leal;Gareth D. Lennox;Silvio F. B. Ferraz;Joice Ferreira

  • Trait-dependent response of dung beetle populations to tropical forest conversion at local and regional scales

    Elizabeth Nichols;Elizabeth Nichols;María Uriarte;Daniel E. Bunker;Mario E. Favila

  • Climatic and local stressor interactions threaten tropical forests and coral reefs

    Filipe M. França;Filipe M. França;Cassandra E. Benkwitt;Guadalupe Peralta;James P. W. Robinson

  • Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

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  • [Community structure of Scarabaeinae (Scarabaeidae: Coleoptera) in Brazilian savannah phytophysiognomies and its importance for conservation].

    Sabrina da S P de Almeida;Júlio N C Louzada

  • Improving the design and management of forest strips in human-dominated tropical landscapes: a field test on Amazonian dung beetles

    Jos Barlow;Julio Louzada;Luke Parry;Malva I.M. Hernández

  • Optimising bait for pitfall trapping of Amazonian dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae).

    Charles J. Marsh;Julio Louzada;Wallace Beiroz;Robert M. Ewers

  • Successional and Seasonal Changes in a Community of Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) in a Brazilian Tropical Dry Forest

    Frederico de Siqueira Neves;Victor Hugo Fonseca Oliveira;Mário Marcos do Espírito-Santo;Fernando Zagury Vaz-de-Mello

  • Utilisation of introduced Brazilian pastures ecosystems by native dung beetles: diversity patterns and resource use

    Júlio N.C. Louzada;Paulo R. Carvalho E Silva

  • Social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) as indicators of conservation degree of riparian forests in Southeast Brazil.

    M. M. de Souza;J. Louzada;J. E. Serrão;J. C. Zanuncio

  • Subtle Land‐Use Change and Tropical Biodiversity: Dung Beetle Communities in Cerrado Grasslands and Exotic Pastures

    Sabrina Almeida;Julio Louzada;Carlos Sperber;Jos Barlow

Frequent Co-Authors

Jos Barlow
Jos Barlow Lancaster University
Toby A. Gardner
Toby A. Gardner Stockholm Environment Institute
Alexander C. Lees
Alexander C. Lees Manchester Metropolitan University
Erika Berenguer
Erika Berenguer University of Oxford
Joice Ferreira
Joice Ferreira Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão National Institute for Space Research
James Robertson Thomson
James Robertson Thomson Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research
Luke Parry
Luke Parry Lancaster University
Eleanor M. Slade
Eleanor M. Slade Nanyang Technological University
Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira
Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi

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