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Maíra Conde (Her/She )

Doctoral Researcher
MC³4 Earth: Max-Planck Caltech Carnegie Columbia Center
Department Biogeochemical Integration (BGI)
Research group Atmosphere-Biosphere Coupling, Climate and Causality
Intern. Max Planck Research School for Global Biogeochemical Cycles (IMPRS-gBGC)
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Main Focus

Conducts research in Forest Sciences, with an emphasis on Ecology and Forest Management. In forest management, focuses on growth modeling of timber species. In ecology, investigates wood functional traits to understand the vulnerability of Amazonian tree species to climate change. Currently, research centers on tree-ring width and isotopic signatures to study the CO₂ fertilization effect and how rising CO₂ levels impact tree productivity and drought resilience, using High-Performance Computing (HPC) clusters.

Curriculum Vitae

2020 – 2022 Master of Tropical Forest Sciences, National Institute for Amazonian Research, Brazil.

Title: Evaluation of the management potential of timber species in the clean-water igapó forest in Amazon using growth models.

Supervisor: Jochen Schöngart.

 

2015 – 2020 Bachelor of Forestry Engineering, Federal Rural University of Amazônia, Brazil.

Title:  Necromass of fallen trees in an urban secondary forest, Belém, Pará.

Supervisor: Dr. Rodrigo Geroni Mendes Nascimento

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WORK EXPERIENCE

 

2024 - 2025 Technical

Institution: National Institute for Amazonian Research (Brazil); University of Graz (Austria).

Project: Microclimatic conditions experienced by bryophyte communities at Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO).

 

2022 - 2024 Research assistant

Institution: National Institute for Amazonian Research (Brazil).

Project: Diversity of hydraulic-functional attributes and strategy types of forested Amazonian ecosystems in times of hydro-climatic change.

 

2019 - 2024 Consulting forestry engineer

Company: Emmageo Mapping Forrestry

 

2016 – 2019 Research training      

Institution: Emílio Goeldi Museum of Pará (Brazil).

Projects:

1. Taxonomic studies on Cyperus L. in the restingas of the state of Pará, 2016 - 2017.

2. Malvoideae (Malvaceae Juss.) in the Metropolitan Region of Belém, 2017 – 2018.

3. Three new species of the tribe Malveae (Malvoideae, Malvaceae) of the genera Sida l. and Callianthe donnell in the state of Pará, Brazil, 2018 – 2019.

 

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RESEARCH PROJECTS

               

2022 – 2025 Amazon Tall Tower Observator (ATTO).

Institution: National Institute for Amazonian Research; Max-Planck.

Coordinator: Dr. Carlos Alberto Nobre Quesada

Subprojects:

1. 2024 – 2025 Microclimatic conditions experienced by bryophyte communities at Amazon Tall Tower Observatory.

Institution: National Institute for Amazonian Research; Max-Planck; University of Graz

Coordinator: Dr. Bettina Weber 

 

2. 2022 – 2024 Diversity of hydraulic-functional attributes and strategy types of forested Amazonian ecosystems in times of hydro-climatic change – Hydrotraits.

Institution: National Institute for Amazonian Research; Max-Planck.

Coordinator: Dr. Florian Wittmann

 

2020 – 2024 Demonstration sites of pristine and impacted oligotrophic wetland ecosystems in Central Amazonia: finding trends and filling gaps - PELD-MAUA.

Institution: National Institute for Amazonian Research.

Coordinator: Dr. Jochen Schöngart 

 

2016 – 2019 Phanerogamous flora of the restingas of the state of Pará.

Institution: Emílio Goeldi Museum of Pará (Brazil).

Coordinator: Dr. André dos Santos Bragança Gil 

               

2016 - 2019 Taxonomic and systematic studies of the Cyperaceae in the Brazilian Amazon.

Institution: Emílio Goeldi Museum of Pará (Brazil).

Coordinator: Dr. André dos Santos Bragança Gil 

 

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PUBLICATIONS

 

CONDE, MAÍRA LUCIANA GUIMARÃES; PIEDADE, MARIA TERESA FERNANDEZ; WITTMANN, FLORIAN; NASCIMENTO, RODRIGO GERONI MENDES; SCHÖNGART, JOCHEN. Evaluation of the management potential of timber resources in clearwater floodplain forests in the Amazon using growth models. Journal Of Environmental Management. Impact factor (2024 JCR): 8,0000, v.351, p.119781, 2024.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119781

 

CONDE, MAÍRA LUCIANA GUIMARÃES; GIL, ANDRÉ DOS SANTOS BRAGANÇA; NUNES, CLEBIANA DE SÁ. O gênero Cyperus (Cyperaceae) nas restingas do estado do Pará, Brasil. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi. Ciências Naturais. v.17, p.289 - 314, 2022.

https://doi.org/10.46357/bcnaturais.v17i2.324

 

SILVA, CAIO LIMA BRAGA DA; NUNES, CLEBIANA DE SÁ; SCHNEIDER, LAYLA JAMYLLE COSTA; SILVA, JULIENE DE FÁTIMA MACIEL DA; ALVES, KARINA DE NAZARÉ LIMA; CONDE, MAÍRA LUCIANA GUIMARÃES; FERNANDES-JUNIOR, ALUISIO JOSÉ; GIL, ANDRÉ DOS SANTOS BRAGANÇA. Cyperaceae Juss. nos campos de natureza de Cametá, Pará, Amazônia, Brasil. Iheringia Serie Botanica, v.76, p.e2021005 - e2021005, 2021.

https://doi.org/10.21826/2446-82312021v76e2021005

 

HADLICH, HILANA LOUISE; SCHÖNGART, JOCHEN; WITTMANN, FLORIAN; VASCONCELOS, CAROLINE C.; MALLMANN, CAROLINE L.; CONDE, MAÍRA LUCIANA GUIMARAES; DEMARCHI, LAYON O.; MORI, GISELE BIEM; PIEDADE, MARIA T. F. Exploring the potential of field spectroscopy for tree species identification in different Amazonian forest ecosystems. Global Ecology and Conservation. 2025

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2025.e03970

 

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