Mauro Galetti

Mauro Galetti received his Bachelors degree in Biology (1990) and his Masters degree in Ecology (1992) at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). After receiving his Ph.D. from Cambridge University (1996), he moved to Indonesia to study seed dispersal by hornbills and mammals. In 1997, he returned to Brazil and founded the Plant Phenology and Seed Dispersal Research Group at Universidade Estadual Paulista at Rio Claro in São Paulo, Brazil. Galetti has been a Visiting Scientist at Integrative Ecology Group at Consejo de Investigaciones Científicas in Seville, Spain and Center for Latin American, Stanford University. In 2006, he, along with other colleagues, received the Zayed International Prize for Scientific Achievements in the Environment for the Millenium Assessment book. Galetti's research strives to understand complex interactions between frugivores (fruit-eating animals) and plants and the impact of human activities, including forest fragmentation, poaching, and more recently global change, on biodiversity loss. His major study sites are in the Pantanal and in the Atlantic rain forest.