Dr. Juliana Menger
Department of Conservation Biology
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
Tel: 0341 235 1654
j.menger@ufz.de
Web registries
Education
| 2017 |
Doc. rer. nat, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Dissertation title: Unraveling patterns and drivers of understorey birds’ distribution in a Central Amazon forest – from community ecology to population genetics |
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| 2011 |
Master of Science (Ecology), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil. Dissertation title: Drivers of bird’s distribution in the Purus-Madeira interfluve, Occidental Amazonia. |
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| 2008 |
Bachelor of Science, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), São Leopoldo, Brazil. Dissertation title: Impact of artisan shrimp fishing in the waterbirds assemblages of the Lagoa do Peixe National Park, South Brazil. |
Scientific career
| since 2021 | Postoctoral researcher: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Deparment of Conservation Biology, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2020-2021 | Postdoctoral researcher: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Manaus, Brazil |
| 2018-2020 | Postdoctoral researcher: German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig |
| 2017 | Postdoctoral researcher: German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig |
| 2012-2017 | Guest researcher: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Conservation Biology, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2012-2017 | Research collaborator: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Manaus, Brazil |
| 2015 | Research visitor: New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study - NZIAS, Albany Campus, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand |
| 2011 | Research assistant: Brazilian Program for Biodiversity Research (PPBio), Manaus, Brazil |
| 2010 | Teaching assistant: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil: Community Ecology Course |
| 2008 | Teaching assistant: Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, São Leopoldo, Brazil: Systematic of Angiosperms Course |
| 2007 | Research assistant: Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, São Leopoldo, Brazil: Project Rice Field Biodiversity and Functioning |
| 2005 | Teaching assistant: Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, São Leopoldo, Brazil: Population, Community and Ecosystems Ecology Courses |
Research interests
I am an ecologist with a broad interest in biodiversity distribution. In my research I combine field monitoring data and laboratory genetic analysis to assess changes in patterns of biodiversity distribution in natural and anthropogenic environments. I have experience both in the molecular lab, as well as collecting biological samples in the field.
I have joint the ADVANCE project to assisting the implementation of FAIR principles on biodiversity monitoring data and metadata from the Helmholtz Centres for research and applied biodiversity conservation.
Public datasets
Menger J, Magnusson WE, Costa FRC. 2016. Understorey-bird monitoring at the Reserva Florestal Adolpho Ducke, Amazonas, Brazil. Programa de Pesquisa em Biodiversidade (PPBio). PPBioAmOc.82.4
Menger J, Anciães M, Cohn-Haft M & Magnusson WE. 2011. Distribuição de aves no interflúvio Purus-Madeira, BR-319. Programa de Pesquisa em Biodiversidade (PPBio): naman.42.5