Victor L Caetano Andrade

Victor obtained his B.S. in Forest Engineering at Federal University of Viçosa and his MSc in Science of Tropical Forests at the National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), Brazil. His PhD research is part of the Max Planck Society funded project ‘A living archaeology in the Amazon Rainforest:First use of tree DNA and chronological profiling to reconstruct prehistoric human rainforest disturbance’. The project is led by Dr. Patrick Roberts and involves a multidisciplinary international team, including the Max Planck Institutes for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH), for Biogeochemistry (MPI-BGC), and for Developmental Biology, as well as two Brazilian institutions, the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA) and University of São Paulo (USP). The project aims to investigate past human impacts on genetics, spatial distribution, age, and growth of living trees in the Amazon rainforest, collecting about 2000 trees in six different Brazilian National Forests. It uses tree-rings, refined biochemical analysis such stable isotopes and radiocarbon dating, as well as modern nuclear genetics to track human environmental manipulation. 

Publications

Caetano-Andrade VL, Schöngart J, Ayala WE, Melinski RD, Silva F, Dobrindt R, Roberts P. Advances in increment coring system for large tropical trees with high wood densities. Dendrochronologia. 2021 Aug 1;68:125860.

Caetano-Andrade, V. L., Clement, C.R., Weigel, D., Trumbore, S., Boivin, N., Schöngart, J., Roberts, P. Tropical trees as time capsules of anthropogenic activity. Trends in Plant Science. 2020 Feb 6.

Caetano-Andrade, V.L., Flores, B.M., Levis, C., Clement, C.R., Roberts, P., Schöngart, J. Growth rings of Brazil nut trees (Bertholletia excelsa) as a living record of historical human disturbance in Central Amazonia. PloS one. 2019 Apr 3;14(4):e0214128.

Roberts P, Buhrich A, Caetano-Andrade VL, Cosgrove R, Fairbairn A, Florin SA, Vanwezer N, Boivin N, Hunter B, Mosquito D, Turpin G. Reimagining the relationship between Gondwanan forests and Aboriginal land management in Australia's “Wet Tropics”. Iscience. 2021 Mar 19;24(3).

Cassino, M. F., Alves, R.P., Levis, C., Watling, J., Junqueira, A.B., Shock, M.P., Ferreira, M.J., Caetano-Andrade, V.L., Furquim, L.P., Coelho, S.D., Tamanaha, E.K. Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology. In Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology 2019 (pp. 187-208). Humana Press, New York, NY.

Antunes, A.C., Baccaro, F., Caetano-Andrade, V.L., Ramos, J.F., Da Silva Moreira, R., Barnett, A.A. Igapó seed patches: a potentially key resource for terrestrial vertebrates in a seasonally flooded forest of central Amazonia. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 2019 Sep 17;128(2):460-72.

Antunes AC, Montanarin A, Gräbin DM, Monteiro EC, de Pinho FF, Alvarenga GC, Ahumada J, Wallace RB, Ramalho EE, Barnett AP, Bager A, [...], Caetano-Andrade, VL, [...], AMAZONIA CAMTRAP: A dataset of mammal, bird, and reptile species recorded with camera traps in the Amazon forest. Ecology. 2022 May 13:e3738-.