Dr. Flor Sangermano in collaboration with Dr. Paula Prist (Ecohealth Alliance) and Dr. Leandro Tambosi (Universidade Federal do ABC), were awarded more than $500,000 by the National Science Foundation and the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), to assess ecosystem resilience and zoonotic spillover risk in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil.
The general objectives are: 1) to understand how habitat loss and landscape structure affect functional diversity, viral diversity, network composition, and zoonotic spillover risk; and 2) To understand how forest restoration can reinstate functional diversity, ecosystem resilience, and the provision of disease regulation services.