Michaela Ladeira de Melo
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Postdoctoral fellow
514-987-3000, ext 4033
Université du Québec à Montréal
Pavillon des sciences biologiques, SB-2670
2080 St-Urbain
Montréal, Québec
H2X 3X8
Canada
2019: Ph.D. Ecology and Natural Resources, Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil, with a period in the Department of Limnology, Uppsala University, Sweden
2015: M.Sc. Ecology, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Brazil
2013: B.Sc. Biology, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Brazil
My main research interests are in the mechanisms structuring microbial communities with a special emphasis in the interaction between bacterial activity and the availability of organic substrates (DOM). I use molecular tools and optical measurements allied to theorical concepts from Macroecology to understand spatiotemporal dynamics of microbial communities in complex aquatic networks.
Publications
• de Melo, M., Kothawala, D.N., Bertilsson, S., Amaral, J.H., Forsberg, B., and Sarmento, H. (2019). Linking dissolved organic matter composition and bacterioplankton communities in an Amazon floodplain system. Limnology & Oceanography. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11250
• de Melo, M.L., and Sarmento, H. (2019). Anthropogenic impacts on aquatic bacteria: a perspective from the tropics. Acta Limnologica Brasiliensia, In press.
• de Melo, M., Bertilsson, S., Amaral, J.H., Barbosa, P., Forsberg, B., and Sarmento, H. (2019). Flood pulse regulation of bacterioplankton community composition in an Amazonian floodplain lake. Freshwater Biology, 64: 108-120.
• Amaral, J.H., Borges, A.V., Melack, J.M., Sarmento, H., Barbosa, P. M., Kasper, D., de Melo, M.L., de Fex-Wolf, D., da Silva, J.S., and Forsberg, B.R. (2018). Influence of plankton metabolism and mixing depth on CO2 dynamics in an Amazon Floodplain Lake. Science of the Total Environment, 630: 1381-1393.
• Freitas, R., Vieira, H.H., de Moraes, G.P., de Melo, M.L., Vieira, A.A.H., and Sarmento, H. (2018). Productivity and rainfall drive bacterial metabolism in tropical cascading reservoirs. Hydrobiologia, 809: 233-246.
• Almeida, R.M., Melo, M.L. et al. (2016). High Primary Production Contrasts with Intense Carbon Emission in a Eutrophic Tropical Reservoir. Frontiers in Microbiology, 7, 717.
• Vidal, L.O., Abril, G., Artigas, L.F., Melo, M.L., Bernardes, M.C., Lobão, L.M., Reis, M.C., Moreira-Turcq, P., Benedetti, M., Tornisielo, V.L., and Roland, F. (2015). Hydrological pulse regulating the bacterial heterotrophic metabolism between Amazonian mainstems and floodplain lakes. Frontiers in Microbiology, 6, 1054.