Montpellier Advanced Knowledge Institute on Transitions

George Brown

George G. Brown is a soil ecologist of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), and also teaches in the Graduate Program of Soil Sciences at the Federal University of Paraná. His Visiting Scientist fellowship at the Montpellier Advanced Knowledge Institute on Transitions runs from 25 November 2024 to 16 July 2025.

Biography:

George G. Brown is a soil ecologist of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), and also teaches in the Graduate Program of Soil Sciences at the Federal University of Paraná. He participates in several international projects including ‘Soil biodiversity and ecosystem function in Human-modified landscapes’. His research project is dedicated to ‘Linking Soil Fauna Communities with Ecosystem Service Provisioning in Rural and Urban Environments‘ and will deepen his ongoing collaboration with the Ecology and Evolutionary Ecology Research Unit. FAUNASERVICES will, for the first time, synthesise the relationships between soil biodiversity – soil macrofauna and earthworm communities – and the provisioning of five key ecosystem services that are critical in Amazonia and the Atlantic Forest, two major biomes in South America.

Research interests:

  • Soil macrofauna
  • Ecosystem services
  • Biodiversity hotspots
  • Land use systems

Recent publications include:

Brown, George, Wilian Demetrio, Quentin Gabriac, Amarildo Pasini, Vanesca Korasaki, Lenita Oliveira, and others, ‘Soil Macrofauna Communities in Brazilian Land Use Systems’ (Biodiversity Data Journal, 2023), doi:10.3897/arphapreprints.e115049

Conrado, Ana C., Wilian C. Demetrio, David W. G. Stanton, Marie L. C. Bartz, Samuel W. James, Alessandra Santos, and others, ‘Amazonian Earthworm Biodiversity Is Heavily Impacted by Ancient and Recent Human Disturbance’, Science of The Total Environment, 895 (2023), p. 165087, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165087

Mathieu, Jérôme, Ana C. Antunes, Sébastien Barot, Ana E. Bonato Asato, Marie L. C. Bartz, George G. Brown, and others, ‘sOilFauna – a Global Synthesis Effort on the Drivers of Soil Macrofauna Communities and Functioning: WORKSHOP REPORT’, 2022, doi:10.25674/SO94ISS2ID282

Phillips, Helen R. P., Carlos A. Guerra, Marie L. C. Bartz, Maria J. I. Briones, George Brown, Thomas W. Crowther, and others, ‘Global Distribution of Earthworm Diversity’, Science, 366.6464 (2019), pp. 480–85, doi:10.1126/science.aax4851