RESEARCH INTEREST
Insect Diversity and Population Ecology
Insect-parasitoid Interactions
Geographic and Seasonal Variation of Insect Species
Systematics and Ecology of Anaea Butterflies
Butterflies as Indicators for Conservation Areas.
Ph.D. (1992): Ecology; Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP/SP), Brazil.
Specialist in Computer Systems Analysis and Design (a graduate program), Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC/RJ), Brazil. 1987 - 1989.
Graduate courses in Statistics (no degree), Escola Nacional de Ciencias Estatísticas (ENCE/RJ), Brazil. 1984 - 1986.
M. S. (1985): Entomology; Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR/PR), Brazil.
Teaching Lic. in English, Universidade Santa Ursula (USU/RJ), Brazil. 1985.
B. Sc. (1980): Biology (Zoology) and Teaching Lic. in Biology, Universidade Santa Ursula (USU/RJ), Brazil.
Staff Scientist (Research Specialist), University of Maryland at College Park. 1999 - present
Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution. 1997 - present
Research Associate, University of Maryland at College Park. 1998 - 1999
Scientific Consultant ("ad hoc"), Grants Committee for the Environmental Sciences Program, Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq). 1994 - present.
Associate Professor (Ecology and Biostatistics), Dept. of Animal and Plant Biology, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1993 - 1996.
Assistant Professor (Ecology and Biostatistics), Dept. of Animal and Plant Biology, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1986 - 1992.
Ecological Society of America
Entomological Society of America
Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia
The Lepidopterists' Society
Barbosa, P.; A.E. Segarra; P. Gross; A. Caldas et al. 2000. Differential parasitism of macrolepidopteran herbivores on two deciduous tree species. Ecology 82(3): 698-704.
Caldas, A., D.J. Hawthorne and P. Barbosa. 2002. Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers from Zale galbanata (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and amplification in other members of the genus. Molecular Ecology Notes 2 (3): 296-297.
Caldas, A. and R.K. Robbins. 2003. Modified Pollard Transects for Assessing Tropical Butterfly Abundance and Diversity. Biological Conservation 110: 211-219.
Barbosa P., A. Caldas and G. Robinson. 2003. Host Plant Associations Among Species in Two Macrolepidopteran Assemblages. Journal of Entomological Science 38(1): 41-47.
Barbosa, P. and A. Caldas. 2003. Patterns of parasitoid-host associations in differentially parasitized macrolepidopteran assemblages on black willow Salix nigra (marsh) and box elder Acer negundo L. Basic And Applied Ecology. (in press).
Barbosa, P., T. Tammaru, and A. Caldas. Is Parasitism of Numerically Dominant Species in Macrolepidopteran Assemblages Independent of their Abundance? Basic And Applied Ecology. (in press).