Title of the Doctoral Thesis

Floral trait functioning and buzz-bee-niche partitioning in Melastomataceae

Research interests

• Pollination ecology
• Buzz pollination
• Floral morphology, evolution and diversity
• Ecological networks
• Ecoacoustics

Projects

• Scientific project collaborator ERC Starting Grant 2023 "Mount buzz" (Agnes Dellinger)

 Cooperations

• Federal University of Uberlândia

 Curriculum Vitae

Current position

• 2024– PhD student/Scientific project collaborator (prae doc) ERC Starting Grant 2023

Education and scientific career

• 2021–2023 MSc, Ecology, Conservation and Biodiversity, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brasil
• 2017–2021 BSc, Biological Sciences, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brasil

 Selected publications

• Anderson B, Sabino-Oliveira AC, Matallana-Puerto CA, Arvelos CA, Novaes CS, de Cario Calaça DC, Schulze-Albuquerque I, Santos Pereira JP, Borges JO, de Melo LRF, Consorte PM, Medina-Benavides S, de Oliveira Andrade T, Monteiro TR, Marcelo VG, Silva VHD, Oliveira PE, de Brito VLG (2024) Pollen Wars: Explosive Pollination Removes Pollen Deposited from Previously Visited Flowers. Am Nat. 204(6): 616-625.
  https://doi.org/10.1086/732797. Epub 2024 Oct 10. PMID: 39556875.
• Arvelos C (2023) Exploring the acoustics of vibrating bees as an indicator of bee diversity and pollination efficiency in poricidal flowers
• Arvelos C (2021) Buzz trap: Bee identification using acoustic features and artificial intelligence