Mentoring
Mentoring the Next Generation
Approach
My mentoring philosophy grew out of decades of experience across all levels of education, from primary school to university — a journey that began when I first stepped into a classroom at 20. I mentor new generations to use systems thinking and the scientific method to understand complexity and drive meaningful change in the world. This philosophy draws inspiration from Mario Bunge's scientific realism and the work of Christopher Uhl, with whom I collaborated and who taught me that the deepest purpose of education is to help students live more deliberately and in harmony with the world.
José Silva and students of the graduate program in Tropical Biodiversity, Universidade Federal do Amapá, Macapá, Brazil.
Students
Eduarda Dias Pantoja
Research and Outreach Assistant
International Studies, Sustainable Business and Entrepreneurship · University of Miami
Liza Khmara
Conservation for Development: Protected Areas, Economics and Governance
University of Miami
Rachel Elizabeth Schueller
Designing Ecological Infrastructure: A conservation analysis of the Tropical Andes
University of Miami
Teresa Cristina Albuquerque de Castro Dias
Brazilian Protected Areas: investments, management costs and economic potential
Universidade Federal do Amapá
Andreza de Lourdes Souza Gomes
Oxidative stress in birds of forest gaps and mature forests in Amazon forests
Universidade Federal do Pará
Edson Guilherme da Silva
Avifauna of Acre: Composition, Geographic Distribution and Conservation
Universidade Federal do Pará
Helder Pereira de Araújo
Avian Communities in the Caatinga, Brazil
Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Renata de Melo Valente
Spatial patterns in Amazonian bird communities
Universidade Federal do Pará
Luciane Lopes de Souza
Seed dispersal by vertebrates in upland forests and igapó the Amanã Sustainable Development Reserve
Universidade Federal do Pará
Marcos Pérsio Santos Dantas
Avifauna of the State of Roraima: biogeography and conservation
Universidade Federal do Pará
Sergio Henrique Borges
Avifauna of the Jau National Park: an integrated approach in landscape ecology, conservation and biogeography
Universidade Federal do Pará
Maria de Jesus da Conceição Ferreira Fonseca
Biodiversity and sustainable development in the curriculum of the secondary schools of Belém, Pará, Brazil
Universidade Federal do Pará
Sonia Aline Roda
Birds from the Center of Endemism Pernambuco: Composition, Biogeography and Conservation
Universidade Federal do Pará
Joandro Pandilha dos Santos
Distribution of forest birds in a Neotropical savanna landscape
Universidade Federal do Amapá
Jackson Cleiton de Sousa
Bird dynamics along savanna-forest boundaries in a Neotropical savanna landscape
Universidade Federal do Amapá
Julia DiLeo
Vulnerability of Caribbean island-nations to future climate change
University of Miami
Adriano Ferreira de Souza
Environmental attitude of the urban population of Macapá, Amapá, Brazil
Universidade Federal do Amapá
Rodrigo Paulo Silvestro
Structure and dynamics of the assemblage of birds in response to the flooding cycle of a field of floodplain in Macapá, Amapá
Universidade Federal do Amapá
Erica Ferreira de Araujo
Distribution of species of freshwater fish endemic to the Guayana Shield
Universidade Federal do Amapá
Roberta Lucia Boss
Ecology of birds in an Amazon savanna in the State of Amapá
Universidade Federal do Amapá
Manuella Andrade de Souza
Distribution patterns and conservation of passerine birds in the Caatinga
Universidade Federal do Pará
Bruno Xavier de Freitas
Spatial distribution and social organization of Pipra rubrocapilla in a remnant of Atlantic Forest in Northeast Brazil
Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Luiz Antonio Junior Coltro
The Tocantins river as a geographic barrier for suboscines birds
Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Fernando Mendonça D'Horta
Geographic variation, intergradation zones and speciation in complex Icterus cayanensis-chrysocephalus
Universidade Federal do Pará
Eduardo Siqueira Tenorio de Vasconcelos
Avian communities along a gradient of urbanization in the city of Recife, Pernambuco
Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Carlos Alberto Uchoa Mergulhão-Neto
Integrity, implementation and feasibility of protected areas in the Atlantic Forest of the Pernambuco State
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Maria Alice da Silva Mendes
Audience research in tropical zoos: a case study in the Dois Irmãos Zoo, Recife, Pernambuco
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Marcos Pérsio Santos Dantas
Biogeographic analysis of the avifauna of an area of transition Cerrado-Caatinga in the center-south of Piaui, Brazil
Universidade Federal do Pará
Lemuel Olivio Leite
Ecology and behavior of Pyriglena leuconota pernambucensis, a taxon endemic to the Atlantic forest of northeastern Brazil
Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Rodrigo Pessoa Oliveira
Geographic variation in Conopophaga melanops, a species endemic to the Atlantic Forest
Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Marcelo Cardoso de Sousa
The areas of endemism for passerine birds in the Atlantic Forest
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Cesar Marcelo Lima Peres
Spider communities in natural gaps and mature forest of the Atlantic Forest
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Suely Basilio de Souza
Sexual dimorphism in size in three species of thrushes
Universidade Federal do Pará