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I am graduated in Biological Sciences (2014) and have a master’s degree in Zoology (2017). My MSc was developed in the Ornithology Department of the Museum of Science and Technology PUCRS. In this period I worked on a few projects regarding bird population richness in the Atlantic Forest and Grasslands. The focus of my thesis was regarding the relationship between morphological traits, and the song structure from Neotropical seedeaters (Sporophila) in an evolutionary context. Currently, I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Coimbra (Biosciences – Ecology). My thesis aims to determine the relative importance of sexual and natural selection over the evolution of complex signals (song, color, and courtship behavior), and how they relate to speciation, in two families of passerine birds (Pipridae and Cardinalidae). The groups of study include an oscine (Cardinalidae) and suboscine (Pipridae) families distributed from South to North America with a wide variation in color, song, and courtship behavior. As the two families differ in constraints for song production and elaboration of dance displays, I will use them in a comparative analysis for the evolution of extreme forms of signals.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Natália Simoni Porzio

Citation names

  • Porzio, Natália

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
7A10-4201-5E9A
ORCID iD
0000-0002-9981-7824

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Evolutionary Biology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Zoology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ornithology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Behavioural Sciences Biology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2018/09/06 - 2023/12/27
Ongoing
 PhD in Biosciences (Doktor (PhD))
Major in Ecology
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal
2015/03/01 - 2017/03/01
Concluded
 Master in Zoology (Master)
Major in Ecology and conservation; systematics and biodiversity; applied zoology
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
"Beak influence in the song’s structure of Neotropical seedeters (Thraupidae: Sporophila)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
2009/03/01 - 2014/03/01
Concluded
 Ciências Biológicas Bacharelado (Bachelor)
Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil
"Descrição anatômica comparada da cintura pélvica e do membro locomotor posterior em três espécies de Strigiformes" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2015/03/01 - 2017/03/01 Beak influence in the song’s structure of neotropical seedeters (Thraupidae: Sporophila)
131825/2015-1
Master Student Fellow
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Brazil
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/01/01 - 2023/12/31 Testing the evolution of sexually selected traits. Comparative evolutionary analysis of elaborated signals (song, color and dance) among two families of passerine birds (Pipridae and Cardinalidae)
2020.06170.BD
PhD Student Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Ongoing
2015/03/01 - 2017/03/01 Comunidade de aves campestres no extremo sul do Brasil: mapeando a riqueza e estimando parâmetros demográficos
10022/2015-0
Other
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Camila Cardoso Salomão; Porzio, Natália; César Jaeger Drehmer; José Eduardo Figueiredo Dornelles. "O Acerto Ornitológico". In Acervo do Museu de Ciências Naturais Carlos Ritter: 2008-2012. Pelotas, Brazil: Gráfica Universitária, 2012.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Porzio, Natália; Crottini, Angelica; Leite, Rafael ; Mota, Paulo. Corresponding author: Porzio, Natália. "Song determined by phylogeny and body mass in two differently constrained groups of birds: manakins and cardinals". BMC Ecol Evo 109 (2024):
  2. Porzio, Natália; Márcio Repenning; Carla Suertegaray Fontana. "Evolution of beak size and song constraints in Neotropical seedeaters (Thraupidae: Sporophila)". Acta Ornithologica 53 2 (2019): 173-180. https://bioone.org/journals/acta-ornithologica/volume-53/issue-2.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.3161/00016454AO2018.53.2.006
  3. N. S. Porzio; M. Repenning; C. S. Fontana. "Do beak volume and bite force influence the song structure of sympatric species of seedeaters (Thraupidae: Sporophila)?". Emu - Austral Ornithology (2019): 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/01584197.2018.1535833.
    10.1080/01584197.2018.1535833
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2016/08/02 Influência da morfologia do bico na estrutura do canto em três espécies simpátricas de Sporophila XXIII Congresso Brasileiro de Ornitologia
Universidade de Brasília (Pirenópolis, Brazil)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2018/10/19 - 2018/10/20 Participante da comissão organizadora do 15º Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Etologia, realizado na Universidade de Coimbra em 2018. (2018/10/19 - 2018/10/20)
Congress (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2021/10/07 - 2021/10/09 Poster presentation at the online section of the XVIII Conference of the Portuguese Society of Ethology- SPE 2021, held during the 7th, 8th, and 9th October 2021. Comparative analysis of song evolution by natural and sexual selection of two families of Neotropical birds
Conference
 XVIII Conference of the Portuguese Society of Ethology
Sociedade Portuguesa de Etologia, Portugal
2016/07/31 - 2016/08/04 Minicurso "Índices acústicos aplicados à Ornitologia" com carga horária de 7 horas ministrado por Dr. Ricardo B. Machado.
Congress
 XXIII Congresso Brasileiro de Ornitologia
Universidade de Brasília, Brazil
2016/03/20 - 2016/03/26 Curso de anilhamento e análise da muda de passeriformes realizado em São Francisco de Paula, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. O curso teve a duração de uma semana com saídas a campo diárias para captura de passeriformes em redes de neblina de forma à realizar os processos de anilhamento e análise de muda.
Workshop
 V Bird Banding and Molt Analysis Course
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
2015/07/19 - 2015/07/24 Apresentação de poster "Análisis comparativo de imágenes obtenidas por micro tomógrafo y diafanización para la descripción morfológica de siringes".
Congress
 X Neotropica Ornithological Congress and XXII Congresso Brasileiro de Ornitologia
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil
2012/12/09 - 2012/12/14 Minicurso de captura, biometria e anilhamento de passeriformes, ministrado por Cecília Pérez no Segundo Congresso Uruguaio de Zoologia.
Congress
 II Congreso Uruguayo de Zoología
Sociedad Zoologica del Uruguay, Uruguay
2012/12/09 - 2012/12/14 Apresentação do poster "Dados do coeficiente de variação e análise biométrica em quatro estruturas ósseas de Strigiformes: Tyto alba, Asio clamator e Bubo virginianus".
Congress
 II Congreso Uruguayo de Zoología
Sociedad Zoologica del Uruguay, Uruguay
2012/11/20 - 2012/11/23 Apresentação do poster "Análise morfométrica de onze estruturas ósseas em três espécies de Strigiformes".
Congress
 21º Congresso de Iniciação Científica
Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil
2011/01/31 - 2011/02/25 English language course in London, 25h semanais.
Other
Frances King School of English, United Kingdom