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Carlos Peres is a Professor of Tropical Conservation Ecology at the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia (UK), and a Sector Head for Environmental Biology. He specializes in Amazonian biodiversity, studying wildlife ecology, habitat fragmentation, and conservation strategies. His career includes roles as a Reader, Lecturer, and Assistant Professor, with postdoctoral research at Duke University and Museu Goeldi. Key affiliations include the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation and ClimateUEA.
Research interests focus on large-bodied vertebrate diversity, human-driven disturbances (hunting, wildfires, deforestation), and sustainable land-use practices. He co-leads research programs on tropical forest resources, fragmentation dynamics, and biodiversity conservation across neotropical regions.
Publications emphasize Amazonian ecosystems' resilience to human impacts, with notable works on defaunation, forest edges' ecological effects, and biomass collapse due to overhunting. His recent work highlights global biodiversity conservation priorities and forest fire prevalence linked to fragmentation.
Awarded the inaugural Frontiers Planet Prize (2023), he also received recognition from Time/CNN (2000) and the Bay and Paul Foundation (1995). Active in grants, he leads projects funded by the Royal Society, EU Horizon 2020, and the Research Council of Norway, addressing Caatinga biome management, hydroelectric impacts, and Amazonian ecosystem services.
He advises on UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to environmental protection and collaborates globally. His fieldwork spans Amazonia, balancing academic roles in Norwich with tropical field research.
