Subjects offered in English: 

Academic Calendar: https://prograd.ufu.br/central-de-conteudos/documentos/2025/03/calendario-academico-de-2025-2026-e-2027-graduacao-e-estes 

Subjects offered in Portuguese

1. ECR03 – Field Ecology
2. ECR05 – Ecological Anatomy of Vascular Plants
3. ECR07 – Behavioral Ecology and Interactions
4. ECR08 – Pollination Ecology
5. ECR09 – Analysis, Conservation, and Management of Natural Resources
6. ECR11 – Ecology of Gallery Forests
7. ECR13 – Ecology of the Cerrado
8. ECR14 – Ecology and Epidemiology
9. ECR15 – Human Ecology
10. ECR16 – Reproductive Ecology of Cerrado Plants
11. ECR24 – Phylogeny and Ecology
12. ECR25 – Methodology of Higher Education
13. ECR27 – Advanced Topics in Ecology I: Scientific Publication in Ecology
14. ECR27A – Advanced Topics in Ecology I: Exploratory Data Analysis Using R and Other Programs
15. ECR27B – Advanced Topics in Ecology I: Introduction to R Language
16. ECR27E – Advanced Topics in Ecology I: Ecology of Fauna Associated with Marine Macroalgae
17. ECR27F – Special Topics in Ecology: Diversity Metrics—Functional and Phylogenetic
18. ECR28B – Advanced Topics in Ecology II: Ecology and Behavior of Spiders
19. ECR28C – Advanced Topics in Ecology II: Meta-analysis in Ecology
20. ECR28E – Advanced Topics in Ecology II: Fundamentals of Ecotoxicology and Risk Assessment
21. ECR29 – Advanced Topics in Ecology III: Pollination Ecology
22. ECR29D – Advanced Topics in Ecology III: Experimental Design and Scientific Writing
23. ECR29E – Advanced Topics in Ecology III: Aquatic Pollution
24. ECR29F – Advanced Topics in Ecology III: Comparative Phylogenetic Methods
25. ECR30 – Use of Agricultural Waste
26. ECR31 – Topics in Plant Community Ecology
27. ECR32 – Plant Population Ecology
28. ECR33 – Teaching Internship I (Undergraduate Level)
29. ECR35 – Seminars in Ecology I
30. ECR35C – Seminars in Ecology I: Introduction to Behavioral Ecology
31. ECR38 – Methods in Floristic Studies
32. ECR39 – Dissertation Seminar
33. ECR42A – Special Topics in Ecology I: Nutrient Cycling in Tropical Terrestrial Ecosystems
34. ECR42B – Special Topics in Ecology I: Phylogenetic Estimation and Molecular Clock
35. ECR42C – Special Topics in Ecology I: Ecology of Benthic Communities
36. ECR42D – Special Topics in Ecology I: Geometric Morphometrics—Applications in Ecology and Evolution
37. ECR42E – Special Topics in Ecology I: Conservation and Management of Pollinating Insects in Agricultural Systems
38. ECR42F – Special Topics in Ecology I: Statistical Distributions and Generalized Linear Models
39. ECR42H – Special Topics in Ecology I: Philosophical Foundations Applied to Scientific Practice
40. ECR43A – Special Topics in Ecology II: Methods, Questions, and Answers in Ecology—Useful Tools
41. ECR43B – Special Topics in Ecology II: Scientific Writing and Publication
42. ECR43C – Special Topics in Ecology II: Phenotypic Plasticity in Evolutionary Theory
43. ECR43E – Special Topics in Ecology II: Multivariate Analysis Applied to Ecology
44. ECR43F – Special Topics in Ecology II: Interpretation and Construction of Graphs in R Environment
45. ECR44A – Special Topics in Ecology III: Functional Diversity—Niche Complementarity Beyond Species Richness
46. ECR44B – Special Topics in Ecology III: Ecology of Interactions Among Metazoans
47. ECR44C – Special Topics in Ecology III: Animal Behavior—From Ethology Principles to Behavioral Ecology and Conservation
48. ECR44D – Special Topics in Ecology III: Use of Experiments in Ecological Studies of Aquatic Organisms
49. ECR44E – Special Topics in Ecology III: Urban Ecology
50. ECR44F – Special Topics in Ecology III: Introduction to Mathematical Modeling in Population Dynamics
51. ECR45B – Special Topics in Ecology IV: Meta-analysis in Ecology
52. ECR45C – Special Topics in Ecology IV: Ecology and Evolution of Interaction Systems from the Perspective of Color Vision
53. ECR45D – Special Topics in Ecology IV: Ecological Networks
54. ECR45E – Special Topics in Ecology IV: Introduction to Ecological Niche Modeling
55. ECR45F – Special Topics in Ecology IV: Reproductive Systems of Angiosperms
56. ECR46B – Special Topics in Ecology IV: Ecophysiology of Stress in Tropical Plants
57. ECR46D – Special Topics in Ecology IV: Insect-Plant Interactions—Species Associations
58. ECR47B – Special Topics in Ecology V: Seminars in Ecology (English Language Course)
59. ECR47C – Special Topics in Ecology V: Biology of Galls
60. ECR47D – Special Topics in Ecology V: Cerrado—Ecology, Biogeography, and Conservation
61. ECR48 – Teaching Internship II (Undergraduate Level)
62. ECR49 – Field Ecology II
63. ECR51 – Community and Ecosystem Ecology
64. ECR52 – Population Ecology
65. ECR53 – Statistics
66. ECR54 – Soil Fertility and Mineral Nutrition of Plants
67. ECR55 – Methods and Organization of Scientific Work
68. ECR56 – Teaching Internship III (Undergraduate Level)
69. ECR57 – Host-Parasite Relationships
70. ECR58A – Topics in Ecology I: Molecular Ecology and Conservation
71. ECR58B – Topics in Ecology I: Ecological and Evolutionary Perspectives of Herbivore-Plant Interactions
72. ECR58C – Topics in Ecology I: Intuitive Biostatistics and Introduction to Linear Models
73. ECR58D – Topics in Ecology I: Philosophy of Science and Experimental Design
74. ECR59A – Topics in Ecology II: Environmental Scientific Photography
75. ECR59B – Topics in Ecology II: Ecological Networks
76. ECR59C – Topics in Ecology II: Generalized Linear Models—Beyond Binomial and Poisson

Graduate Program Board – Ecology, Conservation and Biodiversity (UFU)

The Board is the academic body responsible for guiding, supervising, and coordinating the Program's activities. It is composed of:

1. The Program Coordinator, serving as Chair;

2. Four faculty representatives, elected by their peers;

3. One student representative, elected by their peers.

Main Responsibilities:

• Enforce UFU’s graduate regulations and this Program’s internal rules;

• Define and approve the annual number of available positions and the maximum number of students per advisor;

• Prepare and approve the selection notice, ensuring publication in the Official Federal Gazette at least 15 days before applications open;

• Approve faculty members for the selection committee;

• Organize and approve the list of instructors for each course annually.

Board Meeting Calendar – 2025

Board Members

• President: Alan Nilo da Costa

• Unit: Graduate Program in Ecology, Conservation and Biodiversity

Counselors (Name / Term / Representation):

• Heraldo Luis de Vasconcelos — 07/03/2023 to 07/02/2025 — Faculty

• Marcelo de Oliveira Gonzaga — 05/10/2023 to 05/09/2025 — Faculty

• Ana Sílvia Franco Pinheiro Moreira — 10/14/2024 to 10/13/2026 — Faculty

• Nicolás Pelegrin — 10/14/2024 to 10/13/2026 — Faculty