Leopoldo C. Gerhardinger is a Phd candidate in Environment and Society at the Centre for Environmental Studies (Nepam), University of Campinas (Unicamp) in Brazil, where he collaborates with an action research project funded by CAPES (Brazilian Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel) entitled “Participatory small-scale fisheries management in coastal Brazil: implications for fisher’s livelihood and biodiversity conservation”. He holds a Bsc in Oceanography (Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Santa Catarina, Brazil - 2004) and a Msc in Conservation (University College London - 2008).
Leopoldo is also also affiliated to a marine conservation NGO named ECOMAR, with whom he engages with various facets of coastal and marine governance in Brazil either through research or environmental activism in designing and delivering marine conservation projects at various levels (Goliath Grouper Marine Conservation Network, www.merosdobrasil.org).
His general research interests ranges from marine fish ecology and ethnoecology to the theory and practice of governance. His PhD deals with multi-level coastal-marine governance with a focus on marine protected areas, including the role of leadership, social-ecological resilience and the need of institutional adaptation in times of accelerated social-environmental change. Leopoldo is under the supervision of Prof. Cristiana Simão Seixas.
Recent publications
- Gerhardinger, L.C.; Godoy, E.A.S.; Jones, P.J.S.; Sales, G.; Ferreira, B.P. 2011. Marine Protected Dramas: The Flaws of the Brazilian National System of Marine Protected Areas. Environmental Management, 47:630–643.
- Gerhardinger, L.C.; Godoy, E.A.S.; Jones, P.J.S. 2009. Local ecological knowledge and the management of marine protected areas in Brazil. Ocean & Coastal Management, v. 52, p. 154-165.
- Gerhardinger, L. C.; Hostim-Silva, M.; Medeiros, R.P.; Matarezi, J.; Bertoncini, A.A.; FREITAS, M.O.; Ferreira, B,P. 2009. Fishers resource mapping and goliath grouper Epinephelus itajara (Serranidae) conservation in Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology, 7(1):93-102.
- Irigoyen, A.J.; Gerhardinger, L.C.; Carvalho-Filho, A. 2008. On the status of the species of Acanthistius (Gill, 1862) (Percoidei) in the South-West Atlantic Ocean. Zootaxa, 1813: 51–59.
- Craig, M. T., Graham, R.T.; Torres, R.A.; Hyde, J.R.; Freitas, M.O.; Ferreira, B.P.; Hostim-Silva, M.; Gerhardinger, L.C.; Bertoncini, Á.A.; Robertson, D.R. 2008. How many species of goliath grouper are there? Cryptic genetic divergence in a threatened marine fish and the resurrection of a geopolitical species. Endangered Species Research, 7:167-174.
- Ferreira, C.E.L.; Ferreira, C.G.W.; Rangel, C.A.; Mendonça, J.P.; Gerhardinger, L. C.; Carvalho-Filho, A.; Godoy, E.A.; Luiz Junior, O.; Gasparini, J.L. 2008. Reef fishes. In: Creed, J.C.; Pires, D.O.; Figueiredo, M.A.O. (Org.). Marine Biodiversity of the Ilha Grande Bay. Brasilia: Ministério do Meio Ambiente. v. 23, p. 291-322.
- Gerhardinger, L. C.; Bertoncini, A.A.; Hostim-Silva, M.; Medeiros, R.P.; Marenzi, R.C. 2006. Local Ecological Knowledge on the Goliath Grouper Epinephelus itajara. Neotropical Ichthyology, v. 4, p. 441-450.
- Gerhardinger, L. C.; Bertoncini, A.A.; Hostim-Silva, M. 2006. Local ecological knowledge and Goliath grouper spawning aggregations in the South Atlantic Ocean: Goliath grouper spawning aggregations in Brazil. Traditional Marine Resource Management and Knowledge Information Bulletin, v. 20, p. 33-34.
- Gerhardinger, L.C.; Marenzi, R.C.; Hostim-Silva, M.; Medeiros, R.P. 2006. Conhecimento Ecológico Local de Pescadores da Baía Babitonga, Santa Catarina, Brasil: Peixes da Família Serranidae. Acta Scientiarum. Biological Sciences, v. 28, p. 253-261.
- Gerhardinger, L. C.; Freitas, M.O.; Bertoncini, A.A.; Borgonha, M.; Hostim-Silva, M. 2006. Collaborative Approach in the Research of Dusky Grouper Reproductive Biology (Epinephelus marginatus, LOWE, 1834) (Perciformes: Serranidae, Epinephelinae). Acta Scientiarum. Biological Sciences 28:219-226.
- Gerhardinger, L.C.; Freitas, M.O.; Bertoncini, A.A.; Rangel, C.A. 2006. Omobranchus punctatus (Teleostei: Blenniidae), an exotic blenny in the Southwestern Atlantic. Biological invasions 00:1-6.
- Hostim-Silva, M.; Bertoncini, A.A; Machado, L.F.; Gerhardinger, L.C.; Godot, E.A.; Barreiros, J.P.; Daros, F.A.L.M. 2006. Peixes de Santa Catarina: I Arvoredo. itajaí: Editora Univali, 2006.
- Hostim-Silva, M.; Bertoncini, A.A.; Gerhardinger, L.C.; Machado, L.F. 2005. The Lord of the Rocks conservation program in Brazil: the need for a new perception of marine fishes. Coral Reefs, v. 24, n. 74, p. 74.
- Gerhardinger, L.C.; Samagaia, R.; Barreiros, J.P.; Hostim-Silva, M. 2005. A foraging association between juvenile dusky grouper Epinephelus marginatus (LOWE, 1834) and the goldspotted snake eel Myrichthys ocellatus (LESUEUR, 1825). Cybium (Paris), v. 30, p. 82-84.
