Hevana is a PhD candidate from Brazil. She is mainly interested in avian ecology, biogeography and evolution. As an undergrad she studied the impacts of forest management on mobbing behavior in a Brazilian Dry Forest. As a master student she investigated the contact zone between two Amazon endemic woodpeckers species.  As a PhD candidate she seeks to understand patterns of diversity and genetic variation in birds along the South American dry diagonal. As a visiting student at Harvard she aims to use genomic tools to understand the adaptive processes in the Pearly-vented Tody Tyrant (Hemitriccus margaritaceinventer) a species which occurs in dry forests of South America.

Selected publications:

Lima, H. S., LAS-CASAS, F. M. G., Ribeiro, J. R., Girao, W. A., Mariz, D., & Naka, L. N. (2022). Avifauna and biogeographical affinities of a carrasco-dominated landscape in north-eastern Brazil: providing baseline data for future monitoring. Bird Conservation International, 32(2), 275-291.

Lima, H. S., Las‐Casas, F. M. G., Ribeiro, J. R., Gonçalves‐Souza, T., & Naka, L. N. (2018). Ecological and phylogenetic predictors of mobbing behavior in a tropical dry forest. Ecology and Evolution, 8(24), 12615-12628.