I was born in Brazil and came to live in the US in 1997. I have a Bachelor's degree in Biology and a Master's in Environmental Biology from universities in Brazil, and a Ph.D. in Botany (Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology) from the University of Hawaii.
My major interest in Biology is plant ecology. I have done research in the Brazilian Amazon on the role of vines in forest ecology, in Hawaii on forest hydrology, and, here in the Tampa Bay area I studied plant communities on small islands.
Scientific Production
RESTOM-GASKILL, T., J. Wolf, and R. Runnels. 2010. Distribution of native plant species on islands of the Tampa Bay area. In: Cooper, S.T. (ed.), Proceedings, Tampa Bay Area Scientific Information Symposium, BASIS 5, October 2009, Saint Petersburg, Florida, pages: 441-450.
Trumbore, S., E.S. da Costa, D.C. Nepstad, P.B. de Camargo, L.A. Martinelli, D. Ray, T. RESTOM and W. Silver. 2006. Dynamics of fine root carbon in Amazonian tropical ecosystems and the contribution of roots to soil respiration. Global Change Biology 12(2): 217-229.
Pauw, A. S. Van Bael, H. Peters, S. Allison, J. L. Camargo, M. Cifuentes, A. Conserva, T. RESTOM, T. Heartsill-Scalley, S. Mangan, G. Nuñez-Iturri, E. Rivera-Ocasio, M. Rountree, S. Vetter and C. de Castillo. 2004. Physical damage in relation to carbon allocation strategies of tropical forest tree saplings. Biotropica 36(3): 410-413.
RESTOM, T. G. and D. C. Nepstad. 2004. Seedling growth dynamics of a deeply-rooting liana in a secondary forest in eastern Amazonia. Forest Ecology and Management 190(1):109-118.
James, S., F. C. Meinzer, G. Goldstein, D. Woodruff, T. Jones, T. RESTOM, T. G., M. Mejía, M. Clearwater and P. Campanello. 2003. Axial and radial water transport and internal water storage in tropical forest canopy trees. Oecologia 134: 3-45.
RESTOM, T. G. and D. C. Nepstad. 2001. Contribution of vines to the evapotranspiration of a secondary forest in eastern Amazon. Plant and Soil 236 (2): 155-163.
RESTOM, T. G. and D. C. Nepstad. 1999. Contribution of vines to the evapotranspiration of a secondary forest in eastern Amazonia. In: P. Moutinho, M. Dias-Filho and D. C. Nepstad (eds) Funções, Recuperação e Alternativas de Uso da Floresta Amazônica. In Portuguese, Belem, Brazil.
RESTOM, T. G. 1998. Restoration of deep root system in a secondary forest in eastern Amazonia. In: C. Gascon and P. Moutinho (eds) Floresta Amazônica: Dinâmica, Regeneração e Manejo. Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia/Instituto Nacional de Pesquisa da Amazônia: 145-153. In Portuguese.
Mendonça, S. C. F.; P. M. De Luca; W. Mayrink; T. G. RESTOM; F. Conceicao-Silva; A. M. da Cruz; A. L. Bertho; C. A. da Costa; O. Genaro; V. P. C. P. Toledo and S. G. Coutinho. 1995. Characterization of human T Lymphocyte-mediated immune responses induced by a vaccine against American tegumentary leishmaniasis. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 53(2): 195-201.
Mendonça, S. C. F.; D. G. Russel; T. G. RESTOM and S. G. Coutinho. 1990. Human T cell proliferative responses to Leishmania braziliensis lipophosphoglycan: fact or artifact? EOS – Journal of Immunology and Immunopharmacology, Vol. X, n. 4: 188-189.
