{"id":17433,"date":"2024-09-24T09:51:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T08:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idiv.de\/staff\/rachel-souza-ferreira\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T11:25:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T10:25:49","slug":"rachel-souza-ferreira","status":"publish","type":"staff-manager","link":"https:\/\/www.idiv.de\/de\/staff\/rachel-souza-ferreira\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Souza Ferreira"},"content":{"rendered":"    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"row pt-5 mb-5 profile-info\">\n            \n            <div class=\"col-md-6 offset-md-2\">\n                <div class=\"basic-info pt-3 text-md-start text-center\">\n                    <h2>\n                         \n                        Rachel \n                        Souza Ferreira                    <\/h2>\n                    <p>Doktorandin<\/p>\n                                            <div class=\"groups\">\n                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idiv.de\/de\/karriere\/ydiv\/\" 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For my PhD research, I&#8217;m will focus on how the evolution of functional traits\/key innovations has influenced mimosoid diversification across distinct continents and habitats. Which processes are related to the current disjunct distribution of mimosoids, and investigate which functional traits and dispersal mechanisms may have enabled the (long-distance) dispersal, colonization, diversification, and survival in distinct biomes. 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