Dr. Silvana V. Paula-Moraes

Associate Professor

Crop Pest Management

Dr. Paula-Moraes has a 70% research and 30% teaching appointment. Her research focuses on general area of applied insect ecology and addresses several aspects of Integrated Pest Management (IPM), including the development of economic thresholds, sampling plans, cost-benefit analysis, host plant resistance, crop environmental manipulation and characterization of the risk of invasive pests to cropping systems. Her research also addresses biology and behavior of insects as applied to Insect Resistance Management (IRM), with focus on insect movement, host utilization and differential exposure to Bt toxins.

Programs

• Research

  Insect ecology, Integrated Pest Management and Insect resistance management.

  • Research Publications
• Teaching
  • Principles of Entomology
  • Fundamentals of Plant-Pest Management
• Entomology Community Outreach

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Contact

Jay Admin Rm. 11
UF/IFAS West Florida Research and Education Center
4253 Experiment Rd., Hwy. 182
Jay, FL 32565
850-983-7101
paula.moraes@ufl.edu

• Education

  • Ph.D. Entomology, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, 2012

  • M.S. Entomology, University Federal de Viçosa, Brazil, 1996

  • Agronomy, University Federal de Viçosa, Brazil, 1993

• Publications
  • Research Publications