
Treasurer and Research Fellow, CASAS Global
e-mail: marinapizza@hotmail.com
Education and Languages
Ciências Biológicas, Centro Universitário Barão de Mauá, Ribeirão Preto, SP Brasil
MS in Entomology, University of California at Berkeley
Languages
Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian
Expertise & Research Interests
Field ecology
Relevant Experience
Extensive field and laboratory work in cotton, coffee and pastures
Selected Publications
Gutierrez, A. P., M. A. Pizzamiglio, W. J. Dos Santos, R. Tennyson, and A. M. Villacorta. 1984. A general distributed delay time varying life table plant population model: Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) growth and development as an example. Ecol Modelling 26: 231-249.
Villacorta, A. M., A. P. Gutierrez, W. J. Dos Santos, and M. A. Pizzamiglio. 1984. Analise do crescimento e desenvolvimento do algodoeiro no Parana: Un modelo di simulacao para a variedadi. IAC 17. EMBRAPA.
Gutierrez, A. P., M. A. Pizzamiglio, W. J. Dos Santos, A. Villacorta, and K. D. Gallagher. 1986. Analysis of diapause induction and termination in field pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypilla (Saunders 1843) in Brazil. Environ Entomol 15: 494-500.
Pizzamiglio, M. A., A. P. Gutierrez, W. J. Dos Santos, K. D. Gallagher, W. S. Oliveira, and Z. V. Fujita. 1989. Phenological patterns and sampling decision rules for arthropods in cotton fields in Parana, Brazil: before boll-weevil. PAB 24: 337-345.
Dos Santos, W. J., A. P. Gutierrez, and M. A. Pizzamiglio. 1989. Evaluating the economic damage caused by the cotton stem borer Eutinobothrus brasiliensis (Hambleton 1937) in cotton in southern Brasil. PAB 24: 297-305.
Gutierrez, A. P., W. J. Dos Santos, A. Villacorta, M. A. Pizzamiglio, C. K. Ellis, L. H. Carvalho, and N. D. Stone. 1991. Modelling the interaction of cotton and the cotton bolll weevil. I. A comparison of growth and development of cotton varieties. J Appl Ecol 28: 371-397.
Gutierrez, A. P., W. J. Dos Santos, M. A. Pizzamiglio, A. M. Villacorta, C. K. Ellis, C.A.P. Fernandes, and I. Tutida. 1991. Modelling the interaction of cotton and the cotton boll weevil. II. Boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) in Brazil. J Appl Ecol 28: 398-418.
Gutierrez, A.P., and M. A. Pizzamiglio. 2007. A regional analysis of weather mediated competition between a parasitoid and a coccinellid predator of oleander scale. Neotropical Entomology 36(1):70-83.
Pizzamiglio-Gutierrez, M. A. 2009. Insect plant interactions, In A. R. Panizzi and J. R. P. Parra (eds.), Biology and Nutrition of Insects. Embrapa Technology Information, Brasilia, DF, Brasil, pp 211-249.