António Ferreira
PhD Student
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Position
PhD Student
Member type
Students
Degree
MSc
Address
CIBIO-InBIO, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal
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I am a PhD candidate from the University of Évora, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (SFRH/BD/109242/2015), while currently working in Lisbon. My aim is to determine habitat connectivity and metapopulation viability in fragmented, dynamic landscapes at multiple spatial and temporal scales, in order to better manage and conserve patchily distributed species. The research will focus on wet-grassland habitat-patches in Mediterranean farmland, using the Cabrera vole as model-species.
I am mostly interested in the relations and interactions between the (ever
changing) environment and species across space and time. I am concerned on how
landscapes react to either human or natural disturbances, and how this
affects the ecology of species living within. These interests led me to be part
of a project that studied the regeneration of vegetation in pine and eucalypt
stands after fire, with a focus on the response of both native and
invasive plant species to post-fire management actions. Following this project,
I was drafted to another project, which preceded my PhD, that aimed to quantify
and predict Cabrera voles’ movements and extinction-colonisation dynamics
in fragmented landscapes, based on non-invasive genetic sampling of vole
faeces.
The work I’ve been involved with allowed me to engage in activities that I find
exciting, spanning from GIS and database analyses, R programming, to plant
identification and general fieldwork.
Overall, I hope to continue to broaden my research interests, whilst
contributing a (very) small part in the advancement of science and for the
conservation of biodiversity.