Diogo Filipe Angelo Ferreira

I concluded my Bachelor in the University of Lisbon in 2013. During my Master’s degree program in Conservation Biology I started working with bats and had the opportunity to study the seasonal differences in individual species responses of Neotropical bats to landscape composition and configuration in a fragmented landscape in Central Amazonia (Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project – BDFFP). Since then my research interests became mainly focus on bats and their conservation, ranging from landscape ecology, ecosystem services to agroecology.

I’m now on my first year of my PhD (2018), working on Cameroon with bats and food security using both mist-netting and bioacoustics under the supervision of Dr. Hugo Rebelo (CIBIO-InBIO), Dr. Luke Powell (Univeristy of Glasgow) and Jason Matthiopoulos (Univeristy of Glasgow). For my thesis I’m trying to promote sustainable cocoa plantations through bat ecosystems services.