ForEco Research Team
ForEco: Forest ecology
Research Team and Contacts:
Researchers | Current research areas | Contact | |
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Akli Ait Benali |
Remote sensing; Environment; Fire-Human relations; Fire spread Modelling; Uncertainty estimation | ![]() ![]() |
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Alexandra Correia |
Climate change impacts in Mediterranean woody species; Carbon fluxes in the soil-vegetation-atmosphere interface; P. pinea; Q. suber | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Ana Sá |
Fire spread modeling, fire regime properties and land use change using satellite data and GIS analysis | ![]() ![]() anasa@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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Carla Nogueira |
Drought and multiple nutrient effects on diversity, productivity and ecosystem C fluxes of a Mediterranean grassland | |
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Duarte Oom |
Remote sensing; global pyrogeography; fire regime characterization; global burned area algorithms | ![]() ![]() |
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Fernanda Valente |
Mathematical modelling in hydrology and micrometeorology | ![]() ![]() |
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Fernando G. Monteiro |
Earth and environmental sciences (soil science, pedology) | ![]() ![]() |
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Filipe Costa e Silva |
Carbon and water fluxes in Mediterranean ecossystems; tree ecophysiology | ![]() ![]() |
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João Costa e Silva |
Quantitative, evolutionary and population genetics with focus on the management and sustainable use of forest genetic resources | ![]() |
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João M. N. Silva |
Vegetation fires. Greenhouse gas emissions from biomass burning. Land use/cover mapping. Remote sensing. Field spectroradiometry. Adaptation to climate change. | ![]() ![]() |
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João Santos Pereira |
Plant responses to stress and climate change; Carbon balance of the ecosystem; Decline of forests and mitigation of CO2 emissions | ![]() ![]() |
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Jorge Soares David |
Catchment hydrology, ecohydrology, tree transpiration, interception loss, water movement inside trees (tree hydraulics) | ![]() ![]() |
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José Carlos Rodrigues |
High-throughput phenotyping characterization of lignocellulosics by FTIR/NIR, analytical pyrolysis and chemometrics | ![]() ![]() |
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José M. Cardoso Pereira |
Global and regional pyrogeography; Fire ecology; Remote sensing | ![]() ![]() |
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Manuel Madeira |
Earth and environmental sciences (soil science, natural resources management) | ![]() ![]() |
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Manuel L. Campagnolo |
Remote sensing; image processing; pattern recognition | ![]() ![]() |
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Maria C. Caldeira |
Ecosystem ecology and tree ecophysiology. Drought effects on ecosystem carbon and water balance. Ecosystem and tree resilience to drought. | ![]() ![]() |
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Maria Helena Almeida |
Plant production; forest genetics; adaptability | ![]() ![]() |
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Maria João Martins |
Applied mathematics to ecology and biology; Estimation in extreme value theory; Computational statistics; Numerical methods | ![]() ![]() |
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Maria J. P. Vasconcelos |
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Maria Margarida Ribeiro |
Population genetics; natural resources conservation; forest tree improvement | ![]() ![]() |
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Marjan Jongen |
Productivity and biodiversity in sown pastures; Application of remote sensing technologies as a decision support tool for management of sown pastures | ![]() ![]() |
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Patrícia M. Alexandre |
Wildfires; wildland urban interface; spatial modeling; spatial analysis; building loss to wildfires | ![]() ![]() palexandre@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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Pedro Silva |
Applied mathematical research to Ecology and Biology; fundamental mathematical research | ![]() |
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Raquel Lobo-do-Vale |
Tree ecophysiology; tree responses to drought and warming, including extreme events | ![]() ![]() |
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Rita Costa |
Genetics and genomics of woody species; plant biotechnology; breeding for resistance to biotic stresses; molecular markers | ![]() ![]() |
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Sofia Cerasoli |
Spectral vegetation indices for stress monitoring in Mediterranean forests; Trees response to climate change, including extreme events; Carbon balance at leaf and tree scale. | ![]() ![]() |
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Teresa Soares David |
Ecophysiology and Ecohydrology; plant water relations; tree hydraulics; drought; roots | ![]() ![]() |
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Tiago Monteiro-Henriques |
Native (Quercus spp.) forest regeneration, clustering of vegetation data; bioclimatological mapping | ![]() ![]() ![]() tmh@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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Tiago Oliveira |
Wildfire risk management; risk governance; technology, policy and management | ![]() ![]() |
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Xavier Lecomte |
Land use and ecosystem functioning; Plant-animal interactions, grazing and browsing; shrub encroachment; carbon sequestration and fire behavior; soil nutrient cycling | ![]() ![]() |
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Yannick Le Page |
Global vegetation fire modeling; Integrated Natural-Human system assessments; land use change and impacts; Agro-ecological zoning. | ![]() ![]() |
Colaborating Researchers | current research areas | Contact | |
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Ana Carla Madeira |
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Catarina Moura |
cmoura@ci.uc.pt | |
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Fernando Leite Pereira |
Eco-hydrology and forest micrometeorology. Water loss due to rainfall interception: Measuring and modeling of rainfall interception in sparse forests. | ![]() ![]() flpereira@ipcb.pt |
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Francisco Abreu |
fgabreu@isa.ulisboa.pt | |
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João Carreiras |
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John Gash |
jhg@ceh.ac.uk | |
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Jorge Orestes Cerdeira |
Mathematical models for biodiversity conservation | ![]() ![]() jo.cerdeira@fct.unl.pt |
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Maria da Graça Abrantes |
graca@isa.ulisboa.pt | |
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Maria do Carmo Horta |
Soil science; Fertilization; Plant nutrition; Sustainable management of P fertilizers; Use of biosolids and compost as fertilizers | ![]() ![]() carmoh@ipcb.pt |
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Maria João Gaspar |
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Maria Madalena Fonseca |
Earth and environmental sciences (soil science; geology; mineralogy; mineralogical study of soil fractions by XRD analysis) | ![]() ![]() madfons@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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Nuno Borralho |
nunoborralho@sapo.pt | |
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Nuno Cortez |
nunocortez@isa.ulisboa.pt |
Doctoral students | current research areas | Contact | |
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Ana Paula Rodrigues |
Plant ecophysiology: responses to abiotic stress (plant physiology, biochemistry and metabolomics). | ![]() ![]() |
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Ana Raquel Rodrigues |
Earth and environmental sciences; Agroforestry systems management and soil quality monitoring; Soil C and N fluxes and dynamics | ![]() |
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António Correia |
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Melanie Häusler |
Remote sensing; Modelling surface energy fluxes over drought and fire affected areas; Monitoring evapotranspiration | ![]() ![]() blomel@blomel.net |
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Teresa Sampaio |
Quantitative genetics; Statistical modeling applied to forest genetics. | ![]() ![]() |
Research Assistants | CURRENT RESEARCH AREAS | Contact | |
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Carla Faria |
Plant production techniques; forest genetic improvement; conservation of genetic resources; environmental education | carlafaria@isa.ulisboa.pt |