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Paulo Firmino. Concluiu o(a) Mestrado integrado em Engenharia Florestal e dos Recursos Naturais em 2011/12/22 pelo(a) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia e Licenciatura em Ciências de Engenharia - Engenharia Florestal em 2009/07/27 pelo(a) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia. Frequenta o(a) Doutoramento em Engenharia Florestal e dos Recursos Naturais pelo(a) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia desde 2018/02/01. É Assistente de Investigação (carreira) no(a) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia. Publicou 13 artigos em revistas especializadas. Possui 1 capítulo(s) de livros. Participa e/ou participou como Bolseiro de Iniciação Científica em 1 projeto(s), Bolseiro de Investigação em 3 projeto(s) e Outra em 2 projeto(s). Atua na(s) área(s) de Ciências Agrárias com ênfase em Agricultura, Silvicultura e Pescas com ênfase em Silvicultura. No seu currículo Ciência Vitae os termos mais frequentes na contextualização da produção científica, tecnológica e artístico-cultural são: Quercus suber; montado; biomassa; cortiça; Eucalyptus globulus; litterfall; 3-PG model; clima; calibre; modelo; agroforestry; cork; cork oak trees; distance-dependent competition index; cork ring; shrubs; lupine; Modelo 3-PG; queda de folhada; cork caliper; mapping; percentile regression; Portugal; AGFORWARD; cork oak; tree diameter; Biodiversidade e Sustentabilidade; Produtos Florestais; Bioenergia e Biorefinarias; Ecossistemas Florestais; Gestão dos Ecossistemas Florestais; Agricultural sciences; Agricultural sciences/Agricultural biotechnology; .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Paulo Firmino

Citation names

  • Firmino, Paulo N.
  • Paulo N. Firmino

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
4A1A-B3B8-4CD1
ORCID iD
0000-0002-9536-5533
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=u0K7do4AAAAJ&hl=en
Scopus Author Id
57189385031

Email addresses

  • pnfirmino@isa.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone
  • 21 365 31 Ext.: 3356 (Professional)

Addresses

  • Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Agrarian Sciences - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Forestry

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2018/02/01 - 2024/05/31
Ongoing
 Engenharia Florestal e dos Recursos Naturais (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
"Influence of edaphic, topographic and competition variables on cork quality and thickness and cork oak spatial distribution " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2009/09/15 - 2011/12/22
Concluded
 Engenharia Florestal e dos Recursos Naturais (Mestrado integrado)
Major in Gestão dos Recursos Naturais
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
"Análise do módulo da queda de folhada em eucaliptais no modelo 3-PG" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 14,5
2005/09/15 - 2009/07/27
Concluded
 Ciências de Engenharia - Engenharia Florestal (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/08/01 - Current Research Assistant (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2023/07/01 - 2023/07/31 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2022/07/01 - 2023/06/30 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2018/02/01 - 2022/03/31 Researcher (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2016/01/01 - 2018/01/31 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2014/12/01 - 2015/06/30 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2014/02/01 - 2014/11/30 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2009/04/01 - 2010/03/31 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/08/01 - Current ResAlliance - Landscape resilience knowledge alliance for agriculture and forestry in the Mediterranean basin
101086600
Técnico Superior
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
 European Commission
2018/02/01 - 2022/03/31 Influence of edaphic, topographic and competition variables on cork quality and thickness and cork oak spatial distribution
SFRH/BD/133598/2017
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2016/09/01 - 2018/01/31 CorkNeighbours - Understanding the interaction between cork oak trees and the vegetation in its neighborhood
PTDC/AGR-FOR/4352/2014
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2014/02/01 - 2016/08/31 STARTREE - Multipurpose trees and non-wood forest products a challenge and opportunity
311919
Research Fellow
European Commission
Concluded
2014/12/01 - 2015/06/30 AGROMAPPER - Desenvolvimento de um software de processamento e visualização de imagens aéreas para aplicações de agro-florestais
38920
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
 Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional do Centro
Concluded
2012/03/01 - 2013/06/30 Developing an adaptive management system for predicting and mitigating damage caused the pine wilt nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (Nematoda: Aphelenchoididae) in Portugal.
PTDC/AGR-CFL/098869/2008
Prestação de serviços
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2009/04/01 - 2010/03/31 Variability of trunk respiration in E. globulus according to size and season - A contribution to the estimation of carbon balance in forest stands
SFRH/BPD/28384/2006
Scientific Initiation Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
 Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Centro de Estudos Florestais
UID/AGR/00239/2019
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Florestais, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Pimentel, C.S.; Firmino, P.N.; Ayres, M.P.. "Obtaining and Maintaining Cultures of Pinewood Nematodes Bursaphelenchus xylophilus from Wild Dauers". 3-11. 2022.
    10.1007/978-1-0716-2517-0_1
Conference abstract
  1. Paulo, Joana Amaral; Firmino, Paulo N.; Tomé, M.. "An individual tree and climate dependent growth model to forecast mature annual cork thickness under climate change scenarios". Paper presented in 9th Congresso Florestal Nacional, 2022.
    Published
  2. Firmino, Paulo N.; Paulo, Joana Amaral; Campagnolo, M.L. ; Lourenço, A.; Tomé, M.. "Analysing drivers determining tree diameter spatial distribution in juvenile cork oak stands plantations installed in high productivity areas". Paper presented in 9th Congresso Florestal Nacional, Funchal, 2022.
    Published
  3. Paulo, Joana Amaral; Firmino, Paulo N.; Faias, Sónia Pacheco; Tomé, Margarida. "Using quantile regression to evaluate the impact of different factors in the cork caliper of cork oak trees in montado agroforestry ecosystem". Paper presented in 5th European Agroforestry conference, 2021.
  4. Paulo, Joana Amaral; Firmino, Paulo; Faias, Sónia; Tomé, Margarida. "Mapping cork caliper in Portugal using percentile regression". Paper presented in XXV IUFRO congress, 2019.
  5. Tomé, M.; Firmino, Paulo N.; Faias, S.P.; Paulo, Joana Amaral. "Innovative methodology to include weather effects in a system of equations to predict the evolution of individual tree mature cork caliber over time". Paper presented in International congress on cork oak trees and Woodlands: Conservation, Management, Products and Challenges for the Future, 2017.
    Published
  6. Tomé, Margarida; Paulo, Joana Amaral; Palma, J.H.N.; Firmino, Paulo N.; Faias, S.P.. "The SUBER model, now with added options: simulating different silvicultural systems and associated products and services". Paper presented in International congress on cork oak trees and Woodlands: Conservation, Management, Products and Challenges for the Future, 2017.
    Published
  7. Paulo, Joana Amaral; Palma, J.H.N.; Firmino, Paulo N.; Pereira, H.; Tomé, M.. "Assessing the impact of induced stress by cork oak tree debarking in cork caliper and tree growth: first results on long term monitoring experiments". Paper presented in 5th International Ecosummit, Montpellier, 2016.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Firmino, Paulo N.; Paulo, Joana Amaral; Tomé, Margarida. "Evaluating the contribution of distance-dependent competition indices on individual undebarked cork oak growth modelling". Paper presented in 9th Congresso Florestal Nacional, 2022.
  2. Firmino, Paulo N.; Paulo, Joana Amaral; Tomé, Margarida. "Do distance-dependent competition indices contribute to improve diameter and total height growth estimates in undebarked cork oak trees". Paper presented in 6th European Agroforestry Conference, 2022.
  3. Lecomte, X.; Paulo, Joana Amaral; Tomé, Margarida; Veloso, S; Firmino, Paulo; Faias, Sónia Pacheco; Caldeira, Maria C.. "Does forest management maintain the sustainability of Cork oak woodland? Combined effect of shrub clearing and drought on juvenile tree plantations". Paper presented in XV Portuguese Spanish Plant Water Relations Symposium, 2022.
  4. Faias, Sónia Pacheco; Paulo N. Firmino; Maria Margarida Branco de Brito Tavares Tomé; Moreno, Gerardo; Paulo, Joana Amaral. "Intra-annual tree diameter increment and seasonal leaves nutrients in cork oak species under three understory management alternatives". Paper presented in 4th World congress on Agroforestry, 2019.
  5. Ricardo A., ; Almeida, R.P.; Firmino, Paulo N.; Pimentel, C.. "Distribuição temporal e espacial das brocas do pinheiro". Paper presented in VII Congresso Florestal Nacional, 2013.
  6. Firmino P. N., Ricardo A., Pimentel C; Ricardo A.; Pimentel C.. "Papel do floema de várias espécies de Pinus no desenvolvimento de Bursaphelencus xylophilus". Paper presented in VII Congresso Florestal Nacional, 2013.
  7. Firmino, Paulo N.; Soares P.; Tomé, M.; Araújo, C. "Análise do módulo da queda de folhada em eucaliptais no modelo 3-PG". Paper presented in VII Congresso Florestal Nacional, 2013.
Journal article
  1. Paulo Neves Firmino; Sónia P. Faias; Margarida Tomé; Joana Amaral Paulo. "Contribution of competition indices and edaphoclimatic variables to the prediction of undercork diameter growth of adult cork oak trees in the Portuguese Montado". European Journal of Forest Research (2025): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10342-025-01812-2.
    10.1007/s10342-025-01812-2
  2. Paulo Neves Firmino; Joana Amaral Paulo; António Lourenço; Margarida Tomé; Manuel Campagnolo. "Correction: How do soil and topographic drivers determine tree diameter spatial distribution in even aged cork oak stands installed in average to high productivity areas". New Forests (2024): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11056-024-10051-z.
    10.1007/s11056-024-10051-z
  3. Firmino, Paulo N.; Joana Amaral Paulo; António Lourenço; Margarida Tomé; Manuel Campagnolo. "How do soil and topographic drivers determine tree diameter spatial distribution in even aged cork oak stands installed in average to high productivity areas". (2024):
    Submitted
  4. Paulo N. Firmino; Margarida Tomé; Joana Amaral Paulo. "Do Distance-Dependent Competition Indices Contribute to Improve Diameter and Total Height Tree Growth Prediction in Juvenile Cork Oak Plantations?". Forests (2023): https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/14/5/1066.
    10.3390/f14051066
  5. Paulo, J.A.; Firmino, P.N.; Tomé, M.. "A tree- and climate-dependent growth model to predict mature annual cork thickness under different climate change scenarios". Modeling Earth Systems and Environment 9 3 (2023): 3329-3342. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85146215077&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s40808-022-01652-8
  6. Pimentel, C.S.; Firmino, P.N.; Almeida, R.P.; Lombardero, M.J.; Ayres, M.P.; Calvão, T.. "Coexistence of insect species in a phloem feeding guild: Deterministic and stochastic processes". Ecological Entomology (2023): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85162913374&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/een.13263
  7. Lecomte, X.; Paulo, J.A.; Tomé, M.; Veloso, S.; Firmino, P.N.; Faias, S.P.; Caldeira, M.C.. "Shrub understorey clearing and drought affects water status and growth of juvenile Quercus suber trees". Forest Ecology and Management 503 (2022): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85117190996&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119760
  8. Pimentel, C.S.; Firmino, P.N.; Ayres, M.P.. "Interactions between pinewood nematodes and the fungal community of pine trees". Fungal Ecology 51 (2021): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85102334789&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.funeco.2021.101046
  9. Paulo, J.A.; Firmino, P.N.; Faias, S.P.; Tomé, M.. "Quantile regression for modelling the impact of climate in cork growth quantiles in Portugal". European Journal of Forest Research 140 4 (2021): 991-1004. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85105851896&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s10342-021-01379-8
  10. Campôa, J.; Calvão, T.; Firmino, P.N.; Pimentel, C.S.. "Disentangling the effects of climate and defoliation on forest growth: The case of an outbreak of a Thaumetopoea pityocampa population with a shifted phenology in a Pinus pinaster monoculture". Forest Ecology and Management 498 (2021): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85111317540&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119548
  11. Pimentel, C.S.; Firmino, P.N.; Ayres, M.P.. "Comparison of methods to obtain and maintain cultures of the pinewood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus". Journal of Forest Research 25 2 (2020): 101-107. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85082799693&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/13416979.2020.1745989
  12. Pimentel, C.S.; McKenney, J.; Firmino, P.N.; Calvão, T.; Ayres, M.P.. "Sublethal infection of different pine species by the pinewood nematode". Plant Pathology 69 8 (2020): 1565-1573. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85088837342&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/ppa.13241
  13. Faias, Sónia; Paulo, Joana Amaral; Firmino, Paulo N.; Tomé, Margarida. "Drivers for annual cork growth under two understory management alternatives on a podzolic cork oak stand". (2019): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/17526.
    10.3390/f10020133
  14. Pimentel, C.S.; Gonçalves, E.V.; Firmino, P.N.; Calvão, T.; Fonseca, L.; Abrantes, I.; Correia, O.; Máguas, C.. "Differences in constitutive and inducible defences in pine species determining susceptibility to pinewood nematode". Plant Pathology 66 1 (2017): 131-139. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84969961412&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/ppa.12548
  15. Firmino, P.N.; Calvão, T.; Ayres, M.P.; Pimentel, C.S.. "Monochamus galloprovincialis and Bursaphelenchus xylophilus life history in an area severely affected by pine wilt disease: Implications for forest management". Forest Ecology and Management 389 (2017): 105-115. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85008323119&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.foreco.2016.12.027
  16. Pimentel, C.S.; Firmino, P.N.; Calvão, T.; Ayres, M.P.; Miranda, I.; Pereira, H.. "Pinewood nematode population growth in relation to pine phloem chemical composition". Plant Pathology 66 5 (2017): 856-864. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85005917063&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/ppa.12638
Online resource
  1. Paulo, Joana Amaral; Faias, Sónia Pacheco; Firmino, Paulo. Climatic impact on cork thickness from different trees located in the same stand. 2020.
  2. Paulo, Joana Amaral; Faias, Sónia Pacheco; Firmino, Paulo; Palma, J.H.N.. Managing shrub encroachment in cork oak Montado. Innovation leaflet n. 5. 2016.
Report
  1. Faias, Sónia Pacheco; Firmino, Paulo; Tomé, Margarida; Palma, J.H.N.; Paulo, Joana Amaral. 2017. Lessons learnt: montados in Portugal. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/14866.
  2. Paulo, Joana Amaral; Crous-Duran, J.; Firmino, Paulo N.; Faias, Sónia Pacheco; Palma, J.H.N.. 2016. Report describing the components, structure, ecosystem services, and economic value of selected HNCV agroforestry systems. Deliverable Report 2.4 for EU FP7 Research Project AGFORWARD.
  3. Paulo, Joana Amaral; Tomé, M.; Faias, S.P.; Firmino, Paulo N.; Henrique, P.. 2015. Existing models with an important degree of development. In: Sánchez-González, M., Pasalodos-Tato, M., Canellas, I. (Editors). 2015. Description of the improvements in the models for NWFPs and MPTs. Deliverable 2.2 of the StarTree project.. http://star-tree.eu/images/deliverables/WP2/Deliverable%202%202_def_04112015.pdf.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Firmino, Paulo Neves. "Análise do módulo da queda de folhada em eucaliptais no modelo 3-PG". Master, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/3946.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/11/30 L'influence de la gestion forestière dans la conservation des suberaies Journée d'echanges: Gestion des suberaies.
(La Londe-des-Maures, France)
2022/10/10 An individual tree and climate dependent growth model to forecast mature annual cork thickness under climate change scenarios 9th Congresso Florestal Nacional
(Funchal, Portugal)
2022/10/10 Analysing drivers determining tree diameter spatial distribution in juvenile cork oak stands plantations . 9th Congresso Florestal Nacional
(Funchal, Portugal)
2019/05/20 Intra-annual tree diameter increment and seasonal leaves nutrients in cork oak species under three understory management alternatives 4th World congress on Agroforestry
(Montpelier, France)
2017/11/23 Impacto de diferentes alternativas de gestão na biomassa do subcoberto e no crescimento da árvore e da cortiça Centro de Estudos Florestais (CEF) conference from research to practice . Subject: The Role of Agroforest Management Practices in the Prevention and Recovery After Fire in Montado
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2016/08/29 Assessing the impact of induced stress by cork oak tree debarking in cork caliper and tree growth: first results on long term monitoring experiments 5th International Ecosummit
(Montpellier, France)
2016/05/23 Agroforestry systems of high natural and cultural value in Europe: structure, management, goods and services 3rd European Agroforestry Conference
(Montpellier, France)
2015/10/29 A utilização de Veículos Aéreos Não Tripulados no inventário florestal – o caso do montado de sobro VIII Conferência Nacional de Cartografia e Geodesia
(Amadora, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/09/12 - 2024/09/13 Floresta e Agricultura: soluções práticas pela resiliência da paisagem na região Norte de Portugal. (2024/09/12 - 2024/09/13)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2023/11/17 - 2023/11/17 Floresta e Agricultura: paisagem resiliente da região norte de Portugal. LandLab Launch do projeto ResAlliance. (2023/11/17 - 2023/11/17)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
2015/09/25 - 2015/09/25 Conference from research to practice. Subject: Cork oak stands and cork oak. 25th September 2015. Lisboa, Portugal. Organizer. Lisboa, Portugal (2015/09/25 - 2015/09/25)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2014/01/31 - 2014/01/31 Conference from research to practice. Subject: Cork oak stands and cork oak (2014/01/31 - 2014/01/31)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal