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Frederico Manuel Vaz Pontes Vitorino Mestre concluded the PhD in Biology in 2017 (Universidade de Évora). Currently is a hired researcher at the the Universidade de Évora. Published 14 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and is co-author of a book chapter (with another under review). Participated in more than 20 scientific meetings, organizing three. Participated in several workshops on ecological modelling and GIS. Supervised one concluded master thesis, one ERASMUS+ student and is currently supervising another master student in Conservation Biology. His research focuses on the Natural Sciences, with a focus on Biological Sciences/Ecology. During his research career interacted with 59 collaborators in the production of research outputs. In his CV in Ciencia Vitae the most common keywords are: Dispersal; Metapopulation; Climate change; Landscape change; Ecological niche modelling; Metapopulation persistence; Landscape change; Range shift; Occupancy-extinction dynamics; Landscape dynamics; Incidence function model; climate change; range shift; Atlantic ocean; Caretta caretta; Chelonia mydas; Sea turtle rehabilitation; Environmental factors; Habitat management; Oryctolagus cuniculus; Portugal; Season; Ecological Niche Factor Analysis; Biologia da conservação; Mamíferos; Ecologia; food webs; Roads; lunar effects; migration; moonlight; weather conditions; carnivore conservation; landscape connectivity; linear infrastructures; road mitigation; spatial graphs; potential biodiversity; Biodiversity forecasting; macroecology; Biogeography; Habitat patch-based graphs; Genetic networks; Noninvasive genetics; Microtus cabrerae; Metapopulation Persistence; Ecologically Scaled Landscape Indices; Matrix Permeability; habitat fragmentation; social systems; mating systems; cabrera vole; controlled hunting zone; environmental impact of agriculture; environmental impact of tourism; protected area; restoration measure; rural area; roadkills; graph theory; mitigation; range expansion; red deer; cervus elaphus; evolutionarily significant units; evolutionary conservation; landscape genomics; ecological niche; range margins; Cytochrome-b gene; line transect sampling; .
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Identificação

Identificação pessoal

Nome completo
Frederico Manuel Vaz Pontes Vitorino Mestre

Nomes de citação

  • Mestre, Frederico

Identificadores de autor

Ciência ID
2214-647B-9B19
ORCID iD
0000-0002-7390-1120
Researcher Id
L-7335-2013

Endereços de correio eletrónico

  • fmestre@uevora.pt (Profissional)

Moradas

  • Universidade de Évora. Casa Cordovil 2ª Andar, Rua Dr. Joaquim Henrique da Fonseca, 7000-890, Évora, Évora, Portugal (Profissional)

Websites

Domínios de atuação

  • Ciências Naturais - Ciências Biológicas - Ecologia
  • Ciências Naturais - Ciências Biológicas - Conservação da Biodiversidade
  • Ciências Naturais - Ciências Biológicas - Ecologia

Idiomas

Idioma Conversação Leitura Escrita Compreensão Peer-review
Inglês Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador proficiente (C1)
Espanhol; Castelhano Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador elementar (A1) Utilizador proficiente (C1)
Francês Utilizador elementar (A1) Utilizador independente (B1) Utilizador elementar (A1) Utilizador independente (B1)
Formação
Grau Classificação
2017/07
Concluído
 Biologia (Doutoramento)
Especialização em Sem especialidade
Universidade de Évora Instituto de Investigação e Formação Avançada, Portugal
"Synergistic effects of climate change and habitat fragmentation on species range shifts and metapopulation persistence" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
2011 - 2017
Concluído
 Biologia (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
"Synergistic effects of climate change and habitat fragmentation on species range shifts and metapopulation persistence" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
 18 - Approved with High Distinction
2003 - 2006
Concluído
 Biologia da Conservação (Mestrado)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
"Modelling of the polecat (Mustela putorius) distribution in an agricultural mediterranean landscape" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
 Muito bom
1996 - 2003
Concluído
 Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
"Study of the Density and Habitat Selection of red deer (Cervus elaphus L.) at the Contenda State (originally in Portuguese)" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
 13
Percurso profissional

Ciência

Categoria Profissional
Instituição de acolhimento 		Empregador
2024/01/01 - Atual Investigador Contratado (Investigação) Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
2021/06/01 - 2023/12/31 Investigador Contratado (Investigação) Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Docência no Ensino Superior

Categoria Profissional
Instituição de acolhimento 		Empregador
2021/03/01 - 2023/12/31 Assistente Convidado (Docente Universitário) Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Outros

Categoria Profissional
Instituição de acolhimento 		Empregador
2020/01/01 - 2020/12/31 Post-Doctoral Fellowship - Project AQUACOSM Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2019/07/01 - 2019/12/31 Post-Doctoral Fellowship - Project BIRDTRADE Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2017/09/01 - 2019/06/30 Post-Doctoral Fellowship - Project StateShifts Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2017/03 - 2017/08 Biologist (fellowship) - Project LIFE Temporary Ponds Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2011/04 - 2017/06 PhD (FCT doctoral fellowship) Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2011/01 - 2011/02 Biologist (services contract) - Small mammals monitoring Procesl, Portugal
2007/10/09 - 2010/10/08 Rehabilitation technician Mundo Aquático - Parques Oceanográficos de Entretenimento Educativo, S.A., Portugal
2006/03 - 2007/10 Biologist (services contract) - Project Coordination, and field work on the project “Compensation Measures and Specific Monitoring for the Bonelli Eagle, derived from the Env. Impact Assess. (...) Centro de Estudos da Avifauna Ibérica, Portugal
2005/03 - 2005/08 Biologist (Fellowship) - “LIFE GAPS – Monfurado Site Active and Participated Management” Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2004/08 - 2005/02 Biologist (service contract) - “LIFE GAPS – Monfurado Site Active and Participated Management” and Pedrógão Dam Monitoring of the natural heritage Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2004/03 - 2004/07 Biologist (service contract) - Valorization of the Natural Heritage of the Monfurado Site Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2003/06 - 2004/02 Professional traineeship - Project PORA Monfurado and Ota Airport Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Projetos

Bolsa

Designação Financiadores
2019/07/01 - 2019/12/31 BIRDTRADE - All heaven in a rage: international bird trade as a driver of biological invasions in Europe
PTDC/AAG-GLO/0463/2014
Bolseiro de Pós-Doutoramento
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Em curso
2011/04/01 - 2015/03/31 SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND HABITAT FRAGMENTATION ON SPECIES RANGE SHIFTS AND METAPOPULATION PERSISTENCE
SFRH/BD/73768/2010
Bolseiro de Doutoramento
Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluído

Projeto

Designação Financiadores
2023/01/01 - 2025/12/31 MOVERCULOSIS - combining animal behavior and movement models to assess the influence of wildlife-livestock interactions on the spatio-temporal transmission risk of bovine tuberculosis
2022.06014.PTDC
Universidade de Evora, Portugal
 Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia
Em curso
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 CHANGE - Instituto para as Alterações Globais e Sustentabilidade
LA/P/0121/2020
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal

Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso, Portugal

Universidade de Evora, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciencias, Portugal

FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal

Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal

Centro de Biotecnologia Agrícola e Agro-Alimentar do Alentejo, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Ambiente e Sustentabilidade, Portugal

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia
Em curso
2021/03/29 - 2024/03/28 DESVENDAR OS DETERMINANTES E IMPACTOS DAS ESPÉCIES INVASORAS NUM MUNDO EM MUDANÇA<br>
PTDC/BIA-ECO/0207/2020
Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Portugal

Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Em curso
2021/01/01 - 2023/12/31 Estrategia de Gestão de Pragas para a Resiliência e Sustentabilidade da Olivicultura Face as Alterações Climáticas
PTDC/BIA-CBI/1365/2020
Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Centro de Biotecnologia Agrícola e Agro-Alimentar do Alentejo, Portugal

Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Em curso
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology
UID/BIA/50027/2019
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal

Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal

Universidade dos Acores, Portugal
Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia
Concluído
2017/09/01 - 2019/06/30 StateShifts – Predicting state shifts in energetic food webs under climate change
PTDC/AAG-MAA/3764/2014
Bolseiro de Pós-Doutoramento
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluído
2017/03/01 - 2017/08/31 LIFE Charcos - Conservation of Temporary Ponds in the Southwest Coast of Portugal
LIFE12NAT/PT/997
Bolseiro de Mestrado
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
 European Commission
Concluído
2016/01/01 - 2017/08/30 MateFrag – Impacts of habitat fragmentation on social and mating systems: testing ecological predictions for a monogamous vole through non-invasive genetics
PTDC/BIA-BIC/6582/2014
Investigador
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluído
2013/07/01 - 2015/09/30 NETPERSIST. Análise de redes na identificação de limiares críticos de conectividade para a persistência de metapopulações em paisagens agrícolas complexas.
PTDC/AAG-MAA/3227/2012
Bolseiro de Mestrado
Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal

Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares, Portugal

Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluído
2010/01/01 - 2012/12/31 PERSIST - The role of matrix permeability for metapopulation persistence in complex agricultural landscapes. The cases of Cabrera (Microtus cabrerae) and southern water voles (Arvicola sapidus)
PTDC/BIA-BEC/105110/2008
Investigador
Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Universidade de Évora Instituto Mediterrâneo para a Agricultura Ambiente e Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluído
2003 - 2008 GAPS - Site of Monfurado Active and Participated Management (in Portuguese)
LIFE03 NAT/P/000018
Bolseiro de Investigação
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
 European Commission
Concluído

Outro

Designação Financiadores
2006/03/05 - 2007/10/04 Compensation Measures and Specific Monitoring for the Bonelli Eagle, derived from the Environmental Impact Assessment Process of the Tunes-Estoi 150kV power line (in Portuguese)
ND
Desenvolvimento técnico
Centro de Estudos da Avifauna Ibérica, Portugal
Concluído
2003 - 2004 Characterization and Valorization of the Natural Heritage of the Monfurado Site – 2nd phase (in Portuguese)
None
Outra
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Concluído
Produções

Publicações

Artigo em revista
  1. Galiana, Nuria; Arnoldi, Jean-François; Mestre, Frederico; Rozenfeld, Alejandro; Araújo, Miguel B.. "Power laws in species’ biotic interaction networks can be inferred from co-occurrence data". Nature Ecology & Evolution (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02254-y.
    10.1038/s41559-023-02254-y
  2. Mestre, F.; Silva, B.. "lconnect R package: A versatile tool for evaluating landscape connectivity and prioritizing habitat patches in conservation research". Ecological Modelling 484 (2023): 110489. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2023.110489.
    10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2023.110489
  3. Mestre, Frederico; Rozenfeld, Alejandro; Araújo, Miguel B.. "Human disturbances affect the topology of food webs". Ecology Letters 25 11 (2022): 2476-2488. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.14107.
    10.1111/ele.14107
  4. Mestre, Frederico; Gravel, Dominique; García-Callejas, David; Carla Pinto-Cruz; Matias, Miguel G.; Araújo, Miguel B.. Autor correspondente: Mestre, Frederico. "Disentangling food-web environment relationships: a review with guidelines". Basic and Applied Ecology 61 (2022): 102-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2022.03.011.
    Publicado • 10.1016/j.baae.2022.03.011
  5. Grilo, Clara; Afonso, Beatriz C.; Afonso, Filipe; Alexandre, Marta; Aliácar, Sara; Almeida, Ana; Alonso, Ivan Prego; et al. "MAMMALS IN PORTUGAL : A data set of terrestrial, volant, and marine mammal occurrences in Portugal". Ecology (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3654.
    10.1002/ecy.3654
  6. Mestre, Frederico; Barbosa, Soraia; Garrido-García, José António; Pita, Ricardo; Mira, António; Alves, Paulo Célio (C512-E829-71E5); Paupério, Joana; Searle, Jeremy B.; Beja, Pedro. Autor correspondente: Mestre, Frederico. "Inferring past refugia and demographic history of an Iberian endemic vole through the integration of fossil, niche modelling and genomic data". (2022):
    Em revisão
  7. Silva, Bruno; Mestre, Frederico; Barreiro, Silvia; Alves, Pedro; Herrera, José M.. Autor correspondente: Silva, Bruno. "soundClass: an automatic sound classification tool for biodiversity monitoring using machine learning". (2022):
    Em revisão
  8. Miguel B. Araújo; Frederico Mestre; Babak Naimi. "Ecological and epidemiological models are both useful for SARS-CoV-2". Nature Ecology & Evolution (2020): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1246-y.
    10.1038/s41559-020-1246-y
  9. Frederico Mestre; Ricardo Pita; António Mira; Beja, Pedro. "Species traits, patch turnover and successional dynamics: when does intermediate disturbance favour metapopulation occupancy?". BMC Ecology 20 1 (2020): https://doi.org/10.1186/s12898-019-0273-5.
    Publicado • 10.1186/s12898-019-0273-5
  10. Mestre, Frederico; Lopes, Helena; Pinto, Tiago; Sousa, Luís Guilherme; Mira, António; Santos, Sara. "Bad moon rising? The influence of the lunar cycle on amphibian roadkills". European Journal of Wildlife Research (2019): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10344-019-1285-3.
    Publicado • 10.1007/s10344-019-1285-3
  11. F. Mestre; F. Ascensão; A.M. Barbosa. "gDefrag: A graph-based tool to help defragmenting landscapes divided by linear infrastructures". Ecological Modelling 392 (2019): 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2018.10.012.
    10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2018.10.012
  12. Ascensão, Fernando; Mestre, Frederico; Barbosa, A. Márcia. "Prioritizing road defragmentation using graph-based tools". Landscape and Urban Planning 192 (2019): 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.103653.
    Publicado • 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.103653
  13. Barbosa, Soraia; Mestre, Frederico; White, Thomas A.; Paupério, Joana; Alves, Paulo C.; Searle, Jeremy B.. "Integrative approaches to guide conservation decisions: Using genomics to define conservation units and functional corridors". Molecular Ecology 27 17 (2018): 3452-3465. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/mec.14806.
    Publicado • 10.1111/mec.14806
  14. Mestre, Frederico. "Synergistic effects of climate change and habitat fragmentation on species range shifts and metapopulation persistence". Frontiers of Biogeography 9 4 (2018): 1-6. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7jk2z3c1.
    Publicado • 10.21425/F59435859
  15. Mestre, Frederico; Risk, Benjamin B.; Mira, António; Beja, Pedro; Pita, Ricardo. "A metapopulation approach to predict species range shifts under different climate change and landscape connectivity scenarios". Ecological Modelling 359 (2017): 406-414. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380016307669.
    Publicado • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.06.013
  16. Cánovas, F.; Magliozzi, C.; Mestre, F.; Palazón, J. A.; González-Wangüemert, M.. "ENiRG: R-GRASS interface for efficiently characterizing the ecological niche of species and predicting habitat suitability". Ecography 39 6 (2016): 593-598. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ecog.01426.
    Publicado • 10.1111/ecog.01426
  17. Mestre, Frederico; Cánovas, Fernando; Pita, Ricardo; Mira, António; Beja, Pedro. "An R package for simulating metapopulation dynamics and range expansion under environmental change". Ecological Modelling 81 (2016): 40-44. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364815216300718.
    Publicado • http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.03.007
  18. Mestre, Frederico; Pita, Ricardo; Paupério, Joana; Martins, Filipa M.S.; Alves, Paulo Célio; Mira, António; Beja, Pedro. "Combining distribution modelling and non-invasive genetics to improve range shift forecasting". Ecological Modelling 297 0 (2015): 171-179. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380014005912.
    Publicado • 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.11.018
  19. Mestre, Frederico; Bragança, Marco P.; Nunes, Antonieta; Santos, Manuel Eduardo dos. "Satellite tracking of sea turtles released after prolonged captivity periods". Marine Biology Research 10 10 (2014): 996-1006. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17451000.2013.872801.
    Publicado
  20. Godinho, Sérgio; Mestre, Frederico; Ferreira, Joaquim P.; Machado, Rui; Santos, Pedro. "Effectiveness of habitat management in the recovery of low-density populations of wild rabbit". 59 6 (2013): 847-858. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10344-013-0738-3.
    Publicado • 10.1007/s10344-013-0738-3
  21. Ferreira, Joaquim P.; Mestre, Frederico; Mira, António. "Modelling the distribution of the European polecat, Mustela putorius, in a Mediterranean agricultural landscape". Revue d’Ecólogie – Terre et Vie 62 0 (2007): 35-47. http://documents.irevues.inist.fr/handle/2042/55702.
    Publicado
Capítulo de livro
  1. Barbosa, Soraia; Mestre, Frederico; Pita, Ricardo. "Microtus cabrerae rato-de-cabrera". In Livro Vermelho dos Mamíferos de Portugal Continental, 152-153. 2023.
  2. Mestre, Frederico; Quiles, Pablo; Bastazini, Vinicius; Ascensão, Fernando (2C17-1BFD-1228). Autor correspondente: Mestre, Frederico. "Road effects on species interactions". editado por D'Amico, M.; Barrientos, Rafael; Ascensão, Fernando. 2022.
    No prelo
  3. Barbosa, Elaine Cristina Cambui; de Vasconcelos, Rodrigo Nogueira; Mestre, Frederico; Boscolo, Danilo; Miranda, José Garcia Vivas. "Geração, Análise e Aplicação de Paisagens Neutrais em Ecologia (in Portuguese) (English: Generation, Analysis and Application of Neutral Landscapes in Ecology)". In Ecologia da Paisagem no Contexto Luso-Brasileiro (Landscape Ecology in the Luso-Brazilian Context), 0-0. Nada, Brasil: Nada, 2019.
    Aceite para publicação
Edição de número de revista
  1. Araújo, Miguel B.; Gravel, Dominique. "Integrating Multiple Scales in the Study of Species Distributions: From Habitat Fragmentation to Species Interactions". (2022):
    Em revisão • Editor convidado
Manual
  1. Mestre, Frederico; García, Fernando; Pita, Ricardo; Mira, António; Beja, Pedro. MetaLandSim: Package for metapopulation, landscape, and rage expansion simulation. R package version 1.0.1.. 2018.
    Publicado
Poster em conferência
  1. Mestre, Frederico; Silva, Bruno. "lconnect: an easy-to-use R package deriving landscape connectivity metrics and habitat patch prioritization". Trabalho apresentado em Ecology in R, 2021.
  2. Mestre, Frederico; García-Callejas, David; Pinto-Cruz, Carla; Matias, Miguel; Araújo, Miguel Bastos. "Environmental correlates of food web structure". Trabalho apresentado em International Biogeography Society - 2019, 2019.
  3. Mestre, Frederico; Mira, António; Ferreira, Joaquim P.. "Modelling the distribution of the European polecat, Mustela putorius, in a Mediterranean agricultural landscape (originally in Spanish)". Trabalho apresentado em "VII SECEM –Spanish Society for the Conservation and Study of Mammals - Congress” (in Spanish), 2005.
  4. Mestre, Frederico; Mira, António. "Red deer habitat selection in the Contenda State (in Portuguese)". Trabalho apresentado em “8º National Ecology Meeting" (in Portuguese), 2003.
  5. Mira, António; Mestre, Frederico. "Deer density estimation, in Mediterranean ecosystems, using line transect techniques". Trabalho apresentado em “4th European Congress of Mammalogy”, 2003.
Recurso online
  1. FWebs (v. 0.1.0) - Downloading and processing food web datasets. 2022. https://github.com/FMestre1/fw_package.
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Relatório
  1. Ferreira, Joaquim P.; Mestre, Frederico. 2007. Compensatory Measures and Specific Monitoring for the Bonelli’s eagle, due to the Environmental Impact Assessment Evaluation – Recovery of the wild rabbit populations (Oryctolagus cuniculus) (in Portuguese).
  2. Mira, António; Santos-Reis, M.; Mestre, Frederico; Ferreira, Joaquim P.; Figueiredo, Diogo. 2005. “Nonvolant Mammals” (in Portuguese), in “Monitoring of the Natural Heritage of the Pedrógão Reservoir – Final Report” (in Portuguese).
  3. Mira, António; Galantinho, Ana; Silva, Ana; Encarnação, Cláudia; Ascensão, Fernando; Carvalho, Filipe; Mestre, Frederico; Costa, Mafalda. 2005. Monfurado Site, Conservation and Valorization of the Natural Heritage – 2nd phase, Fauna Studies, Vol. II - Mammals (in Portuguese).
  4. Mira, António; Galantinho, Ana; Silva, Ana; Ascensão, Fernando; Mestre, Frederico; Godinho, Sérgio. 2004. Characterization of the Terrestrial Fauna for the Area of the Future Ota Airport and its Surroundings, Final Report - Mammals (in Portuguese).
  5. Mira, António; Galantinho, Ana; Silva, Ana; Encarnação, Cláudia; Ascensão, Fernando; Carvalho, Filipe; Mestre, Frederico; et al. 2004. “Monfurado Site. Conservation and Valorization of the Natural Heritage – 2nd phase” (in Portuguese).
Tese / Dissertação
  1. Mestre, Frederico Manuel Vaz Pontes Vitorino. "Synergistic effects of climate change and habitat fragmentation on species range shifts and metapopulation persistence". Doutoramento, Universidade de Évora, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/21118.
  2. Mestre, Frederico. "Modelling of the polecat (Mustela putorius) distribution in an agricultural mediterranean landscape (in Portuguese)". Mestrado, Universidade de Évora, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/14983.
  3. Mestre, Frederico. "Study of the Density and Habitat Selection of red deer (Cervus elaphus L.) at the Contenda State (in Portuguese)". Licenciatura, Universidade de Évora, 2003.

Outros

Outra produção
  1. lconnect: Simple Tools to Compute Landscape Connectivity Metrics. Provides functions to upload vectorial data and derive landscape connectivity metrics in habitat or matrix systems. Additionally, includes an approach to assess individual patch contribution to the overall landscape connectivity, enabling the prioritization of habitat patches. The computation of landscape connectivity and patch importance are very useful in Landscape Ecology research.. 2019. Mestre, Frederico; Silva, Bruno. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/lconnect/index.html.
  2. gDefrag: Graph-Based Landscape De-Fragmentation. Software (R package). 2018. Mestre, Frederico; Barbosa, A. Márcia; Ascensão, Fernando. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gDefrag/index.html.
  3. MetaLandSim: Landscape and Range Expansion Simulation. Software (R package). 2014. Mestre, Frederico; Cánovas, F.; Risk, Benjamin B.; Pita, Ricardo; Mira, António; Beja, Pedro. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/MetaLandSim/index.html.
  4. ENiRG: Ecological Niche in R and GRASS. Software (R package). 2014. Cánovas, F.; Magliozzi, C.; Palazón, J. A.; Mestre, Frederico; González-Wangüemert, M.. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ENiRG/index.html.
Software
  1. Mestre, Frederico; Cánovas, Fernando; Risk, Benjamin B.; Pita, Ricardo; Mira, António; Beja, Pedro. "MetaLandSim: Landscape and Range Expansion Simulation". 2.0.0. Universidade de Évora. CRAN. 2023.
  2. Mestre, Frederico. "FWebs - Downloading and processing food web datasets". Universidade de Evora. https://github.com/FMestre1/fw_package. 2022.
  3. Mestre, Frederico; Silva, Bruno. "lconnect: Simple Tools to Compute Landscape Connectivity Metrics". 0.1.1. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=lconnect. 2021.
  4. Mestre, Frederico; Ascensão, Fernando; Barbosa, A. Márcia. "gDefrag - A graph-based tool to help defragmenting landscapes divided by linear infrastructures". o.3. Universidade de Évora. CRAN. 2020.
  5. Cánovas, Fernando; Magliozzi, C.; Mestre, Frederico; Palazón, J. A.; González-Wangüemert, M.. "ENiRG: R-GRASS interface for efficiently characterizing the ecological niche of species and predicting habitat suitability". 1.0.1. CRAN. 2016.
Atividades

Apresentação oral de trabalho

Título da apresentação Nome do evento
Anfitrião (Local do evento)
2019/09/30 Effects of fragmentation in the social behaviour of the Cabrera vole: Insights from genetic non-invasive sampling Wildlife Research and Conservation 2019
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Berlin, Alemanha)
2018/11/08 gDefrag: a graph-based tool to help defragmenting landscapes divided by linear infrastructures IV Conferência Ibérica de Ecologia da Paisagem
Universidade do Algarve (Faro, Portugal)
2018 Combining fossil, ecological and genomic data to infer past range shifts: the case of the Cabrera’s vole, Iberian Peninsula “International Biogeography Society Climate Change Biogeography Meeting”
International Biogeography Society (Évora, Portugal)
2018 Synergistic effects of habitat fragmentation and climate change on conservation of an endangered orchid Texas Plant Conservation Conference 2018
Botanical Research Institute of Texas and (Fort Worth, Texas, Estados Unidos)
2018 Influence of lunar cycle on amphibian roadkill IENE 2018 International Conference
IENE - Infra Eco Network Europe (Eindhoven, Países Baixos)
2018 Paleo-distribution of an endangered arvicoline species: insights from combined ecological, genetic and fossil evidence III Workshop on Vole Ecology, Genetics, and Conservation
CIBIO (Vairão, Portugal)
2016 Using MetaLandSim, an R package for simulating range expansion under landscape scenarios – synergies between climate and landscape change The International Society for Ecological Modelling Global Conference ISEM-2016
Towson University (Towson, Estados Unidos)
2016 Using genomics to define functional corridors and management units: an integrative approach to guide conservation decisions Congenomics – Conference on Conservation Genomics
CIBIO (Vairão, Portugal)
2014 Combining ecological niche modelling and non-invasive genetic sampling to forecast Microtus cabrerae range shifts in different climatic change scenarios “Vole Ecology, Genetics and Conservation II”
CIBIO - University of Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2014 Forecasting species range shifts by combining ecological niche modelling and non-invasive genetic sampling: an example with the Cabrera’s vole (Microtus cabrerae) 14th Rodents et Spatium – International Conference on Rodent Biology
University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2011 Combining biogeographic, ecological and genetic tools to predict metapopulation responses to climate change across spatial scales: an ongoing case-study with Cabrera and water voles Adaptation to Climate from a Spatial Perspective
Metapopulation Research Group (University of Helsinki, Finland) (Lammi Biological Station, Finlândia)
2011 Factors affecting the abundance of wild rabbit at the home range scale: environmental variables, landscape and habitat management techniques (in Portuguese) "III Wildlife Congress" (in Portuguese)
University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Vila Real, Portugal)
2007 Recovering the population of wild rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus algirus, in the hunting zone of Querença (in Portuguese) “First Working Meeting – Compensatory measures and specific monitoring of Bonelli’s eagle” (in Portuguese)
CEAI and University of Évora (Évora, Portugal)

Orientação

Título / Tema
Papel desempenhado 		Curso (Tipo)
Instituição / Organização
2019 - Atual Relation between the African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) and its main predator species, the lion (Panthera leo)(provisional title)
Orientador
 Biologia da Conservação (Mestrado)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Study on the impact of environmental enrichment structures on the captive Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus)
Orientador
 Biologia da Conservação (Mestrado)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Organização de evento

Nome do evento
Tipo de evento (Tipo de participação) 		Instituição / Organização
2008 - 2008 “Workshop RIOS – Reducing the Impact of Oil Spills”
Congresso (Outra)
2007 - 2007 “I Congress on Sustainability and Rurality – the Holm Oak Montado” (in Portuguese)
Congresso (Outra)
2003 - 2003 “8º National Ecology Meeting” (in Portuguese)
Congresso (Outra)

Participação em evento

Descrição da atividade
Tipo de evento 		Nome do evento
Instituição / Organização
2019/11/11 - 2019/11/15 Computational Tools for Biologists - One week workshop covering several computational tools (e.g. python, R). 35 hours – 3.5 ECTS; lectured by Dr. Stefano Allesina (Univ. Chicago).
Oficina (workshop)
 Computational Tools for Biologists
Science Retreats, Portugal
2018/10/22 - 2018/10/26 Low Budget Science Film Making - One week workshop covering several aspects of short film production. One week (40 hours - 4 ECTS) course taught by Dr. George Chan.
Oficina (workshop)
 Low Budget Science Film Making
Science Retreats, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Combining fossil, ecological and genomic data to infer past range shifts: the case of the Cabrera’s vole, Iberian Peninsula
Congresso
 “International Biogeography Society Climate Change Biogeography Meeting"
CIBIO - University of Évora and International Society of Biogeography, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Paleo-distribution of an endangered arvicoline species: insights from combined ecological, genetic and fossil evidence
Oficina (workshop)
 Biology and management of Iberian voles: Progresses, challenges and prospects
CIBIO, Universidade do Porto, Universidade de Évora, Universidade de Valladolid, Portugal
2017/10/02 - 2017/10/06 Phylogenetic comparative methods in ecology - One week workshop covering on Phylogenetic comparative methods in ecology. One week (40 hours - 4 ECTS) course taught by Dr. José Alexandre Felizola Diniz Filho (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil).
Oficina (workshop)
 Phylogenetic comparative methods in ecology
Science Retreats, Portugal
2016/10/19 - 2016/10/19 Introduction to Ecological Network Analysis - Short workshop on Ecological Networks taught by Dr. A. Jesús Muñoz Pajares (CIBIO - Univ. Porto) at the Conference "Community Ecology for the 21st Centrury"
Oficina (workshop)
 Introduction to Ecological Network Analysis - Community Ecology for the 21st Centrury
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2016 - 2016 “Using genomics to define functional corridors and management units: an integrative approach to guide conservation decisions”
Conferência
 “Congenomics – Conference on Conservation Genomics”
CIBIO, Portugal
2016 - 2016 “Using MetaLandSim, an R package for simulating range expansion under landscape scenarios – synergies between climate and landscape change”
Congresso
 "The International Society for Ecological Modelling Global Conference 2016"
ISEM, Estados Unidos
2016 - 2016 “LIFE LINES - Linear Infrastructure Networks with Ecological Solutions”
Congresso
 “LIFE LINES - Linear Infrastructure Networks with Ecological Solutions”
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Community Ecology for the 21st Century (from genes to ecosystems)
Congresso
 “Community Ecology for the 21st Century (from genes to ecosystems)”
CIBIO - University of Évora, Portugal
2014/01/23 - 2014/01/30 Calibrating Ecological Niche Models - One week course taught by Dr. A. Towsend Peterson (University of Kansas, USA), Dr. Robert P. Anderson (City University of New York, USA) and Dr. Chris Yesson (Zoological Society of London, UK).
Oficina (workshop)
 Calibrating Ecological Niche Models
Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
2014 - 2014 “Combining ecological niche modelling and non-invasive genetic sampling to forecast Microtus cabrerae range shifts in different climatic change scenarios”
Simpósio
 “Vole Ecology, Genetics and Conservation II”
CIBIO - University of Évora, Portugal
2014 - 2014 “Biology Works in the Alqueva and Pedrógão Reservoirs” (originally in Portuguese)
Encontro
 “Biology Works in the Alqueva and Pedrógão Reservoirs” (originally in Portuguese)
EDIA, Portugal
2014 - 2014 “Forecasting species range shifts by combining ecological niche modelling and non-invasive genetic sampling: an example with the Cabrera’s vole (Microtus cabrerae)”
Congresso
 “14th Rodents et Spatium – International Conference on Rodent Biology”
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2013/07/03 - 2013/07/05 Tools for analyzing landscape connectivity: methods and applications - Three day (21 hours) course taught by Dr. Santiago Saura (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain).
Oficina (workshop)
 Tools for analyzing landscape connectivity: methods and applications
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2013/04/24 - 2013/04/24 Statistical models with R - Short workshop (4 hours) taught by Dr. Rui Coelho (CFRG/CCMAR - University of Algarve).
Oficina (workshop)
 Statistical models with R
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2013/04/08 - 2013/04/19 Revolution IV: Quantitative ecology and spatial prediction of species distribution - 40 Hour course taught by Dr. Fernando Cánovas García (CCMAR - University of Algarve, Portugal).
Oficina (workshop)
 Revolution IV: Quantitative ecology and spatial prediction of species distribution
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2013 - 2013 “International Congress of Wilderness Resources” (originally in Portuguese)
Congresso
 “International Congress of Wilderness Resources” (originally in Portuguese)
Almodôvar Municipality and the Association for the Defense of Mértola’s Heritage, Portugal
2012/05/12 - 2012/05/12 Occupancy modeling and estimation - Short workshop taught by Dr. William Gould (Applied Statistics Program, New Mexico State University, USA).
Oficina (workshop)
 Occupancy modeling and estimation
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2011/08/29 - 2011/09/02 Modelling species distributions under climate change - One week course (5 ECTS) taught by Dr. David Nogués-Bravo, Dr. Miguel Araújo and Dr. Katharine Ann Marske (University of Copenhagen, Denmark).
Oficina (workshop)
 Modelling species distributions under climate change
Københavns Universitet, Dinamarca
2011 - 2011 I National Congress of Wilderness Resources of the Mediterranean (originally in Portuguese)
Congresso
 "I National Congress of Wilderness Resources of the Mediterranean" (originally in Portuguese)
Barrancos Municipallity and the Association for the Defense of Mértola’s Heritage, Portugal
2011 - 2011 Factors affecting the abundance of wild rabbit at the home range scale: environmental variables, landscape and habitat management techniques (originally in Portuguese)
Congresso
 "III Wildlife Congress" (originally in Portuguese)
University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
2011 - 2011 Vole ecology, genetics and conservation
Seminário
 "Vole ecology, genetics and conservation"
CIBIO - University of Évora, Portugal
2011 - 2011 “Combining biogeographic, ecological and genetic tools to predict metapopulation responses to climate change across spatial scales: an ongoing case-study with Cabrera and water voles”
Congresso
 "Adaptation to Climate from a Spatial Perspective"
Metapopulation Research Group (University of Helsinki, Finland), Finlândia
2010/06/21 - 2010/06/25 GIS Tools for Ecology - An Introductory Course - 20 hour course taught by Dr. Isaac Pozo Ortego (Cátedra Rui Nabeiro - Universidade de Évora).
Oficina (workshop)
 GIS Tools for Ecology - An Introductory Course
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2010/05/21 - 2010/05/22 Introduction to statistical analysis using R - 14 hour course taught by Dr. Pedro Segurado.
Oficina (workshop)
 Introduction to statistical analysis using R
We Value, Portugal
2010 - 2010 Conservation of Endangered Terrestrial Vertebrates in Portugal (originally in Portuguese)
Encontro
 "Conservation of Endangered Terrestrial Vertebrates in Portugal" (originally in Portuguese)
CEAI, Naturlink and University of Évora, Portugal
2010 - 2010 I Journeys of Predator Management (originally in Portuguese)
Encontro
 "I Journeys of Predator Management" (originally in Portuguese)
Environmental Sciences’ Students Association and the University of Évora, Portugal
2009 - 2009 “IENE Seminar – Transport Infrastruture of the 21st century: connecting people and wildlife”
Seminário
 “IENE Seminar – Transport Infrastruture of the 21st century: connecting people and wildlife”
2009 - 2009 “Habitat Management for Wildlife in Agriculture and Forestry Systems”
Encontro
 “Habitat Management for Wildlife in Agriculture and Forestry Systems”
Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
2008 - 2008 “Workshop RIOS – Reducing the Impact of Oil Spills”
Seminário
 “Workshop RIOS – Reducing the Impact of Oil Spills”
Zoomarine, Sea Alarm Foundation and Nordec, Portugal
2007 - 2007 “I Congress on Sustainability and Rurality – the Holm Oak Montado” (originally in Portuguese)
Congresso
 “I Congress on Sustainability and Rurality – the Holm Oak Montado” (originally in Portuguese)
CEAI, Portugal
2007 - 2007 Recovedring the population of wild rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus algirus, in the hunting zone of Querença
Encontro
 “First Working Meeting – Compensatory measures and specific monitoring of Bonelli’s eagle” (originally in Portuguese)
CEAI, Portugal
2006 - 2006 “The vitality of the cork oak and holm oak forests – current situation, state of the art and measures to be taken” (originally in Portuguese)
Congresso
 “The vitality of the cork oak and holm oak forests – current situation, state of the art and measures to be taken” (originally in Portuguese)
2005/05 - 2005/05 Sampling and Estimation of Animal Populations – Distance Sampling - Taught by Dr. Russel Alpizar-Jara (University of Évora) and Dr. Jesus Pérez (University of Jaén, Spain).
Oficina (workshop)
 Sampling and Estimation of Animal Populations – Distance Sampling
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2005 - 2005 “Linear Infra-Structures and Biodiversity” (originally in Portuguese)
Congresso
 “Linear Infra-Structures and Biodiversity” (originally in Portuguese)
Conservation Biology Unit, Naturlink and the Group for the Studies on Fauna & Biodiversity, Portugal
2004/05/24 - 2004/05/28 Acoustical Bat Identification - 5 day course taught by Dr. Ana Raínho. Final classification of 14.
Oficina (workshop)
 Acoustical Bat Identification
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2003 - 2003 8º National Ecology Meeting” (originally in Portuguese)
Encontro
 "8º National Ecology Meeting” (originally in Portuguese)
Portuguese Ecology Society (SPECO) and University of Évora, Portugal
2002 - 2002 “I Conference on the Flora and Fauna of the Montado system” (originally in Portuguese)
Conferência
 “I Conference on the Flora and Fauna of the Montado system” (originally in Portuguese)
2001 - 2001 “2nd National Congress in Nature Conservancy” (originally in Portuguese)
Congresso
 “2nd National Congress in Nature Conservancy” (originally in Portuguese)
ICN, Portugal

Júri de grau académico

Tema
Tipo de participação 		Nome do candidato (Tipo de grau)
Instituição / Organização
2022 Landscape functional connectivity and animal movement: application of remote sensing for increasing efficiency of road mitigation measures
Vogal
 Francesco Valerio (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2022 Prioritizing areas for nature conservation under climate change: Iberian Peninsula as a case-study
Arguente principal
 Inês Pereira (Mestrado)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2021 Reconstructing the aquatic food web of the Alqueva dam: a bibliographic approach
Arguente principal
 David Reisinho (Mestrado)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2018 Study on the impact of environmental enrichment structures on the captive Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) Sofia Daniel (Mestrado)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Arbitragem científica em revista

Nome da revista (ISSN) Editora
2022/01 - Atual Ecological Modelling Elsevier

Membro de associação

Nome da associação Tipo de participação
2021/09/22 - Atual Ordem dos Biólogos
2018 - Atual International Biogeography Society
2018 - Atual International Society for Ecological Modelling

Revisão ad hoc de artigos em revista

Nome da revista (ISSN) Editora
2021 - Atual Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology
2021 - Atual Environmental Modelling and Software
2021 - Atual Diversity
2021 - Atual Diversity and Distributions
2020/03/20 - Atual Ecography (1600-0587) Wiley (Blackwell Publishing)
2020/03/16 - Atual Ecology and Evolution (2045-7758) Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
2020 - Atual Ecological Indicators
2019 - Atual BioScience
2017 - Atual Ecological Modelling (0304-3800) Elsevier
2020 - 2021 Science of the Total Environment
2017 - 2020 Animal Conservation (1469-1795) Wiley (Blackwell Publishing)
2019/10/05 - 2019/10/17 European Journal of Wildlife Research (1439-0574) Springer-Verlag
2019/03/14 - 2019/04 Conservation Biology (1523-1739) Wiley (Blackwell Publishing)
2018 - 2018 Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2296-701X) Frontiers Media SA
2017 - 2017 Global Change Biology (1365-2486) Wiley (Blackwell Publishing)
2017 - 2017 Journal of Insect Conservation (1572-9753) Springer-Verlag
2015/02/05 - 2015/02/06 Journal of Ecology and the Natural Environment (2006-9847) Academic Journals

Tutoria

Tópico Nome do aluno
2019/08/01 - 2019/09/30 Food web structural responses to environmental factors Stella Terzo
Distinções

Outra distinção

2016 Financial Support from the Luso-American Foundation for Development
Fundação Luso-Americana, Portugal