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Diogo Filipe Angelo Ferreira. Completed the Doutoramento in Biodiversidade, Genética e Evolução in 2024/02 by Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Mestrado in Biologia da Conservação in 2015/10/15 by Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências and Licenciatura in Biologia in 2013/07 by Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências. He is Auxiliary Researcher in Associação BIOPOLIS - Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva. Published 17 articles in journals. Has 1 book(s). Organized 1 event(s). Participated in 17 event(s). Co-supervised 3 MSc dissertation(s). Has received 6 awards and/or honors. Participates and/or participated as Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) in 1 project(s), Master Student Fellow in 1 project(s), PhD Student Fellow in 1 project(s), Principal investigator in 1 project(s) and Researcher in 2 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Natural sciences with emphasis on Biological Sciences with emphasis on Ecology, Natural sciences, on Biodiversity Conservation and Natural sciences, and on Zoology. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Bats; Habitat Fragmentation; Agroforestry; Cacao; Seasonality; Landscape structure; Local Vegetation Structure.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Diogo Filipe Angelo Ferreira

Citation names

  • Ferreira, Diogo F

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
4D18-3188-A29B
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2881-1860

Email addresses

  • ferreiradfa@cibio.pt.up (Professional)
  • ferreiradfa@gmail.com (Personal)

Addresses

  • CIBIO - Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos Universidade do Porto Campus de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, nº 7 , 4485-661, Vairão , Vila do Conde, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biodiversity Conservation
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Zoology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Portuguese Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2018/09 - 2024/02
Concluded
 Biodiversidade, Genética e Evolução (Doutoramento)
Major in Sem especialidade
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Chocolate bats: Promoting sustainable cacao through bat ecosystem services" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2015/10/15
Concluded
 Biologia da Conservação (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Effects of seasonality on the responses of Neotropical bats to local- and landscape-scale attributes in a fragmented landscape" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
2013/07
Concluded
 Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/03 - Current Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Associação BIOPOLIS - Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal
Associação BIOPOLIS - Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal
2023/02 - 2024/02 Researcher (Research) Associação BIOPOLIS - Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal
Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2016/07/15 - 2016/11/01 Research Trainee (Research) University College London Division of Biosciences, United Kingdom
2016/01/01 - 2016/06/01 Research Trainee (Research) Leibniz Institut für Zoo und Wildtierforschung eV, Germany

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017/08/01 - 2018/08/31 Bat Field Assistance Biodiversity Initiative (ONG), United States
2016/11/20 - 2017/12/28 External collaborator for a bat environmental study in Kenya Strix Lda, Portugal
2015/04/28 - 2015/05/04 Bat Field Assistance (volunteer) Granollers Museum of Natural Sciences, Spain
2014/10/09 - 2014/10/16 Bird Field Assistance (volunteer) Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil
2014/03/01 - 2014/06/01 Volunteer Wild Animal Recovery Center of Monsanto Forest Park, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019/02/28 - 2021/06 Putting a price on the menu: Evaluating bat ecosystem services in African cocoa plantations
30078-1
2019BCI
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
 Rufford Foundation

Bat Conservation International
Concluded
2014/07 - 2015/10 Temporal dynamics of the impacts of forest fragmentation on Neotropical bat assemblages.
PTDC/BIA-BIC/111184/2009
Master Student Fellow
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2024/02 - Current Spatial Habitats Assessment for Biodiversity Conservation
R98-Z13M190
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Associação BIOPOLIS - Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal
 Red Sea Global (RSG)
Ongoing
2023/02 - 2024/12 Inventory of AlUla Fauna
Inventory of Fauna Desert
Researcher
Associação BIOPOLIS - Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal
 Royal Commission for AlUla
Concluded
2023/04 - 2024/09 Investigate Acacia Trees Dieback Possible Solutions – Insect related
Investigate Acacia Trees Dieback Possible Solutions – Insect related
Researcher
Associação BIOPOLIS - Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal
 Royal Commission for AlUla
Concluded
2018/09 - 2023/01 Chocolate bats: Promoting sustainable cacao through bat ecosystem services
Biodiversity Initiative
CIBIO-InBIO
PhD Student Fellow
Biodiversity Initiative (ONG)
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Bilancioni, Marcello; Ferreira, Diogo F; Khalatbari, Leili; Boratynski, Zbyszek; Rebelo, Hugo; Álvares, Francisco; Liz, André Vicente; et al. Mammals of AlUla. AlUla, Saudi Arabia: RCU - Royal Commission for AlUla. 2024.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Ferreira, Diogo F.; Jarrett, Crinan; Atagana, Patrick Jules; Welch, Andreanna J.; Powell, Luke L.; Rebelo, Hugo. "The role of landscape context in shaping bat assemblages in African cacao plantations". Science of The Total Environment 954 (2024): 176393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.176393.
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.176393
  2. Challéat, Samuel; Farrugia, Nicolas; Froidevaux, Jérémy S. P.; Gasc, Amandine; Pajusco, Nicolas; Abrahams, Carlos R.; Acevedo-Charry, Orlando; et al. "A dataset of acoustic measurements from soundscapes collected worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic". Scientific Data 11 1 (2024): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03611-7.
    10.1038/s41597-024-03611-7
  3. Jarrett, C.; Cyril, K.; Haydon, D.T.; Wandji, C.A.; Ferreira, D.F.; Welch, A.J.; Powell, L.L.; Matthiopoulos, J.. "Fewer pests and more ecosystem service-providing arthropods in shady African cocoa farms: Insights from a data integration study". Journal of Applied Ecology 61 2 (2024): 304-315. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85179680145&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/1365-2664.14563
  4. Rainho, Ana; Ferreira, Diogo F.; Makori, Beryl; Bartonjo, Michael; Repas-Gonçalves, Miguel; Kirakou, Stanley; Maghuwa, Florah; Webala, Paul W.; Tomé, Ricardo. "Guild Vertical Stratification and Drivers of Bat Foraging in a Semi-Arid Tropical Region, Kenya". Biology 12 8 (2023): 1116. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology12081116.
    10.3390/biology12081116
  5. Ferreira, Diogo F.; Darling, Alexandra; Jarrett, Crinan; Atagana, Patrick Jules; Sandjo, Phallin Roméal; Taedoumg, Hermann; Welch, Andreanna J.; Rebelo, Hugo; Powell, Luke L.. "Not all farms are created equal: Shady African cocoa farms promote a richer bat fauna". Biological Conservation 284 (2023): 110191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110191.
    10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110191
  6. Ferreira, Diogo F.; Jarrett, Crinan; Wandji, Alain Christel; Atagana, Patrick Jules; Rebelo, Hugo; Maas, Bea; Powell, Luke L.. "Birds and bats enhance yields in Afrotropical cacao agroforests only under high tree-level shade cover". Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 345 (2023): 108325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2022.108325.
    10.1016/j.agee.2022.108325
  7. Jarrett, Crinan; Haydon, Daniel T.; Morales, Juan M.; Ferreira, Diogo F.; Forzi, Francis Alemanji; Welch, Andreanna J.; Powell, Luke L.; Matthiopoulos, Jason. "Integration of mark–recapture and acoustic detections for unbiased population estimation in animal communities". Ecology 103 10 (2022): https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3769.
    10.1002/ecy.3769
  8. Ferreira, Diogo F.; Gibb, Rory; López-Baucells, Adrià; Nunes, Nuno J.; Jones, Kate E.; Rocha, Ricardo. "Species-specific responses to land-use change in island insectivorous bats". Journal for Nature Conservation 67 (2022): 126177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2022.126177.
    10.1016/j.jnc.2022.126177
  9. 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 103 6 (2022): https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3654.
    10.1002/ecy.3654
  10. Ferreira, Diogo F; Jarrett, Crinan; Atagana, Patrick Jules; Powell, Luke L; Rebelo, Hugo. "Are bat mist nets ideal for capturing bats? From ultrathin to bird nets, a field test". Journal of Mammalogy 102 6 (2021): 1627-1634. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyab109.
    10.1093/jmammal/gyab109
  11. Jarrett, Crinan; Smith, Thomas B.; Claire, Tabe T. R.; Ferreira, Diogo F.; Tchoumbou, Melanie; Elikwo, Malange N. F.; Wolfe, Jared; et al. "Bird communities in African cocoa agroforestry are diverse but lack specialized insectivores". Journal of Applied Ecology 58 6 (2021): 1237-1247. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13864.
    10.1111/1365-2664.13864
  12. Ferreira, Diogo F.; Torrent, Laura; Welch, Andreanna J.; Wolfe, Jared; Brzeski, Kristin. "First record of a piebald Bates's Slit-faced Bat, Nycteris arge (Chiroptera: Nycteridae) from Equatorial Guinea, Central Africa". Barbastella 13 1 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.14709/barbj.13.1.2020.14.
    10.14709/barbj.13.1.2020.14
  13. Farneda, Fábio Z.; Grelle, Carlos E. V.; Rocha, Ricardo; Ferreira, Diogo F.; López-Baucells, Adrià; Meyer, Christoph F. J.. "Predicting biodiversity loss in island and countryside ecosystems through the lens of taxonomic and functional biogeography". Ecography 43 1 (2019): 97-106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04507.
    Published • 10.1111/ecog.04507
  14. Rocha, Ricardo; López-Baucells, Adrià; Farneda, Fábio Z; Ferreira, Diogo F; Silva, Inês; Acácio, Marta; Palmeirim, Jorge M; Meyer, Christoph F J. "Second-growth and small forest clearings have little effect on the temporal activity patterns of Amazonian phyllostomid bats". Current Zoology 66 2 (2019): 145-153. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoz042.
    Published • 10.1093/cz/zoz042
  15. Rocha, Ricardo; Ovaskainen, Otso; López-Baucells, Adrià; Farneda, Fábio Z.; Ferreira, Diogo F.; Bobrowiec, Paulo E.D.; Cabeza, Mar; Palmeirim, Jorge M.; Meyer, Christoph F.J.. "Design matters: An evaluation of the impact of small man-made forest clearings on tropical bats using a before-after-control-impact design". Forest Ecology and Management 401 (2017): 8-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2017.06.053.
    Published • 10.1016/j.foreco.2017.06.053
  16. Rocha, Ricardo; Ferreira, Diogo F.; López-Baucells, Adrià; Farneda, Fábio Z.; Carreiras, João M. B.; Palmeirim, Jorge M.; Meyer, Christoph F. J.. "Does sex matter? Gender-specific responses to forest fragmentation in Neotropical bats". Biotropica 49 6 (2017): 881-890. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/btp.12474.
    Published • 10.1111/btp.12474
  17. Ferreira, Diogo F.; Rocha, Ricardo; López-Baucells, Adrià; Farneda, Fábio Z.; Carreiras, João M. B.; Palmeirim, Jorge M.; Meyer, Christoph F. J.. "Season-modulated responses of Neotropical bats to forest fragmentation". Ecology and Evolution 7 11 (2017): 4059-4071. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3005.
    Published • 10.1002/ece3.3005
Preprint
  1. Jarrett, Crinan; Powell, Luke L.; Claire, Tabe Tiku Regine; Kowo, Cyril; Ferreira, Diogo F.; Quiñones, Alma L.S.; Welch, Andreanna J.; Haydon, Daniel T.; Matthiopoulos, Jason. "Food webs can deliver win-win strategies for tropical agroforestry and biodiversity conservation". 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.31.596784.
    10.1101/2024.05.31.596784
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Chocolate Bats: Promoting Sustainable Cacao Through Bat Ecosystem Services". PhD, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, 2023. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/bitstream/10216/159985/2/680148.pdf.
  2. Ferreira, Diogo Filipe Angelo. "Effects of seasonality on the responses of neotropical bats to local- and landscape-scale attributes in a fragmented landscape". Master, Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/20855.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/12/04 Going Bat-Friendly: Turning Science into Action for Bats and African Cacao Farmers Trends in Biodiversity and Evolution (TiBE)
(Vila do Conde, Portugal)
2024/09/02 The role of landscape context in shaping bat community assemblages in African cacao plantations 16th European Bat Research Symposium
(Tarragona, Spain)
2024/06/11 Chocolate bats: Promoting sustainable cacao through bat ecosystem services Mentor Bat Program
US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and Bat Conservation International (BCI)
2024/05/17 Chocobats: promoting sustainable cacao through bat pest suppression services (1st Prize) University of Porto Three Minute Thesis (3MT®)
(Porto, Portugal)
2022/08/07 Not all farms are created equal: shadier African cacao farms promote a richer bat fauna (Luis F. Bacardi Bat Conservation Award for best presentation) International Bat Research Conference
(Austin, United States)
2022/06/25 Bats (and birds) enhance yields in Afrotropical cacao agroforests only under high shade AfriPopo Student Symposium (Online Conference)
2022/06/07 Not all farms are created equal: Cameroonian cacao farms with high shade cover have higher abundance, richness, and diversity of insectivorous bats European Conference of Tropical Ecology
(Montpellier, France)
2022/03/28 Fifty shades of cacao: the role of shade trees in maintaining a rich bat community in cacao farms (poster presentation) Student Conference on Conservation Science
(Cambridge, United Kingdom)
2021/07/21 Putting a price on the menu: evaluating bat (and bird) ecosystem services in African cocoa plantations ATBC (Online Conference)
2021/05/26 Putting a price on the menu: evaluating bat (and bird) ecosystem services in African cocoa plantations (most creative presentation award) 2nd World Bat Twitter Conference
2021/05/04 Chocolate bats: Promoting sustainable cacao through bat ecosystem services European Bat Research Symposium (Online Conference)
(Turku, Finland)
2021/05/04 Are bat mist-nets the best to capture bats? From ultrathin to bird nets, a field test (3rd place in the best student poster award) European Bat Research Symposium (Online Conference)
(Turku, Finland)
2018/11/22 Chocolate Bats: Promoting sustainable cacao through bat ecosystem services (Best student poster award) Iberian Meeting on Agroecological Research
University of Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2016/02/23 Effects of seasonality on the responses of Neotropical bats to local- and landscape-scale attributes in a fragmented landscape. European Conference of Tropical Ecology
University of Gottingen (Gottingen, Germany)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2020 - 2022 Effects of large-scale forest fires on insular bats
Co-supervisor
Universität Bremen, Germany
2019 - 2022 Evidence for Temporal and Dietary Niche Partitioning in Insectivorous Bats in Cameroon
Co-supervisor
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
2019 - 2020 Does cocoa farm management effect bat community assemblages in southern Cameroon
Co-supervisor
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2025/02/01 - Current TiBE 2025: Biodiversity, Evolution, and Conservation in Deserts and Arid Regions (2025/10/09 - 2025/10/10)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Associação BIOPOLIS - Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2019/05/23 - 2019/05/26 Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution Post-Graduation Annual Meeting
Conference
 BIODIV Annual Meeting
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2014/12/06 - 2014/12/08 Practical Workshop
Workshop
 Wildlife Rehabilitation
CERVAS - Centro de Ecologia, Recuperação e Vigilância de Animais Selvagens, Portugal
2013/05/01 - 2013/05/03 XV National Meeting of Biology Students with the theme "Biology, The Seed of the Future"
Congress
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2013/04/23 - 2013/04/30 Research Days in Biology
Exhibition
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2025/02/10 Bats and rice: promoting integrated pest management to enhance biodiversity conservation
(Thesis) Arguer
 Carme Tuneu Corral (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2025 - Current Biological Conservation
2025 - Current Journal of Applied Ecology
2024 - Current Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment
2023 - Current Ecosystem Services
2023 - Current Journal of Animal Ecology
2022 - Current Acta Ethologica
2022 - Current Ecology and Evolution
2022 - Current Journal for Nature Conservation
2021 - Current Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
2019 - Current Mammal Review
2019 - Current Plos One
2019 - Current Revista de Biologia Tropical
2018 - Current Acta Chiropterologica
2018 - Current Journal of Mammalogy
2018 - Current Mammalia
2017 - Current Journal of Bat Research & Conservation

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/05/20 - 2024/05/21 Mixed models in Ecology and Biology: beyond simple regressions (Outros) Associação BIOPOLIS - Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal
2016/10 - 2016/10 Field course in terrestrial ecology (Outros) Universidade da Madeira, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2024/05/27 Pessoas da U. Porto: May 2024 Renata Silva

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2024/06/15 - Current Geração Digital Podcast
2022/10/17 - Current Sociedade Civil TV programme
2021/11/02 - Current Bat Club Live Instagram channel
Distinctions

Award

2024 1st Prize in 3rd edition of University of Porto Three Minute Thesis (3MT®)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2022 Training and Travel 2022 grant for attending the European Conference of Tropical Ecology
British Ecological Society, United Kingdom
2022 Luis F. Bacardi Bat Conservation Award for best presentation in the International Bat Research Conference.
2021 Most creative presentation award in the 2nd World Bat Twitter Conference 2021
2021 3rd best student poster award in the European Bat Research Symposium
2018 Best student poster award in the Iberian Meeting on Agroecological Research
Universidade de Évora, Portugal