Curriculum Vitae
João Ricardo Moreira de Freitas Belo
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- João Ricardo Moreira de Freitas Belo
Citation names
- Belo, J. R.
- Belo, J.
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 9D18-F90A-F6B1
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-1772-8367
Email addresses
- joaofreitasbelo@hotmail.com (Professional)
Telephones
- Mobile phone
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- 916916865 (Personal)
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biodiversity Conservation
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2021/10/01 - 2025/09/30
Ongoing
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Biologia e Ecologia das Alterações Globais (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Flyway niche dynamics: unravelling shorebird-habitat associations across space and time" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2017/09/16 - 2019/10/14
Concluded
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Biologia da Conservação (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Using satellite imagery to identify foraging habitats for shorebirds and model their distribution in the mudflats of the
Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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18 |
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2013/09/15 - 2017/07/01
Concluded
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Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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14 |
Projects
Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019/12/16 - 2020/12/16 | Waders of the Bijagós
PTDC/BIA-ECO/28205/2017
Research Fellow
FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
Concluded
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Other
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021/05/01 - Current | Monitoring shorebird populations in Tagus Estuary
Monitoring shorebird populations in Tagus Estuary
Volunteer
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Ongoing
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| 2020/01/01 - Current | Arenaria
Distribuição e Abundância de Aves nas Praias e Costas de Portuga
Volunteer
Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves, Portugal
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Ongoing
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| 2021/02/01 - 2021/02/26 | Black-tailed Godwit Demographic Project
Service Provider
Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, Netherlands
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Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Journal article |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2023/11/23 | Flyway scale patterns of habitat-use: within and between species variation for waders in the EAF | Global Flyways
BOU (British Ornithologists' Union)
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| 2023/10/01 | Navigating the "flatscape": multispecies comparison of intertidal patch selection from GPS tracking | International Wader Study Group Conference
International Wader Study Group (Sylt, Germany)
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| 2023/05/08 | Unravelling habitat-use by waders in the Bijagós Archipelago: links between intertidal flats, mangrove and tannes | MAVA Symposium
MAVA Foundation
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| 2022/09/23 | Spatial shifts: winter dynamics of wader-habitat associations in a heterogeneous landscape | International Wader Study Group Conference
International Wader Study Group (Szeged)
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| 2022/09/23 | Unravelling wader movements across the energy landscape | International Wader Study Group Conference
International Wader Study Group (Szeged, Hungary)
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| 2021/12/01 | Waders at night: Where to find them? (poster presentation) | 20º Encontro Nacional de Ecologia
SPECO (Ponte de Lima, Portugal)
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| 2021/09/18 | The Bijagós Archipelago as key non-breeding area for migratory shorebirds in the East Atlantic Flyway: Challenges in conservation and recommendations for the future | East Atlantic Flyway Youth Forum
Common Wadden Sea Secretariat; Youth Engaged in Wetlands; Migratory Birds for People Program; Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust
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| 2019/09/20 | Using satellite imagery to identify foraging habitats for shorebirds and model their distribution in the mudflats of the Bijagós Archipelago, in Guinea-Bissau. | International Wader Study Group Conference
International Wader Study Group (Morecambe, United Kingdom)
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| 2019/09/20 | Fiddler Crabs Afruca tangeri shape the structure of benthic macroinvertebrate communities and the spatial distribution of foraging shorebirds. | International Wader Study Group Conference
International Wader Study Group (Morecambe, United Kingdom)
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| 2019/09/20 | Racing the tropical tides: how foraging shorebirds respond to low-tide cycles in a key East Atlantic Flyway non-breeding area. | International Wader Study Group Conference
International Wader Study Group (Morecambe, United Kingdom)
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Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2017/02/01 - Current | Bird ringing in Tagus Estuary
Other
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| 2024/01/30 - 2024/02/01 | (1) Inform each other about current and future conservation and research work from across the non-breeding range; (2) Stimulate
networking and collaboration among countries from across the non-breeding range (and beyond); (3) Undertake review of progress
made on implementation of the workplan adopted for the Non-breeding Range States in 2018-2020; (4) Produce a new workplan
for the Black-tailed Godwit in the Non-breeding Range States for the period 2024-2026.
Meeting
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2nd Meeting of the Non-breeding Range States in the East-Atlantic Flyway under the AEWA International Working Group for the Black-tailed Godwit |
| 2021/09/05 - 2022/09/05 | Ambassador for Portugal regarding the East Atlantic Flyway Youth Forum Main tasks: - colaborate in the drafting of the EAF Youth Forum declaration; - Participate in the Flyway Youth Forum Action Plan 2021-22; -Act as spokesperson on behalf of the EAF Youth Forum. | East Atlantic Flyway Youth Forum
Common Wadden Sea Secretariat, Germany
Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, United Kingdom Migratory Birds for People Program, United Kingdom |
| 2021/06/01 - 2021/06/30 | National Census of the Kentish Plover (Charadrius Alexandrinus) breeding population, in Portugal.
I counted pre-defined areas in Sado Estuary.
Other
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| 2020/01/01 - 2020/01/15 | Volunteer in the Arenaria Project |
Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves, Portugal
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| 2018/01/02 - 2018/04/01 | Wildlife rescuer volunteer LxCRAS - Centro de recuperação de animais selvagens de Lisboa
Other
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| 2017/07/01 - 2017/08/01 | Wildlife Conservation Volunteer Reserva Natural da Faia Brava |
Consulting
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2021/01/05 - 2021/01/20 | Production of case study: "Synthesis of the current knowledge of the Bijagós archipelago as a key non-breeding area for migratory shorebirds of the East Atlantic Flyway, with recommendations for future research and conservation actions". In this work, we summarize the existing knowledge on the status of wader populations wintering in the Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau, and discussed its role in the conservation of the migratory wader populations at a Flyway scale. | Common Wadden Sea Secretariat, Germany |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
| Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/04/07 | I was interviewed regarding the Montijo Airport case in Tagus Estuary, Portugal. I was asked to explain an article (where I am the main author) regarding the decline in roost availability for shorebirds and in shorebird populations in Sado Estuary, and I argued that this last area is not suitable to support relocations from the birds wintering in Tagus Estuary in case of disturbance caused by the new airport. | Público |
| 2022/12/03 | The main goal of this interview was to explain my PhD project and the work developed by my team regarding the space-use at a local and global scale. The media team participated in the captures of wintering shorebirds and described the techniques used and we explained how it would provide useful data for the conservation and ecology of wintering shorebirds. | Público |
Interview (tv / radio show)
| Program | Topic | |
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| 2023/06/20 - Current | RTP 1 - Linha da Frente EP. 26 -"Vou Voar Contigo" | The work performed by our team in the breeding areas of migratory shorebirds (in Iceland) |
Mentoring / Tutoring
| Topic | Student name | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/05/01 - 2023/07/01 | Applied methods to study the different aspects of the ecology of shorebirds: using Grey plover (Pluviallis squatarola) as a case study. | Maeve Hoogland |