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Francisco Carvalho is the General and Innovation Coordinator at the Landscape Laboratory since 2023. He is a guest lecturer in the school of Sciences at the University of Minho, chair of the Climate Resilience Task Force and CO-Chair of the Working Group in Biodiversity and Green Areas at EUROCITIES (representing the Guimarães Municipality). Francisco holds a Ph.D. in Molecular and Environmental Biology, specialization in Biodiversity, Ecology and evolution, a Master's degree in Ecology and Bachelor's degree in Applied Biology, from the University of Minho. He conducted part of his doctoral work at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, with support from Fulbright and FLAD. Throughout his professional journey, he has been involved in various scientific projects related to freshwater ecosystem conservation, biodiversity, and ecosystem functioning.He worked in the business sector at a startup specializing in Circular Economy and Sustainability. As a student, he received the award for the best master's student in Ecology from the Municipality of Guimarães in 2014 and was selected (co-authored) for the Young AIL research project by the Iberian Limnology Association in 2023. He is also an author and co-author of several scientific publications in indexed journals.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Francisco André Costa Carvalho

Citation names

  • Carvalho, Francisco

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
A711-AB9E-81DC
ORCID iD
0000-0002-8414-9587

Email addresses

  • francisco.carvalho@labpaisagem.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Limnology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Freshwater Biology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biodiversity Conservation
  • Natural sciences
  • Natural sciences - Other Natural Sciences
  • Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences - Environmental Sciences
Education
Degree Classification
2017/05/01 - 2024/02/01
Concluded
 Biologia Molecular e Ambiental (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"Impacts, dynamics and risks of invasive crayfish species in aquatic ecosystems" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2018
Ongoing
 Biologia Molecular e Ambiental (Doutoramento)
Major in Especialidade: Evolução, Biodiversidade e Ecologia
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
""Impacts, dynamics and risks of invasive crayfish species in freshwater ecosystems"" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2014
Concluded
 Mestrado Ecologia (Mestrado)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Ciências, Portugal
"Impacts of omnivore predators on plant litter decomposition in streams: the case of Procambarus clarkii" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
2014
Concluded
 Ecologia (Mestrado)
Major in Sem especialização
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"Impacts of invasive omnivore predators on plant litter decomposition in streams: the case of Procambarus clarkii" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2011
Concluded
 Biologia Aplicada (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"Does the age and composition of riparian stand affect ecosystem functioning in streams?" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/01 - 2025/12 CLICKbaits: Digital tools to reinvent freshwater fish conservation in a changing world
CLICKbaits
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Universidade do Minho Centro de Biologia Molecular e Ambiental, Portugal

Laboratório da Paisagem, Portugal
Asociación Ibérica de Limnología
2017/05 - 2021/05 PhD fellowship
SFRH/BD/119957/2016
 Governo da República Portuguesa Ministério da Ciência Tecnologia e Ensino Superior

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/01/01 - 2024/12/31 MULTI-CRASH: Cascatas ecológicas a múltiplas dimensões desencadeadas por uma espécie invasora em habitats pristinos
PTDC/CTA-AMB/0510/2021
10.54499/PTDC/CTA-AMB/0510/2021
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal

Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal

Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal

Universidade de Vigo Facultad de Ciencias, Spain

Universidade do Minho Centro de Biologia Molecular e Ambiental, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/06/01 - 2022/05/31 STREAMECO - Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning under Climate Change: from the Gene to the Stream
PTDC/CTA-AMB/31245/2017
Universidade do Minho Centro de Biologia Molecular e Ambiental, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2018/06/01 - 2021/05/31 BIODIVERSIDADE E FUNCIONAMENTO DOS ECOSSISTEMAS SOB ALTERAÇÕES CLIMATICAS: DO GENE ATÉ AO RIO
PTDC/CTA-AMB/31245/2017
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 CENTRE OF MOLECULAR AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY
UID/BIA/04050/2019
Universidade do Minho Centro de Biologia Molecular e Ambiental, Portugal

Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Garcia-Raventós, Aina; Martins, Filipa; Magalhães, Maria Filomena; Ramião, José; Ferreira, Mário; Carona, Sara; Carvalho, Francisco; et al. "Multiple introductions and first record of Phoxinus phoxinus in the Douro basin revealed by molecular data". 2018.
  2. Carvalho, Francisco André Costa; Sahadevan, Seena; Pascoal, Cláudia; Cássio, Fernanda. "Does the riparian stand and age affect ecosystem functioning in streams?". 2012.
Conference poster
  1. da Silva, Janine P.; Monteiro, Ana Isabel; Calapez, Ana Raquel; Córdoba, Gabriela; Duarte, Sofia; Fehlinger, Lena; Fernandes, Isabel; et al. Corresponding author: da Silva, Janine P.. "CLICKbaits: Digital tools to reinvent freshwater fish conservation in a changing world". Paper presented in XXII Congress of the Iberian Association of Limnology, 2024.
  2. Pascoal, Cláudia; Lourenço, José; Gutiérrez-Cánovas, Cayetano; Carvalho, Francisco; Cassio, Fernanda; Pace, Giorgio. Corresponding author: Pascoal, Cláudia. "Multiple stressor effects on the taxonomic and functional diversity of macroinvertebrates in Atlantic streams". Paper presented in Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences 13, 2023.
  3. Carvalho, Francisco; Sahadevan, Seena; Pascoal, Cláudia; Cássio, Fernanda. "Does the age and composition of riparian stand affect ecosystem functioning in streams?". Paper presented in Limnologia, XVIth Congress of the Iberian Society of Limnology, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal., 2012.
Journal article
  1. Francisco Carvalho; Henrique Alves; Cláudia Pascoal; Paulo Castro; Fernando Miranda; Amílcar Teixeira; Fernanda Cássio; Ronaldo Sousa. "Invasive dynamics of the signal crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus in a protected area". Hydrobiologia (2025): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-024-05717-w.
    10.1007/s10750-024-05717-w
  2. Alexandra Meira; Francisco Carvalho; Paulo Castro; Ronaldo Sousa. "Applications of biosensors in non-native freshwater species: a systematic review". NeoBiota (2024): https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.96.128038.
    10.3897/neobiota.96.128038
  3. Julian Olden; Francisco A. C. Carvalho. "Global invasion and biosecurity risk from the online trade in ornamental crayfish". Conservation Biology (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14359.
    10.1111/cobi.14359
  4. Modesto, Vanessa; Ilarri, Martina; Castro, Paulo; Carvalho, Francisco; Cavalheri, Thais; Lopes-Lima, Manuel; Teixeira, Amílcar; et al. "Interspecific differences in the physiological condition of native freshwater mussels in response to the invasive Asian clam Corbicula fluminea". Hydrobiologia (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-023-05209-3.
    10.1007/s10750-023-05209-3
  5. Ronaldo Sousa; Tadeusz Zajac; Dariusz Halabowski; Olga V. Aksenova; Yulia V. Bespalaya; Francisco Carvalho; Paulo Castro; et al. "A roadmap for the conservation of freshwater mussels in Europe". Conservation Biology (2023): https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13994.
    10.1111/cobi.13994
  6. Francisco Carvalho; Ronaldo Sousa; Fernanda Cássio; Cláudia Pascoal. "Temperature and interspecific competition alter the impacts of two invasive crayfish species on a key ecosystem process". Biological Invasions (2022): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-022-02875-7.
    10.1007/s10530-022-02875-7
  7. Francisco Carvalho; Cláudia Pascoal; Fernanda Cássio; Amílcar Teixeira; Ronaldo Sousa. "Combined per-capita and abundance effects of an invasive species on native invertebrate diversity and a key ecosystem process". Freshwater Biology (2022): https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13884.
    10.1111/fwb.13884
  8. Ronaldo Sousa; André Ferreira; Francisco Carvalho; Manuel Lopes-Lima; Simone Varandas; Amílcar Teixeira; Belinda Gallardo. "Small hydropower plants as a threat to the endangered pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera". Science of The Total Environment (2020): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137361.
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137361
  9. Arunava Pradhan; Francisco Carvalho; Nélson Abrantes; Isabel Campos; Jan Jacob Keizer; Fernanda Cássio; Cláudia Pascoal. "Biochemical and functional responses of stream invertebrate shredders to post-wildfire contamination". Environmental Pollution 267 (2020): 115433-115433. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.envpol.2020.115433.
    10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115433
  10. Francisco Carvalho; Arunava Pradhan; Nelson Abrantes; Isabel Campos; Jan Jacob Keizer; Fernanda Cássio; Cláudia Pascoal. "Wildfire impacts on freshwater detrital food webs depend on runoff load, exposure time and burnt forest type". Science of The Total Environment 692 (2019): 691-700. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.07.265.
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.07.265
  11. Ronaldo Sousa; Joana Garrido Nogueira; André Ferreira; Francisco Carvalho; Manuel Lopes-Lima; Simone Varandas; Amílcar Teixeira. "A tale of shells and claws: The signal crayfish as a threat to the pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera in Europe". Science of The Total Environment 665 (2019): 329-337. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.02.094.
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.02.094
  12. Francisco Carvalho; Cláudia Pascoal; Fernanda Cássio; Ronaldo Sousa. "Effects of intrapopulation phenotypic traits of invasive crayfish on leaf litter processing". Hydrobiologia 819 1 (2018): 67-75. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-018-3631-y.
    10.1007/s10750-018-3631-y
  13. Sousa, Ronaldo; Ferreira, André; Carvalho, Francisco; Lopes-Lima, Manuel; Varandas, Simone; Teixeira, Amílcar. "Die-offs of the endangered pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera during an extreme drought". Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 28 5 (2018): 1244-1248. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.2945.
    Published • 10.1002/aqc.2945
  14. Sahadevan Seena; Francisco Carvalho; Fernanda Cássio; Cláudia Pascoal. "Does the developmental stage and composition of riparian forest stand affect ecosystem functioning in streams?". Science of The Total Environment 609 (2017): 1500-1511. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.07.252.
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.07.252
  15. Francisco Carvalho; Cláudia Pascoal; Fernanda Cássio; Ronaldo Sousa. "Direct and indirect effects of an invasive omnivore crayfish on leaf litter decomposition". Science of The Total Environment 541 (2016): 714-720. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.scitotenv.2015.09.125.
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.09.125
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Carvalho, Francisco André Costa. "Impacts of invasive omnivore predators on plan litter decomposition in streams: the case of Procambarus clarkii". Master, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/28071.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2020/08/03 Temperature and inter-specific competition alter the impacts of an invasive crayfish on a key ecological process Ecology Society of America annual meeting
(Salt Lake City, United States)
2018/09/03 Direct and indirect effects of the invasive signal crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus on leaf decomposition and invertebrate communities 10th Neobiota
(Dublin, Ireland)
2015/05/03 Ecotoxicological effects of post-fire runoffs on aquatic invertebrate detritivores. 25th SETAC Europe
(Barcelona, Spain)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2025 - 2025 Sustainable RNA solutions to control cork oak pathogens
Co-supervisor
 Biologia (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2024/01/25 - 2024/01/27 International Meeting on Environmental Education Laboratório da Paisagem