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Dr. Maria Joana Ferreira da Silva, Ph.D. in Biosciences since 2012, is an FCT associated researcher in BIOPOLIS/CIBIO (CEECIND/01937/2017, 2019-2025). Before, she was an FCT-funded postdoctoral researcher (2013-2019, five months interruption for maternity leave). Her main research areas are Biological Anthropology and Conservation Biology. She investigates the relationship between human and African non-human primates and the impacts of anthropogenic activities on the distribution, socio-ecology, and conservation. The overarching goal is to improve management of threatened taxa in developing countries. She has been investigating African (threatened) primates in Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Mauritania, and Mozambique, using inter-disciplinary methods - ethnography, population genetics and genomics, and spatial ecology). She has published on themes such as biological anthropology, population and conservation genetics/genomics, perceptions on non-human primates, illegal wildlife trafficking, behavioural adaptations and human evolution. For the last five years (2019 to 2024), MJFS published 18 papers (four as first author and one as senior author) and two book chapters. MJFS reached 32 publications from 2012 (Google scholar, h index = 14, 585 citations, a mean of 2.6 papers per year, accessed on 12st January 2024). Publications were in peer-reviewed international journals considered prestigious (Q1) for multidisciplinary fields (¿eLife¿ IF 8.7, ¿Scientific Reports¿ IF 4.9, ¿iScience¿ IF 6.1), and for the fields of conservation (¿Conservation Science and Practice¿, IF 3.57, ¿Conservation biology¿ IF 7.6), evolution (¿BMC Ecology and Evolution¿ IF 3.4, ¿Journal of Human Evolution¿ IF 3.7), and primatology (¿American Journal of Primatology¿ IF 3.0). She has also published in IUCN-SSC specialist journals and Guinea-Bissau scientific journal for public outreach. She delivered > 60 communications in scientific/outreach meetings (26 as an invited keynote speaker). She was awarded > 300 k euros from national and international funding agencies (2012-2024). During the last 5 years (which encompassed a pause of two years of funding opportunities due to COVID disruptions), she was awarded 78 k euros (14,3 k during 2023), which included funds for supervised PhD students (five projects, 22,4 k euros) and research projects as a member (two projects, 55 k euros). She is currently the PI of a project to understand the illegal trade of primate meat in bars and restaurants in Guinea-Bissau. She is an invited lecturer on Primatology/Conservation Genetics in national and international Universities. She currently co-supervises three PhD students and has supervised one PhD and eleven postgraduates students to completion. She is internationally recognised as an expert in primatology and conservation genetics. She is as IUCN conservation status invited-assessor (Papio papio, and Piliocolobus badius and spp. temminckii) and a member of the IUCN Primate exploitation/Human-Primate Interactions working group. She was the president of the Portuguese Primatology Association from 2019 to 2021. She is the PI of the PRIMACTION research group (2023-present, see https://primactionproject.wixsite.com/my-site-2), a senior member of TROPBIO and BIODESERTS groups in CIBIO-InBIO and of the interdisciplinary international Paleo Primate on human evolution in the Gorongosa NP, Mozambique. She is an invited external funding evaluator for the International Society of Primatology, the French National Research Agency (Living Earth panel), and Biotechnology and Biosciences Research Council, UK. She is very committed to primate conservation causes and has produced a song composed by a Guinea-Bissau singer and musician, with the interlude by Dame Jane Goodall in 2023.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Maria Joana Ferreira da Silva

Citation names

  • Ferreira da Silva, Maria
  • Ferreira da Silva, M.J.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
A71C-1675-4ECC
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6747-9827

Email addresses

  • ferreiradasilvamj@cardiff.ac.uk (Professional)
  • mjf_silva@cibio.up.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone
  • 252660411 (Professional)

Addresses

  • CIBIO - InBIO, Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources. CIBIO, Campus Agrário de Vairão, R. Padre Armando Quintas , 4485-661, Vairão, Vila do Conde, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Evolutionary Biology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Behavioural Sciences Biology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Zoology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biodiversity Conservation
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Creole and Pidgin, Portuguese-based (Other) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2023/10/01 - 2024/09/01
Ongoing
Ecotourism and nature guides (Pós-Graduação)
Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
2023/10/01 - 2023/11/30
Concluded
Data Analysis in R (Outros)
Major in Bioinformatics
Universidade do Porto - Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023/07/11 - 2023/07/11
Concluded
Workshop on Good practices in Doctoral supervision (Outros)
Major in Teaching
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2022/11/01 - 2023/06/01
Concluded
Ignition Programme - Science-based Businesses for a Sustainable World (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Porto Business School, Portugal
NA
2023/02/06 - 2023/02/09
Concluded
Methods in research synthesis: systematic reviews and meta-analysis (Outros)
Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
NA
2022/12/05 - 2022/12/09
Concluded
Speciation Genomics (Postgraduate Certificate)
Major in Bioinformatics
Physalia courses, Germany

Universidade do Porto - Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022/11/05 - 2022/11/16
Concluded
Population Genomics Data Analysis Course & Workshop (Postgraduate Certificate)
Major in Conservation Genomics
University of Montana, United States
2022/07/04 - 2022/07/15
Concluded
Advanced course in Phylogenomics and Population Genomics: Inference and Applications. 18th edition (Postgraduate Certificate)
Major in Bioinformatics
University Barcelona, Centre especial de recerca en Taxonomia, Spain
2021/09/27 - 2021/09/30
Concluded
Conservation Genomics (Postgraduate Certificate)
Physalia courses, Germany
2019/11/27 - 2019/11/30
Concluded
Landscape Genomics (Postgraduate Certificate)
Physalia courses, Germany
concluido
2017/11/01 - 2017/11/10
Concluded
7th Metabarcoding School (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2017/05/01 - 2017/05/10
Concluded
A primer of Landscape genetics (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2017/04/01 - 2017/04/11
Concluded
Measuring & Mapping Evolutionary Diversity for Conservation Planning (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2015/11/04 - 2015/11/10
Concluded
Species distributions models: concepts, methods, applications, and challenges (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2015/06/20 - 2015/06/28
Concluded
Introduction to Next-generation Sequencing Data and Analysis (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2008/04/01 - 2012/04/01
Concluded
Biosciences (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Primatologia molecular, genética da conservação
Cardiff University, United Kingdom
"Impact of hunting practices in the population structure and dispersal patterns of Guinea baboons in Guinea-Bissau" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Minor changes
2006/09/01 - 2009/06/23
Concluded
Mestrado em Biodiversidade e recursos genéticos (Mestrado)
Major in Primatologia molecular, genética da conservação
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
"Genetic diversity and population structure of the Guinea baboon (Papio papio) in Guinea Bissau: " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
18
1999/09/01 - 2005/02/01
Concluded
Biologia Aplicada aos Recusos Animais Terrestres (Licenciatura)
Major in Recusos Animais Terrestres
Universidade de Lisboa Departamento de Biologia Animal, Portugal
"Changes in Daily Life of a Chacma baboon troop, Papio ursinus (Kerr 1792) after removing the main source of unnatural food at Cape Peninsula, South Africa " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
15
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2019/06/01 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2013/08/01 - 2019/08/01 Postdoc (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2017/07/01 - Current Visiting Professor (University Teacher) Gorongosa Restoration Project, Mozambique
2015/01/01 - Current Visiting Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2015/12/01 - 2017/06/01 Visiting Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Lusófona - Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
2008/04/01 - 2014/04/01 Tutor (University Teacher) Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Cardiff University, United Kingdom

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution
Employer
2018/05/01 - 2021/05/01 President Portuguese Association of Primatology, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2023/04/01 - Current Invited external project reviewer Biotechnology and Biosciences Research Council, United Kingdom
2023/03/01 - Current Invited external project reviewer Agence nationale de la recherche, France
2022/01/01 - Current Researcher of the TROPIBIO group Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2021/10/04 - Current Member of IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group Section on Human-Primate Interactions International Union for Conservation of Nature, Switzerland
2018/05/01 - Current Member of Board Of European Federation of Primatology European Federation of Primatology, United Kingdom
2017/08/01 - Current Invited grants evaluator (Lawrence Jacobsen Education Development Grants and Charles Southwick award) International Society of Primatology, United Kingdom
2017/01/01 - Current Senior researcher of Paleo Primate Project, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique Gorongosa Restoration Project, Mozambique
2013/03/01 - Current Researcher of the BIODESERTS group Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/01/01 - 2025/01/01 Investigating ecological networks in extreme climate environments: Landscape genomics and adaptive genetic variation in desert populations of baboons and crocodiles
2020.05054.BD
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/08/09 - 2024/08/09 Ethnobiological and genomic insights of traditional management practices of insular mammals by the bijagó ethnic group in Guinea-Bissau and its applications to non-human primate conservation
SFRH/BD/146509/2019
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2024/03/15 - 2024/04/15 Biological anthropology meets DNA barcoding: co-developing solu-tions for illegal trafficking and consumption of threatened non-human primates in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal
Biodiverse Anthropocenes Research Programme
Invited Scientist Fellow
University of Oulu, Finland
Ongoing
2020/01/01 - 2024/01/01 Integrating genomics with indigenous knowledge to understand responses of West African non-human primates to past and present ecological and anthropogenic-related changes
2020.05839.BD
Supervisor
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Ongoing
2013/08/01 - 2019/06/01 Applying landscape genetics to the conservation of primate species in Guinea-Bissau
SFRH/BPD/88496/2012
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2008/03/01 - 2012/03/01 Guinea baboon (Papio hamadryas papio) conservation status, evolutionary history and socio-ecology: a non-invasive study on Guinea Bissau and West African Equatorial Region
SFRH-BD-37417-2007
PhD Student Fellow
Cardiff University Cardiff School of Biosciences, United Kingdom
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2024/01/01 - Current Understanding the illegal meat traffic from endangered colobus monkeys (Piliocolobus badius temminckii and Colobus polykomos) and other threatened primates in Guinea-Bissau using an interdisciplinary approach
232533027
Principal investigator
Associação BIOPOLIS - Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal
Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund
Ongoing
2022/03/01 - Current Integrating genomics with local knowledge to understand responses of West African primates to past and present ecological and anthropogenic changes
Integrating genomics with local knowledge to understand responses of West African primates to past and present ecological and anthropogenic changes
Researcher
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Primate Conservation Incorporated
Ongoing
2021/06/01 - Current Living on the edge: Future prediction for conservation of the unknown Guinea baboons’ desert populations in Mauritania
Living on the edge: Future prediction for conservation of the unknown Guinea baboons’ desert populations in Mauritania
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Primate Conservation Incorporated

Rufford Foundation
Ongoing
2021/06/01 - Current The Y chromosome evolutionary history of Papio
The Y chromosome evolutionary history of Papio
Researcher
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
The Leakey Foundation
Ongoing
2018/01/01 - Current Modelling hominin gene-flow along the rift valley: baboon genome variation in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
Boise Memorial Fund, Oxford University (Oxford)
Researcher
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Boise Memorial Fund, Oxford University
Concluded
2016/08/01 - Current First assessment of Papio hybrid zones in the Southern termination of the African Rift: Keys to understanding primate evolutionary transitions
Researcher
University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Gorongosa Restoration Project

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Concluded
2024/01/15 - 2027/01/01 A comparative framework for hominin phylogeography: genetic structure of baboon species (Papio sp.) in the southernmost Great Rift Valley
1240657
Researcher
Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico Tecnológico y de Innovación Tecnológica
Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva (InBIO)
LA/P/0048/2020
Researcher
Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (InBIO)
LA/P/0048/2020
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
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2024/01/01 - 2025/06/01 Understanding the illegal traffic of non-human primates in Guinea-Bissau to improve conservation
illegal traffic of non-human primates
Principal investigator
Associação BIOPOLIS - Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal
Primate Conservation Incorporated
Ongoing
2022/01/01 - 2025/01/01 Landscape genomics and adaptive genetic variation in desert populations of Guinea baboons
Landscape_genomics_PCI
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Primate Conservation Incorporated
Ongoing
2022/03/01 - 2024/03/01 Evaluating the viability of primate populations from the Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau
PCI#1694
Researcher
Cardiff University, United Kingdom

Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Primate Conservation Incorporated

Genetics Society
Ongoing
2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31 Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva
UIDB/50027/2020
Researcher
Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31 Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva
UIDP/50027/2020
Researcher
Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017/01/01 - 2020/12/31 Population Genomics and the Viability of the Sanje Mangabey in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania
5236.006-0255
Supervisor
Cardiff University Cardiff School of Biosciences, United Kingdom
International Primatological Society Conservation Grant

Primate Society of Great Britain Research Grant

Primate Action Fund (Global Wildlife Conservation)
Ongoing
2019/12/01 - 2020/12/01 News for Nature: communicating threats to the conservation of primates in Guinea-Bissau’s media
The Born Free Foundation (UK Charity No: 1070906 / Company No: 3603432, West Sussex, UK)
The Born Free Foundation (UK Charity No: 1070906 / Company No: 3603432, West Sussex, UK)
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal

Cardiff University Cardiff School of Biosciences, United Kingdom

Portsmouth University, United Kingdom
Born Free Foundation
Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2020/01/01 Assessing the conservation status of Western red colobus populations using a non-invasive genomic approach
Assessing the conservation status of Western red colobus populations using a non-invasive genomic approach
Researcher
Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Portugal
The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund
Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Centre for Public Administration & Public Policies
UID/CPO/00713/2019
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Administração e Políticas Públicas, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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 do Minho Laboratório de Paisagens Património e Território, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2016/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Comparative landscape genomics of non-human primates in West-Africa: a contribution from biological anthropology to conservation
PTDC/IVC-ANT/3058/2014
Researcher
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2014/05/01 - 2019/06/01 Protecting primates from deforestation and illegal hunting in Guinea-Bissau
PCI# 1400
Principal investigator
Cardiff University Cardiff School of Biosciences, United Kingdom
The Born Free Foundation

Chester Zoo

Primate Conservation Inc
Concluded
2017/08/01 - 2018/08/01 Gorongosa baboon phenostructure and their relationships with Papio species
Gorongosa Restoration Project
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Gorongosa Restoration Project
Concluded
2011/01/01 - 2012/12/31 Strategic Project - UI 609 - 2011-2012
PEst-C/BIA/UI0609/2011
Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/01/01 - 2011/01/01 Landscape Genetics applied to the conservation of the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) in Guinea Bissau
Ref. GA-0678
Researcher
Cardiff University Cardiff School of Biosciences, United Kingdom
US Fish and Wildlife Service Division of International ConservationWildlife Without Borders-Great Ape Conservation Fund
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2019/06/01 - 2025/06/01 Biological anthropology meets DNA barcoding: co-developing solutions for illegal trafficking and consumption of threatened non-human primates in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal
10.54499/CEECIND/01937/2017/CP1423/CP1645/CT0008
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Gerini, Federica; Aleixo-Pais, Isa; Maie, Tiago; Borges, Filipa; Costa, Mafalda; Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo; et al. "Does the exclusive use of genetic data inform on the demographic history in Anthropogenic landscapes? Investigating population size dynamics of Papio papio in Guinea-Bissau". In Genetics, Taxonomy and Biogeography of Papio sp., edited by Wallis, Janette. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022.
    Under revision
  2. Minhós, Tania; Ferreira da Silva, Maria. "Primate behavioral adaptations to anthropogenic habitats – The case of Cantanhez National Park in Guinea-Bissau". In Peoples, Nature and Environments: Learning to Live Together, edited by Roque, ACA; Brito, C.; Veracini, C., 129-143. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.
    Published
  3. Ferreira da Silva, M.J.; Gerini, Federica; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Maié, Tiago; Borges, Filipa; Costa, Mafalda; Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo; et al. "Inferring dynamics of the effective population size of the hunted Papio papio in Guinea-Bissau using genetic data". In Baboons: Behaviour, Ecology and Taxonomy, edited by Wallis, J.. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cabridge University Press, 2020.
    Under revision
Conference abstract
  1. Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Borges, Filipa; Costa, Susana; Minhós, Tânia; Bruford, Michael W.; Ferreira da Silva, M.J.. "Eight years of guenon conservation genetics in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa: outcomes and future perspectives". Paper presented in VIII Iberian Primatological Conference, Barcelona, 2022.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.4000/primatologie.14505
  2. Sevastópolska, Darya; Borges, Filipa; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Ferreira da Silva, Maria; CHIKHI, Lounès ; Minhós, Tânia. "Impact of human presence in two protected areas: a comparative analysis of genetic and spatial data of two African colobines". Paper presented in Anthropology and Conservation Conference, Londres, 2021.
    Published
  3. Borges, Filipa; Minhós, Tânia; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Sevastópolska, Darya; Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Ting, Nelson. "Using genetics to assess the conservation status of a colobine monkey in The Gambia". Paper presented in Anthropology and Conservation Conference, Londres, 2021.
    Published
  4. Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo; Minhós, Tânia; Ferreira da Silva, M.J.. "Notes on the Colonisation of the Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau, by Cercopithecus campbelli and Chlorocebus sabaeus". Paper presented in 7th Iberian Primatological Conference, 2020.
    Published
  5. Borges, Filipa; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Sá, Rui M.; Bruford, Michael W.; Casanova, Catarina; Chikhi, Lounès; Minhós, Tânia; Ferreira da Silva, M.J.. "Serão todos primos? A genética na conservação dos primatas da África Ocidental". Paper presented in Encontro Aberto de Primatologia, Almada, 2018.
    Published
  6. Ferreira da Silva, M.J.; Sá, R. M.; Minhós, Tânia; Sousa, C.; Casanova, Catarina; Bruford, M.W.. "Evidence of non-human primate body parts commerce for traditional practices in Guinea Bissau (West Africa)". 2009.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo; Minhós, Tânia; Ferreira da Silva, MJ. "Notes on the colonisation of the Bijago´s Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau, by Cercopithecus campbelli and Chlorocebus sabaeus". Paper presented in VIIth Iberian Primatology Conference, Lisbon, 2019.
    Published • DOI: 10.1159/000506768
  2. Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Gerini, Federica; Aleixo-Pais, Isa; Maie, Tiago; Borges, Filipa; Costa, Mafalda; Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo (FD1A-61F5-219C); et al. "Hunting and its recent demographic consequences in Papio papio in Guinea- Bissau assessed through social and molecular data". Paper presented in VII Iberian Primatological conference, Lisbon, 2019.
    Published • DOI: 10.1159/000506768
  3. Minhós, Tânia; Chikhi, L.; Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Bruford, M.W. "What do we know about West African red colobus? Inferences from multidisciplinary data". Paper presented in VII Iberian Primatological conference, Lisbon, 2019.
    Published • 10.1159/000506768
  4. Borges, F.; Aleixo-Pais, I.; Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Barca, B.; Turay, BS; Chikhi, L.; Minhós, T.. "Non-invasive genetics provide insights into the conservation status of two Colobine monkeys in Gola Rainforest National Park, Sierra Leone". Paper presented in VII Iberian Primatological conference, Lisbon, 2019.
    Published • DOI: 10.1159/000506768.
  5. Teixeira, Helena; Koop, Gisela; Zinner, Dietmar; Brito, J. C.; Ferreira da Silva, M.J.. "Modelling Gene Flow in the Entire Distribution Range of Guinea Baboons". Paper presented in 5th International Conference of the Portuguese Association of Primatology, Évora, 2016.
    Published • 10.1159/000449293
  6. Ferreira da Silva, M.J.; Minhós, Tania; Torres, João; Bruford, M.W.; Brito, J.C.; Casanova, Catarina. "Protecting the Western Chimpanzee and Threatened Primates from Logging and Illegal Hunting in Guinea Bissau". Paper presented in 5th International Conference of the Portuguese Association of Primatology, Évora, 2016.
    Published • 10.1159/000449293
  7. Silva, Vitor; Brito, J.C.; Ferreira da Silva, Maria. "Dispersal in the Desert: Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of the Guinea Baboon (Papio papio) in Mauritania". Paper presented in 5th International Conference of the Portuguese Association of Primatology, Évora, 2016.
    Published • DOI: 10.1159/00044929
  8. Ferreira da Silva, Maria; T. Minhós; Rui Sá; MW Bruford; Catarina Casanova. "Nine Years of Primate Conservation Genetics in Guinea-Bissau and Prospects for Future Conservation". Paper presented in 5th International Conference of the Portuguese Association of Primatology, Évora, 2016.
  9. Minhós, Tania; Chikhi, Lounès; Sousa, Cláudia; Vicente, L.M.; Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Casanova, Catarina; Bruford, MW. "Genetic Consequences of Human Forest Exploitation in Two Colobus Monkeys in Guinea Bissau". Paper presented in 5th International Conference of the Portuguese Association of Primatology, Évora, 2016.
    Published • DOI: 10.1159/000449293
  10. Fickenscher, G.H.; Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Patzelt, A.; Roos, Christian; Fischer, Julia; Zinner, Dietmar. "Genetic evidence for male philopatry in Guinea baboons". Paper presented in 4th Congress of the European Federation for Primatology 3rd Iberian Primatological Congress, 2011.
  11. Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Fickenscher, G.H.; Godinho, R.; Casanova, Catarina; Bruford ,M.W. "Hunting pressure and genetic diversity in Guinea-Bissau baboons". Paper presented in 4th Congress of the European Federation for Primatology 3rd Iberian Primatological Congress, 2011.
  12. Thomas, N.; Sá, R. M.; Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Minhós, Tania; Bruford, M.W.. "Mitochondrial DNA variation of the Lesser Spot-nosed Guenon (Cercopithecus petaurista) from Canhambaque island, Bijagós Archipelago, West-Africa". Paper presented in 4th Congress of the European Federation for Primatology 3rd Iberian Primatological Congress, 2011.
  13. Ferreira da Silva, M.J.; Sá, R.; Minhós, T.; Sousa, F.; Godinho, Raquel; Vicente, L.; Casanova, C.; Bruford, M.W.. "Evidence of non-human primate skin commerce for traditional practices of Guinea-Bissau (West Africa).". Paper presented in 2nd Iberian Primatological Conference, 2009.
    Published • 10.1159/000265603
  14. Ferreira da Silva, M.J.; Godinho, Raquel; Casanova, C.. "Mitochondrial Diversity in Guinea Baboons (Papio hamadryas papio): A Non-Invasive Study in the Coastal Area of Guinea-Bissau". Paper presented in Iberian Primatology: Present and Future Challenges, 2007.
    Published
  15. Ferreira da Silva, M.J.; Casanova, C.; Godinho, Raquel. "Sexing Non-Invasive DNA Samples of Baboons (Papio hamadryas) : An Alternative Method". Paper presented in Iberian Primatology: Present and Future Challenges, 2007.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Borges, Filipa; Sevastópolska, Darya; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Barca, Benjamin; Turay, Brima Sheku; Barlow, Clive Richard; Ting, Nelson; et al. "Genetic status of two threatened colobine monkeys across West Africa". Paper presented in 2023 International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB), Kigali Rwanda., 2023.
  2. Pizzigalli, C.; Godinho, Raquel; Razgour, Orly; Sow, A.S.; Dieng, H.; Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Brito, José Carlos. "Landscape genetics and adaptive variation in desert populations of the West African crocodile (Crocodylus suchus)". Paper presented in 31st International Congress for Conservation Biology, Rwanda, 2023.
  3. Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo; Thomas, Nia; Cecilia Veracini; Minhos, Tania; Bruford, Michael; Dr. Rui Sá, School of Social and Political Sciences, Lisbon, Portugal; Ferreira da Silva, Maria. "Lack of nomenclature conformity in local policies allows the exploitation of a severely locally threatened primate in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa". Paper presented in SCB's 31st International Congress for Conservation Biology, Kigali Rwanda., 2023.
  4. Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo; Costa, Susana; Bruford, Michael William; Ferreira da Silva, Maria. "Uncovering the traditional management practices of insular mammals by the bijagó ethnic group, Guinea-Bissau, and its implications for non-human primate conservation". Paper presented in The Joint Meeting of the IPS and SLAPrim 2020, Quito, Ecuador, 2022.
  5. Borges, Filipa; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Sá, Rui M.; Bruford, Michael W.; Casanova, Catarina; Chikhi, Lounès; Gerini, Federica; et al. "The Western Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) in Guinea-Bissau ¿ A Genetic Assessment for the Conservation of a Critically Endangered Taxon". Paper presented in 27th International Primatological Society Congress, 2018.
  6. Borges, Filipa; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Sá, Rui M.; Bruford, Michael W.; Casanova, Catarina; Chikhi, Lounès; Minhós, Tânia; Ferreira da Silva, M.J.. "A Country-Level Genetic Survey of the Critically Endangered Western Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa". Paper presented in Primate Society of Great Britain 50th Anniversary with Jane Goodall & Frans de Waal, 2017.
  7. Borges, Filipa; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Minhós, Tânia; Chikhi, Lounès; Bruford, Michael W.; Casanova, Catarina; Brito, José Carlos; Ferreira da Silva, M.J.. "Genetic diversity and population structure of the Western Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus ) at the Cufada Lagoons Natural Park in Guinea-Bissau". Paper presented in TiBE 2016 (Tropical Biology), 2016.
  8. Silva, Vitor; Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Brito, José Carlos. "Dispersal in the Desert: genetic diversity and population structure of the Mauritanian baboon (Papio papio)". Paper presented in XI Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Etologia 2014, Vairão, Portugal, 2014.
Encyclopedia entry
  1. Ferreira da Silva, M.J. (A71C-1675-4ECC); Minhós, Tania; Bruford, Michael W.. "Primate conservation genetics". In The International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118584538.ieba0400.
    Published • 10.1002/9781118584538.ieba0400
  2. da Silva, Maria J. Ferreira; Bruford, Michael W.. "Genetics and Primate Conservation". In The International Encyclopedia of Primatology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119179313.wbprim0199.
    Published • 10.1002/9781119179313.wbprim0199
Journal article
  1. Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo; Djaló, M. L.; Fernandes, N.; Borges, Filipa; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Gerini, Federica; Costa, Mafalda; Minhós, Tânia; Ferreira da Silva, Maria. Corresponding author: Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo. "Improving baseline information on over-looked generalists: occurrence and mitochondrial DNA diversity of Campbell¿s (Cercopithecus campbelli) and green monkeys (Chlorocebus sabaeus) in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa". International Journal of Primatology (2024):
    Under revision
  2. Eppley, Timothy M.; Reuter, Kim E.; Sefczek, Timothy M.; Tinsman, Jen; Santini, Luca; Hoeks, Selwyn; Andriantsaralaza, Seheno; et al. "Tropical field stations yield high conservation return on investment". Conservation Letters (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/conl.13007.
    10.1111/conl.13007
  3. Maria Joana Ferreira da Silva; Tania Minhós; Susana Sampaio-Dias. "News for nature: Communicating biodiversity importance and conservation challenges in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, through local media and online platforms". Conservation Science and Practice (2023): https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.13051.
    10.1111/csp2.13051
  4. Aleixo-Pais, Isa; Borges, Filipa; Sesay, Nazie; Songe, Mustapha; Cassama, Mamadu; Camara, Iaia T.; Ramos, Catarina; et al. "Dietary flexibility of western red colobus in two protected areas with contrasting anthropogenic pressure". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1280277.
    Open access • Published • 10.3389/fevo.2023.1280277
  5. I. Colmonero-Costeira; R. M. Sá; M. L. Djaló; N. Cunha; J. Cunha; T. Minhós; I.-R. M. Russo; et al. "Notes on the conservation threats to the western lesser spot-nosed monkey (Cercopithecus petaurista buettikoferi) in the Bijagós Archipelago (Guinea-Bissau, West Africa)". Primates (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-023-01090-9.
    10.1007/s10329-023-01090-9
  6. Bobe, René; Aldeias, Vera; Alemseged, Zeresenay; Anemone, Robert L.; Archer, Will; Aumaître, Georges; Bamford, Marion K.; et al. "The first Miocene fossils from coastal woodlands in the southern East African Rift". iScience 26 9 (2023): 107644. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.107644.
    Published • 10.1016/j.isci.2023.107644
  7. Ferreira da Silva M; Mutti, G.; Oteo-Garcia, G.. "Assessing the recovery of Y chromosome microsatellites with population genomic data using Papio and Theropithecus genomes". Sci Rep (2023): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-40931-x#citeas.
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-40931-x
  8. Minhós, T; Filipa Borges; Bárbara Parreira; Rúben Oliveira; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Fabien H. Leendertz; Roman Wittig; et al. "The importance of well protected forests for the conservation genetics of West African colobine monkeys". American Journal of Primatology 85 1 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23453.
    10.1002/ajp.23453
  9. Pizzigalli, C.; Diop, A.; Sow, A. S.; Dieng, H.; Razgour, O.; Giachello, S.; Ferreira da Silva, M.J.; Brito, JC. Corresponding author: Pizzigalli, C.. "Updates on the Guinea baboon populations from the remote and arid areas of Southern Mauritania". African Primates 16 (2022): 45-58.
    Open access • Published
  10. Lüdecke, Tina; Leichliter, Jennifer N.; Aldeias, Vera; Bamford, Marion K.; Biro, Dora; Braun, David R.; Capelli, Cristian; et al. "Carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen stable isotopes in modern tooth enamel: A case study from Gorongosa National Park, central Mozambique". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.958032.
    Published • 10.3389/fevo.2022.958032
  11. Brito, José Carlos; Sow, Andack Saad; Vale, Cândida Gomes; Pizzigalli, Cristian; Hamidou, Dieng; Gonçalves, Duarte Vasconcelos; Martínez-Freiría, Fernando; et al. "Diversity, distribution and conservation of land mammals in Mauritania, North-West Africa". PLOS ONE 17 8 (2022): e0269870. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269870.
    Published • 10.1371/journal.pone.0269870
  12. Santander, Cindy; Molinaro, Ludovica; Mutti, Giacomo; Martínez, Felipe I.; Mathe, Jacinto; Ferreira da Silva, Maria Joana; Caldon, Matteo; et al. "Genomic variation in baboons from central Mozambique unveils complex evolutionary relationships with other Papio species". BMC Ecology and Evolution 22 1 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-01999-7.
    Published • 10.1186/s12862-022-01999-7
  13. Biro, Dora; Muschinski, Jana ; Hammond, Philippa ; Bobe, René; Bamford, Marion; Capelli, Cristian; Joao Coelho; et al. "West Side Story: Regional inter-troop variation in baboon bark-stripping at Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique". Primates (2022):
    Under revision
  14. Bobe, René; Aldeias, Vera; Alemseged, Zeresenay; Archer, Will; Aumaître, Georges; Bamford, Marion K.; Biro, Dora; et al. "The First Miocene Fossils from Coastal Woodlands in the Southern East African Rift". SSRN Electronic Journal (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3941489.
    Under revision • 10.2139/ssrn.3941489
  15. Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Minhós, Tânia; Sá, Rui; Casanova, Catarina; Bruford, Michael. "Ferreira da Silva MJ, Minhós T, Sá R, Casanova C, Bruford M.W. (2021) A qualitative assessment of Guinea-Bissau¿s hunting history and culture and their implications for primate conservation.". African Primates 15 (2021): 1-18. http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/1200343/28495279/1642263913013/AP+Vol+15+Ferreira+da+Silva+et+al.pdf?token=8mgsbD3874BAiAeD0ib2IUvkhus%3D.
    Published
  16. Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Gerini, F.; Teixeira, H; Costa, S; Sá, R; Bersacola, Elena; Hockings, Kimberley; et al. "Os babuínos da Guiné (Papio papio) na Guiné-Bissau: Uma revisão bibliográfica para a conservação da espécie". Sintidus 4 (2021): 75-105. https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/146487/1/4_Silvaetal-Babuinos%20%281%29%20%281%29.pdf.
    Published
  17. Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Minhós, Tânia; Dr. Rui Sá, School of Social and Political Sciences, Lisbon, Portugal; C. Casanova; Bruford, Michael. Corresponding author: Ferreira da Silva, Maria. "A Qualitative Assessment of Guinea-Bissau’s Hunting History and Culture - and Their Implications for Primate Conservation". African Primates 15 (2021): 1-18. http://www.primate-sg.org/african-primates-volume-15/.
    Open access • Published
  18. Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Gerini, Federica; Teixeira, Helena; Costa, Susana (251D-98F7-2E7); C. Casanova; Dr. Rui Sá, School of Social and Political Sciences, Lisbon, Portugal; Bersacola, Elena; et al. Corresponding author: Ferreira da Silva, Maria. "Os babuínos da Guiné (Papio papio) na Guiné-Bissau: uma revisão bibliográfica promover a conservação da espécie". Sintidus 4 (2021): 75-104. http://sintidus.blogspot.com/p/numero-4.html.
    Open access • Published
  19. Ferreira da Silva, Maria. "Potential negative effects of the Green Wall on Sahel's biodiversity". Conservation Biology (2021):
    doi: 10.1111/cobi.13755
  20. Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Camará, Mariato; Egeter, Bastian; Minhós, Tania; Bruford, Michael; Godinho, Raquel. "Using meta-barcoding tools to monitor primate meat consumption at dedicated establishments in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa". ARPHA Conference Abstracts 4 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/aca.4.e65575.
    Open access • Published • 10.3897/aca.4.e65575
  21. Duarte, Miguel; Minhós, Tânia; Oliveira, Rúben; Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Marques Silva, Guilherme; Isa Aleixo-Pais; Calvignac, Sebastien; Bruford, Michael W.; Lounès, Chikhi. "The importance of well protected forests to the conservation of Colobine monkeys". Oryx (2021):
    Submitted
  22. Ferreira da Silva, Maria Joana; Paddock, Christina; Gerini, Federica; Borges, Filipa; Aleixo-Pais, Isa; Costa, Mafalda; Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo; et al. "Chasing a ghost: notes on the present distribution and conservation of the sooty mangabey (Cercocebus atys) in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa". Primates 61 3 (2020): 357-363. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10329-020-00817-2.
    10.1007/s10329-020-00817-2
  23. Ferreira da Silva, M.J.; Paddock, C; Gerini, F; Borges, F.; Aleixo-Pais, Isa; Costa, M.; Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo; et al. "Chasing a ghost: notes on the present distribution and conservation of the sooty mangabey (Cercocebus atys) in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa Primates. DOI: 10.1007/s10329-020-00817-2". Primates (2020): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-020-00817-2?wt_mc=Internal.Event.1.SEM.ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst.
    Published
  24. Ferreira da Silva, Maria Joana; Gerini, Federica; Aleixo-Pais, Isa; Maie, Tiago; Borges, Filipa; Costa, Mafalda; Colmenero-Costeira, Ivo; et al. "Hunting and its Recent Demographic Consequences in Papio papio in Guinea-Bissau Assessed Through Social and Molecular Data". Folia Primatologica (2020): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/63084531/.
  25. Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo; Minhos, Tania; Ferreira da Silva, Maria Joana. "Guenons in Islands: Species Occurrence and Baseline Genetic Assessment of Insular Populations of the Western Spot-Nosed Guenon in the Bijagos Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau". Folia Primatologica (2020): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/63084529/.
  26. Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo; Minhos, Tania; Ferreira da Silva, Maria Joana. "Notes on the Colonisation of the Bijagos Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau, by Cercopithecus campbelli and Chlorocebus sabaeus". Folia Primatologica (2020): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/63084528/.
  27. Minhos, Tania; Chikhi, Lounes; Maie, Tiago; Ferreira da Silva, Maria Joana; Bruford, Michael. "What Do We Know About West African Red Colobus? Inferences from Multidisciplinary Data". Folia Primatologica (2020): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/63084527/.
  28. Paddock, Christina; Ferreira da Silva, Maria Joana; Orozco-terWengel, Pablo; McCabe, Grainne; Bruford, Michael. "Phylogeography and Population Genomics of the Sanje Mangabey (Cercocebus sanjei)". Folia Primatologica (2020): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/63084532/.
  29. da Silva, Maria Ferreira; Tralma, Paula; Martinez, Felipe I.; Capelli, Cristian; Carvalho, Susana. "Investigating Papio sp. Genetic Variation and Gene Flow in Gorongosa, Mozambique, to Improve the Understanding of Introgression or Admixture Processes Between Baboons Species in the Top End of the Great Rift Valley". Folia Primatologica (2020): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/35167758/.
  30. Fischer, Julia; Higham, James P; Alberts, Susan C; Barrett, Louise; Beehner, Jacinta C; Bergman, Thore J; Carter, Alecia J; et al. "Insights into the evolution of social systems and species from baboon studies". eLife 8 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.50989.
    10.7554/elife.50989
  31. Felipe I. Martinez; Cristian Capelli; Maria J. Ferreira da Silva; Vera Aldeias; Zeresenay Alemseged; William Archer; Marion Bamford; et al. "A missing piece of the Papio puzzle: Gorongosa baboon phenostructure and intrageneric relationships". Journal of Human Evolution 130 (2019): 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.01.007.
    10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.01.007
  32. Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo; Minhós, Tania; Djaló, Baba; Fernandes, Nelson; Ferreira da Silva, Maria. "Distribuição de primatas não-humanos no arquipélago dos Bijagós, Guiné-Bissau: actualização da presença de Chlorocebus sabaeus, Cercopithecus campbelli e Cercopithecus petaurista buettikoferi em sete ilhas com base em técnicas moleculares não invasivas". Sintidus Journal 2 (2019): 145-179.
    Open access • Published
  33. Melo, Pedro; Lança, Anabela; Mané, Braima Amadeu; Regalla, Aissa; Ferreira da Silva, Maria Joana; Tavares, Luis; Bernardo, Fernando; Oliveira, Manuela. "Tinea corporis by Microsporum audouinii in a female chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ) from Guinea-Bissau: A case report". Journal of Medical Primatology 47 6 (2018): 419-422. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jmp.12370.
    10.1111/jmp.12370
  34. Maria Joana Ferreira da Silva; Sam C Banks; Gisela H. Kopp; Catarina Casanova; Raquel Godinho; Tânia Minhós; Rui Sá; Dietmar Zinner; Michael W. Bruford. "Disrupted dispersal and its genetic consequences: Comparing protected and threatened baboon populations (Papio papio) in West Africa". PLOS ONE 13 4 (2018): e0194189-e0194189. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194189.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0194189
  35. Brito, José Carlos; Durant, Sarah M.; Pettorelli, Nathalie; Newby, John; Canney, Susan; Algadafi, Walid; Rabeil, Thomas; et al. "Armed conflicts and wildlife decline: Challenges and recommendations for effective conservation policy in the Sahara-Sahel". Conservation Letters 11 5 (2018): e12446. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/conl.12446.
    Published • 10.1111/conl.12446
  36. Habermann, Jörg M.; Alberti, Matthias; Aldeias, Vera; Alemseged, Zeresenay; Archer, Will; Bamford, Marion; Biro, Dora; et al. "Gorongosa by the sea: First Miocene fossil sites from the Urema Rift, central Mozambique, and their coastal paleoenvironmental and paleoecological contexts". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 514 (2018): 723-738. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.09.032.
    10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.09.032
  37. da Silva, Maria Joana Ferreira; Kopp, Gisela H.; Casanova, Catarina; Godinho, Raquel; Minhos, Tania; Sa, Rui; Zinner, Dietmar; Bruford, Michael W.. "Disrupted dispersal and its genetic consequences: Comparing protected and threatened baboon populations (Papio papio) in West Africa (vol 13, e0194189, 2018)". Plos One (2018): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/19598313/.
    10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0205302
  38. Minhós, Tania; Chikhi, Lounès; Sousa, Cláudia; Vicente, Luis M.; Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Heller, Rasmus; Casanova, Catarina; Bruford, Michael W.. "Genetic consequences of human forest exploitation in two colobus monkeys in Guinea Bissau". Biological Conservation 194 (2016): 194-208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2015.12.019.
    Published • 10.1016/j.biocon.2015.12.019
  39. Brito, José C.; Tarroso, Pedro; Vale, Cândida G.; Martínez-Freiría, Fernando; Boratynski, Zbyszek; Campos, João C.; Ferreira, Sónia; et al. "Conservation Biogeography of the Sahara-Sahel: additional protected areas are needed to secure unique biodiversity". Diversity and Distributions 22 4 (2016): 371-384. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12416.
    10.1111/ddi.12416
  40. "Protecting the Western Chimpanzee and Threatened Primates from Logging and Illegal Hunting in Guinea Bissau". Folia Primatologica (2016): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/5153911/.
  41. Ferreira da Silva, M. J.; Minhos, T.; Sa, R.; Bruford, M. W.; Casanova, C.. "Nine Years of Primate Conservation Genetics in Guinea-Bissau and Prospects for Future Conservation". Folia Primatologica (2016): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/5153910/.
  42. "Modelling Gene Flow in the Entire Distribution Range of Guinea Baboons". Folia Primatologica (2016): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/5454242/.
  43. Vale, Cândida G.; Ferreira da Silva, Maria J.; Campos, João C.; Torres, João; Brito, José C.. "Applying species distribution modelling to the conservation of an ecologically plastic species (Papio papio) across biogeographic regions in West Africa". Journal for Nature Conservation 27 (2015): 26-36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2015.06.004.
    10.1016/j.jnc.2015.06.004
  44. Ferreira da Silva, M. J.; Godinho, R.; Casanova, C.; Minhós, T.; Sá, R.; Bruford, M. W.. "Assessing the impact of hunting pressure on population structure of Guinea baboons (Papio papio) in Guinea-Bissau". Conservation Genetics 15 6 (2014): 1339-1355. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10592-014-0621-0.
    10.1007/s10592-014-0621-0
  45. Kopp, G.H.; Ferreira da Silva, M.J.; Fischer, J.; Brito, J.C.; Regnaut, S.; Roos, C.; Zinner, D.. "The Influence of Social Systems on Patterns of Mitochondrial DNA Variation in Baboons". International Journal of Primatology 35 1 (2014): 210-225. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84893783810&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s10764-013-9725-5
  46. Ferreira da Silva, Maria (A71C-1675-4ECC); Casanova, Catarina; Godinho, Raquel. "On the western fringe of baboon distribution: mitochondrial D-loop diversity of Guinea Baboons (Papio papio Desmarest, 1820) (Primates: Cercopithecidae) in Coastal Guinea-Bissau, western Africa". Journal of Threatened Taxa 5 10 (2013): http://threatenedtaxa.org/ZooPrintJournal/2013/June/maria.htm.
    Open access • Published
  47. Minhós T; Nixon E; Sousa C; Vicente LM; da Silva MF; Sá R; Bruford MW. "Genetic evidence for spatio-temporal changes in the dispersal patterns of two sympatric African colobine monkeys.". (2013): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/23359253.
    10.1002/ajpa.22223
  48. Minhós, T.; Wallace, E.; Ferreira da Silva, M.J.; Sá, R.M.; Carmo, M.; Barata, A.; Bruford, M.W.. "DNA identification of primate bushmeat from urban markets in Guinea-Bissau and its implications for conservation". Biological Conservation 167 (2013): 43-49. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84882737655&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.biocon.2013.07.018
  49. "On the western fringe of baboon distribution: mitochondrial D-loop diversity of Guinea Baboons (Papio papio Desmarest, 1820) (Primates: Cercopithecidae) in Coastal Guinea-Bissau, western Africa". Journal of Threatened Taxa (2013): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/341702/.
    10.11609/JOTT.O3216.4441-50
  50. Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Tania Minhós; Rui Sá; Bruford, Michael W.. "Using Genetics as a Tool in Primate Conservation". Nature Education Knowledge 3 10 (2012): 89. https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/using-genetics-as-a-tool-in-primate-59120330/.
  51. Rui Sá; Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Miguel Sousa; Tania Minhós. "The Trade and Ethnobiological Use of Chimpanzee Body Parts in Guinea-Bissau: Implications for Conservation". TRAFFIC BULLETIN 24 1 (2012): 31-34.
    Open access • Published
  52. Thomas, N.; Sa, R. M.; Ferreira da Silva, M.; Minhos, T.; Bruford, M. W.. "Mitochondrial DNA Variation of the Lesser Spot-Nosed Guenon (Cercopithecus petaurista) from Canhabaque Island, Bijagos Archipelago, West Africa". Folia Primatologica (2011): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/5153895/.
  53. Ferreira da Silva, M.; Fickenscher, G.; Godinho, R.; Casanova, C.; Bruford, M. W.. "Hunting Pressure and Genetic Diversity in Guinea-Bissau Baboons". Folia Primatologica (2011): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/5153875/.
  54. Wallace, E.; Ferreira da Silva, M.; Minhos, T.; Sa, R.; Bruford, M. W.. "Molecular Identification of Primate Bushmeat Sold in Guinea-Bissau". Folia Primatologica (2011): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/5153894/.
    10.1159/000337909
  55. Fickenscher, G.; Ferreira da Silva, M.; Patzelt, A.; Roos, C.; Fischer, J.; Zinner, D.. "Genetic Evidence for Male Philopatry in Guinea Baboons". Folia Primatologica (2011): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/18592926/.
  56. "Population Structure and Hunting of Guinea Baboons in Guinea-Bissau". Folia Primatologica (2009): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/5153692/.
Online resource
  1. Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo; Silva, Cristina. Why do primates make bad pets? - translation to Portuguese and Guinea-Bissau kriol from IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group Section on Human-Primate Interactions information sheet. 2023. https://humanprimateinteractions.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/monekys_v2.pdf.
  2. Minhós, Tânia; Ferreira da Silva, M.J.; Bersacola, H; Galat, G; Galat-Loung, A.; Mayhew, M. Piliocolobus badius ssp. temminckii . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020. 2020. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/18247/92648587.
  3. Minhós, Tânia; McGraw, S.; Bersacola, H.; Ferreira da Silva, M.J.; Galat, G; Galat-Luong, A.; Gonedelé Bi, S; et al. Piliocolobus badius . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020. 2020. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/161247840/161259430.
Report
  1. Colmonero-Costeira, Ivo; Ferreira da Silva, M.J.. 2023. Relatorio da Missao no arquipelago dos Bijagos, Guine-Bissau (Abril a Junho 2022) do projeto Os Bijagos, os seus costumes de gestao tradicional de mamiferos insulares e implicacoes para a conservacao de primatas nao-humanos.
  2. Pizzigalli, C., ; Diop, A.T., ; Giachello, S.; Sow, A.S.; Dieng, H., ; Razgour, O., ; Ferreira da Silva, M.J.; Brito, J. C.. 2023. Statut des Populations de Babouins de Guinée au Mauritanie. Biodeserts Report. CIBIO-InBio, BIOPOLIS, Université du Porto. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/368301932_Statut_des_Populations_de_Babouins_de_Guinee_au_Mauritanie [accessed Feb 06 2023]..
  3. Wallis, Janette; Alonso, C.,; Barlow, C.; Brito, J.,; Hernansaiz, A.,; Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Kopp, G.H.,; Vale, A. C.; Zinner, Dietmar. 2020. Papio papio IUCN Red List of Threatened Species entry. https://www.iucnredlist.org/fr/species/16018/17952926.
    https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T16018A17952926.en
  4. Ferreira da Silva, Maria; McGraw, S; Minhós, T.,; Bersacola, Elena; Galat, G; Galat-Luong, A.; Gonedelé Bi, S.; et al. 2020. Piliocolobus badius IUCN Red List of Threatened Species entry. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/161247840/161259430.
    https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T161247840A161259430.en.
  5. Minhós, Tânia; Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Bersacola, E.,; Galat, G.,; Galat-Luong, A.,; Mayhew, M.; Starin, E.D.. 2020. Piliocolobus badius ssp. temminckii IUCN Red List of Threatened Species entry. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/18247/92648587.
    https://dx.doi.org/1…/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T18247A92648587.en.
  6. Wallis, J; Alonso, C; Barlow, C; Brito, José Carlos; Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Hernansaiz, A; Kopp, G.H.; Vale, Cândida Gomes; Zinner, D.. 2020. Papio papio. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T16018A17952926.. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T16018A17952926.en.
  7. Ferreira da Silva, Maria. 2019. Protecting the Western Chimpanzee and threatened primates from logging and illegal hunting in Guinea-Bissau: Final progress report.
  8. Ferreira da Silva, Maria. 2019. Applying Landscape Genetic Tools to Biological Anthropology: Conservation of Nonhuman Primate Species in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa: progress report.
  9. Ferreira da Silva, M.J.. 2018. Protecting the Western Chimpanzee and threatened primates from logging and illegal hunting in Guinea-Bissau: Thirty-months interim progress report.
Website
  1. Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Sampaio-Dias, S.. News for Nature, a PRIMACTION project. 2023. https://primactionproject.wixsite.com/my-site-2.

Other

Dataset
  1. Ferreira da Silva, Maria. Microsatellite loci genotypes dataset (N=121 unique individuals) from Sex-mediated gene flow of grayfoot chacma baboons (Papio ursinus griseipes ) in a highly seasonal habitat of Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. DRYAD.
    DOI: 10.5061/dryad.gb5mkkwxv
Other output
  1. Mato i bida. Música para promover a conservação dos Chimpanzés e outros primatas na Guiné-Bissau. Voz e letra de Karyna Gomes, Música e mistura por Remna Schwartz, interludio por Dr. Jane Goodall.. 2021. Ferreira da Silva, Maria; Prof. Tania Minhós, Faculdade Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Lisboa, Portugal; Prof. Susana Sampaio-Dias.
  2. Nós os primatas. Communication to children on non-human primates diversity and conservation at primary schools. 2b, Escola Básica da Vilarinha, Agrupamento Manoel de Oliveira, Porto and 2a and 2b, Escola Básica da Junqueira, Agrupamento de escolas de Valadares, Vila Nova de Gaia.. 2021. Ferreira da Silva, MJ..
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/12/07 Sex-biased dispersal patterns of grayfoot baboons (Papio ursinus griseipes) in the ecologically diverse Gorongosa National Park XX Congress of the Portuguese Ethological Society
Portuguese Ethological Society (Vila do Conde, Portugal)
2023/11/04 Genética da conservação dos primatas da Guiné-Bissau: uma revisão da literatura dos últimos 15 anos e implicações para a gestão das populações II Encontro aberto de Primatologia
Universidade Sénior Almada (Almada, Portugal)
2023/11/04 Conservação de primatas na Serra Leoa Comunidades humanas em paisagens partilhadas II Encontro aberto de Primatologia
Universidade Sénior Almada (Almada, Portugal)
2023/08/20 Using an ethnoprimatological approach to characterize primate meat trade in bars in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa Congress of the International Society of Primatology
Malaysian Primatological Society (virtual, Malaysia)
2023/08/20 Drifting guenons: effective population size and colonisation history of the lesser spot-nosed monkey in the Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau (West Africa) Congress of the International Primatological Society
Malaysian Primatological Society (virtual, Malaysia)
2023/08/20 Dispersal of grayfoot baboon (Papio ursinus griseipes) at the end of the Rift Valley: investigating genetic variation and gene-flow patterns in the Gorongosa region in Mozambique Congress of the International Primatological Society
Malaysian Primatological Society (virtual, Malaysia)
2023/08/12 The Guinea baboon’s (Papio papio) desert populations of Mauritania (West Africa): distribution, genetic diversity and conservation threats Congress of the International Primatological Society
Malaysian Primatological Society (Malaysia, Malaysia)
2023/05/31 Dispersal of grayfoot baboon (Papio ursinus griseipes) at the end of the Rift Valley Paleo-Primate Project Gorongosa Workshop
Universidade do Algarve (Faro, Portugal)
2023/05/31 Genetic history of the baboon population (Papio ursinus) of Gorongosa Paleo-Primate Project Gorongosa Workshop
Universidade do Algarve (Faro, Portugal)
2023/03/30 Quinze anos de investigação em genética da conservação dos primatas da Guiné- Bissau e implicações para a gestão de populações ameaçadas Conferência BELAB – NOVAFRICA 2023
BELAB (Bissau, Guinea-Bissau)
2022/10/27 Threats to the conservation of the Guinea baboon Papio papio assessed using a multidisciplinary framework European Association of Zoos and Aquaria 2020
(Faro, Portugal)
2022/10/05 Eight years of guenon conservation genetics in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa: outcomes and future perspectives VIII Iberian Primatological Conference
Spanish Primatological Association; Portuguese Primatological Association (Barcelona, Spain)
2022/10/05 Preliminary results on the genetic diversity and population connectivity of Guinea baboons’ desert populations in Mauritania VIII Iberian Primatological Conference. Spanish Primatological Association
Spanish Primatological Association; Portuguese Primatological Association (Barcelona, Spain)
2022/10/05 Wild plant overlap between sympatric humans and non-human primates in a continuous rainforest and an anthropogenic landscape VIII Iberian Primatological Conference
Spanish Primatological Association; Portuguese Primatological Association (Barcelona, Spain)
2022/10/05 Conservation genetics of the red colobus monkeys from Gola Rainforest National Park, Sierra Leone VIII Iberian Primatological Conference
Spanish Primatological Association; Portuguese Primatological Association (Barcelona, Spain)
2022/10/05 Describing the consumption of primate-meat with alcoholic drinks in Guinea-Bissau using social data and meta-barcoding techniques VIII Iberian Primatological Conference
Spanish Primatological Association; Portuguese Primatological Association (Barcelona, Spain)
2022/10/05 Two colobine monkeys in two West African forests – does the conservation of the ecosystem influence the primates’ evolutionary potential? VIII Iberian Primatological Conference
Spanish Primatological Association; Portuguese Primatological Association (Barcelona, Spain)
2022/10/05 News for Nature/PRIMACTION project: increasing the visibility of Guinea-Bissau non-human primates’ conservation and current biodiversity threats in the media VIII Iberian Primatological Conference
Spanish Primatological Association; Portuguese Primatological Association (Barcelona, Spain)
2022/09/01 The use of meta-barcoding tools to identify bushmeat consumed at bars in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, and implications for non-human primates conservation European Conservation Genetics Meeting
Conservation Genetics group (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
2021/12/13 Using an ethnographic approach to improve the understanding of illegal commercial hunting at two protected areas in Guinea-Bissau (West Africa). In panel GS63: Biodiversity resources use and understanding Wildlife Crime 30th International Congress for Conservation Biology ICCB
Society for Conservation Biology (Rwanda)
2021/11/27 Predicting the impacts of climate change on West African colobines: insights for conservation and management IBERIAN FORUM FOR PRIMATOLOGY.
APE and APP
2021/11/27 Genetic characterization of chacma baboons from Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique IBERIAN FORUM FOR PRIMATOLOGY.
Online event. APE and APP (Spain)
2021/10/25 Genomic approaches applied to the conservation of West African primates Anthropology and Conservation Virtual Conference
Royal Anthropological Institute; East Anglia’s School of International Development Forest Peoples Programme; Linnean Society; Royal Botanic Gardens Kew; University of Kent’s School of Anthropology; Conservation Anthropology and Environment; (United Kingdom)
2021/10/25 Impact of human presence in two protected areas: a comparative analysis of genetic and spatial data of two African colobines Anthropology and Conservation Virtual Conference
. Royal Anthropological Institute, University of East Anglia’s School of International Development Forest Peoples Programme, Linnean Society, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, University of Kent’s School of Anthropology and Conservation Anthropology and Environm (United Kingdom)
2021/10/25 Using genetics to assess the conservation status of a colobine monkey in The Gambia Anthropology and Conservation Virtual Conference
Royal Anthropological Institute, University of East Anglia’s School of International Development Forest Peoples Programme, Linnean Society, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, University of Kent’s School of Anthropology and Conservation Anthropology and Environmen (United Kingdom)
2021/10/15 Monitorização remota de actividades comerciais ilegais de venda e consumo de carne de primatas não humanos em restaurantes na Guiné-Bissau e implicações para a conservação Utopias pós-crise. Artes e saberes em movimento. XIV Congresso Luso-Afro-Brasileiro
XIV Congresso Luso-Afro-Brasileiro, 3º Congresso da Associação Internacional de Ciências Sociais e Humanas de Língua Portuguesa (Portugal)
2021/10/08 As percepções do grupo étnico Bijagó acerca do seu ecossistema insular e implicações para a conservação dos primatas não humanos II CONFERÊNCIA ANUAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA DO AMBIENTE
Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/10/08 Caracterizaçao do consumo silvestre em restaurantes do sul da Guine-Bissau e implicacoes para a conservacao de primatas nao humanos II CONFERÊNCIA ANUAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA DO AMBIENTE
Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa (Portugal)
2020/11/09 Using meta-barcoding tools to “remote” monitoring of primate meat consumption at restaurants in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa TiBE 2020, METABARCODING AND METAGENOMICS
METABARCODING AND METAGENOMICS GROUP (Vairão, Portugal)
2020/01/30 Lessons from the transference of the Bo and Bella chimpanzees from Guinea-Bissau to the Sweetwaters sanctuary in Kenya Action for Chimpanzees.
PASA - Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (Conakry, Guinea)
2019/11/15 Desafios clínicos na translocação Chimpanzés órfãos na Guiné-Bissau: Um caso estudo de Tinea corporis por Microsporum audouinii em exemplar fêmea juvenil de Chimpanzé Ocidental (Pan troglodytes verus) Iberian congress veterinarian medicine
Faculdade Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/09/08 Investigating Papio sp. genetic variation and gene flow in Gorongosa, Mozambique, to improve the understanding of introgression or admixture processes between baboons species in the top end of the Great Rift Valley ESP/PSGB International Conference
Oxford University (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2019/08/23 Genetic structure of Gorongosa baboons the Wenner-Gren Foundation Workshop on New perspectives on primate adaptations to complex environments and implications for early human evolution
Gorongosa National Park (Xitengo, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique)
2019/08/23 Genomic insights into the evolutionary relationships of Gorongosa baboons the Wenner-Gren Foundation Workshop on New perspectives on primate adaptations to complex environments and implications for early human evolution
Gorongosa National Park (Xitengo, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique)
2019/08 Demographic history of West African primates inferred from genomic data 15th European Ecological Federation Congress and 18th National SPECO Meeting
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/04/23 Mozambique: Genetic studies on Chacma and Yellow Baboons Grand challenges for biodiversity conservation and sustainability - the southern Africa experience
Serralves Foundation/CIBIO-InBIO/ UNESCO Chair: Life on Land (Porto, Portugal)
2019/02/13 The Genetics of Conservation - A case study on West African primates, 16th Conference of the Gesellschaft für Primatologie,
German Primate Center (Göttingen, Germany)
2019 Guenons in Islands: Species Occurrence and Baseline Genetic Assessment of Insular Populations of Western Spot-nosed Guenon at the Bijago´s Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau EFP/PSGB International Conference
Oxford University (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2018/11/27 Grasping the human-baboon interface using genetic tools and spatial analyses Primate conversations
Behavioural Evolution Lab, University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2018/11/22 Conservation genetics in the genomics era Department talk
Exeter University (Falmouth, United Kingdom)
2018/08/15 On-going research on baboon genetics as a tool to understand present and past species admixture in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique Congress of the International Primatological Society
Primatological Society (Nairobi, Kenya)
2018/08/01 Baboon genetics and potential introgressive hybridization at Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique Congress of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution
Universidade do Algarve (Faro, Portugal)
2018/08/01 Gorongosa by the sea: Miocene coastal environments of central Mozambique and their primate land-use potential Congress of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution
Universidade do Algarve (Faro, Portugal)
2018/08 One-year molecular monitoring of the primate meat consumption at restaurants in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa Congress of the International Society of Primatology
International Primatological Society (Nairobi, Kenya)
2018/08 On-going research on baboon genetics as a tool to understand present and past species admixture Symposium on on-going research of the Paleo Primate Project, Congress of the International Society of Primatology
International Primatological Society (Nairobi, Kenya)
2018/08 Placing Gorongosa baboons morphological diversity in the African context Symposium on on-going research of the Paleo Primate Project, Congress of the International Society of Primatology
International Primatological Society (Nairobi, Kenya)
2018/08 Demographic history of West African Primates Inferred from Genomic Data Congress of the International Society of Primatology
International Primatological Society (Nairobi, Kenya)
2018/08 Consequences of human-induced forest exploitation for Temminck’s red colobus Symposium on colobus monkeys
International Primatological Society (Nairobi, Kenya)
2018/03/11 Challenges to the conservation of primates in Guinea-Bissau Great challenges in the conservation of threatened animals
National Geographic Photo Ark, Hall of Biodiversity, Porto Centre of Science (Porto, Portugal)
2018/03/05 Desafios à conservação dos primatas na Guiné-Bissau (Challenges to the conservation of primates in Guinea-Bissau) Grandes Desafios Na Conservação De Espécies Animais Em Perigo (Great challenges in the conservation of threatened animals)
National Geographic Photo Ark project at Hall of Biodiversity, Porto Centre of Science (Porto, Portugal)
2018 O trabalho de conclusão de curso como iniciaçao à investigaçao cientifica. Ciencia, conservaçao e desenvolvimento sao compativeis? The final year project as the start of scientific research. Are Science, Conservation and Development compatible? Final-year students
Lusofona University (Bissau, Guinea-Bissau)
2018 Serão todos primos? A genética na conservação dos primatas da África Ocidental First Open Meeting of Primatology
(Almada, Portugal)
2018 Técnicas não-invasivas de DNA Barcoding aplicadas à conservação de primatas elusivos no Arquipélago dos Bijagós, Guiné-Bissau First Open Meeting of Primatology
(Almada, Portugal)
2017/12/02 Protecting the Western Chimpanzee and threatened primates from logging and illegal hunting in Guinea-Bissau
The Born Free Foundation (Gatwick, United Kingdom)
2017/10/17 Genetic and morphological characterization of the baboon population of Gorongosa National Park Frontiers in Baboon Research
German Primate Center (Götingen, Germany)
2017/10/03 Understanding the threats to Papio sp. using genetic tools and spatial analyses Symposium Frontiers of Baboon Research
German Primate Center (Göttingen, Germany)
2017/08/03 Neogene coastal plain-estuarine record in the Gorongosa area, central Mozambique: paleoenvironmental and paleoecological implications for the ancient East African margin and its primate land use potential Congress of Geological Society of America
(Seattle, United States)
2017/08 Gorongosa National Park and the biogeography of human origins in the Mio-Pliocene Conference for the European Society for the study of Human Evolution
(Leiden, Germany)
2017 Problematic molecular-management of a rare and wild large bovid following the destruction of tropical forests in Sabah (Malaysia, Borneo) uropean Conference of Tropical Ecology
(Brussels, Belgium)
2017 The past guiding the future: a decade of primate conservation genetics research in Guinea-Bissau International Congress of the Society for Conservation Biology
(Cartagena, Colombia)
2017 Evaluating Journalists Perceptions of Environment and Conservation: a case in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa Environment, Science & Risk Communication Working Group at the Conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research
(Cartagena, Colombia)
2016 Protegendo o Chimpanzé e outros primatas da Guiné-Bissau da desflorestação e caça ilegal na Guiné-Bissau, um ano de progresso
IBAP-Instituto para a Biodiversidade e Áreas Protegidas (Bissau, Guinea-Bissau)
2016 Landscape genetics of guinea baboon: assessing population structure, gene flow dynamics, and functional connectivity with molecular and spatial tools TIBE
CIBIO (Vairão, Portugal)
2016 Demographic bottleneck in two arboreal primates: a consequence of forest exploitation TIBE - Global Biodiversity Change - from genes to ecosystems
CIBIO-InBIO (Vairão, Portugal)
2014 Hunting pressure and sex-biased dispersal: a comparative socio-genetic study of Guinea baboons (Papio papio) XI Congress of the Portuguese Society of Ethology
CIBIO-InBIO (Vairão, Portugal)
2013 Does anthropogenic hunting influence dispersal strategies in primate species? A comparative study in Guinea baboons (Papio papio) I BioAnthropological Meeting
University Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2012 Impacts of hunting pressure in the populations of Guinea baboons in Guinea-Bissau 1st HPI-lab Workshop (Laboratory for infectious diseases common to humans and non-human primates)
University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences (Brno, Czech Republic)
2006/11/01 The effect of artificial food provisioning in habitat preferences and movement patterns of a chacma baboon troop (Papio ursinus) in Cape Peninsula, South Africa. Recommendations to reduce the human-baboon conflict II International Congress of the Portuguese Association of Primatology
(Lisbon, Portugal)
2006/11/01 Mutilation as a possible limitation factor in the performance of the daily activities of a troop of chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) in Da Gama Park, South Africa II International Congress of the Portuguese Association of Primatology
(Lisbon, Portugal)
2006/11/01 Impact of monitors’ actions in the social behaviour of a troop of chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) at the Cape Peninsula, South Africa I International Congress of the Portuguese Association of Primatology
(Lisbon, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2020/03/01 - Current Ethnobiological and genomic insights of traditional management practices of insular mammals by the bijagó ethnic group in Guinea-Bissau and its applications to non-human primate conservation
Supervisor
PhD in Biosciences (PhD)
Cardiff University, United Kingdom

Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2014/09/01 - Current Dispersal in deserts: Genetic diversity and population structure in Guinea baboons (Papio papio) in Mauritania
Co-supervisor
Biodiversidade, Genética e Evolução (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2021/04/01 - 2025/04/01 Investigating ecological networks in extreme climate environments: Landscape genomics and adaptive genetic variation in desert populations of baboons and crocodiles.
Supervisor
Biologia (FCT - funded 2020.05054.BD) (PhD)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2021/01/01 - 2025/01/01 Integrating genomics with local knowledge to understand responses ecological and anthropogenic changes
Co-supervisor
Antropologia (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2021/12/03 Predicting the impacts of climate change on West African colobines: insights for conservation and management
Co-supervisor
Mestrado em Ecologia (Master)
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2017/09/01 - 2020/09 Population Genomics and the Viability of the Sanje Mangabey in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania
Co-supervisor
PhD in Biosciences (PhD)
Cardiff University, United Kingdom
2018/07/01 - 2019/09/30 Testing hybridization between Papio cynocephalus and Papio ursinus at Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
Co-supervisor
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Chile
2018/01/01 - 2019/05/31 Insights into insular primates: conservation genetics of Cercopithecus petaurista buettikoferi, Cercopithecus campbelli and Chlorocebus sabaeus in the Bijago´s Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau
Supervisor
Mestrado em Ecologia
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2017/01/01 - 2018/09/30 Structure and connectivity of sympatric primate species across a human-dominated landscape: population genetics of Western Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) and Guinea Baboon (Papio papio) in Guinea Bissau, West Africa
Supervisor
TESI DI LAUREA MAGISTRALE IN CONSERVAZIONE ED EVOLUZIONE (Master)
Università degli Studi di Pisa Dipartimento di Biologia, Italy

Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2016/09/01 - 2017/09/01 A country-level genetic survey of the IUCN critically endangered western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) in Guinea-Bissau
Supervisor
Biodiversidade, Genética e Evolução (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2016 - 2017 Comparative habitat suitability modelling of the Sahara primates and conservation under future climate change
Co-supervisor
Biologia (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2015/09/01 - 2016/09/01 Modelling Guinea baboon gene flow in the species entire distribution range to improve local conservation management
Co-supervisor
Biodiversidade, Genética e Evolução (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2011 - 2012 Molecular Identification of Bushmeat samples from Guinea-Bissau markets
Co-supervisor
Biology (Degree)
Cardiff University Cardiff School of Biosciences, United Kingdom

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2022/03/01 - 2022/03/01 Workshop on Primate Conservation Genetics for guards and guides of the UROK nature community reserve, Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau, in Formosa Island. Conception, logistics and leading speaker with Ivo Colmonero-Costeira (2022/03/01 - 2022/03/01)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
2019/10/09 - 2019/11/11 VII Congresso Ibérico de Primatologia, IX Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Primatologia (APP), XII Congresso da Asociacion Primatologica Espanola (APE) (2019/10/09 - 2019/10/11)
Congress (President of the Organising Committee)
Associação Portuguesa de Primatologia, Portugal
2015/11/17 - 2015/11/20 V Iberian Primatology Conference, VI Portuguese Primatological Conference and X Spanish Primatological Conference, Évora, 17-20 November, 2015. Sponsorships, revision of abstracts and welcoming attendants. (2015/11/17 - 2015/11/20)
Congress (Co-organisor)
Associação Portuguesa de Primatologia, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/11/21 - Current Semana da Ciência e Tecnologia, Centro de Ciência Viva Vila do Conde, Apresentação - We, the primates - Non-human primates diversity and conservation; presentation at primary schools Escola EB1 Júlio Saúl Dias, Vila do Conde
Seminar
Semana da Ciência e Tecnologia
Centro de Ciência Viva, Vila do Conde, , Portugal
2016/12 - Current Património Natural da Guiné-Bissau (First Meeting for environmental education and awareness of Guinea-Bissau Journalists)
Meeting
Encontro de formação e sensibilização ambiental de Jornalistas da Guiné-Bissau
Ordem dos jornalistas da Guiné-Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
2016/11 - Current Genética da Conservação dos Primatas da Guiné-Bissau
Meeting
Conferências organizadas pelo nucleo de alunos em Biologia (NEBUA)
Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Algarve, Portugal
2016 - Current Primatas debaixo de fogo: desafios à conservação
Meeting
commemorations of Darwin Day
2015/10 - Current Primatas debaixo de fogo: desafios da conservação na Guiné-Bissau (Primates under fire: challenges to the conservation in Guinea-Bissau)
Conference
Café com Ciência
Fundação Serralves, Portugal
2015 - Current Genética da Conservação de Primatas da Guiné-Bissau (Conservation Genetics of Guinea-Bissau primates) Conferências NEBFCUL
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role
Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2018 Conservation genetics and demography of the hirola antelope relict: an entire mammal genus on the brink of extinction
(Thesis) Main arguer
Rui Filipe Resende Pinto (Master)
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2017 Genetic Structure and Demographic History of Two West African Colobine Monkeys: The Effects of Habitat Fragmentation and Hunting
(Thesis) Main arguer
Rúben Oliveira (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization
2022/10/05 - 2022/10/08 VIII Iberian Primatological conference, Barcelona, Spain, as part of the organization (scientific committee) https://www.apespain.org/congress/8ipc/#committees
Member
Portuguese Association of Primatology, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2022/10/08 - 2022/10/11 VIII Iberian Primatological Conference. Spanish Primatological Association Barcelona

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2015/03/01 - Current Primate conservation genetics and Effects of hunting in baboons and implications for conservation.
2017/07/20 - 2019/08/20 Primate Non-invasive Genetics – a Summer school for graduate students from Oxford University, UK, and Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique. Conception and leading speaker of the workshop. Included theoretical and practical part (DNA extraction from non-invasive sources at Gorongosa Restoration Project Molecular Lab).
2015/12/09 - 2017/02/06 Guinea-Bissau Primate Conservation Genetics - Workshop for the Boé National Park, Dulombi National Park and Cufada Lagoons Natural Park guards and guides (Outros) Instituto para a Biodiversidade e Áreas Protegidas, Guinea-Bissau

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2020/03/09 - Current Biosfera, episode 1409, season 18, RTP 2, RTP Africa. COVID e Vida Selvagem (COVID and wildlife)
2018/11 - Current A Nova Vida de Bô & Bella (The New life of Bo and Bella). Documentary on the rescuing process of two chimpanzees from Guinea-Bissau to the Ol Pejeta Sweetwaters Sanctuary, Kenya. Bô e Bella são dois Chimpanzés fêmeas que foram vítimas de tráfico na Guiné-Bissau. Viveram em cativeiro vários anos. Uma operação arriscada vai levar os dois Chimpanzés para um Santuário no Quénia, onde vão encontrar a liberdade possível. É a primeira vez que tal acontece na Guiné-Bissau. Rescuing process of two captive chimpanzees from Guinea-Bissau
2018/08/13 - Current Portuguese anthropologist leads project on human evolution in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique, formed by multidisciplinary international team. Human evolution research in Gorongosa National Park
2015/12/22 - Current O papel da comunicação social na proteção da Biodiversidade da Guiné-Bissau (The role of media in the protection of the Biodiversity in Guinea-Bissau) First National Meeting of Guinea-Bissau Journalists
2013/08/22 - Current Five minutes of Earth, program of communication of science and environment Illegal trade of primate species in Guinea-Bissau
2013/08/20 - Current Primate species are consumed in restaurants in Guinea-Bissau Bushmeat trade and consumption reported for the first time in Guinea-Bissau
2022/01/07 - 2022/01/14 “Vírus - Parasitas Obrigatórios” Uma série documental, de três episódios, que nos ajuda a perceber o que são os vírus e o que pode a Humanidade fazer para vencer esta luta A ciência e a tecnologia vão dominar as pandemias em tempo recorde ou o pior ainda está para vir? Em Vírus - Parasitas Obrigatórios vamos falar sobre as inquietações que nos surgem quando abordamos este tema e procurar respostas para todas elas. COVID and ONE HEALTH

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2022/04/01 - 2022/04/28 Expedition to the UROK islands of the Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau to collect ethnographic data on perceptions of local people on insular primates and to sample biological material to genetic analyses. It involved planning and implementing health and safety procedures, buying and moving sampling material and other consumables and equipment from Portugal to Guinea-Bissau, transportation of a team in rented cars and boats, planning for lodging and meals. Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2015 - 2017 Expeditions to protected areas in Guinea-Bissau - the Cufada Lagoons National Park (2015), the Dulombi National Park (2016), islands of the Bijagós Archipelago (2016), and the Boé National Park (2017). Sampling of biological material and presence data of primate species, planning and implementing health and safety procedures, buying and moving sampling material and other consumables and equipment from Portugal to Guinea-Bissau, transportation of a team in rented cars and boats, planning for lodging and meal. Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Distinctions

Other distinction

2009 Best Poster
Cardiff University Cardiff School of Biosciences, United Kingdom
2008 Honorable mention to Oral communication
Cardiff University Cardiff School of Biosciences, United Kingdom