New dissertations

2024

  • Effect of the presence of non-matrix habitats in the spatial-temporal ecological patterns of mesocarnivores in Mediterranean environments (Maria Machado)
  • Keep on rolling: demography and breeding of the Critically Endangered European Roller (Coracias garrulus) in Portugal (Nuno Fialho)
  • Does artificial feeding of game species offer complementary resources for a non-target mesocarnivore community? (Rui Antunes)
  • Patterns and drivers of insectivorous bat activity around isolated trees in rice fields of Guinea-Bissau (West Africa) (Gonçalo Fernandes)
  • Nature might need some nurture: slow passive vegetation recovery in Mediterranean abandoned farmland The Baixo Sabor case study (António Vaz Pato)
  • Conservation and biodiversity of insects of the Cesaredas Plateau, Portugal (Tiago Carrapiço)
  • Catfished: how metabarcoding diet analysis increases knowledge on predation by the invasive Silurus glanis (Mafalda Cordeiro)
  • In the shadow of the Aleppo pine: the effects of Pinus halepensis high density in reptiles communities in the “Monumento Natural Local do Canhão Cársico de Ota” (Francisco Veloso)
  • Study of the distribution, diversity and abundance of wild vertebrates in natural, semi-natural and urban areas of Odivelas county, Portugal (João Cabral)
  • Ecology and conservation of subterranean biodiversity in the Estremenho Karst Massif (Portugal) (Tomás Alves)
  • Physiological and behavioural responses of the white toothed shrew Crocidura russula to environmental stressors (Maria da Conceição Forte)
  • Sowing Seeds, Soaring Feathers: Exploring the role of temporal and spatial heterogeneity in shaping bird assemblages of Guinea-Bissau’s freshwater rice fields. (Inês Lacerda)
  • Does road proximity influence the structure and composition of ant communities? (Tomás Pinto)
  • Pharmaceuticals in coastal waters: screening and environmental risk assessment (Henrique Mourato)
  • Analysis of habitat suitability for European polecat in Portugal (Miguel Ribeiro)

 

2023

  • Nature-based solutions to increase rice yield in West Africa: an experimental assessment of the role of birds and bats as agricultural pest suppressors (Madalena Sottomayor)
  • Reactive behavior of mesopredators to large African carnivore cues under community restoration (Mariana Martins)
  • Genetic portrayal of two colobine monkeys inhabiting a continuous forest in Gola Rainforest National Park (Darya Sevastópolska)
  • Landscape features of rice fields as drivers of bat activity: a case study from Guinea-Bissau (Jorge Coimbra)