ForChange Research Team
ForChange: Forest ecosystem management under global change
Research Team and Contacts:
| Researchers | current research areas | Contact | |
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Brigite Botequim |
Forest and fire management planning; Fire-adapted silviculture; Fire behaviour modelling and simulators; DSS for fuel management sensitivity analysis; Forest dynamics disturbance modelling. |
  bbotequim@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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Carla S. Pimentel |
Population ecology; Adaptive management; Climatic impacts; Forest insects and pathogens impact. |
carlapimentel@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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Joana Amaral Paulo |
Forest ecology and management; Cork and cork oak modelling; Forest inventory; Forest biometry; New and traditional agroforestry systems; Statistical analysis; Rural development. |
 joanaap@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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José G. Borges |
Forest resources management and conservation; Forest resources economics; Forest planning; Analysis of benefit/cost and ecosystem services trade-off; Risk and uncertainty; Operations research; DSS. |
joseborges@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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Margarida Tomé |
Forest resources inventory; Forest models (empirical and process-based). |
magatome@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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Paula Soares |
Forest inventory; Drones; Empirical Growth models; Process based-models; Biomass; Silvicultural systems. |
paulasoares@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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Pedro Ochôa
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Forest governance and policy |
pedroochoa@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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Susana Barreiro |
Forest inventory; Empirical and process-based forest models; Forest simulators; Forest management. |
smb@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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Susete Marques |
Fire risk and damage models; forest management planning; multiple criteria optimization; trade-off analysis. |
smarques@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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Felipe Silva |
Vale do Sousa; ecosystem services; forest simulators; multiple-criteria methods; decision support system; forest management planning; data acquisition, treatment and validation; PostgreSQL databases. | felipethalles@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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Diana Santos |
Value-chain analysis, ecosystem services, non-wood forest products, wild food products. |
dianaisasantos@isa.ulisboa.pt |
| Colaborating Researchers | current research areas | Contact | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Joao H. N. Palma |
Process-based modelling; Agroforestry systems; Climate change; GIS; Model implementation (programming); High power computing for large datasets | joaopalma@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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Jordi Garcia-Gonzalo |
Forest planning and economics; Optimization; Adaptive management; Multi-objective optimization; Decision support systems. |
jordigarcia@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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José Sousa Uva |
Forest inventory |
jose.uva@gmail.com |
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Juan Guerra-Hernandez |
Remote sensing; Forest inventory; Airborne laser scanning; Photogrammetry; GIS. |
juanguerra@isa.ulisboa.pt |
Manuela Melo Oliveira |
mmo@uevora.pt | ||
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Teresa Fonseca |
Forest Inventory, Silviculture, Modelling, Simulators, Forest Management, Stand Dynamics (regeneration, growth and mortality) | tfonseca@utad.pt |
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Marco Marto |
Forest decision support systems; Forest statistical modelling and planning; Forest economics and management; Programming | marcovmarto@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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Carlos Caldas |
Forest economics. Forest management and planning. Forest sector models., Ecosystem services. |
carloscaldas@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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Emin Zeki BAŞKENT | Forest ecosystem management and conservation; Forest planning; Characterizing ecosystem services; Forest modeling and dynamics; Non-wood forest products management; Operations research; DSS; Spatial Planning; Geographic Information Systems | |
| Doctoral students | current research areas | Contact | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Alexandra Nunes |
Use of new technologies to determine the yield of pine nuts in stone pine. |
xanavnunes@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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Diogo Cosenza |
Forest modelling; Forest management and planning; Airborne Laser Scanning; Forest optimization; Artificial intelligence applications. |
dncosenza@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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João Rua |
Forest modelling; Green barriers; Disturbances; Forest simulators; Landscape Ecology |
jcprua@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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João E. P. Silva |
Forest inventory; Stone pine forest modelling |
jepsilva@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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Josep
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Agroforestry systems; Modelling ecosystem services; Process-based models; Quantification and economic/sustainable valuation. |
jcrous@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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Marija Cosovic |
Harmonisation of forest management scenarios and biodiversity conservation in Vale de Sousa | marijacosovic@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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Marlene Marques |
Forest management and planning; Ecosystem Services; Multiple Objectives; Group Decision Making; GIS. |
marlenegm@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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Muha Abdullah Al Pavel |
Country level simulations of selected ecosystem services from maritime pine in Portugal under alternative management and climate scenario using the PREBAS model | maapavel@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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Paulo Firmino |
Forest Inventory; Cork; Cork oak modelling; UAVs; Pine wilt disease.
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pnfirmino@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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Sonia P. Faias |
Forest inventory; Forest modelling; Forest management; Model implementation (programming) |
soniapf@isa.ulisboa.pt |
| Research Assistants | current research areas | Contact | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Jean Magalhães |
Sistemas de Informações Geográficas; Cartografia; Inventário Florestal
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jeanmagalhaes@isa.ulisboa.pt |
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Olha Nahorna |
Forest Management and Planning, Forest Modelling, Forest Ecosystem Services. |
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Logan Bigham |
Payments for ecosystem services; auction methods; forest resources management and conservation | loganrbingham@isa.ulisboa.pt |
| co-coordinator / secretariat | management | contact | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Catarina
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Erasmus Mundus Master - MEDfOR | ctavares@isa.ulisboa.pt |
