Daniel Ferreira

Laboratório da Paisagem / Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro

Political responses to the COVID-19 pandemic led to changes in city soundscapes around the globe.From March to October 2020, a consortium of 261 contributors from 35 countries brought togetherby the Silent Cities project built a unique soundscape recordings collection to report on local acousticchanges in urban areas. We present this collection her...

Considering the present ecological crisis, land use-biodiversity relationships have become a major topic in landscape planning, ecosystem management and ecological restoration. In this scope, consistent patterns of outstanding biodiversity have been identified in agroforestry systems within diverse biogeographic regions and types of management. Emp...

The sawfly Macrophya (Macrophya) militaris (Klug, 1817) (Hymenoptera, Symphyta, Tenthredinidae) is reported from Portugal for the first time, with a record from the northern region (Guimarães).

Este Guia, para além de uma experiência de leitura, é um auxiliar de campo para todos quanto queiram iniciar-se na observação e identificação da avifauna. Existe a referência a 100 espécies de aves, com fotografias, que na sua maioria são fáceis de observar em diferentes espaços naturais e urbanos de Guimarães. A publicação resulta ainda do Projet...

De forma a demonstrar a aplicabilidade das metodologias apresen-tadas, são descritos vários casos de estudo, organizados de uma forma hierárquica da base para o topo tendo em consideração as escalas de estudo da ecologia, isto é, num gradiente que vai das aplicações em contextos onde o enfoque recai sobre a importância de populações/espécies como i...

As paisagens atuais são sistemas dinâmicos, moldados pela interação de processos naturais e antropogénicos (e.g., TURNER, 2010; SANTOS et al., 2016b). Essa dinâmica acarreta alterações que, em muitos casos, modificam de forma os sistemas naturais, nomeadamente distribuição das espécies, estrutura das comunidades e o funcionamento dos ecossistemas....

Over the past decade in Europe, honeybees (Apis mellifera) – important pollinators of wildflowers and cultivated crops – have decreased in abundance due to various factors. A concerning development is the recent introduction of the yellow-legged hornet (Vespa velutina nigrithorax; top), an efficient bee predator endemic to Southeast Asia whose nich...

A participatory monitoring programme of an exceptional modification of urban soundscapes during Covid-19 containment.

Despite the relevant services associated with insect pollinators, several species are considered to have undergone severe and widespread declines, which raise concerns about the future sustainability of ecosystems. Reliable estimates of pollinators' visitation rates to flowers are thus fundamental for supporting management and mitigation actions. A...

The growing concern about future challenges of energy security and climate change has led to the expansion of renewable energy production, with a special emphasis on wind power. Despite the environmental advantages of wind power, it's important to assess the impacts caused by the presence of wind farms on wildlife, particularly on species also affe...

Despite the environmental benefits associated with wind energy, studies have confirmed the occurrence of significant levels of bat and bird fatalities at windfarms, which raise concerns about the long-term effects of these infra-structures on these populations. Reliable estimates of windfarm fatalities are fundamental for accurate environmental ass...

The most prominent factors inducing landscape change in the rural regions of south west Europe are depopulation and the associated socio-ecological modifications. The aim of this work was to assess the future implications of these processes on land use/land cover and biodiversity in northwest Iberia. To achieve our goal, we developed a virtual spat...

Worldwide efforts to develop sustainable methods of energy production have been increasing the use of renewable sources, with special emphasis on wind energy. Despite the clear environmental benefits associated with this type of technology, many studies have confirmed bat fatalities at wind farms, which raise concerns about the long-term effects of...