Francisco Rego

University of Lisbon | UL · Centro de Ecologia Aplicada Baeta Neves (CEABN)

Over the last 30 years, olive farming has experienced a fast and large-scale intensification process across its Mediterranean range, that is reshaping Mediterranean farmland landscapes with associated impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services. This study aims to analyze irrigated olive grove spatial expansion patterns across a 27–year period i...

Mediterranean Basin forest ecosystems are recurrently affected by wildfires. The occurrence of insect pests following fire may be a critical factor affecting tree survival and forest recovery. Although ambrosia beetles are viewed with increasing concern, information about the host selection and colonization behavior of these beetles in Mediterranea...

Fire regimes are changing in several regions of the world. In those regions, some exotic species may be better adapted to new regimes than the native species. This study focused on identifying the microsite characteristics associated with the occurrence of post-fire Eucalyptus globulus regeneration from seeds, outside the species native-range. This...

Forests are increasingly susceptible to wildfires due to land abandonment, fragmentation, lack of forest management, and agricultural burns. The impacts of climate change, with longer heat waves and the extension of the summer season, creates the conditions for catastrophic wildfire seasons in many countries. The drivers that increase wildfire risk...

Enquanto contributo para a arte paisagista na cidade de Lisboa, este livro centra a abordagem nos espaços públicos, na sua génese e distribuição espacial, no cruzamento de influências culturais de origens geográficas diversas e no desenho e na composição arbórea dos jardins e parques históricos da cidade. A criação destes espaços verdes urbanos ond...

Supporting Information for Morgado et al., 2021 - Preserving wintering frugivorous birds in agro‐ecosystems under land use change: Lessons from intensive and super‐intensive olive orchards

This textbook provides students and academics with a conceptual understanding of fire behavior and fire effects on people and ecosystems to support effective integrated fire management. Through case studies, interactive spreadsheets programmed with equations and graphics, and clear explanations, the book provides undergraduate, graduate, and profes...

Fleshy‐fruit production is becoming more intensive worldwide, but how this affects frugivorous birds is poorly known. In the Mediterranean region, intensive and super‐intensive olive orchards are fast expanding, potentially affecting millions of wintering songbirds. Here we test the idea that intensification may benefit frugivorous birds, at least...

O Relatório inclui uma avaliação do PNA, considerando as suas orientações e objetivos estratégicos, fazendo uma análise genérica do documento e referindo-se specificamente a um aspeto muito pouco explicitado no Programa: a importância da consideração da ação climática. O Relatório faz, em seguida, uma análise do SGIFR, tanto no âmbito da sua arquit...

Anthropogenic structures are increasingly encroaching wildlife habitats, creating conflicts between humans and animals. Scaling up renewable energy requires new infrastructures such as power lines, that cause high mortality among birds since they act as obstacles to flight and are used for perching and nesting, which can result in collisions or ele...

A publicação de um livro didático sobre Ecologia da Paisagem (EP), escrito em português, surgiu por iniciativa conjunta da Associação Portu-guesa de Ecologia da Paisagem (Apep) e da Associação Brasileira de Ecologia de Paisagens (Iale-BR) que mobilizaram recursos humanos e financeiros no sentido de compilar num livro impresso e também em e-book con...

A grande variação interanual nas estatísticas de fogos rurais dificulta a quantificação ao longo do tempo dos progressos na gestão desses fogos. Este estudo analisa estatísticas para o período 2001-2020 e compara vários indicadores da piroatividade em Portugal entre o período de 2008-2017 e o período mais recente de 2018-2020, através de análises q...

A segurança das comunidades potencialmente afetadas pelos incêndios florestais constitui uma das maiores prioridades das autoridades e tem sido objeto de várias medidas legislativas e operacionais, em especial a partir dos incêndios de 2017. Entre estas medidas destacam-se os programas Aldeia Segura e Pessoas Seguras, lançados pelo Governo em 2018....

In 2016, common forest areas celebrated 40 years of community management. These were mostly planted during the occupation of community lands (known as baldios) by the Estado Novo and during the development of the Forest Regime, via the National Afforestation Plan. The return of the common lands to the people and the decentralisation of forest gover...

National Forest Inventories (NFIs) collect and provide a large amount of information regarding the forest volume, carbon stocks, vitality, biodiversity, non-wood forest products and their changes. Forest stands variables data are paramount to understanding their composition, especially on those related with understory characteristics and the covera...

Investigations of factors influencing wildfire risks in Mediterranean forest areas have rarely considered the possible influence of the ownership type and management modalities in forest areas owned and/or managed by rural communities, referred to as baldios in Portugal. This study aimed to analyse the relationship between forest ownership types an...

Climate change is predicted to severely impact interactions between prey, predators and habitats. In Southern Europe, within the Mediterranean climate, herbaceous vegetation achieves its maximum growth in middle spring followed by a three-month dry summer, limiting prey availability for insectivorous birds. Lesser kestrels (Falco naumanni) breed in...

Combining biodiversity conservation with the agricultural production needed to meet the rising world food demand is a global challenge. This is a case in point for olive farming in the Mediterranean region, where high-yielding intensive and super-intensive orchards are fast expanding, often replacing biodiversity-rich but low-yielding traditional o...

The quantification of forests available for wood supply (FAWS) is essential for decision-making with regard to the maintenance and enhancement of forest resources and their contribution to the global carbon cycle. The provision of harmonized forest statistics is necessary for the development of forest associated policies and to support decision-mak...

La Península Ibérica cuenta con una larga historia de incendios forestales. Es el caso del Sistema Central, desde la Sierra de Estrela en Portugal a la Sierra de Ayllón en España, aunque las causas humanas y el régimen de incendios difieren en función del contexto ambiental, político y socioeconómico en uno y otro extremo de la cordillera. La valid...

Questions: What are the effects of time since prescribed burning on plant species composition and diversity of a mosaic of Natura 2000 shrub-grassland habitat types? Is it possible to use prescribed burning to reduce fire hazard and simultaneously maintain conservation status in such habitat types? Location: Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, Portugal...

In the last five decades, Community-Based Forestry (CBF) has become a subject of special attention. It is assumed that the transfer of rights to local communities will improve forest management. In Portugal more than 13% of the forest area belongs to local communities (termed baldios). Following FAO tools, assessments of Forest Tenure and CBF were...

• Key message A dataset of forest resource projections in 23 European countries to 2040 has been prepared for forest-related policy analysis and decision-making. Due to applying harmonised definitions, while maintaining country-specific forestry practices, the projections should be usable from national to international levels. The dataset can be ac...

Correction to: Annals of Forest Science https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-019-0863-6 The original article was erroneously published without applying all the provided proof corrections in Section 5 and Table 1. The original article has been updated to render Table 1 and Section 5 correctly. The original article has been corrected.

Wildfires in the Iberian Peninsula were large and frequent in the second half of the 20th century. Land use and land cover (LULC) also changed greatly. Our aim was to understand the relationship between LULC and fire in the western and eastern ends of the Iberian Central Mountain System. We compared two case study landscapes, the Estrela massif and...

Plantations of Eucalyptus globulus Labill. have expanded rapidly over the last four decades across temperate parts of the globe. There has been growing concern about the potential invasiveness of this species. Portugal grows more E. globulus than any other country (by area). This study investigates poorly understood factors that may influence wildi...

Wildfires have been a major landscape disturbance factor throughout history in inland mountain areas of Spain. This paper aims to understand the interaction of fire regimes and landscape dynamics during the last two centuries within a socio-spatial context. The study area selected for this historical and spatial analysis is the Ayllón massif, in th...

Plurifor: a transnational management of forest fire Fires are a major hazard observed in the forests in southwestern Europe. In 2017, approximately 540,630 hectares of forest were burned in Portugal, 178,234 ha in Spain and 26,378 in France. Furthermore, forest fire occurrence and severity tend to increase with climate change and human activities....

Key message There is a need to improve the consistency of international information concerning the conservation status assessment of the species and habitat types in the Natura 2000 reports. National Forest Inventories could contribute towards a more objective and harmonised assessment although their use shows some challenges as low precision for r...

The Natura 2000 network is crucial to conserve biodiversity in the European Union and provides hotspots for certain ecosystem services. Grazing, a common land use in different Natura 2000 habitat types, may contribute to the maintenance of protected plant communities and reduce fuel loads and wildfire hazard. Our study aims to assess the effects of...

Key message Volume predictions of sample trees are basic inputs for essential National Forest Inventory (NFI) estimates. The predicted volumes are rarely comparable among European NFIs because of country-specific dbh-thresholds and differences regarding the inclusion of the tree parts stump, stem top, and branches. Twenty-one European NFIs implemen...

Key message Every year, about 280,000 ha of forest area burn in the Iberian Peninsula. Both countries national forest inventories were harmonised to provide consistent results of the influence of forest stand structure on fire probability. Results show that basal area and vertical structure variables are associated with fire probability; however, t...

AN INSIGHTFUL GUIDE TO THE CONCEPTS AND PRACTICES OF MODERN LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY Elements of geography, conservation biology, soil science and other disciplines factor into landscape ecology's rich analyses of the ecological and environmental forces at play across different terrains. With its unique, organism-oriented approach to the subject, Applied...

Increasingly large fires are occurring in southern Europe, especially at its westernmost part, where a humid Mediterranean climate combines with rough topography, flammable vegetation types, undermanaged forest and high ignition rates. These fires have huge socioeconomic and environmental impacts, including the potential loss of human lives. Portug...

Mainland Portugal, located in southwestern Europe, has a historic record of droughts with significant impacts on agriculture and domestic supply. The regional variability in water availability and consumption in the country enhances the magnitude of drought impacts in its southern basins. Under future projections of increasing temperature and preci...

Os técnicos florestais são um dos principais intervenientes no território rural. Os incêndios são a maior ameaça aos espaços florestais portugueses e são maioritariamente um problema social. Com o objetivo de perceber se as competências fornecidas nos diversos cursos universitários da área florestal respondem às diversas solicitações laborais deste...

Assessment of Portuguese community forest areas with VGGT and CBF systems.