Ana Teresa Pinto. Recovery of Mediterranean forests under farmland abandonment: regeneration processes, management strategies, and implications for the delivery of ecosystem services. BIODIV Doctoral Programme. University of Porto. Supervisors: Pedro Beja and João Honrado.

 

Denis Ricardo Isidro Medinas. BATCONNECT - An integrative approach combining molecular, behavioural and ecological data to assess the effects of roads on bats. BIODIV Doctoral Programme. University of Porto. Supervisors:António Paulo Pereira Mira ,Ana Márcia Enes Barbosa,Hugo Emanuel Vitorino Rebelo.

 

Filipa Matos Silva Martins. Towards Next-generation Biodiversity Monitoring: Improving Freshwater Quality Assessment using DNA Metabarcoding. BIODIV Doctoral Programme. University of Porto. Supervisors: Pedro Beja,  Paulo Célio Alves, Johan Michaux.

 

Frederico Mestre. Synergistic effects of climate change and habitat fragmentation on species range shifts and metapopulation persistence. University of Évora. Supervisor: Pedro Beja, António Mira, Ricardo Pita

Helena Marques. The influence of predation risk on pacth occupancy, space use and population dynamics of the Cabrera vole (Microtus cabrerae). University of Évora. Supervisors: Pedro Beja, António Mira

Vanessa Cristina Alves Mata. Bats and ecosystem services: a metabarcoding approach to the role of bats in agricultural fragmented landscapes. BIODIV Doctoral Programme. University of Porto. Supervisors:Pedro Beja Hugo Rebelo, GaryMcCracken (University of Tennessee).

Virgínia Pimenta. Human-carnivore conflicts: risk assessment of wolf depredation on livestock and its management implications. University of Porto. Supervisors: Pedro Beja, Luigi Boitani