Bats and Birds in Natural and Semi-Natural Ecosystems
Tropical and Mediterranean Biodiversity - TMB

Liliana Ferreira

PhD Student

Bats Landscape configuration Connectivity Fragmentation Climate change Acoustic methods

Liliana Ferreira is conducting a Ph.D. in Biology (Conservation Biology) by the University of Lisbon starting in 2020 within the Tropical and Mediterranean Biodiversity research group (TMB) of cE3c. She will conduct the project "Bats and landscape configuration: tools for conservation planning", under the supervision of Jorge Palmeirim from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon and Sara Cousins from the Faculty of Science of the Stockholm University. The Ph.D. project aims are: understand how bats are affected by habitat configuration: connectivity and/or fragmentation; predict the impacts of climate change in bats using landscape change scenarios; optimization of strategies to sample bat assemblages using recording stations and identification of bat echolocation calls.