António Paulo Pereira Mira
Assistant Professor
Applied Ecology
CIBIO, Centro de Investigacao em Biodiversidade e Recursos Geneticos
Portugal
Biography
"I teach Conservation Biology, Natural Resources Management and Mammalogy and I'm in charge of the Department Conservation Biology Lab since 2003. My research area ranges between ""Applied Population and Community Ecology"" and ""Landscape Ecology"" I've studied different species and communities, but my main targets have been mammals. I've dedicated a large part of my research to the study of voles, but in the last eight years a large part of my research have also been devoted to bats, rabbits and carnivores."
Research Interest
"Effects transport infrastructure on wildlife, including description of road/rail kills patterns and determination of main landscape features associated with fatality hotspots; quantification of barrier effect for species with different vagility; and evaluation of the effects of linear infrastructure disturbance on abundance and space use of different wildlife species; Effects land use changes and habitat fragmentation on landscape functional connectivity and implications for long-term metapopulation persistence; Biodiversity recovery and habitat rehabilitation in strongly changed and degraded areas. Wild game population management and recovery."
Publications
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Graacio AR, Mira A, Beja P, Pita R (2017) Diel variation in movement patterns and habitat use by the Iberian endemic Cabrera vole: Implications for conservation and monitoring. Mammalian Biology, 83: 21-26.
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Graacio AR, Mira A, Beja P, Pita R (2017) Diel variation in movement patterns and habitat use by the Iberian endemic Cabrera vole: Implications for conservation and monitoring. Mammalian Biology, 83: 21-26.
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Galantinho A, Eufrázio S, Silva C, Carvalho F, Alpizar-Jara R, Mira A (2017) Road effects on demographic traits of small mammal populations European Journal of Wildlife Research, 63:22
