Cândida Maria Gomes Vale
Researcher
Biodiversity of Deserts and Arid Regions
CIBIO, Centro de Investigacao em Biodiversidade e Recursos Geneticos
Portugal
Biography
"I started my research activities during the last year of my degree in Biology, by studying the distribution and abundance of the European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) in Montalegre (Portugal). After finishing my B.C.s (2008), I enrolled in the M.Sc. program hosted by CIBIO/UP, and since then I have developed focused and continuous research on Sahara-Sahel biodiversity conservation, particularly in the Atlantic Sahara-Sahel corridor. My first contact with biodiversity conservation in arid environments was during the M.Sc. thesis focussed on predicted impacts of climate change in 25 Sahelian and Afro-tropical vertebrates in West Africa. This was the starting point to develop the Ph.D. thesis, in the Sahara-Sahel region, where I had the opportunity to address multiple issues related to biodiversity conservation in arid environments under climate change. Currently, I am starting my post doc research at CIBIO/InBio, in collaboration with the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa), and integrated in the “Spatial Planning for Protected Areas in Response to Climate Change†project (http://www.sparc-website.org/). My current and major interests are related to biodiversity conservation and assessments of the climate change impacts."
Research Interest
I am particularly interested in studying the indirect impacts that arise from human responses to climate change on species
Publications
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Vale CG, Ferreira da Silva MJ, Campos JC, Torres J, Brito JC (2015) Applying species distribution modelling to the conservation of an ecologically plastic species (Papio papio) across biogeographic regions in West Africa. Journal for Nature Conservation, 27: 26-36.
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Brito JC, Tarroso P, Vale CG, MartÃnez-FreirÃa F, Boratynski Z, Campos JC, Ferreira S, Godinho R, Gonçalves DV, Leite JV, Lima VO, Pereira P, Santos X, Ferreira da Silva MJ, Silva TL, Velo-Antón G, VerÃssimo J, Crochet P-A, Pleguezuelos JM, Carvalho SB (2016) Conservation Biogeography of the Sahara-Sahel: additional protected areas are needed to secure unique biodiversity. Diversity and Distributions, 22(4): 371–384.
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Silva TL, Vale CG, Godinho R, Fellous A, Hingrat Y, Alves PC , Abaigar T, Brito JC (2017) Ecotypes and evolutionary significant units in endangered North African gazelles. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 122(2): 286-300.
