LuÃs Filipe Dias E Silva
Assistant Professor
Biodiversity and Islands
CIBIO, Centro de Investigacao em Biodiversidade e Recursos Geneticos
Portugal
Biography
"LuÃs Silva obtained his degree in Biology (1989) at Faculty of Sciences, Lisbon University. He started his academic career at the University of the Azores in 1991, and obtained his PhD in Plant Ecology in 2001.He has been involved in the elaboration of plant lists for the Azores, namely a general checklist, a list of top invasive species, and a list of threatened taxa, and has coordinated the vascular plant list in the Azorean Biodiversity Portal. He has been developing applications of Bayesian statistics to ecology, namely in the study of plant and palaeocommunities. In the area of modeling, he is presently working with the distribution and biomass production of woody plant invaders. He teaches mainly in the areas of applied statistics and ecology from bachelor to doctorate levels, and presently coordinates the Master Program in Environment, Health and Safety."
Research Interest
His main interests are in plant ecology and biodiversity: rare plants, plant invaders, molecular ecology, species distribution modeling.
Publications
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Pereira MC, Moura M, Rego IE, Silva L (2016) Local knowledge of the flora of a region: implications in biodiversity conservation. AIMS Environmental Science, 3(4): 778-803.
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Elias RB, Gil A, Silva L, Fernandez-Palacios JM, Azevedo EB, Reis F (2016) Natural zonal vegetation of the Azores Islands: characterization and potential distribution. Phytocoenologia, 46(2): 107-123.
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Ãvila SP, Cordeiro R, Madeira P, Silva L, Medeiros A, Rebelo AC, Melo C, Neto AI, Haroun R, Monteiro A, Rijsdijk K, Johnson ME (2017) Global change impacts on large-scale biogeographic patterns of marine organisms on Atlantic oceanic islands. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 126: 101-112.
