Pedro Monterroso
Researcher
Conservation Genetics and Wildlife Management
CIBIO, Centro de Investigacao em Biodiversidade e Recursos Geneticos
Portugal
Biography
"I am also concerned in understanding how the global warming may affect the spatial distribution of some carnivore and prey species, and use current modelling techniques to try to predict the potential impacts of these changes in the conservation of Iberian carnivores. As a final, but not less important, research area, I am focusing on the efficiency and reliability of distinct field methods for the assessment of mammalian distribution and abundance, with particular emphasis to potential impacts of distinct source data on development of spatially explicit models."
Research Interest
My research interests are mainly focused in the ecology and conservation biology of mammalian carnivores in the Iberian Peninsula. In this area, I am particularly interested in investigating predator-prey relations and competitive interactions between sympatric carnivores, and understand how these relations may affect the species’ spatial distribution and community structure.
Publications
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Monterroso P, Alves PC, Ferreras P (2014) Plasticity in circadian activity patterns of mesocarnivores in Southwestern Europe: implications for species coexistence. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 68(9): 1403-1417.
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Monterroso P, Rebelo P, Alves PC, Ferreras P (2016) Niche partitioning at the edge of the range: a multidimensional analysis with sympatric martens. Journal of Mammalogy, 97(3): 928-939.
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Monterroso P, Garrote G, Serronha A, Santos E, Delibes-Mateos M, Abrantes J, Pérez-de-Ayala R, Silvestre F, Carvalho J, Vasco I, Lopes AM, Maio E, Magalhães MJ, Mills LS, Esteves PJ, Simón MA, Alves PC (2016) Disease-mediated bottom-up regulation: An emergent virus affects a keystone prey, and alters the dynamics of trophic webs. Sientific Reports, 6: 36072.
