Joana Carvalho (3F1A-6F3C-167A)

Curriculum Vitae

Joana Isabel da Silva Carvalho. Completed a BSc in Biology at the University of Porto (2007) and obtained a Masters degree in Human and Environmental Biology (2008) and a PhD in Ecology (December 2014) from the University of Lisbon. Was a visiting researcher at the Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (CIBIO) and at the School of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Salford, UK (2015). Following maternity leave (2016-2017), she was a postdoc at the University of Stirling, UK (2017-2019) where her research focussed on assessing the exposure risk of primates to climate and land-use changes. Since fall 2019 she is a postdoc in the School of Biological and Environmental Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University (UK) where she works on chimpanzee distribution modelling across the Greater Mahale Ecosystem in Tanzania. She has broad experience in field-based ecological research and capacity building in developing countries as well as strong quantitative and GIS skills. She has a proven track record of successful collaborative work, strong communication and team management skills, and in obtaining research funding.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Joana Carvalho

Citation names

Carvalho, Joana S.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 3F1A-6F3C-167A
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4235-1242

Email addresses

j.i.dasilvacarvalho@ljmu.ac.uk (Professional)
joana.coleoptera@gmail.com (Personal)

Addresses

Liverpool John Moores University, School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, James Parsons Building, Byrom Street, L3 3AF, Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom (Professional)

Websites

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joana_Carvalho11 (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biodiversity Conservation

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
German	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Elementary (A2)	Beginner (A1)
Spanish; Castilian	Elementary (A2)	Advanced (C1)	Elementary (A2)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)
French	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)
Creole and Pidgin, Portuguese-based (Other)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2009/10 - 2014/12 Concluded	Biologia (Doutoramento) Major in Ecologia Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "Conservation Status of the Endangered Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) in Lagoas de Cufada Natural Park (Republic of Guinea-Bissau)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	With distinction
2007/10 - 2008/12 Concluded	Biologia Humana e Ambiente (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "Social Behaviour in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Maintenance of Social Status and Dominance Hierarchy" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2003/10 - 2007/07 Concluded	Biologia (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "Social Hierarchy in a Pack of Labrador retrievers: Direct Observations of Intra and Inter-specific Relationships " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/10/01 - Current	Postdoc (Research)	Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom

2017/12/01 - 2019/01/31	Postdoc (Research)	University of Stirling, United Kingdom

2015/10 - 2016/02	Visiting Researcher (Research)	University of Salford, United Kingdom

2015 - 2015	Research Trainee (Research)	University of Salford, United Kingdom

2015 - 2015	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal

Other Careers

	Category Host institution	Employer
2008 - 2009	Assistente Técnico (Assistente Técnico)	Wall Street Institute, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2019 - Current	Modelling chimpanzee density and distribution across the Greater Mahale Ecosytem, Tanzania NA Post-doc Fellow	Arcus Foundation UK Office Ongoing
2011 - 2014	Conservation of the western chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes verus, in Lagoas de Cufada Natural Park, Republic of Guinea-Bissau NA Principal investigator Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal	Conservation International Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2017 - 2019	A global risk assessment of primates under climate and land use/cover scenarios NA Post-doc Fellow	University of Stirling Concluded
2011 - 2014	Conservation Status of the Endangered Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) in Lagoas de Cufada Natural Park (Republic of Guinea-Bissau) SFRH/BD/60702/2009 PhD Student Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract	Carvalho, Joana S.; Marques, T.A.; Vicente, L.. "Nesting Patterns of Chimpanzees in Relation to Human Disturbance and Vegetation Characteristics in Lagoas de Cufada Natural Park, Republic of Guinea-Bissau". Paper presented in 5th Congress of the European Federation of Primatology, Antwerp, 2013. Published
Journal article	Joana S. Carvalho; Bruce Graham; Ga¿lle Bocksberger; Fiona Maisels; Elizabeth A. Williamson; Serge Wich; Tenekwetche Sop; et al. "Predicting range shifts of African apes under global change scenarios". Diversity and Distributions 27 9 (2021): 1663-1679. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13358. 10.1111/ddi.13358 I Ordaz-Németh; B Amarasekaran; C Boesch; T Brncic; D Caillaud; G Campbell; Carvalho, Joana; et al.. "Inferring Range-Wide Density Distribution from Site-Level Abundance Estimates in African Great Apes". PeerJ (2020): Submitted Joana S. Carvalho; Bruce Graham; Hugo Rebelo; Gaëlle Bocksberger; Christoph F. J. Meyer; Serge Wich; Hjalmar S. Kühl. "A global risk assessment of primates under climate and land use/cover scenarios". Global Change Biology (2019): https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14671. 10.1111/gcb.14671 Heinicke, Stefanie; Mundry, Roger; Boesch, Christophe; Amarasekaran, Bala; Barrie, Abdulai; Brncic, Terry; Brugière, David; et al. "Advancing conservation planning for western chimpanzees using IUCN SSC A.P.E.S.—the case of a taxon-specific database". Environmental Research Letters 14 6 (2019): 064001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab1379. Published • 10.1088/1748-9326/ab1379 Heinicke, Stefanie; Mundry, Roger; Boesch, Christophe; Amarasekaran, Bala; Barrie, Abdulai; Brncic, Terry; Brugière, David; et al. "Characteristics of Positive Deviants in Western Chimpanzee Populations". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00016. Published • 10.3389/fevo.2019.00016 Carvalho, J.S.; Meyer, C.F.J.; Vicente, L.; Marques, T.A.. "Where to nest? Ecological determinants of chimpanzee nest abundance and distribution at the habitat and tree species scale". American Journal of Primatology 77 2 (2015): 186-199. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84921546252&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1002/ajp.22321 Carvalho, J.S.; Vicente, L.; Marques, T.A.. "Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) Diet Composition and Food Availability in a Human-Modified Landscape at Lagoas de Cufada Natural Park, Guinea-Bissau". International Journal of Primatology 36 4 (2015): 802-822. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84941933413&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1007/s10764-015-9856-y Carvalho, J.S.; Marques, T.A.; Vicente, L.. "Population Status of Pan troglodytes verus in Lagoas de Cufada Natural Park, Guinea-Bissau". PLoS ONE 8 8 (2013): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84881327176&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1371/journal.pone.0071527
Thesis / Dissertation	Carvalho, Joana. "Conservation Status of the Endangered Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) in Lagoas de Cufada Natural Park (Republic of Guinea-Bissau)". PhD, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, 2014. https://repositorio.ul.pt/jspui/handle/10451/15968.

Other

Other output

Predicting range shifts of African apes under global change scenarios. 2020. Joana S. Carvalho; Bruce Graham; Ga¿lle Bocksberger; Fiona Maisels; Elizabeth A. Williamson; Serge Wich; Tenekwetche Sop; et al. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.25.168815.
10.1101/2020.06.25.168815

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2019	Global Analysis of Exposure Risk of Primates to Climate and Land Use Changes	European Federation of Primatology and Primatological Society of Great Britain (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2019	Modelling Western Chimpanzee Densities to Support Regional Conservation Planning	27th International Primatological Society Congress (Nairobi, Kenya)
2018	Applying the Positive Deviance Approach to Identify Sustainable Social-Ecological Settings	5th European Congress for Conservation Biology (Jyväskylä, Finland)
2018	Applying the Positive Deviance Approach to Conservation Management	Pathways Europe (Goslar, Germany)
2018	‘Where to Go? Impact of Global Environmental Changes on African Apes’	Invited seminar presentation Behavior and Evolution Research Group (BERG), University of Stirling (Stirling, United Kingdom)
2015	Population Size Estimate and Vegetation Correlates of Nest Abundance of the Western Chimpanzee in Lagoas de Cufada National Park, Guinea-Bissau	27th International Congress for Conservation Biology and 4th European Congress for Conservation Biology. (Montpellier, France)
2014	Chimpanzee Density Estimation from a Line Transect Nest Survey in the Absence of Reliable Nest Decay Rate Estimates	25th Congress of the International Primatological Society (Hanoi, Vietnam)
2013	Nesting Patterns of Chimpanzees in Relation to Human Disturbance and Vegetation Characteristics in Lagoas de Cufada Natural Park, Republic of Guinea-Bissau	5th Congress of the European Federation of Primatology (Antwerp, Belgium)
2012	Simultaneous Estimation of Density and Nest Decay Rates in a Chimpanzee Population in Lagoas de Cufada Natural Park, Guinea-Bissau	3rd PhD students meeting of the Centre for Environmental Biology Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências (Lisbon, Portugal)
2012	Population Density and Nesting Patterns of the Western Chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes verus, in Lagoas de Cufada Natural Park, Guinea-Bissau	49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (Bonito, Brazil)
2012	Sleeping Tree Choice by Pan troglodytes verus in Lagoas de Cufada Natural Park, Guinea-Bissau	IX Congress of the Portuguese Ethological Society (Lisbon, Portugal)
2011	Conservation Status of the Pan Troglodytes Verus in Lagoas da Cufada Natural Park: Population Density, Food Availability, Diet and Habitat Use	Invited presentation Instituto da Biodiversidade e das Áreas Protegidas (Bissau, Guinea-Bissau)
2011	Tropical Forests	Invited presentation Non-Governmental Organization Palmeirinha (Bissau, Guinea-Bissau)
2011	Estimating the Density and Abundance of Pan troglodytes verus by Line Transect Sampling, in Lagoas de Cufada Natural Park, Republic of Guinea-Bissau	IV Congress of the European Federation for Primatology, III Iberian Primatological Conference and V Portuguese Primatological Conference and IX Spanish Primatological Conference (Almada, Portugal)
2009	Social Dominance Rank in a Group of Chimpanzees	II Iberian Primatological Conference, IV Portuguese Primatological Conference and VIII Spanish Primatological Conference (Madrid, Spain)
2008	Hierarchy in a Pack of Labrador retriever: Naturalistic Observation of the Relationships at Intra/Interspecific Levels	VIII Congress of the Portuguese Ethological Society (Lisbon, Portugal)

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2018 - 2018	Workshop: Research bites – Come and play the publishing trap	University of Stirling, United Kingdom
2018 - 2018	Workshop: Balanced researcher	University of Stirling, United Kingdom
2015 - 2015	Online course: Getting started with GIS	Esri, United States
2015 - 2015	Online course: Get started with species distribution modelling in Maxent	Udemy Inc, United States
2013 - 2013	Training course: R Without fear: An R Course in Evolutionary Ecology	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2013 - 2013	Measuring Biodiversity: Obtaining Data, Assessing its Quality and Generating Measures of Different Aspects of Diversity	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2013 - 2013	Workshop: Introduction to Density Estimation (using passive acoustic data)	University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
2012 - 2012	Training course: Introduction to Statistical Analysis with R	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2012 - 2012	Training course: Introduction to Distance Sampling	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2011 - 2011	Training course: GIS Analysis with Quantum GIS/GRASS	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2015 - Current	Society for Conservation Biology	Member

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2013 - 2013	Guest lecture	Biologia da Conservação (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2014 - Current	American Journal of Primatology (1098-2345)	Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
2014 - Current	International Journal of Primatology (1573-8604)	Springer-Verlag
2014 - Current	Current Zoology (2396-9814)	Oxford University Press
2014 - Current	Northwestern Journal of Zoology
2014 - Current	PLoS ONE (1932-6203)	Public Library of Science

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2009 - Current	Supported B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. students during different stages of their research projects, importantly regarding data analysis.	several

Distinctions

Title

2014	PhD with distinction Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal