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I am an ecologist, passionate about the natural world, as I imagine most ecologists are. Still, I admit I am also fascinated by how humans interact with their surroundings, their restless pursuit for its comprehension, and especially their ability to create the world they imagine. I like to work with tools but also ideas and concepts. Thematically, I'm interested in both theoretical and applied ecology, merging my philosophical tendencies with an applied perspective. Specific interests include drivers of biodiversity and ecosystem change. Mainly, I've been working with invasive alien species.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Eva Malta Pinto

Citation names

  • Malta-Pinto, E.
  • Pinto, E. M.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
441B-6634-58D4
ORCID iD
0000-0003-1161-1977
Google Scholar ID
lQEpCIsAAAAJ
Scopus Author Id
57260127600

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biodiversity Conservation
  • Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences - Environmental Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1)
French Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
German Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2023/03/03 - 2027
Ongoing
 Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2019/09/15 - 2021/11/05
Concluded
 Ecology and Environment (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
"Policy-oriented research in invasion science: Trends, status, gaps and lessons " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 19
2019/09/19 - 2020/01/23
Concluded
 Circular Economy (Outros)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
 18
2014/09/14 - 2018/06/13
Concluded
 Biology (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"2016/17: "Assessment of the toxicity of ashes from wildfires in the freshwater macrophyte Lemna minor"; 2017/18: "Predicting the demographic variability and viability of the Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis)"" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/09 - 2023/02/28 Contracted Researcher (Research) Associação BIOPOLIS - Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal
2021/11 - 2022/05 Researcher (Research) Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
2020/09 - 2021/02 Researcher (Research) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2017/10 - 2018/06 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Centro de Investigação e de Tecnologias Agro-Ambientais e Biologicas, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/12/01 - 2024/12/06 Visiting Researcher UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, United Kingdom
2020/12 - 2021/09 Editor and Writer at "Science and Health" section of University Newspaper (https://www.juponline.pt/perfil/eva-pinto) Jornal Universitário do Porto, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (InBIO)
LA/P/0048/2020
10.54499/LA/P/0048/2020
PhD Student Fellow
Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31 Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology
UIDP/50027/2020
10.54499/UIDP/50027/2020
PhD Student Fellow
Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31 Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology
UIDB/50027/2020
10.54499/UIDB/50027/2020
PhD Student Fellow
Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2025/01/01 - Current OneBiosecurity Systems and Technology for People, Places and Pathways
10.3030/101180559
Team member
Ongoing
2024/10/15 - Current ECO-InvasionS
10.3030/857251
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Ongoing
2023/02/01 - Current SELINA - Science for Evidence-based and Sustainable Decisions about Natural Capital
Team member
Horizon 2020
Ongoing
2021/11 - 2022/05 SINVAQUA - Development of a prevention and monitoring system for invasive alien aquatic plants, based on remote sensing.
Candidatura 27 do Aviso n.º 9678/2021 «Conservação da Natureza e da Biodiversidade — Prevenção e controlo de espécies exóticas invasoras aquáticas»
Technical development
Ministério do Ambiente
Concluded
2021/09 - 2022/01 Cost Action CA17122 - AlienCSI: Increasing understanding of alien species through citizen science
COST ACTION CA17122
Participant
European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Concluded
2020/09 - 2021/02 Climate Change Adaptation Plan - Tâmega and Sousa / PIAAC-TS (Plano Intermunicipal de Adaptação às Alterações Climáticas - Tâmega e Sousa)
POSEUR
Technical development
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Joana R. Vicente; Eva M. Pinto; Antoine Guisan; Christoph Kueffer; Elizabete Marchante; Ingolf Kühn; João A. Cabral; et al. "Modelling Invasion by Australian Acacia Species: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities". 2023.
    10.1079/9781800622197.0030
Conference abstract
  1. Malta-Pinto, E.; Milheiro, José Diogo; Shacklton, R.; Stoett, P.; Richardson, D.M.; Roy, H.; Pauchard, A.; et al. "Perspectives on policy and governance for biological invasions: legal, economic and beyond". Paper presented in NEOBIOTA 2024, Lisbon, 2024.
  2. Pinto, E. M.; Bastos, Rita; Luís, António; Cabral, J. A.; Vicente, J. "Using dynamic models to test management scenarios for overabundant species.". Paper presented in "Modeling in Ecology and Evolution" Conference, Montpellier, 2023.
  3. Mouta, N.; Silva, R.; Pinto, E. M.; Vaz, A. S.; Alonso, J. M.; Gonçalves, J.; Honrado, J.; Vicente, J.R.. "Combining Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery and ensemble modelling to map water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) in a river". Paper presented in "Modeling in Ecology and Evolution" Conference, Montpellier, 2023.
  4. Bastos, R.; Lima, C.; Pinto, E. M.; Santos, M.; Vicente, J.; Cabral, J. A.. "Combined effects of land-use changes and fire events in the population dynamics of Acacia dealbata: a hybrid modelling approach tested in Northwest of Portugal". Paper presented in "Modeling in Ecology and Evolution" Conference, Montpellier, 2023.
  5. Vicente, J.. "A novel remote sensing supporting system to control, monitoring, containment and eradication of aquatic alien plant species - SINVAQUA". Paper presented in International Conference on Biological Invasions Biological Invasions in a Changing World, Tartu, 2022.
Conference poster
  1. Marques, M.; Malta-Pinto, E.; Vaz, A. S.; Hornado, J.; Vicente, J.. "Invasive alien species impacts on ecosystem services: local stakeholders' perceptions". Paper presented in TiBE Conference, 2023.
  2. Cardoso, Ana; Malta-Pinto, E.; Tabik, Siham; Francesco Renna; August, Tom; Roy, Helen; Correia, Ricardo; Joana R Vicente; Vaz, Ana Sofia. "Invasive alien species at your fingertips: Using deep learning with online digital images for early detection of Cortaderia selloana". Paper presented in Trends in Biodiversity and Evolution (TiBE), 2023.
  3. Zaic, Doris; Malta-Pinto, E.; Mouta, Nuno; Honrado, João; Alonso, Joaquim; Vicente, Joana. "Spatial impact of invasion by Acacia dealbata on the habitat quality of a protected area: an exploratory approach based on expert knowledge". Paper presented in TiBE Conference, 2023.
  4. Mouta, N.; Malta-Pinto, E.; Gonçalves, J.F.; Vicente, J. R.. "Sentinel-2 imagery and ensemble modelling techniques for invasive alien plant species detection: a terrestrial and aquatic case study for Minho region (NW Portugal)". Paper presented in Trends in Biodiversity and Evolution (TiBE), 2023.
Journal article
  1. Ana Sofia Cardoso; Eva Malta-Pinto; Siham Tabik; Tom August; Helen E. Roy; Ricardo Correia; Joana R. Vicente; Ana Sofia Vaz. "Can citizen science and social media images support the detection of new invasion sites? A deep learning test case with Cortaderia selloana". Ecological Informatics (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102602.
    10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102602
  2. Nuno Mouta; Renato Silva; Eva M. Pinto; Ana Sofia Vaz; Joaquim M. Alonso; João F. Gonçalves; João Honrado; Joana R. Vicente. "Sentinel-2 Time Series and Classifier Fusion to Map an Aquatic Invasive Plant Species along a River—The Case of Water-Hyacinth". Remote Sensing (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15133248.
    10.3390/rs15133248
  3. Eva M Pinto; A Sofia Vaz; João P Honrado; Helen E Roy; Anibal Pauchard; Peter Stoett; Ross T Shackleton; David M Richardson; Joana R Vicente. "Policy-Oriented Research in Invasion Science: Trends, Status, Gaps, and Lessons". BioScience (2022): https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac079.
    10.1093/biosci/biac079
  4. Gonçalves, C.; Honrado, J.P.; Cerejeira, J.; Sousa, R.; Fernandes, P.M.; Vaz, A.S.; Alves, M.; et al. "On the development of a regional climate change adaptation plan: Integrating model-assisted projections and stakeholders' perceptions". Science of the Total Environment 805 (2022): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85115026901&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150320
  5. Pinto, E.; Bastos, R.; Luís, A.; Cabral, J.A.. "Localized control of opportunistic, overabundant species in protected areas: a retrospective modelling approach encompassing future scenarios". Animal Conservation 24 5 (2021): 798-809. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85102527799&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/acv.12682
  6. Vaz, A.S.; Graça, M.; Carvalho-Santos, C.; Pinto, E.; Vicente, J.R.; Honrado, J.P.; Santos, J.A.. "Perceptions of Public Officers Towards the Effects of Climate Change on Ecosystem Services: A Case-Study From Northern Portugal". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9 (2021): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85116008651&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3389/fevo.2021.710293
  7. Nogueira, Carolina; Rodrigues, Cláudia; Pinto, Eva; Pereira, Ruth; Talhadas dos Santos, Paulo. "Literacia ambiental na era da desinformação". Revista Captar: Ciência e Ambiente para Todos 9 1 (2020): 19-36. https://proa.ua.pt/index.php/captar/article/view/17271.
    10.34624/CAPTAR.V0I0.17271
Report
  1. Roy, H.E.; Pauchard, A.; Stoett, P.; Renard Truong, T.; Lipinskaya, T.; Vicente, J. R.. 2023. Chapter 1. Introducing biological invasions and the IPBES thematic assessment of invasive alien species and their control.

Other

Dataset
  1. Tim Adriaens; Elena Tricarico; Peter Brown; Elizabete Marchante; Ana Andelkovic; Tom August; Sandro Bertolino; et al. An annotated list of horizon scanned technologies with potential for application in alien species citizen science projects. 2023.
    10.5281/ZENODO.7961854
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/07/05 Tools and technologies to tackle current challenges in invasion science (Joint presentation of InvasionS CIBIO PhD students) Encontro Ciência 24
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) (Porto, Portugal)
2024/05/21 Biodiversidade e Serviços dos Ecossistemas: Em direção a uma Economia de Base Natural Disciplina de "Economia Circular e Sustentabilidade"
IEFP
2024/04/11 Espécies Invasoras e Serviços dos Ecossistemas: Ameaças e Desafios Disciplina de "Gestão de Recursos Naturais"
IPVC
2023/12/15 Biodiversidade como Recurso Natural: Monitorização, valorização e ameaças Jornadas da Ciência de Arouca
Círculo Cultura e Democracia de Arouca (Arouca, Portugal)
2022/05/06 Guia de boas práticas para a gestão de plantas exóticas invasoras aquáticas Webinar for the presentation of research outputs of SINVAQUA
IPVC (Ponte de Lima, Portugal)
2022/03/14 Policy-oriented research in invasion science: a systematic review Advanced course "Methods in Research Synthesis: Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis"
BIOPOLIS, CIBIO-InBIO
2019/02 Predicting the demographic variability and viability of the Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis) Course "Bird Ecology and Management" from Biology degree
University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/06/17 - 2024/12/13 Thematic session at the BES Annual Meeting 2024 - "Novel tools and technologies to tackle current challenges in Invasion Science" (2024/12/09 - 2024/12/13)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 British Ecological Society, United Kingdom
2024/09/30 - 2024/10/04 Staff member at the 31st meeting of the GBIF Governing Board (2024/09/30 - 2024/10/04)
Congress (Other)
 Associação BIOPOLIS - Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal
2024/06/03 - 2024/07/05 Sessão Temática - "Espécies Exóticas Invasoras: Desafios para Uma Só Saúde e bem-estar global" - Encontro Ciência 2024 (2024/07/05)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2023/02 - 2023/11 TiBE Conference (Trends in Biodiversity and Evolution) (2023/11/28 - 2023/11/30)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Associação BIOPOLIS - Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal
2022/05/30 - 2022/06/02 Organization and support in ADVANCED COURSE "Models in invasion ecology: challenges and applications" (2022/05/30 - 2022/06/02)
Seminar (Other)
 Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2022/05/13 - 2022/05/13 Capacity building workshop: "Management of aquatic invasive alien plants" for SINVAQUA (2022/05/13)
Workshop
 Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/09/03 - 2024/09/06 NEOBIOTA Conference 2024 (Lisbon)
Conference
 NEOBIOTA 2024
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023/05/24 - 2023/05/26 Models in Ecology and Evolution (MEE) Congress 2023
Congress
Agropolis International, France
2022/11/17 - 2022/11/28 Intellectual Property and Knowledge Transfer Training Session
Workshop
Universidade do Porto Porto Business School, Portugal
2021/05 - 2022/01 Horizon Scanning for Tools and Technologies for Citizen Science - COST Action CA17122 Alien CSI
Workshop
European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/07/28 - Current Web Ecology (1399-1183) European Ecological Federation (EEF)
2024/07/22 - Current Environmental Management (1432-1009) Springer
2024/03/20 - Current People and Nature (2575-8314) British Ecological Society
2023/09 - Current Neobiota (1314-2488) Pensoft Publishers
2023/06 - Current Biological Invasions (1573-1464) Springer
2022/02 - Current Conservation Biology (1523-1739) Wiley (Blackwell Publishing)

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2024/03/03 - Current Invading Twitter: Analyzing trends of user sentiments towards invasive alien species using natural language processing and social media data Inês Zeferino
2023/10/16 - 2024/01/31 Spatial impact of invasion by Acacia dealbata on the habitat quality of a protected area: an exploratory approach based on expert knowledge Doris Zaic
2022/09 - 2023/06 The impact of invasive alien species on ecosystem services: perception of local actors Maria Marques
Distinctions

Other distinction

2022 Virtual Mobility Grant / E-COST-GRANT-CA17122-78d781e9 (Cost Action AlienCSI - CA17122)
2021 Virtual Mobility Grant / E-COST-GRANT-CA17122-7139f99a (Cost Action AlienCSI - CA17122)