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Filipe Carvalho is a Portuguese research ecologist, who loved nature since was a little boy. He completed his studies at the University of Évora (BSc, MSc and PhD) in Portugal, mainly focusing on carnivore ecology and the human impacts (road ecology) on their distribution. Recently (2017) he moved to South Africa to conduct research on mesocarnivores ecology coexistence under different regimes of human and large predator pressures collaborating with the University of Porto (Portugal) and University of Fort Hare (South Africa). After more than 15 years studying carnivores using direct methods such as trapping and telemetry, or through indirect methods such as spoors (tracks and scats) and camera traps surveys, he is trying to catch up with scientific publications to share his work globally. He is a also a GIS and statistical analysis lover. He authored and/or reviewed several carnivore red list assessments in Europe, South Africa and Namibia. He published 19 papers in peer review journals and 8 book chapters.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Filipe Granja de Carvalho

Citation names

  • Carvalho, Filipe

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
7310-632C-9176
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2161-5293

Addresses

  • CIBIO/InBIO - Universidade do Porto, Campus de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, No 7, 4485-661 , Vairão, Vairão, Portugal (Professional)
  • House No 7, Kings Terraces,, 1 Miles Street, 6139, Grahamstown, Makana, South Africa (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2010 - 2015
Concluded
 Biologia (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Évora Instituto de Investigação e Formação Avançada, Portugal
"Assessing and mitigating road effects on functional landscape connectivity: a case study with common genets (Genetta genetta) in a Mediterranean context" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2005 - 2008
Concluded
 Biologia da Conservação (Mestrado)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
"Factors determining vertebrate roadkills" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
1999/10 - 2004/10
Concluded
 Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
"Modelling the abundance of carnivores in Monfurado Mountains. (Modelação da abundância de carnívoros na Serra de Monfurado) (in Portuguese) (BSc/Honours Thesis)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18/20
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017/09/01 - Current Postdoc (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
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Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2017/12 - Current Large predator removal shapes the coexistence of mesocarnivores: the mesopredator release impacts revisited
SFRH/BPD/115228/2016
Post-doc Fellow
Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)
Cancelled
2010/01 - 2014/02 Assessing and Mitigating road effects on functional landscape connectivity: a case study with common genets (Genetta genetta) in a Mediterranean context.
SFRH/BD/66393/2009
PhD Student Fellow
Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)
2008/06/01 - 2009/12/31 Study and valorisation of the fauna biodiversity component in the SECIL-Outão quarry company, 2nd Phase. Measures of management and monitoring implementation
UE/SECIL/2008
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
Universidade de Évora
Concluded
2005/01 - 2007/12 GAPS - Cooperative management in the Monfurado site. D6: Task - Increment habitat measures for fauna in hunting zones
Life03 NAT/P/000018
Research Fellow
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
 European Commission
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2016/04/11 - 2019/07/11 POPCONNECT - uso de dados genéticos e de campo para avaliar os efeitos das estradas na conectividade funcional da paisagem e viabilidade populacional
PTDC/AAG-MAA/0372/2014
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2011/01/01 - 2013/12/31 Projecto Estratégico - UI 115 - 2011-2012
PEst-C/AGR/UI0115/2011
Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Instituto Mediterrâneo para a Agricultura Ambiente e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2008 - 2009 Estudo e Valorização da Biodiversidade – Componente da Fauna nas Fábricas de Maceira e Pataias - 1ª Fase
Sem Referência
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Carvalho, Filipe; Luís Miguel Rosalino. "Genetta genetta (Linnaeus, 1758)". In Livro Vermelho dos Mamíferos de Portugal Continental, 228-229. Portugal: FCiências.ID & ICNF, 2023.
    Published
  2. Carvalho, Filipe. "Methods to monitor and mitigate wildlife mortality in railways.". Portugal, 2017.
    10.1007/978-3-319-57496-7_3
  3. Santos, S.M.; Carvalho, F.; Mira, A.. "Current knowledge on wildlife mortality in railways". 11-22. 2017.
  4. Carvalho, Filipe; Tembisa Matolengwe; David Camps; Philippe Gaubert. "A conservation assessment of Genetta genetta". In The Red List of Mammals of South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho. South Africa: South African National Biodiversity Institute and Endangered Wildlife Trust, South Africa, 2016.
    Published
  5. Carvalho, Filipe; Craig Widdows; Peter D Roberts; Ant H. Maddock; Philippe Gaubert; Emmanuel Do Linh San. "A conservation assessment of Genetta tigrina". In The Red List of Mammals of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. South Africa: South African National Biodiversity Institute and Endangered Wildlife Trust, South Africa, 2016.
    Published
  6. Carvalho, Filipe. "Factors affecting small and middle-sized carnivore occurrence and abundance in Mediterranean agricultural landscapes: case studies in southern Portugal.". United States, 2011.
  7. Carvalho, Filipe. "Negative Binomial GAM and GAMM to Analyse Amphibian Roadkills". United States, 2009.
    10.10007/978-0-387-87458-6_16
Conference abstract
  1. Ana Galantinho; Sofia Eufrázio; Carmo Silva; Carvalho, Filipe; Russell Alpizar-Jara; António Mira. Corresponding author: Ana Galantinho. "Road effects on demographic traits of small mammal populations: a capture-recapture study". Paper presented in XXV Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística—SPE 2021At: (on line conference), Évora, 2021.
    Published
  2. Ana Galantinho; José M. Herrera; Sofia Eufrázio; Carmo Silva; Carvalho, Filipe; Russell Alpizar-Jara; António Mira. Corresponding author: Ana Galantinho. "Road verges are valuable corridors for small mammals even in well-preserved habitats". Paper presented in International Conference on Ecology and Transportation (ICOET), 2021.
    Published
  3. Eduardo Ferreira; Valerio, Francesco; Fernandes, Nelson; João Craveiro; Costa, Pedro; Denis Medinas; Paulo Silva, João; et al. "Assessing behaviour states in a forest carnivore in a road-dominated landscape with hidden Markov models". Paper presented in IENE 2020 International Conference LIFE LINES - Linear Infrastructure Networks with Ecological Solutions, Évora, 2021.
    Published
  4. Plaatjle, Axola; Carvalho, Filipe; Do Linh San, Emmanuel. "Comparative diets of Cape and small-spotted genets in an area of sympatry: evidence for trophic competition?". Paper presented in 39th ZSSA Congress, Sukukuza, Kruger National Park, 2019.
    Published
  5. Xhobani, Masibulele; Carvalho, Filipe; Michael Sommers; Do Linh San, Emmanuel. "Latrine use by syntopic small-spotted and Cape genets: who visits, when, and to do what?". Paper presented in 39th ZSSA Congress, Sukukuza, Kruger National Park, 2019.
    Published
  6. Carvalho, Filipe; Carvalho, Rafael; Galantinho, Ana; Mira, António; Beja, Pedro. "Animal movement analysis predicts higher risk crossing zones: an assessment for mesocarnivores.". Paper presented in African Conference for Linear Infrastructure and Ecology., Sukukuza, Kruger National Park, 2019.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Carvalho, Filipe. "Factors determining vertebrate road-kills. A case study in Southern Portugal". Paper presented in Linear Infrastructures and Biodiversity Seminar, 2005.
  2. Carvalho, Filipe. "The use of scent-stations to monitoring carnivore populations". Paper presented in VIII ENEB (National Congress of Biology students), 2004.
Journal article
  1. Filipe Carvalho; Ana Galantinho; Michael J. Somers; Emmanuel Do Linh San. "Influence of season, sex, and interspecific interactions on the diel activity patterns of two sympatric African small carnivores". Scientific Reports (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-80619-4.
    10.1038/s41598-024-80619-4
  2. Axola Plaatjie; Filipe Carvalho; Rabelani Marikhele; Zimkitha JK Madikiza; Emmanuel Do Linh San. "Cape genet Genetta tigrina diet in the Albany Thicket Biome, South Africa". African Zoology (2024): https://doi.org/10.1080/15627020.2024.2370789.
    10.1080/15627020.2024.2370789
  3. Carvalho, Filipe; Ziko, Bantony A.; Mrubata, Zonke; Xhobani, Masibulele; Plaatjie, Axola; Do Linh San, Emmanuel. "Multi-scale habitat modelling of latrine site selection by sympatric carnivores in an Albany Thicket landscape, South Africa". Landscape Ecology 39 3 (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-01854-8.
    10.1007/s10980-024-01854-8
  4. Clements, Hayley S.; Do Linh San, Emmanuel; Hempson, Gareth; Linden, Birthe; Maritz, Bryan; Monadjem, Ara; Reynolds, Chevonne; et al. "The bii4africa dataset of faunal and floral population intactness estimates across Africa’s major land uses". Scientific Data 11 1 (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02832-6.
    10.1038/s41597-023-02832-6
  5. Galantinho, Ana; Sara Santos; Sofia Eufrázio; Carmo Silva; Carvalho, Filipe; Russell Alpizar-Jara; António Mira. Corresponding author: Galantinho, Ana. "Effects of roads on small-mammal movements: opportunities and risks of vegetation management on roadsides". Journal of Environmental Management 316 (2022): 115272. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115272.
    10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115272
  6. Grilo, Clara; Carvalho, Filipe. Corresponding author: Grilo, Clara. "MAMMALS IN PORTUGAL : A data set of terrestrial, volant, and marine mammal occurrences in Portugal". Ecology (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3654.
    10.1002/ecy.3654
  7. Ana Galantinho; José M. Herrera; Sofia Eufrázio; Carmo Silva; Filipe Carvalho; Russell Alpizar-Jara; António Mira. "Road verges provide connectivity for small mammals: A case study with wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus) in an agro-silvo pastoral system". Journal of Environmental Management 258 (2020): 110033-110033. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.110033.
    10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.110033
  8. André Lourenço; João Gonçalves; Filipe Carvalho; Ian J. Wang; Guillermo Velo-Antón. "Comparative landscape genetics reveals the evolution of viviparity reduces genetic connectivity in fire salamanders". Molecular Ecology (2019): https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15249.
    10.1111/mec.15249
  9. Francesco Valerio; Carvalho, Filipe; A. Marcia Barbosa; António Mira; Sara M. Santos. "Accounting for Connectivity Uncertainties in Predicting Roadkills: a Comparative Approach between Path Selection Functions and Habitat Suitability Models". Environmental Management (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00267-019-01191-6.
    10.1007/s00267-019-01191-6
  10. Carvalho, Filipe; Lourenço, André; Carvalho, Rafael; Alves, Paulo C.; Mira, António; Beja, Pedro. "The effects of a motorway on movement behaviour and gene flow in a forest carnivore: Joint evidence from road mortality, radio tracking and genetics". Landscape and Urban Planning 178 (2018): 217-227. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2018.06.007.
    10.1016/j.landurbplan.2018.06.007
  11. Andreia Dias; Luís Palma; Filipe Carvalho; Dora Neto; Joan Real; Pedro Beja. "The role of conservative versus innovative nesting behavior on the 25-year population expansion of an avian predator". Ecology and Evolution 7 12 (2017): 4241-4253. https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fece3.3007.
    10.1002/ece3.3007
  12. Carvalho, Filipe. "Road effects on demographic traits of small mammal populations". European Journal of Wildlife Research 63 1 (2017): https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs10344-017-1076-7.
    10.1007/s10344-017-1076-7
  13. Carvalho, Filipe. "Assessing landscape functional connectivity in a forest carnivore using path selection funcqtions". Landscape Ecology (2016): http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10980-015-0326-x.
    10.1007/s10980-015-0326-x
  14. Carvalho, Filipe. "Monitoring frequency influences the analysis of resting behaviour in a forest carnivore". Ecological Research (2015): http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11284-015-1253-7.
    10.1007/s11284-015-1253-7
  15. Carvalho, Filipe. "Use of tree hollows by a Mediterranean forest carnivore". Forest Ecology and Managment (2014): http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112713008153.
    10.1016/j.foreco.2013.12.013
  16. Carvalho, Filipe. "How Long Do the Dead Survive on the Road? Carcass Persistence Probability and Implications for Road-Kill Monitoring Surveys". Plos One 6 9 (2011): http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0025383.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0025383
  17. Carvalho, Filipe. "Comparing annual vertebrate road kills over two times periods, 9 years apart: a case study in Mediterranean farmland   ". European Journal of Wildlife Research (2011): http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10344-010-0410-0.
    10.1007/s10344-010-0410-0
  18. Carvalho, Filipe. "Does afforestation increase bird nest predation risk in surrounding farmland?". Forest Ecology and Management 260 8 (2010): 1359-1366. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112710004160.
    10.1016/j.foreco.2010.07.032
Report
  1. Carvalho, Filipe. 2015. Genetta genetta. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T41698A45218636.en.
    10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T41698A45218636
  2. Mira, António; Galantinho, Ana; Oliveira, Amália; Silva, Carmo; Medinas, Denis; Marques, Helena; Carvalho, Filipe; et al. 2011. Estudo e Valorização da Biodiversidade, Componente da Fauna, na Propriedade SECIL - Outão. 3ª fase - Implementação e Monitorização do Plano de Acção. Relatório de Progresso I.. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/4286.
  3. Mira, António; Galantinho, Ana; Oliveira, Amália; Silva, Carmo; Medinas, Denis; Marques, Helena; Carvalho, Filipe; et al. 2011. Estudo e Valorização da Biodiversidade na Popriedade da SECIL-Outão. Componente da Fauna – 2ª fase. Implementação de Medidas de Gestão e Monitorização". Relatório Final Volumes 1 e 2. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/3976.
  4. Mira, António; Galantinho, Ana; Silva, Ana; Encarnação, Cláudia; Ascensão, Fernando; Carvalho, Filipe; Mestre, Frederico; Costa, Mafalda. 2005. Monfurado Site, Conservation and Valorization of the Natural Heritage – 2nd phase, Fauna Studies, Vol. II - Mammals (in Portuguese).
  5. Mira, António; Galantinho, Ana; Silva, Ana; Encarnação, Cláudia; Ascensão, Fernando; Carvalho, Filipe; Mestre, Frederico; et al. 2004. “Monfurado Site. Conservation and Valorization of the Natural Heritage – 2nd phase” (in Portuguese).
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Carvalho, Filipe. "Assessing and mitigating road effects on functional landscape connectivity: a case study with common genets (Genetta genetta) in a Mediterranean context". PhD, Universidade de Évora, 2015. http://dspace.uevora.pt/rdpc/handle/10174/16405.
  2. Carvalho, Filipe. "Factors determining vertebrate roadkills". Master, Universidade de Évora, 2009. http://dspace.uevora.pt/rdpc/bitstream/10174/17692/1/Carvalho2009_MSc_Thesis_final.pdf.
  3. Carvalho, Filipe. "Modelação da abundância de carnívoros na Serra Monfurado". Degree, Universidade de Évora, 2004. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312377938_Modelling_the_abundance_of_carnivores_in_Monfurado_Mountains_Modelacao_da_abundancia_de_carnivoros_na_Serra_de_Monfurado_in_Portuguese_BScHonours_Thesis.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2010/10 Factors influencing vertebrate carcasses retention time on roads: a preliminary study on Mediterranean context 2010 IENE International Conference on Ecology and Transportation
IENE (Velence, Hungary)
2009/08 Factors influencing small carnivore occurrence and abundance in Mediterranean agricultural landscapes. Case studies in southern Portugal. The 10th International Mammalogical Congress
(Mendoza, Argentina)

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2019 - Current IUCN Small Carnivore Research Group Small Carnivore Specialist Member
Distinctions

Award

2015 ECCB-ICCB 2015 International Congress for Conservation Biology, Travel Reimbursement Award 2015 to attend ICCB-ECCB in Montpellier, France
2010 IENE 2010 International Conference on Ecology and Transportation, Free registration Award to attend the IENE 2010 conference in Velence, Hungary

Other distinction

2016 Postdoctoral Grant - SFRH/BPD/115228/2016 - FCT - Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology
2009 PhD grant - SFRH/BD/66393/ 2009 - FCT - Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology