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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Natasha Sofia Ribeiro

Citation names

  • Ribeiro, Natasha

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
7318-B893-85E4
ORCID iD
0000-0002-5369-5905
Scopus Author Id
23467861400
Education
Degree Classification
2007
Concluded
 Environmental sciences (Doctor of Philosophy)
University of Virginia, United States
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
1995 - Current Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Ribeiro, Natasha. Miombo Woodlands in a Changing Environment: Securing the Resilience and Sustainability of People and Woodlands. Springer International Publishing. 2020.
    10.1007/978-3-030-50104-4
Book chapter
  1. Ribeiro, Natasha. "Biodiversity Studies in Key Species from the African Mopane and Miombo Woodlands". {InTech, 2017.
    10.5772/66845
  2. Ribeiro, Natasha Sofia; Syampungani, Stephen; Matakala, Nalukui M.; Nangoma, David; Ribeiro-Barros, Ana Isabel. "Miombo Woodlands Research Towards the Sustainable Use of Ecosystem Services in Southern Africa". In Biodiversity in Ecosystems - Linking Structure and Function. InTech, 2015.
    10.5772/59288
  3. Ribeiro, Natasha. "Remote Sensing of Biomass in the Miombo Woodlands of Southern Africa: Opportunities and Limitations for Research". {InTech, 2012.
    10.5772/16608
Conference paper
  1. Martikka, M.; Husgafvel, R.; Dahl, O.; Egas, A.; Ribeiro, N.. "Study module development on environmental engineering - Experiences from Mozambican and Finnish higher education collaboration". 2014.
    10.2316/P.2014.812-009
  2. Ribeiro, Natasha. "The influence of rainfall, vegetation, elephants and people on fire frequency of miombo woodlands, Northern Mozambique". 2009.
    10.1109/igarss.2009.5417378
Journal article
  1. Janine C. F. Donhouedé; Kolawolé Valère Salako; Kisito Gandji; Rodrigue Idohou; Roméo Tohoun; Achille Hounkpèvi; Natasha Ribeiro; et al. "Food and medicinal uses of Annona senegalensis Pers.: a country-wide assessment of traditional theoretical knowledge and actual uses in Benin, West Africa". Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 18 1 (2022): https://doi.org/10.1186/s13002-022-00510-2.
    10.1186/s13002-022-00510-2
  2. Orlando A. Macave; Natasha S. Ribeiro; Ana I. Ribeiro; Aniceto Chaúque; Romana Bandeira; Cristina Branquinho; Robert Washington-Allen. "Modelling Aboveground Biomass of Miombo Woodlands in Niassa Special Reserve, Northern Mozambique". Forests 13 2 (2022): 311-311. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13020311.
    10.3390/f13020311
  3. Tear, Timothy H.; Wolff, Nicholas H.; Lipsett-Moore, Geoffrey J.; Ritchie, Mark E.; Ribeiro, Natasha S.; Petracca, Lisanne S.; Lindsey, Peter A.; et al. "Savanna fire management can generate enough carbon revenue to help restore Africa’s rangelands and fill protected area funding gaps". One Earth 4 12 (2021): 1776-1791. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.11.013.
    10.1016/j.oneear.2021.11.013
  4. Ribeiro, N.S.; Armstrong, Amanda Hildt; Fischer, Rico; Kim, Yeon-Su; Shugart, Herman Henry; Ribeiro-Barros, Ana I.; Chauque, Aniceto; et al. "Prediction of forest parameters and carbon accounting under different fire regimes in Miombo woodlands, Niassa Special Reserve, Northern Mozambique". Forest Policy and Economics 133 (2021): 102625. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102625.
    10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102625
  5. "‘To prevent this disease, we have to stay at home, but if we stay at home, we die of hunger’ – livelihoods, vulnerability and coping with Covid-19 in rural Mozambique". World Development (2021): 105757-105757. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105757.
    10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105757
  6. Ivete Sandra Alberto Maquia; Paula Fareleira; Isabel Videira e. Castro; Ricardo Soares; Denise R. A. Brito; Aires Afonso Mbanze; Aniceto Chaúque; et al. "The Nexus between Fire and Soil Bacterial Diversity in the African Miombo Woodlands of Niassa Special Reserve, Mozambique". Microorganisms 9 8 (2021): 1562-1562. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9081562.
    10.3390/microorganisms9081562
  7. Tom Eames; Jeremy Russell-Smith; Cameron Yates; Andrew Edwards; Roland Vernooij; Natasha Ribeiro; Franziska Steinbruch; Guido R. van der Werf. "Instantaneous Pre-Fire Biomass and Fuel Load Measurements from Multi-Spectral UAS Mapping in Southern African Savannas". Fire 4 1 (2021): 2-2. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire4010002.
    10.3390/fire4010002
  8. Aurélio de Jesus Rodrigues Pais; Natasha Sofia Ribeiro; Rubens Manoel dos Santos. "Mapping floristic communities in Southern Africa savannas, Mozambique". Rodriguésia 72 (2021): https://doi.org/10.1590/2175-7860202172010.
    10.1590/2175-7860202172010
  9. Sedano, F.; Lisboa, S.N.; Sahajpal, R.; Duncanson, L.; Ribeiro, N.; Sitoe, A.; Hurtt, G.; Tucker, C.J.. "The connection between forest degradation and urban energy demand in sub-Saharan Africa: A characterization based on high-resolution remote sensing data". Environmental Research Letters 16 6 (2021): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85107927744&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1088/1748-9326/abfc05
  10. Mbanze, A.A.; Vieira da Silva, C.; Ribeiro, N.S.; Santos, J.L.. "Participation in illegal harvesting of natural resources and the perceived costs and benefits of living within a protected area". Ecological Economics 179 (2021): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85090050944&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106825
  11. Russell-Smith, J.; Yates, C.; Vernooij, R.; Eames, T.; van der Werf, G.; Ribeiro, N.; Edwards, A.; et al. "Opportunities and challenges for savanna burning emissions abatement in southern Africa". Journal of Environmental Management 288 (2021): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85103699739&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112414
  12. Ribeiro, N.S.; Armstrong, A.H.; Fischer, R.; Kim, Y.-S.; Shugart, H.H.; Ribeiro-Barros, A.I.; Chauque, A.; et al. "Prediction of forest parameters and carbon accounting under different fire regimes in Miombo woodlands, Niassa Special Reserve, Northern Mozambique". Forest Policy and Economics 133 (2021): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85118590611&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102625
  13. Godlee, J.L.; Ryan, C.M.; Bauman, D.; Bowers, S.J.; Carreiras, J.M.B.; Chisingui, A.V.; Cromsigt, J.P.G.M.; et al. "Structural diversity and tree density drives variation in the biodiversity–ecosystem function relationship of woodlands and savannas". New Phytologist 232 2 (2021): 579-594. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85112036370&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/nph.17639
  14. Ribeiro, Natasha. "Abundance, distribution and ecological impacts of invasive plant species in Maputo Special Reserve, Mozambique". International Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation 12 4 (2020): 305-315. http://dx.doi.org/10.5897/ijbc2020.1428.
    10.5897/ijbc2020.1428
  15. Ribeiro, Natasha. "Monitoring intra and inter annual dynamics of forest degradation from charcoal production in Southern Africa with Sentinel – 2 imagery". International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 92 (2020): 102184-102184. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2020.102184.
    10.1016/j.jag.2020.102184
  16. Ribeiro, Natasha. "Mining the Microbiome of Key Species from African Savanna Woodlands: Potential for Soil Health Improvement and Plant Growth Promotion". Microorganisms 8 9 (2020): 1291-1291. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8091291.
    10.3390/microorganisms8091291
  17. Ribeiro, Natasha. "Tropical forest loss enhanced by large-scale land acquisitions". Nature Geoscience 13 7 (2020): 482-488. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0592-3.
    10.1038/s41561-020-0592-3
  18. Bey, Adia; Jetimane, Julieta; Lisboa, Sá Nogueira; Ribeiro, Natasha; Sitoe, Almeida; Meyfroidt, Patrick. "Mapping smallholder and large-scale cropland dynamics with a flexible classification system and pixel-based composites in an emerging frontier of Mozambique". Remote Sensing of Environment 239 (2020): 111611. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111611.
    10.1016/j.rse.2019.111611
  19. Lisboa, Sá Nogueira; Woollen, Emily; Grundy, Isla M.; Ryan, Casey M.; Smith, Harriet Elizabeth; Zorrilla-Miras, Pedro; Baumert, Sophia; et al. "Effect of charcoal production and woodland type on soil organic carbon and total nitrogen in drylands of southern Mozambique". Forest Ecology and Management 457 (2020): 117692. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117692.
    10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117692
  20. Sedano, F; Lisboa, S N; Duncanson, L; Ribeiro, N; Sitoe, A; Sahajpal, R; Hurtt, G; Tucker, C J. "Monitoring forest degradation from charcoal production with historical Landsat imagery. A case study in southern Mozambique". Environmental Research Letters 15 1 (2020): 015001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab3186.
    10.1088/1748-9326/ab3186
  21. Mbanze, Aires Afonso; Ribeiro, Natasha Sofia; Silva, Carina Vieira; Santos, José Lima. "Dataset from 55 experts engaged in nature conservation in Mozambique". (2020): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/19401.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2019.125759
  22. Mbanze, A.A.; Ribeiro, N.S.; da Silva, C.V.; Santos, J.L.. "Dataset from 55 experts engaged in nature conservation in Mozambique". Data in Brief 28 (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85077731159&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.dib.2019.105080
  23. Mbanze, A.A.; Viera da Silva, C.; Ribeiro, N.S.; Silva, J.; Santos, J.L.. "A Livelihood and Farming System approach for effective conservation policies in Protected Areas of Developing Countries: The case study of the Niassa National Reserve in Mozambique". Land Use Policy 99 (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85090028201&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105056
  24. Ribeiro, Natasha. "An expert-based approach to assess the potential for local people engagement in nature conservation: The case study of the Niassa National Reserve in Mozambique". Journal for Nature Conservation 52 (2019): 125759-125759. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2019.125759.
    10.1016/j.jnc.2019.125759
  25. Ribeiro, Natasha. "Impacts of land use intensification on human wellbeing: Evidence from rural Mozambique". Global Environmental Change 59 (2019): 101976-101976. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.101976.
    10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.101976
  26. Natasha Ribeiro; Gernot Ruecker; Navashni Govender; Valério Macandza; Aurélio Pais; Domingos Machava; Aniceto Chauque; Sa Nogueira Lisboa; Romana Bandeira. "The influence of fire frequency on the structure and botanical composition of savanna ecosystems". Ecology and Evolution (2019): https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5400.
    10.1002/ece3.5400
  27. Silva, Julie A.; Sedano, Fernando; Flanagan, Steve; Ombe, Zacarias A.; Machoco, Rene; Meque, Cardoso H.; Sitoe, Almeida; et al. "Charcoal-related forest degradation dynamics in dry African woodlands: Evidence from Mozambique". Applied Geography 107 (2019): 72-81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2019.04.006.
    10.1016/j.apgeog.2019.04.006
  28. Natasha Sofia Ribeiro; Laura K. Snook; Iva Carla Nunes de Carvalho Vaz; Teresa Alves. "Gathering honey from wild and traditional hives in the Miombo woodlands of the Niassa National Reserve, Mozambique: What are the impacts on tree populations?". Global Ecology and Conservation 17 (2019): e00552-e00552. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00552.
    10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00552
  29. Mbanze, Aires Afonso; Mário, Amade Martins; Rivaes, Rui; Ribeiro-Barros, Ana I.; Ribeiro, Natasha Sofia; NOVA School of Business and Economics (NOVA SBE); Mbanze, Aires Afonso; et al. "Field data on vegetation structure and effects of human use of the Dambos ecosystem in Northern Mozambique". Global Ecology and Conservation 20 (2019): e00704. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85072820727&partnerID=8YFLogxK.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.104454
  30. Maquia, Ivete; Catarino, Sílvia; Pena, Ana R.; Brito, Denise R.A.; Ribeiro, Natasha S.; Romeiras, Maria; Ribeiro-Barros, Ana I.. "Diversification of African tree legumes in Miombo-Mopane woodlands". (2019): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/18265.
    10.3390/plants8060182
  31. Ribeiro, Natasha; Robinne, François-Nicolas; Burns, Janice; de Groot, Bill; Wotton, Mike; Kleine, Mike. "Global fire challenges in a warming world: Summary Note of a Global Expert Workshop on Fire and Climate Change". (2019): http://www.icmbio.gov.br/revistaeletronica/index.php/BioBR/article/view/1305.
  32. Lisboa, Sá Nogueira; Guedes, Benard Soares; Ribeiro, Natasha; Sitoe, Almeida. "Biomass allometric equation and expansion factor for a mountain moist evergreen forest in Mozambique". Carbon Balance and Management 13 1 (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13021-018-0111-7.
    10.1186/s13021-018-0111-7
  33. Gumbo, Davison; Clendenning, Jessica; Martius, Christopher; Moombe, Kaala; Grundy, Isla; Nasi, Robert; Mumba, Kondwani Y.; et al. "How have carbon stocks in central and southern Africa’s miombo woodlands changed over the last 50 years? A systematic map of the evidence". Environmental Evidence 7 1 (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13750-018-0128-0.
    10.1186/s13750-018-0128-0
  34. Messina, Mario; Cunliffe, Robert; Farcomeni, Alessio; Malatesta, Luca; Smit, Izak P.J.; Testolin, Riccardo; Ribeiro, Natasha S.; et al. "An innovative approach to disentangling the effect of management and environment on tree cover and density of protected areas in African savanna". Forest Ecology and Management 419-420 (2018): 1-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.03.019.
    10.1016/j.foreco.2018.03.019
  35. Zorrilla-Miras, Pedro; Mahamane, Mansour; Metzger, Marc J.; Baumert, Sophia; Vollmer, Frank; Luz, Ana Catarina; Woollen, Emily; et al. "Environmental Conservation and Social Benefits of Charcoal Production in Mozambique". Ecological Economics 144 (2018): 100-111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.07.028.
    10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.07.028
  36. Ribeiro, Natasha. "Woody species from the Mozambican Miombo woodlands: A review on their ethnomedicinal uses and pharmacological potential". Journal of Medicinal Plants Research 12 2 (2018): 15-31. http://dx.doi.org/10.5897/jmpr2017.6540.
    10.5897/jmpr2017.6540
  37. Vollmer, Frank; Zorrilla-Miras, Pedro; Baumert, Sophia; Luz, Ana Catarina; Woollen, Emily; Grundy, Isla; Artur, Luis; et al. "Charcoal income as a means to a valuable end: Scope and limitations of income from rural charcoal production to alleviate acute multidimensional poverty in Mabalane district, southern Mozambique". World Development Perspectives 7-8 (2017): 43-60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2017.11.005.
    10.1016/j.wdp.2017.11.005
  38. Ribeiro, Natasha. "Development of A Study Module on and Pedagogical Approaches to Industrial Environmental Engineering and Sustainability in Mozambique". International Journal of Higher Education 6 2 (2017): 50-50. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/ijhe.v6n2p50.
    10.5430/ijhe.v6n2p50
  39. Duvane, Jossias A.; Jorge, Tiago F.; Maquia, Ivete; Ribeiro, Natasha; Ribeiro-Barros, Ana I.F.; António, Carla. "Characterization of the primary matabolome of Brachystegia boehmii and Colophospermum mopane under different fire regimes in Miombo and Mopane African woodlands". (2017): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/14602.
    10.3389/fpls.2017.02130
  40. Ribeiro, N. S.; Cangela, A.; Chauque, A.; Bandeira, R. R.; Ribeiro-Barros, A. I.. "Characterisation of spatial and temporal distribution of the fire regime in Niassa National Reserve, northern Mozambique". International Journal of Wildland Fire 26 12 (2017): 1021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf17085.
    10.1071/wf17085
  41. Woollen, Emily; Ryan, Casey M.; Baumert, Sophia; Vollmer, Frank; Grundy, Isla; Fisher, Janet; Fernando, Jone; et al. "Charcoal production in the Mopane woodlands of Mozambique: what are the trade-offs with other ecosystem services?". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 371 1703 (2016): 20150315-20150315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0315.
    10.1098/rstb.2015.0315
  42. Ribeiro, Natasha. "The impact of charcoal production on forest degradation: a case study in Tete, Mozambique". Environmental Research Letters 11 9 (2016): 094020-094020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/9/094020.
    10.1088/1748-9326/11/9/094020
  43. Ribeiro, Natasha S.; Jetimane, Julieta L.; Militão, Elias; Maquia, Ivete; Chirizane, Cacilda; de Sousa, Camila; Alves, Tereza; et al. "Ecological characterization of anex situconservation plantation in south-eastern Mozambique". African Journal of Ecology 55 1 (2016): 70-79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aje.12320.
    10.1111/aje.12320
  44. Syampungani, Stephen; Clendenning, Jessica; Gumbo, Davison; Nasi, Robert; Moombe, Kaala; Chirwa, Paxie; Ribeiro, Natasha; et al. "The impact of land use and cover change on above and below-ground carbon stocks of the miombo woodlands since the 1950s: a systematic review protocol". Environmental Evidence 3 1 (2014): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2047-2382-3-25.
    10.1186/2047-2382-3-25
  45. Ribeiro, Natasha. "Monitoring vegetation dynamics and carbon stock density in miombo woodlands". Carbon Balance and Management 8 1 (2013): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1750-0680-8-11.
    10.1186/1750-0680-8-11
  46. Maquia, Ivete; Ribeiro, Natasha S.; Silva, Vando; Bessa, Fernanda; Goulao, Luis F.; Ribeiro, Ana I.. "Genetic diversity of Brachystegia boehmii Taub. and Burkea africana Hook. f. across a fire gradient in Niassa National Reserve, northern Mozambique". Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 48 (2013): 238-247. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bse.2012.12.020.
    10.1016/j.bse.2012.12.020
  47. Mitchard, E. T. A.; Saatchi, S. S.; Woodhouse, I. H.; Nangendo, G.; Ribeiro, N. S.; Williams, M.; Ryan, C. M.; et al. "Using satellite radar backscatter to predict above-ground woody biomass: A consistent relationship across four different African landscapes". Geophysical Research Letters 36 23 (2009): http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009gl040692.
    10.1029/2009gl040692
  48. Ribeiro, Natasha. "Aboveground biomass and leaf area index (LAI) mapping for Niassa Reserve, northern Mozambique". Journal of Geophysical Research 113 G3 (2008): http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2007jg000550.
    10.1029/2007jg000550
  49. Ribeiro, Natasha. "The effects of fire and elephants on species composition and structure of the Niassa Reserve, northern Mozambique". Forest Ecology and Management 255 5-6 (2008): 1626-1636. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2007.11.033.
    10.1016/j.foreco.2007.11.033
  50. Ribeiro, Natasha. "Assessing the feasibility of sub-pixel burned area mapping in miombo woodlands of northern Mozambique using MODIS imagery". International Journal of Remote Sensing 24 8 (2003): 1783-1796. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01431160210144750.
    10.1080/01431160210144750

Other

Other output
  1. A Burning Question: Can Savannah Fire Management Generate Enough Carbon Revenue to Help Save the Lion from Extinction?. 2021. Tear, T.H.; Wolff, N.H.; Lipsett-Moore, G.J.; Ritchie, M.E.; Ribeiro, N.S.; Petracca, L.S.; Lindsey, P.A.; et al. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85110087029&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.2139/ssrn.3774511
  2. A burning question: Can savannah fire management generate enough carbon revenue to help save the lion from extinction?. 2020. Timothy H. Tear; Nicholas H. Wolff; Geoffrey J. Lipsett-Moore; Mark E. Ritchie; Natasha S. Ribeiro; Lisanne S. Petracca; Peter A. Lindsey; et al. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.04.132084.
    10.1101/2020.06.04.132084