Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Clara Ferreira
Citation names
- Ferreira, Clara Mendes
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- E115-67C7-2FA7
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-9726-1789
- Google Scholar ID
- Q4HGXocAAAAJ
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biology
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Zoology
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biodiversity Conservation
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Genetics and Heredity
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Evolutionary Biology
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
German | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2018/10 - 2021/09
Ongoing
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Biology (Doktor (PhD))
Universität Potsdam, Germany
"Indirect, tri-trophic effects of fear on biodiversity" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2013
Concluded
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Mestrado em Biodiversidade, Genética e Evolução (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Regional and fine-scale molecular diversity of the Cabrera vole (Microtus cabrerae)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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17 |
2010
Concluded
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Licenciatura em Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
"A influência de uma auto-estrada numa comunidade de carnívoros no centro-sul de Portugal" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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16 |
Affiliation
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2016 - 2018 | Research grant (PTDC/BIA-BIC/6582/2014) as a genetics laboratory technician from Fundação para as Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT) | Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal |
2015/10/01 - 2016/06/30 | Secretary and organization member of the Conference Conservation Genomics 2016 | Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal |
2014/01/01 - 2015/09/30 | Research grant integrated in the project “NETPERSIST – Análise de redes na identificação de limiares críticos de conectividade para a persistência de metapopulações em paisagens agrícolas complexas” ( | Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal |
2013/07/05 - 2013/07/19 | Survey of mammal and herpetofauna, integrated in the project “Valorização e qualificação ambiental e territorial – Sistema de gestão e informação ambiental dos espaços classificados do concelho de Mat | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
2010/09/20 - 2011/09/30 | Trapping and telemetry of micromammals; Surveying of roadkill; Surveying of carnivores through automatic cameras; Survey of bats; Support in the creating of a genetic bank. | Universidade de Évora, Portugal |
2010/11/01 - 2011/02/11 | Technician in inventory and triage of invertebrates. | Universidade de Évora, Portugal |
2009/09/01 - 2010/08/31 | Integration to Investigation Grant (BII - UE/ICAAM/BII/10A/2009), granted by FCT and University of Évora, under the supervision of Professor António Mira, under the title: "The influence of roads in t | Universidade de Évora Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2018/10 - Current | BIOMOVE - Integrating Biodiversity Research with Movement Ecology in dynamic agricultural landscapes
PhD Student Fellow
Universität Potsdam, Germany
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Ongoing
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2016 - 2018 | MateFrag - Impacts of habitat fragmentation on social and mating systems: testing ecological predictions for a monogamous
vole through non-invasive genetics
PTDC/BIA-BIC/6582/2014
Master Student Fellow
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Concluded
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2013 - 2015 | NETPERSIST. NETwork analysis of critical connectivity thresholds for metapopulation PERSISTENCE in complex agricultural landscapes.
PTDC/AAG-MAA/3227/2012
Master Student Fellow
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Concluded
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2010 - 2013 | PERSIST – The role of matrix permeability for metapopulation PERSISTence in complex agricultural landscapes. The cases of
Cabrera (Microtus cabrerae) and southern water voles (Arvicola sapidus) (PTDC/BIA-BEC/105110/2008)
PTDC/BIA-BEC/105110/2008
Other
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Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Journal article |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2019/10 | Effects of habitat fragmentation in the social behaviour of the Cabrera vole: insights from genetic non-invasive sampling | Wildlife Research and Conservation 2019
(Berlin, Germany)
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2019/09 | Taking risks for food: effects of the Landscape of Fear at low trophic levels | 8th European Congress of Mammalogy
(Warsaw, Poland)
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2018/10 | Effects of fragmentation in the social behaviour of the Cabrera vole | Biology and management of Iberian voles: Progresses, challenges and prospects
(Porto, Portugal)
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2015/08 | Fewer markers, similar accuracy? Cost-effective selection of genetic markers for parentage analysis based on noninvasive genetic sampling | 7th European Congress of Mammalogy
(Stockholm, Sweden)
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2014/07/29 | Mating system and dispersal in a Cabrera vole metapopulation as revealed by noninvasive genetic sampling | 14th Rodens et Spatium – International Conference on Rodent Biology
(Lisbon, Portugal)
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2014/01 | Assessing metapopulation processes using non-invasive genetics: the case of the Cabrera vole | Workshop - Vole Ecology, Genetics and Conservation II
(Évora, Portugal)
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