At VU Amsterdam, I contributed to the project "Understanding risks and opportunities of alternative scenarios for a future friendly to biodiversity and people in Europe".
This research assesses the impacts of climate and land use change on biodiversity and ecosystem services across Europe. By integrating models of land use, ecosystem services, and biodiversity, it quantifies how different development pathways affect both nature and human well-being.
Focusing on vascular plants, butterflies, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals, it generates species distribution and risk maps while evaluating trade-offs between conservation, socioeconomic priorities, and ecosystem service access. The findings help shape strategies for a more sustainable and biodiversity-friendly future.
Also, during my time at VU Amsterdam, I contributed to the development of land use scenarios for the Nature Futures Framework (NFF)
within the NaturaConnect project. As part of Task 5.2, we ran high-resolution (1 km)
spatial land-use models to quantify potential land-use and land management changes aligned with the NFF storylines (Task 5.1).
To achive this, the European spatial land-use model (CLUMondo) was parametrized using economic modeling outputs and European SSP scenarios as input.
In addition, I contributed to a study demonstrating that at least 20%–25% of (semi-)natural habitat per square kilometer is required to sustain Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP) in human-modified landscapes.
I also developed a Google Earth Engine (GEE) app to visualize the results
On MontObEO project, as well as part of my MSc thesis,
I develop a Web Geographic Information System (Web GIS)
for monotoring biodiversity in Montesinho/Nogueira special protection area (MN-SPA).
Nonetheless, I created a Portuguese and English WebGIS version intended for native and foreigner public, respectively.
Trought R programing language, I was able to create "NA2RE: New ATLAS of Amphians and Reptiles of Europe.".
The NA2RE compiles updated data about amphians and reptiles distributions across Europe.
I contribute to create an interactive table version of "R packages for ecological niche modelling", an article by
Dr. Neftalí Sillero, Dr. João C. Campos, Dr. Salvador Arenas-Castro and Dra. Ana Márcia Barbosa,
publish in Ecological Modelling (2023).