Our diverse group of 21 young conservationists from Portuguese-speaking Africa and Portugal has embarked on their journey of learning and networking.

I'm absolutely delighted to share Elena Soto's MSc paper, just out in Conservation Science and Practice: "Density and ecological drivers of free‐ranging cat abundance and activity in Madeira Island, Macaronesia" conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #InvasiveSpecies #IslandConservation Ana Filipa Palmeirim

Check out our new preprint using bioacoustics to assess the impact of habitat amount and configuration on Malaysian bats ! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

#OA #OpenAccess article "Drivers of functional diversity in small-bodied mammals across a deforestation frontier in the Southern Brazilian Amazon" by Manoel Santos-Filho et al Ana Filipa Palmeirim BIOPOLIS-CIBIO Universidade Porto UNEMAT rdcu.be/dyHrh

Our new paper is out! 🚨 We systematically mapped research on oil palm in Africa and present the Sustainable Oil Palm in West Africa (SOPWA) Project: a large-scale field-based study occurring in Liberia. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Examining higher-order bottom-up vs. top-down forces in structuring small mammal assemblages in a tropical forest island system. Unlike apex- and meso-predators, small mammals were positively affected by fragmentation. Paper led by Ana Filipa Palmeirim UEA Research doi.org/10.1016/j.bioc…

Check out our latest 📜 from project Rice Guardians led by Madalena Sottomayor "Nature-based solutions to increase rice yield: An experimental assessment of the role of 🐦 and 🦇 as agricultural pest suppressors in West Africa" tinyurl.com/32797pkt

Can we do better? Here I discuss some of the pro and cons of expanding authorship to local data collectors: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New Article! How can we conciliate the cashew expansion in West Africa with biodiversity and livelihoods? CE3C CIÊNCIAS ULisboa BIOPOLIS-CIBIO Biotropica doi.org/10.1111/btp.13…

Freely available dataset on insectivorous bats across land-use types in São Tomé and Príncipe Islands, Central-West Africa, with Ana Sofia Fernandes Catarina Fernandes FERNANDA ALVES MARTINS @TallyYoh Patrícia Guedes Vanessa Mata Ricardo Rocha between others TROPIBIO Project

The first public dataset to provide detailed information on species-level habitat use for insectivorous bats in São Tomé and Príncipe: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12… #Chiroptera #bats #biodiversity

How do insectivorous bats cope with land-use change in an endemic-rich African Island? 🦇 Amazing study led by Ana Sofia Fernandes: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Amphibians🐸 and reptiles🦎 show contrasting responses to land-use change🌳 in West Africa -📢new study from Guinea-Bissau: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… led by Francisco Silva, together with Ricardo Rocha Rice Guardians TROPIBIO Project and others💚

The first overview for amphibians and reptiles in mainland Guinea-Bissau🇬🇼 across two seasons and different habitat types: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13… #agroecosystems #habitats #conservaion Ana Filipa Palmeirim BIOPOLIS-CIBIO

Can Indigenous Lands protect us against zoonotic diseases? Check out our findings across the whole Brazilian Atlantic Forest🌳: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… together with Júlia R. Barreto & Paula Prist