
Dr Filipe Machado Franca
BSc, MRes, PhD
Current positions
Senior Research Fellow
School of Biological Sciences
Contact
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Drivers and impacts of insect biodiversity changes across pantropical forests
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
01/05/2024 to 30/04/2028
Drivers and impacts of Insect biodiversity changes across PanTropical forests
Principal Investigator
Description
"PanTropIn: Causas e Impactos de Mudanças na biodiversidade de Insetos em florestas PanTropicais" (in Portuguese)
Despite the growing number of academic studies and media headlines drawing attention to 'collapses in insect…Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
01/05/2024 to 30/04/2028
PPBio-AmOr: Eastern Amazon Biodiversity Research Program
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Description
"PPBio-AmOr: Programa de Pesquisa em Biodiversidade da Amazonia Oriental" (in Portuguese)
The PPBio-AmOr Network proposes a multidisciplinary and transinstitutional collaborative network to fill different knowledge gaps and propose solutions to different…Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
01/12/2023 to 30/11/2026
Voices of Amazonia: knowledge co-production to enhance environmental policy and practices
Principal Investigator
Description
‘Voices of Amazonia’ aims to consolidate and extend a network among researchers, policy-makers, and decision-makers in the Brazilian Amazon through prior/ongoing collaborations. Our overarching goal is to bridge the research-action…Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
02/10/2023 to 30/06/2024
Scaling Up TAOCA: a technological tool to support low-carbon research with Amazonian terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity
Principal Investigator
Description
Scaling Up TAOCA aims to expand TAOCA (https://www.taoca.net/), a novel technological tool that stores, curates and integrates Amazonian biodiversity data. To achieve this, we will strengthen TAOCA's computational power to…Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
15/05/2023 to 15/06/2024
Publications
Selected publications
02/01/2024Selective logging intensity and time since logging drive tropical bird and dung beetle diversity:
Environmental Conservation
Edge effects from exotic tree plantations and environmental context drive dung beetle assemblages within Amazonian undisturbed forests
Forest Ecology and Management
Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research
Current Biology
Reassessing the role of cattle and pasture in Brazil's deforestation
Land Use Policy
Testing and optimizing metabarcoding of iDNA from dung beetles to sample mammals in the hyperdiverse Neotropics
Molecular Ecology Resources
Recent publications
02/01/2024Selective logging intensity and time since logging drive tropical bird and dung beetle diversity:
Environmental Conservation
Testing and optimizing metabarcoding of iDNA from dung beetles to sample mammals in the hyperdiverse Neotropics
Molecular Ecology Resources
Ancient fires enhance Amazon forest drought resistance
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Co-developing pathways to protect nature, land, territory, and well-being in Amazonia
Communications Earth & Environment
Connected Conservation
Biological Conservation