Dr Filipe Machado Franca
BSc, MRes, PhD
Current positions
Lecturer
School of Biological Sciences
Contact
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
SynPAm: Synthesis for Policy in Amazonia
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Description
What's the challenge?
Evidence-informed solutions are urgently needed to tackle the climate and biodiversity crises––the 21st-century greatest challenges. Amazonian forests are among Earth's most diverse ecosystems and contribute to climate change…Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
01/04/2023 to 31/07/2024
INCT-SynBiAm: National Institute of Sciences and Technology for ‘SYNthesis of Amazonian Biodiversity’
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Description
Context: The Amazon plays a crucial role in international strategies to mitigate the global climate and biodiversity crises. Its ecosystems are among the world's most biodiverse and contribute to environmental…Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
01/01/2023 to 31/12/2028
BIOdiversity responses to CLIMAte and land-uses change in Tropical forest Ecosystems
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Description
BIOCLIMATE will break new ground in five ways: [i] building the biggest temporal database on Amazonian vegetation and carbon responses to local and climate-related stressors; [ii] assembling a huge amount…Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
01/03/2020 to 31/12/2023
SYNthesising Ecological Responses to deGradation In amaZonian Environments
Principal Investigator
Description
SYNERGIZE aims to foster a multi- and trans-disciplinary network to understand how human-driven and climate-associated forest disturbances affect Amazonian aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem resilience. The project brings together…Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
01/01/2020 to 28/02/2023
Long-Term Ecological Research Program of the Sustainable Amazon Network
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Description
The main aim of PELD-RAS is to increase our understanding of the longer-term impacts caused by different local human-driven disturbances, such as understory fires and selective logging, and climate-associated stressors…Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
01/03/2017 to 31/12/2022
Publications
Selected publications
16/03/2020Climatic and local stressor interactions threaten tropical forests and coral reefs
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
El Niño impacts on human‐modified tropical forests: Consequences for dung beetle diversity and associated ecological processes
Biotropica
Edge effects from exotic tree plantations and environmental context drive dung beetle assemblages within Amazonian undisturbed forests
Forest Ecology and Management
Reassessing the role of cattle and pasture in Brazil's deforestation
Land Use Policy
Clarifying Amazonia's burning crisis
Global Change Biology
Recent publications
14/02/2023Ancient 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
Dung beetles from two sustainable-use protected forests in the Brazilian Amazon
Biodiversity Data Journal
Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research
Current biology : CB
