TEAM MEMBER
José Gaspar
Chief Technology Officer
PhD Applied Environmental Sciences (UA, 2005)
José Gaspar has wide-ranging experience in research applied to land use and landscape change, forest planning and management, and the use of prescribed fire. He is a professor at the School of Agriculture of the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, has a PhD in Applied Environmental Sciences from the University of Aveiro, a master’s degree in Environmental Remote Sensing from the University of Aberdeen and a degree in Forestry Engineering from the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro. He lectures and researches in the areas of Forestry Sciences and Earth and Environmental Sciences. He was Vice-President of the School of Agriculture of the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra between 2007 and 2008, President of the same school between 2010 and 2014, Vice-President of the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra between 2017 and 2023, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of FlorestGal – Empresa de Gestão e Desenvolvimento Florestal, S.A. between June 2023 and February 2025.
Areas of interest:
Research applied to Land Use and Landscape Change, Forest Planning and Management, and the Use of Prescribed Fire
MAIN PUBLICATIONS
Title: Effect of anthropic disturbances on the activity pattern of two generalist mesocarnivores inhabiting Mediterranean forestry plantations
Year: 2023
Authors: Teixeira, D., Ares-Pereira, G., Camarinha, C., Lima, C., Magalhães, A., Castro, G., Fonseca, C., Rosalino, L.
Journal: Biodiversity and Conservation
URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-023-02548-4
Title: Environmental field conditions and sampling effort affect the molecular identification success of livestock predators
Year: 2023
Authors: Lino, S., Lino, A., Fernandes, J., Ferreira, E., Fonsec,a C., Aliácar, S., Cadete, D., Rosalino, L., Carvalho, J.
Journal: Mammalian Biology
Title: Landscape and population drivers of ungulate-vehicle collisions in Portugal
Year: 2023
Authors: Torres, R., Linck, P., Pinto, N., Ares-Pereira, G., Barroqueiro, C., Fonseca, C., Carvalho, J.
Journal: Applied Geography
Title: Eucalyptus plantations alter spatiotemporal relationships of wild ungulates
Year: 2022
Authors: Ares-Pereira, G., Rosalino, L., Teixeira, D., Castro, G., Magalhães, A., Lima, C., Fonseca, C., Torres, R.
Journal: Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167880922003231
Title: Drivers of occupancy patterns for the red fox, Vulpes vulpes, in Mediterranean Eucalyptus plantations
Year: 2022
Authors: Castro, G., Teixeira, D., Ares-Pereira, G., Lima, C., Magalhães, A., Camarinha, C., Guillera‐Arroita, G., Fonseca, C., Rosalino, L.
Journal: Forest Ecology and Management
