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Francisco Moreira

Francisco Moreira

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Ecology and Evolution
Portugal
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
69
Citations
15849
World Ranking
1458
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Portugal Leader Award

Overview

Francisco Moreira is affiliated with the University of Porto in Portugal. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant concentration on ecology.

Their work covers several subfields including ecology, global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, ecological modeling, and insect science. Moreira's research interests encompass various main topics such as avian ecology and behavior, species distribution and climate change, fire effects on ecosystems, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, wildlife-road interactions and conservation, and land use and ecosystem services.

Moreira has contributed to multiple recent papers, including:

  • "Action needed for the EU Common Agricultural Policy to address sustainability challenges" (2020, People and Nature)
  • "Effects of large herbivores on fire regimes and wildfire mitigation" (2021, Journal of Applied Ecology)
  • "Extreme events are more likely to affect the breeding success of lesser kestrels than average climate change" (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • "Drivers of irrigated olive grove expansion in Mediterranean landscapes and associated biodiversity impacts" (2022, Landscape and Urban Planning)
  • "Using fire to enhance rewilding when agricultural policies fail" (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)

Frequent coauthors in Moreira's research collaborations include Pedro Beja, Paulo Flores Ribeiro, Ângela Lomba, Ana Teresa Marques, and João Paulo Silva.

The venues where Moreira commonly publishes include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Scientific Reports, Fire, The Science of The Total Environment, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Best Publications

  • Landscape – wildfire interactions in southern Europe: Implications for landscape management

    Francisco Moreira;Olga Viedma;Margarita Arianoutsou;Thiomas Curt

  • (Open Access) Supercapacitor and supercapattery as emerging electrochemical energy stores

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  • Action needed for the EU Common Agricultural Policy to address sustainability challenges.

    Guy Pe'er;Guy Pe'er;Aletta Bonn;Aletta Bonn;Helge Bruelheide;Petra Dieker

  • Temporal (1958-1995) pattern of change in a cultural landscape of northwestern Portugal: implications for fire occurrence

    Francisco Moreira;Francisco C. Rego;Paulo G. Ferreira

  • Modelling natural disturbances in forest ecosystems: a review

    Rupert Seidl;Rupert Seidl;Paulo M. Fernandes;Teresa F. Fonseca;François Gillet;François Gillet

  • Wildfire management in Mediterranean-type regions: paradigm change needed

    Francisco Moreira;Francisco Moreira;Davide Ascoli;Hugh Safford;Mark A Adams

  • A greener path for the EU Common Agricultural Policy

    Guy Pe'er;Yves Zinngrebe;Francisco Moreira;Clélia Sirami

  • Modeling and mapping wildfire ignition risk in Portugal

    Filipe X. Catry;Francisco C. Rego;Fernando L. Bação;Francisco Moreira

  • Prescribed burning in southern Europe: developing fire management in a dynamic landscape

    Paulo M Fernandes;Paulo M Fernandes;G Matt Davies;Davide Ascoli;Cristina Fernández

  • The influences of forest stand management on biotic and abiotic risks of damage

    Hervé Jactel;Bruce C. Nicoll;Manuela Branco;José Ramon Gonzalez-Olabarria

  • Modelling the impact of agricultural abandonment and wildfires on vertebrate diversity in Mediterranean Europe

    Francisco Moreira;Danilo Russo

  • Overcoming the rare species modelling paradox: a novel hierarchical framework applied to an Iberian endemic plant.

    A. Lomba;L. Pellissier;C. Randin;J. Vicente

  • Regional variations in wildfire susceptibility of land-cover types in Portugal: implications for landscape management to minimize fire hazard

    Francisco Moreira;Pedro Vaz;Filipe Catry;Joaquim S. Silva

  • Are drought and wildfires turning Mediterranean cork oak forests into persistent shrublands

    Vanda Acácio;Vanda Acácio;Milena Holmgren;Francisco Rego;Francisco Moreira

  • Land use and topography influences on wildfire occurrence in northern Portugal

    Miguel Carmo;Francisco Moreira;Pedro João Cruz Cortesão Casimiro;Pedro Vaz

  • Li7PS6 and Li6PS5X (X: Cl, Br, I): Possible Three‐dimensional Diffusion Pathways for Lithium Ions and Temperature Dependence of the Ionic Conductivity by�…

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  • Post-fire tree mortality in mixed forests of central Portugal

    F.X. Catry;F. Rego;F. Moreira;P.M. Fernandes

  • Bird collisions with power lines: State of the art and priority areas for research

    J. Bernardino;Kjetil Modolv Bevanger;R. Barrientos;R. Barrientos;J.F. Dwyer

  • Influence of landscape characteristics on carnivore diversity and abundance in Mediterranean farmland

    Ricardo Pita;Ricardo Pita;António Mira;António Mira;Francisco Moreira;Rui Morgado

  • Characterization of wildfires in Portugal

    S. Marques;J. G. Borges;J. Garcia-Gonzalo;F. Moreira

  • Post-Fire Management and Restoration of Southern European Forests

    Francisco Moreira;Margarita Arianoutsou;Piermaria Corona;Jorge De las Heras

Frequent Co-Authors

Pedro Beja
Pedro Beja University of Porto
Francisco Rego
Francisco Rego University of Lisbon
Paulo M. Fernandes
Paulo M. Fernandes University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro
Jorge M. Palmeirim
Jorge M. Palmeirim University of Lisbon
Stefan Schindler
Stefan Schindler Umweltbundesamt, Austria
Aldina M. A. Franco
Aldina M. A. Franco University of East Anglia
João P. Honrado
João P. Honrado University of Porto
Pedro R. Almeida
Pedro R. Almeida University of Évora
Margarita Arianoutsou
Margarita Arianoutsou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
José Lino Costa
José Lino Costa University of Lisbon

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