Publications

2026

Roque, N., Almeida, A. M., Fernandez, P., Ribeiro, M. M., & Alegria, C. (2026). Climate-Informed Afforestation Planning in Portugal: Balancing Wood and Non-Wood Production. Forests17(1), 139. https://doi.org/10.3390/f17010139

2025

Parducci, L, Ribeiro, MM, Nota, K, Nobile, A, De Santis, S, Diamantino, T, Drouzas, AD, Aplada, E, Hirota, SK, Suyama, Y, and Spada, F. 2025. Genetic data support the relict and native status of Styrax officinalis L. (Styracaceae) in Italy. Frontiers of Ecology and Evolution, 13:1598113. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2025.1598113

Silveira, C; Roque, N; Leitão, B; Fernandez, P; Anjos O & Vilas-Boas, M. 2025. Integrating Multicriteria Decision Analysis for Beekeeping Suitability: Insights from a Portuguese Honey PDO Landscape. Earth Syst Environ (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-025-00860-3

Passos I, Vila-Viçosa C, Gonçalves J, Ribeiro MM, Figueiredo A. 2025. Tracking submediterranean ecotone shifts under climate change scenarios using marcescent oaks as indicators. Scientific Reports 

Paula, A., Roque, N., Martinho, D., Frazão, L., Fernandez, P., Castro, P. (2025) Cultural Agroecosystem Services Framework (Agro-CES): A Tool to Support Agricultural Sustainability Assessment Lecture Notes on Multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering, Volume Part F4026, Pages 68 – 792025, 10.1007/978-3-031-80330-7_

Passos I, Vila-Viçosa C, Gonçalves J, Figueiredo A, Ribeiro MM. 2025. Climate-driven habitat shifts and conservation implications for the submediterranean oak Quercus pyrenaica Willd. Forests16(8).

2024

Passos, I., Figueiredo, A., Almeida, A. M., & Ribeiro, M. M. (2024). Uncertainties in Plant Species Niche Modeling under Climate Change Scenarios. Ecologies5(3), 402-419. https://doi.org/10.3390/ecologies5030025

Albuquerque, T, Fonseca, R., Araújo, J., Silva, N., & Araújo, A. (2024). Stream sediment pollution: a compositional baseline assessment. Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41207-024-00470-x

Pazo, M, Boente, C, Albuquerque, T, Gerassis, S, Roque, N, & Taboada, J (2024). Unpacking Occupational Health Data in the Service Sector: From Bayesian Networking and Spatial Clustering to Policy-Making. Mathematical Geosciences, 56(3), 465–485. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11004-023-10087-5

Roque, N, Fernandez, P, Silveira, C, Vilas-Boas, M, & Anjos, O (2024). Using Analytic Hierarchy Process to Assess Beekeeping Suitability in Portuguese Controlled Areas: A First Approach. Insects, 15(2), 91. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15020091

2023

Almeida, AM, Delgado, F, Roque, N, Ribeiro, MM, & Fernandez, P (2023). Multitemporal Land Use and Cover Analysis Coupled with Climatic Change Scenarios to Protect the Endangered Taxon Asphodelus bento-rainhae subsp. bento-rainhae. Plants, 12(16). https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12162914

Alegria, C, Almeida, AM, Roque, N, Fernandez, P, & Ribeiro, MM (2023). Species Distribution Modelling under Climate Change Scenarios for Maritime Pine (Pinus pinaster Aiton) in Portugal. Forests, 14(3). https://doi.org/10.3390/f14030591

Alegria, C, & Albuquerque, T (2023). Remote Sensing for Water Quality Monitoring—A Case Study for the Marateca Reservoir, Portugal. Geosciences (Switzerland), 13(9). https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13090259

Alegria, C (2023). Aboveground Biomass Mapping and Fire Potential Severity Assessment: A Case Study for Eucalypts and Shrubland Areas in the Central Inland Region of Portugal. Forests, 14(9). https://doi.org/10.3390/f14091795

Domingues, J, Goulão, M, Delgado, F, Gonçalves, JC, Gonçalves, J, & Pintado, CS (2023). Essential Oils of Two Portuguese Endemic Species of Lavandula as a Source of Antifungal and Antibacterial Agents. Processes, 11(4). https://doi.org/10.3390/pr11041165

2022

Almeida AM, Martins MJ, Campagnolo ML, Fernandez P, Albuquerque T, Gerassis S, Gonçalves JC, Ribeiro MM. 2022. Prediction scenarios of past, present, and future environmental suitability for the Mediterranean species Arbutus unedo L. Scientific Reports 12, 84. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-03996-0

A Partida, S Gerassis, R Criado, M Romance, E Giráldez, J Taboada, 2022. Modeling Bitcoin plus Ethereum as an Open System of Systems of Public Blockchains to Improve Their Resilience against Intentional Risk. Electronics 11 (2), 241. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11020241

2021

Ferreira M, Almeida AM, Quintela-Sabarís C, Roque N, Fernandez P, Ribeiro MM. 2021. The role of littoral cliffs in the niche delimitation on a microendemic plant facing climate change, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258976

Ribeiro MM, Diamantino T, Domigues J, Montanari IJr, Alves MN, Gonçalves JC. 2021. Stevia rebaudiana germplasm characterization using microsatellite markers and steviol glycosides quantification by HPLC. Molecular Biology Reports. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-021-06308-x

Alegria C, Roque N, Albuquerque MTD, Fernandez P, Ribeiro MM, Canavarro C. 2021. Species distribution and productivity spatial modelling: a case study for maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Aiton) in Portugal. Forests. 12: 368. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12030368

Gerassis S, Albuquerque MTD, Roque N, Ribeiro S, Taboada J, Ribeiro MM, 2021. Future habitat suitability for species under climate change – Lessons learned from the strawberry tree case study. Forest Ecology and Management. 491, 119150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119150

Almeida PD, Albuquerque MTD, Antunes IMHR. 2021. Effects of sewage treatment plant release on a freshwater ecosystem – a Portuguese case study, Water Air Soil Pollut 232, 206, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-021-05131-1

Gomes P, Valente, T, Albuquerque MTD, Henriques R, Flor-Arnau N, Pamplona J, Macías, F.2021. Algae in acid mine drainage and relationships with pollutants in a degraded mining ecosystem, Minerals, 11, 110. https://doi.org/10.3390/min11020110

Pereira A., Figueiredo A. & Ferreira V. 2021. Invasive Acacia Tree Species Affect Instream Litter Decomposition Through Changes in Water Nitrogen Concentration and Litter Characteristics. Microb Ecol 82, 257–273. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00248-021-01749-0

Ferreira V., Figueiredo A., Graça M.A.S., Marchante E. and Pereira A. 2021. Invasion of temperate deciduous broadleaf forests by N-fixing tree species – consequences for stream ecosystems. Biological  Reviews 96: 877-902. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/brv.12682

Sousa V. J. De, Pires C., Geldenhuys C. J.,  Figueiredo A. 2021. Dependence, pressure and recovery of forest resources in Limpopo National Park (Mozambique): the case of Mopane woodlands. Cadernos de Geografia 44, 21-35. DOI: 10.14195/0871-1623_44_2 . https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/cadernosgeografia/article/view/10487

S Gerassis, C Boente, MTD Albuquerque, MM Ribeiro, 2021. A Abad, Mapping occupational health risk factors in the primary sector—A novel supervised machine learning and Area-to-Point Poisson kriging approach. Spatial Statistics 42, 100434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spasta.2020.100434

S Gerassis, E Giráldez, M Pazo-Rodríguez, Á Saavedra, J Taboada, 2021. AI approaches to environmental impact assessments (EIAs) in the mining and metals sector using AutoML and Bayesian modeling. Applied Sciences 11 (17), 7914. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11177914

2020

Alegria, CMM; Roque, N; Albuquerque, MTD; Saki, GD; Fernandez, P; Ribeiro, MM. 2020. Species ecological envelopes under climate change scenarios: a case study for the main two wood-production forest species in Portugal. Forests 11:8, 880. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11080880

Rollo A, Ribeiro MM, Costa RL, Santos C, Peralta ZMC, Mandák B, Kalousová M, Vebrová H, Chuqulin E, Torres SG, Aguilar RMV, Hlavsa T, Lojka B. 2020. Genetic structure and pod morphology of Inga edulis cultivated vs. wild populations from the Peruvian Amazon. Forests. 11:655. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11060655

Neto C., Costa J.C., Figueiredo A., Capelo J., Gomes I., Vitória S., Semedo J.M., Lopes A., Dinis H., Correia E., Duarte M.C., Romeiras M.M. (2020). The Role of Climate and Topography in Shaping the Diversity of Plant Communities in Cabo Verde Islands. Diversity 12(2):80. Available: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/12/2/80

Castro M., Loureiro J., Figueiredo A., Serrano M., Husband B. C., & Castro S. (2020). Different Patterns of Ecological Divergence Between Two Tetraploids and Their Diploid Counterpart in a Parapatric Linear Coastal Distribution Polyploid Complex. [Original Research]. Frontiers in Plant Science, 11(315), 1-16. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00315. Available: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2020.00315/full

C Boente, S Gerassis, MTD Albuquerque, J Taboada, JR Gallego, 2020. Local versus regional soil screening levels to identify potentially polluted areas. Mathematical Geosciences 52 (3), 381-396. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11004-019-09792-x

2019

Ribeiro MM, Roque N, Ribeiro S, Gavinhos C, Castanheira I, Quinta-Nova L, Albuquerque, MTD; Saki, GD. 2019. Bioclimatic modeling in the Last Glacial Maximum, Mid-Holocene and facing future climatic changes in the strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo L.). PLoS ONE 14(1): e0210062. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210062

Alegria, C, Pedro, N, Horta C, Roque, N, & Fernandez, P. 2019. Ecological envelope maps and stand production of eucalyptus plantations and naturally regenerated maritime pine stands in the central inland of Portugal. Forest Ecology and Management, 432, 327-344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.09.030

C Boente, MTD Albuquerque, S Gerassis, E Rodríguez-Valdés, 2019. A coupled multivariate statistics, geostatistical and machine-learning approach to address soil pollution in a prototypical Hg-mining site in a natural reserve. Chemosphere 218, 767-777. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.11.172