Filipe Dias

I am an ecologist and a conservation biologist whose research focuses on understanding the impacts of forest management and climate change on the conservation of both forest and riparian ecosystems. Early in my career, I analysed the impacts of alternative conservation mechanisms such as Forest Stewardship Council certification and payments for ecosystem services on the conservation of cork oak woodlands. Later on, I became interested in understanding how land-use changes, management shifts, and climate change affect the distribution and cover of cork oak and holm oak woodlands. I recently developed an interest in theoretical and community ecology and began studying how species diversity scales as function space, time, and human disturbance. I am a quantitatively minded ecologist with excellent skills in data analysis. Because of that, I often get invited to collaborate on unusual projects that have little to do with my research. I have found those experiences to be incredibly rewarding.