Publications

-- Submitted/Preprint --

Mestre F, Galiana N, Bastazini,VAG, González-del-Pliego P, Araújo MB (submitted). The Role of threatened species in food web structure across Europe.

Ascensão, F, (...), Mestre F, et al. (accepted). Charting the path ahead: key research priorities in Road Ecology. In: (eds.) D’Amico, M., Barrientos, R. & Ascensão, Fernando. Road Ecology: Synthesis and Perspectives. Springer.

Mestre F, Quiles P, Bastazini VAG, & Ascensão, F. (accepted). Road effects on species interactions. In: (eds.) D’Amico, M., Barrientos, R. & Ascensão, Fernando. Road Ecology: Synthesis and Perspectives. Springer.

-- Papers --

D’Amicco M, Mestre F, Assis J, Jacinto D, Marçalo A & Ascensão F (2025). Expanding ship ecology to other impacts and species. Eletter in Science commenting the paper by Nisi et al. (2025) entitled “Ship collision risk threatens whales across the world’s oceans”. Link.

-- 2024 --

González-del-Pliego P, Galiana N, González-Trujillo JD, Mestre F, Araújo MB, Bastazini V (2024). Are threatened species important for glueing interaction networks together? Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. DOI: 10.1016/j.pecon.2024.11.003.

Guise I, Silva B, Mestre F, Muñoz-Rojas J, Duarte MF, Herrera JM (2024). Climate change is expected to severely impact Protected Designation of Origin olive-growing regions over the Iberian Peninsula. Agricultural Systems. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2024.104108.

Mestre F, Pereira AL, Araújo MB (2024). Climate correlates of bluetongue incidence in Southern Portugal. Medical and Veterinary Entomology. DOI: 10.1111/mve.12738.

-- 2023 --

Galiana N, Arnoldi J-F, Mestre F, Rozenfeld A, Araújo MB (2023) Power-laws in species' biotic interaction networks can be inferred from co-occurrence data. Nature Ecology & Evolution. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02254-y.

Mestre F, Silva B (2023). lconnect R Package: A versatile tool for evaluating landscape connectivity and prioritising habitat patches in Conservation Research. Ecological Modelling, 110489. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2023.110489.

Mestre F, Barbosa S, Garrido-García JA, Pita R, Mira, A, Alves PC, Paupério J, Searle J & Beja, P (2022). Inferring past refugia and range dynamics through the integration of fossil, niche modelling and genomic data. Journal of Biogeography. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14492.

Silva B, Mestre F, Barreiro S, Alves PJ & Herrera JM (2022) soundClass: an automatic sound classification tool for biodiversity monitoring using machine learning. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13964.

Mestre F, Gravel D, García-Callejas D, Pinto-Cruz C, Matias MG, & Araújo MB (2022) Disentangling food-web environment relationships: a review with guidelines. Basic and Applied Ecology, 61: 102-115. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2022.03.011.

Grilo C, (…), Mestre F, Silva, B (…) et al. (2022) Mammals in Portugal: a data set of terrestrial, volant and marine mammal occurrences in Portugal. Ecology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3654.

-- 2020 --

Araújo MB, Mestre F, Naimi B (2020) Ecological and epidemiological models are both useful for SARS-CoV-2. Nature Ecology & Evolution, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1246-y.

Mestre F, Pita R, Mira A & Beja P (2020). Species traits, patch turnover and successional dynamics: When does intermediate disturbance favour metapopulation occupancy? BMC Ecology. DOI: 10.1186/s12898-019-0273-5.

-- 2019 --

Ascensão F, Mestre F & Barbosa, AM (2019). Prioritizing road defragmentation using graph-based tools. Landscape and Urban Planning, 192: 103653. DOI:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.103653.

Mestre F, Lopes H, Pinto T, Sousa LG, Mira A & Santos SM (2019). Bad moon rising? The Influence of the lunar cycle on amphibian roadkills. European Journal of Wildlife Research: 65-58. DOI: 10.1007/s10344-019-1285-3 (dataset).

Mestre F, Ascensão F, Barbosa AM (2019). gDefrag: A graph-based tool to help defragmenting landscapes divided by linear infrastructures. Ecological Modelling, 394: 1-5. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2018.10.012.

-- 2018 --

Barbosa S, Mestre F, White TA, Paupério J, Alves PC & Searle JB (2018). Integrative approaches to guide conservation decisions: using genomics to define conservation units and functional corridors. Molecular Ecology, 27(17): 3452-3465. DOI: 10.1111/mec.14806.

Mestre F (2018). Thesis synopsis: Synergistic effects of climate change and habitat fragmentation on species range shifts and metapopulation persistence. Frontiers of Biogeography, 9(4): e35859. DOI: 10.21425/F59435859.

-- 2017 --

Mestre F, Risk B, Mira A, Beja P, & Pita R (2017). A metapopulation approach to predict species range shifts under different climate change and landscape connectivity scenarios. Ecological Modelling. 359: 406-414. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.06.013.

-- 2016 --

Mestre F, Cánovas F, Pita R, Mira A. & Beja P (2016). An R Package for simulating metapopulation persistence and range expansion under environmental change. Environmental Modelling & Software, 81:40-44. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.03.007.

-- 2015 --

Cánovas F, Magliozzi C, Palazon-Ferrando JA, Mestre F & Gonzalez-Wangüemert M (2015). ENiRG: R-GRASS interface to efficiently characterize the ecological niche of species and predict habitat suitability. Ecography, 39(6): 593-598. DOI: 10.1111/ecog.01426.

Mestre F, Pita R, Paupério J, Martins FMS, Alves PC, Mira A & Beja P (2015). Combining distribution modelling and non-invasive genetics to improve range shift forecasting. Ecological Modelling, 297: 171-179. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.11.018.

-- 2014 --

Mestre F, Bragança MP, Nunes A & dos Santos ME (2014). Satellite tracking of sea turtles released after prolonged captivity periods. Marine Biology Research, 10(10): 996-1006. DOI: 10.1080/17451000.2013.872801.

-- 2013 --

Godinho S, Mestre F, Ferreira JP, Machado R & Santos P (2013). Effectiveness of habitat management in the recovery of low-density populations of wild rabbit. European Journal of Wildlife Research. DOI: 10.1007/s10344-013-0738-3. 

-- 2007 --

Mestre F, Ferreira JP & Mira A (2007). Modelling the distribution of the European polecat, Mustela putorius, in a Mediterranean agricultural landscape. Revue d’Ecólogie – Terre et Vie, 62: 35-47. 

Mestre, F.; García-Callejas, D.; Pinto-Cruz, C.; Matias, M.G.; Araújo, M.B. (2019) “Environmental correlates of food web structure” at the conference “International Biogeography Society 2019”, 8 to 12th, January, University of Málaga, Spain. Link.

Mestre, F.; Mira, A. & Ferreira, J.P. (2005). “Modelling the distribution of the European polecat, Mustela putorius, in a Mediterranean agricultural landscape” (in Spanish) at the “VII SECEM – Spanish Society for the Conservation and Study of Mammals - Congress” (in Spanish). Abstracts VII Jornadas SECEM, Valencia, pp. 136, 3 to 6 December. Valencia. Spain. Link.

Mestre, F. & Mira, A. (2003). “Red deer habitat selection in the Contenda State” (in Portuguese) at the “8º National Ecology Meeting” promoted by the Portuguese Ecology Society (SPECO) and the University of Évora, 30 October and 1 November, Évora, Portugal.  Link.

Mestre, F. & Mira, A. (2003). “Deer density estimation, in Mediterranean ecosystems, using line transect techniques” at the “4 th European Congress of Mammalogy”, 27 July to 1 August, Brno, Czech Republic. Link.

-- Thesis --

-- Reports/Consulting --