Welcome to the professional website of João HN Palma.

My main research interests lie in land use change towards sustainable solutions where I believe agroforestry can play an important role with a higher resource use efficiency, delivering wider ecosystem services than agriculture or forestry alone.

The core my research objectives consider the development of models (and other tools) to capture the complexity of the biophysical relationships between trees and the environment. These models are used to understand and improve management decisions under scenarios of climate change, without disregarding the financial and economic criteria in the decision process, at different scales (plot, farm, landscape, regions, continental). I have created various tools during research projects, consultancy or simply through the identification of stakeholders interests.

Since my return to Portugal in 2007, after completing my PhD and a post-doc at the Swiss Federal Research Station for Agroecology and Agriculture and Wageningen University – Research Center, I have been involved in several different projects related to Forestry and Agroforestry, most of them at European/International contexts. Within this path I have been rewarded to work with a wide range of experts, in different scientific disciplines (engineering in agroforestry, forestry, agriculture, modellers, mathematicians, social scientists, economists, ecologists, soil hydrologists and physicists, tree and crop physiologists, climate modellers), stakeholders, from practitioners with an immense field (and life) experience, to policy makers in different countries (in Europe (UK, Switzerland, The Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Greece, Germany, Romania, Hungary, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Poland) and in New Zealand, Australia, Brazil and Chile).

I have been privileged to present the results of my work in more than 100 communications and several types of publications.

Feel free to contact me and/or see my full CV.

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João HN Palma