Ricardo Rocha

I undertook a BSc in Environmental Biology at University of Lisbon and a MSc in Conservation Science at Imperial College London where I've studied São Tomé endemic birds' response to agricultural intensification. Following my MSc degree I worked on the ecology of Cory's shearwaters and endemic reptiles of the Selvagens Archipelago, Portugal and undertook a 9-months internship looking at the efficiency of Malagasy protected areas in reducing deforestation, based at the Metapopulation Research Group, Finland. I am now a PhD student based at University of Lisbon and University of Helsinki and my thesis is dedicated to the effects tropical forest fragmentation on the spatial-temporal dynamics of phyllostomid bat communities. My fieldwork is carried out at the Biological Dynamics of Forests Fragments Project, Central Amazon, Brazil an funding is provided by the Portuguese Fundation for Science and Tecnology (grant SFRH/BD/80488/2011).