PUBLICATIONS
BIRDS & POWER LINES
SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES
2023
Martins, R.C., Bernardino, J., Moreira, F. (2023). A review of post-construction monitoring practices used in the evaluation of transmission power line impacts on birds and mitigation effectiveness, with proposals for guideline improvement. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 100: 107068. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2023.107068
Moreira, F., Martins, R. C., Aguilar, F. F., Canhoto, A., Martins, J., Moreira, J., & Bernardino, J. (2023). Long-term management practices successfully reduce bird-related electrical faults in a transmission grid increasingly used by white storks for nesting. Journal of Environmental Management, 327, 116897. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116897
2022
Silva, J. P., Marques, A. T., Bernardino, J., Allinson, T., Andryushchenko, Y., Dutta, S., Kessler, M., Martins, R.C., Moreira, F., Pallet, J., Pretorius, M.D., Scott, H.A., Shaw, J.M. & Collar, N. J. (2022). The effects of powerlines on bustards: how best to mitigate, how best to monitor?. Bird Conservation International, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270922000314
Marques, A. T., Palma, L., Lourenço, R., Cangarato, R., Leitão, A., Mascarenhas, M., Tavares, J.T., Tomé, R., Moreira, F. & Beja, P. (2022). Individual variability in space use near power lines by a long‐lived territorial raptor. Ecology and evolution, 12(4), e8811. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8811
Bernardino, J., Martins, R.C., Bispo, R., Marques, A.T., Mascarenhas, M., Silva, R., Moreira, F. (2022). Ecological and methodological drivers of persistence and detection of bird fatalities at power lines: Insights from multi-project monitoring data. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 93: 106707. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2021.106707
2021
Marcelino J., Moreira F., Franco A.M.A., Soriano-Redondo A., Acácio M., Gauld J., Rego F.C., Silva J.P., Catry I. (2021). Flight altitudes of a soaring bird suggest landfill sites as power line collision hotspots. Journal of Environmental Management, 294: 113149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113149
2020
Marques, A.T., Moreira, F., Alcazar, R., Delgado, A., Godinho, C., Sampaio, H., Rocha, P., Sequeira, N., Palmeirim, J.M., Silva, J.P. (2020). Changes in grassland management and linear infrastructures associated to the decline of an endangered bird population. Scientific Reports, 10: 15150. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-72154-9
Bernardino, J., Bispo, R., Martins, R.C., Santos, S., Moreira, F. (2020). Response of vertebrate scavengers to power line and road rights-of-way and its implications for bird fatality estimates. Scientific Reports, 10: 15014. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-72059-7
Alonso, H., Correia, R.A., Marques, A.T., Palmeirim, J.M., Moreira, F., Silva, J.P. (2020). Male post-breeding movements and stopover habitat selection of an endangered short-distance migrant, the Little Bustard Tetrax tetrax. Ibis, 162: 279-292. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12706
Marques, A.T, Martins, R.C., Silva, J.P., Palmeirim, J., Moreira, F. (2020). Power line routing and configuration as major drivers of collision risk in two bustard species. Oryx: 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605319000292
2019
Bernardino, J., Martins, R.C., Bispo, R., Moreira, F. (2019). Re-assessing the effectiveness of wire-marking to mitigate bird collisions with power lines: a meta-analysis and guidelines for field studies. Journal of Environmental Management, 252: 109651. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109651
D’Amico, M., Martins, R.C., Álvarez-Martínez, J.M., Porto, M., Barrientos, R., Moreira, F. (2019). Bird collisions with power lines: Prioritizing species and areas by estimating potential population-level impacts. Diversity and Distributions, 25: 975-982. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12903
Moreira F. (2019). Love me, love me not: Perceptions on the links between the energy sector and biodiversity conservation. Energy Research and Social Science, 51: 134-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.01.002
2018
Barrientos, R., Martins, R.C., Ascensão, F., D’Amico, M., Moreira, F., Borda-de-Água, L. (2018). A review of searcher efficiency and carcass persistence in infrastructure-driven mortality assessment studies. Biological Conservation, 222: 146-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2018.04.014
Bernardino, J., Bevanger, K., Barrientos, R., Dwyer, J.F., Marques, A.T., Martins, R.C., Shaw, J.M. , Silva, J.P., Moreira, F. (2018). Birds and collisions with power lines: state of the art and priority areas for research. Biological Conservation, 222: 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2018.02.029
D’Amico, M., Catry, I., Martins, R.C., Ascensão, F., Barrientos, F., Moreira, F. (2018). Bird on the wire: Landscape planning considering costs and benefits for bird populations coexisting with power lines. Ambio, 47: 650-656. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-018-1025-z
Mahood, S.P., Silva J.P., Dolman, P.M., Burnside, R.J. (2018). Proposed power transmission lines in Cambodia constitute a significant new threat to the largest population of the Critically Endangered Bengal Florican Houbaropsis bengalensis. Oryx, 52: 147-155. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605316000739
Marcelino, J., Moreira, F., Manosa, S., Cuscó, F., Morales, M., Garcia de La Morena, E., Bota, G., Palmeirim, J., Silva, J.P. (2017). Tracking data of the little bustard (Tetrax tetrax) in Iberia shows high anthropogenic mortality. Bird Conservation International, 28: 509-530. https://doi.org/10.1017/S095927091700051X
Moreira, F., Martins, R.C., Catry, I., D’Amico, M. (2018). Drivers of power line use by white storks: a case study of birds nesting on anthropogenic structures. Journal of Applied Ecology, 55: 2263-2273. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13149
Silva, J.P., Correia, R., Alonso, H., Martins, R.C., D’Amico, M., Delgado, A., Sampaio, H., Godinho, C., Moreira, F. (2018). EU protected area network did not prevent a country wide population decline in a threatened grassland bird. PeerJ, 6: e4284. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4284
2017
Catry, I, Encarnação, V., Pacheco, C., Catry, T., Tenreiro, P., Silva, L., Leão, F., Bally, F., Roda, S., Lopes, S., Capela, C., Alonso, H., Saldanha, S., Urbano, O., Saraiva, J., Encarnação, P., Sequeira, N., Mendes, M., Monteiro, P., Elias, G., Moreira, F. (2017). Recent changes on migratory behaviour of the White stork (Ciconia ciconia) in Portugal: towards the end of migration? Airo, 24: 28-35.
Moreira, F., Encarnação, V., Rosa, G., Gilbert, N., Infante, S., Costa, J., D’Amico, M., Martins, R., Catry, I. (2017). Wired: Impacts of increasing power line use by a growing bird population. Environmental Research Letters, 12, 024019. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa5c74
2016
Santos, M., Bessa, R., Cabral, J.A., Pacheco, F., Leitão, D., Moreira, F., Pinto, M., Lecoq, M., Silva, J.P. (2016). Impacts of land use and infrastructural changes on threatened Little Bustard Tetrax tetrax breeding populations: quantitative assessments using a recently developed spatially explicit dynamic modelling framework. Bird Conservation International, 26: 418-435. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270915000258
CONGRESS PRESENTATIONS
2022
Moreira, F., Martins, R.C., Aguilar, F. Canhoto, A., Martins, J., Moreira, F., Bernardino, J. (2022). Spatio-temporal patterns and successful mitigation of bird-caused electrical faults in transmission power lines in Portugal. IENE 2022 International Conference - "Connecting people, connecting landscapes" 19–23 September 2022, Cluj-Napoca, România (hybrid event).
2021
Bernardino, J. (2022). Improving impact mitigation and monitoring of bird collisions with power lines. 2nd Meeting of the Iberian Ecological Society (SIBECOL). 3-8 July 2022, Aveiro, Portugal.
Marques, A.T., Silva, J.P., Carrapato, C., Ramos, R., Moreira, F. & Palmeirim, J. (2021). Building an electrocution risk map with overhead power lines for a critically endangered raptor in Portugal. IENE 2020 International Conference, “LIFE LINES – Linear Infrastructure Networks with Ecological Solutions”. 12-14 January 2021, Évora (online).
Silva, J.P. & Marques, A.T. (2021). Bustards and power lines in Portugal: an overview of research done so far and its implications on impact assessment, mitigation and planning. IENE 2020 International Conference, “LIFE LINES – Linear Infrastructure Networks with Ecological Solutions”. 12-14 January 2021, Évora (online).
Bernardino, J., Bispo, R., Martins, R.C., Santos, S., Moreira, F. (2021). Effects of linear infrastructures on the composition of local vertebrate scavenger guilds and bird carcass removal patterns in two Mediterranean agricultural landscapes. IENE 2020 International Conference, “LIFE LINES – Linear Infrastructure Networks with Ecological Solutions”. 12-14 January 2021, Évora (online).
Martins, R.C.; Marques, A.T.; Silva, J.P.; Moreira, F. (2021). Bird mortality by collision with transmission power lines: analysis of 15 years of impact assessment in Portugal. IENE 2020 International Conference, “LIFE LINES – Linear Infrastructure Networks with Ecological Solutions”. 12-14 January 2021, Évora (online).
2020
Moreira, F., Martins, R., Hall, M., Parada, F., Fernandes, P. (2020). Evaluation of monitoring practices related to the impacts of overhead transmission lines on birds in Portugal: suggestions for improvement. CIGRE Symposium 2020 (online).
2019
Bernardino, J., Bevanger, K., Barrientos, R., Dwyer, J.F., Marques, A.T., Martins, R.C., Shaw, J.M. , Silva, J.P., Moreira, F. (2019). Understanding the drivers of bird collision with power lines: what we know (and don't know) after 40 years of research. XV European Ecological Federation (EFF) Congress, Lisboa, Portugal.
Martins, R., Moreira, F. (2019). Mortalidade de aves por colisão em linhas elétricas de transmissão: análise de 15 anos de monitorização de impactes em Portugal. X Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Ornitologia, Peniche, Portugal.
Moreira, F., D’Amico, M., Martins, R.J., Álvarez-Martinez, J.M., Porto, M., Barrientos, R. (2019). Bird collisions with power lines: a method to identify sensitive species and geographic areas to help onshore grid route planning. CIGRE Symposium 2019, Aalborg, Denmark.
2018
Moreira, F., Martins, R. Bernardino, J., Fernandes, P., Hall, M., Parada, F. (2018). Avaliação da eficácia de dispositivos anti-colisão em linhas elétricas: estado da arte e questões por responder. VII Conferência Nacional de Avaliação de Impactes (CNAI’18) - "A Inovação em Avaliação de Impactes", Porto, Portugal.
Moreira, F., Martins, R. Bernardino, J., Fernandes, P., Parada, F., Hall, M. Saint-Simon, C. (2018). Assessing the effectiveness of wire marking to reduce bird collisions: a critical evaluation of current practices and priorities for scientific research. CIGRE Symposium 2018, Paris, France.
BOOKS, CHAPTERS AND THESIS
Silva, J. P., Arroyo, B., Marques, A. T., Morales, M. B., Devoucoux, P., & Mougeot, F. (2022). Threats Affecting Little Bustards: Human Impacts. In Little Bustard: Ecology and Conservation (pp. 243-271). Springer, Cham. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-84902-3_12
Bernardino, J. (2021). Improving impact monitoring and mitigation of bird collisions with power lines. Doctoral Thesis, University of Porto. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/138600
Marques, A.T. (2020). Effects of anthropogenic infrastructures on the spatial ecology of raptors and bustards. Doctoral Thesis, University of Lisbon. https://repositorio.ul.pt/handle/10451/44157