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RESEARCH
CENTER

Polytechnic Institute
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FROM NATURE TO PRODUCTS, TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY.

Felícia Fonseca

Group: Socio-Ecological Systems
Phone: 273303253
E-mail: ffonseca@ipb.pt
ORCID: 0000-0001-7727-071X
Scopus Author ID: 36970960500

Career

  • Since 2013: Member of the Image and Student Support Office (GIAPE)
  • Since 1998: Auxiliary Professor at the School of Agriculture of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (ESA-IPB), Portugal
  • 1992 - 1998: Assistant Professor at the School of Agriculture of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (ESA-IPB), Portugal

Roles

  • Since 2022: President of the Scientific Committee of the Master's degree in "Forest Resources Management" at the School of Agriculture of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (ESA-IPB), Portugal
  • Since 2022: Program Director of the Master's degree in "Forest Resources Management" at the School of Agriculture of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (ESA-IPB), Portugal
  • 2014 - 2015: Head of Department of Environmental and Natural Resources of the School of Agriculture of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (ESA-IPB), Portugal
  • Since 2013: Member of the Scientific Council of the School of Agriculture of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (ESA-IPB), Portugal
  • Since 2013: Member of the Image and Student Support Office of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB), Portugal
  • 2011 - 2013: Member of the Scientific Committee of the Master's degree in "Forest Resources Management" at the School of Agriculture of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (ESA-IPB), Portugal
  • 2007 - 2008: Head of Department of Geosciences of the School of Agriculture of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (ESA-IPB), Portugal
  • Since 2007: Member of the Scientific Council of the Mountain Research Center of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (CIMO-IPB), Portugal
  • 2003 - 2009: Member of the Scientific Council of the School of Agriculture of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (ESA-IPB), Portugal
  • 1997 - 2000: Head of Department of Geosciences of the School of Agriculture of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (ESA-IPB), Portugal

Qualifications

  • 2007 - PhD. in Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), Portugal
  • 1997 - MSc. in Forest Resources Management, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), Portugal
  • 1991 - Graduation in Forest Engineering, University of Trás-os- Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), Portugal

Interests

  • Ecosystem services, in particular with regard to carbon storage in terrestrial systems and soil hydrological processes (soil loss, runoff)
  • Effect of human activities on soil physical and chemical properties (forest stands installation, forest fires, soil management)
  • Soil - plant relationships in forest and agroforestry systems
  • Fire - soil relationships

Projects:

HARVEST - Valorizar a Horta fAmiliar de forma a educaR para uma dieta mediterrânica, saudáVel E SustenTável
Funding body: PRR 2020 - Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência
Reference:
Principal Investigator:Tomás D' Aquino Freitas Rosa de Figueiredo
Start: 2023-01-17
End: 2025-12-31
Sustainolive - Azeite Biológico: implementação de estratégias inovadoras para a produção, valorização e consumo sustentáveis
Funding body: PRR 2020 - Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência
Reference: PRR-C05-i03-I-000187
Principal Investigator:Nuno Miguel de Sousa Rodrigues
Start: 2023-01-01
End: 2025-12-30
LIFE MARONESA - Market Awareness and Opportunity Raising for Needed Extensification and Soil-friendly Agriculture
Funding body: LIFE
Reference: LIFE19 GIC/PT/001285
Principal Investigator:Carlos Francisco Gonçalves Aguiar
Start: 2020-10-01
End: 2025-09-30
Bio4Med - Implementação de estratégias inovadoras para incremento da sustentabilidade em culturas perenes mediterrânicas
Funding body: PRR 2020 - Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência
Reference: PRR-C05-i03-I-000161
Principal Investigator:Paula Cristina dos Santos Baptista
Start: 2022-02-01
End: 2025-03-01
Aquavitae - Thermal water as a source of life and health
Funding body: Promove LA CAIXA
Reference: PD20-00003
Principal Investigator:Lillian Bouçada de Barros
Start: 2021-09-01
End: 2024-05-31
ForestWaterUp - Soluções baseadas na natureza para o restauro ecológico de solos degradados nos Lagos do Sabor
Funding body: PORTUGAL 2020 - COMPETE 2020 - Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização
Reference: POCI-07-62G4-FEDER-181557
Principal Investigator:Tomás D' Aquino Freitas Rosa de Figueiredo
Start: 2022-07-01
End: 2023-12-31
UP4REHAB - Unidade de Paisagem para o Restauro de Habitats
Funding body: PORTUGAL 2020 - COMPETE 2020 - Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização
Reference: POCI-07-62G4-FEDER-181617
Principal Investigator:Tomás D' Aquino Freitas Rosa de Figueiredo
Start: 2022-07-01
End: 2023-12-31
Man4Health - New management strategies in olive groves for improving soil health and crop yield
Funding body: NORTE 2020 - Programa Operacional Regional do Norte
Reference: NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000060
Principal Investigator:Paula Cristina dos Santos Baptista
Start: 2021-03-01
End: 2023-06-28
BIOma - Soluções integradas de BIOeconomia para a Mobilização cadeia Agroalimentar
Funding body: PORTUGAL 2020 - COMPETE 2020 - Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização
Reference: POCI-1-0247-FEDER-046112
Principal Investigator:Lillian Bouçada de Barros
Start: 2020-07-01
End: 2023-06-03
- Núcleo de Reflexão
Funding body: PDR 2020 - Programa de desenvolvimento Rural 2014-2020 - 1.0.1 - Grupos operacionais
Reference: PDR2020-2024-055366
Principal Investigator:Tomás D' Aquino Freitas Rosa de Figueiredo
Start: 2020-01-01
End: 2023-01-26
Montclima - Clima e riscos naturais nas Montanhas do SUDOE
Funding body: Interreg Sudoe
Reference: SOE3/P4/E0874
Principal Investigator:Manuel Joaquim Sabença Feliciano
Start: 2019-07-01
End: 2022-12-31
INDNATUR - Mejora del entorno urbano en áreas industriales, adaptación al cambio climático y mejora de la calidad del aire a través de Soluciones Basadas en la Naturaleza (NBS)
Funding body: POCTEP 2014-2020 - Programa de Cooperação Transfronteiriça Portugal – Espanha
Reference: 0599_INDNATUR_2_E
Principal Investigator:Artur Jorge de Jesus Gonçalves
Start: 2018-01-01
End: 2022-09-05
TERRAMATER - Medidas inovadoras de recuperación preventiva en áreas quemadas
Funding body: POCTEP 2014-2020 - Programa de Cooperação Transfronteiriça Portugal – Espanha
Principal Investigator:Tomás D' Aquino Freitas Rosa de Figueiredo
Start: 2018-01-01
End: 2022-05-30
OPEN2PRESERVE - Sustainable management model for the preservation of open mountain spaces with high environmental value
Funding body: Interreg Sudoe
Reference: SOE1/PS/E0804
Principal Investigator:Marina Maria Pedrosa Meca Ferreira de Castro
Start: 2018-03-01
End: 2021-12-30
Leonardo da Vinci - Comunity Vocational Training Action
Funding body:
Provision of Services
Principal Investigator:Tomás D' Aquino Freitas Rosa de Figueiredo
Start: 2006-01-01
End: 2018-12-31
- Projeto de Recuperação das Matas Litorais
Funding body: Fundo Florestal Permanente
Reference:
Principal Investigator:Maria do Sameiro Ferreira Patrício
Start: 2018-01-22
End: 2018-11-30
SIMWOOD - Sustainable Innovative Mobilisation of Wood
Funding body: FP7- KBBE Knowledge Based Bio-Economy
Principal Investigator:João Carlos Martins Azevedo
Start: 2013-11-01
End: 2017-12-01
IND_CHANGE - INDicator-based modelling tools to predict landscape CHANGE and to improve the application of social-ecological research in adaptive land management
Funding body: FCT - PTDC - Projectos em todos os domínios científicos
Principal Investigator:João Carlos Martins Azevedo
Start: 2013-07-01
End: 2015-06-30
- Biological control of Chestnut Blight for maintenance of Castanea ecosystem
Funding body: PRODER - Medida 4.1
Principal Investigator:Maria Eugénia Madureira Gouveia
Start: 2012-05-01
End: 2015-04-05
- The use of biological indicators as tools for assessing the impact of agriucultural practices in sustainability of olive grove
Funding body: FCT - PTDC - Projectos em todos os domínios científicos
Reference:
Principal Investigator:Sónia Alexandra Paiva Santos
Start: 2011-04-01
End: 2014-04-30
- Biomassa lenhosa para produção de energia: desenvolvimento de sistemas sustentáveis de fornecimento de bens e serviços de produção, regulação e conservação
Funding body: FCT - PTDC - Projectos em todos os domínios científicos
Reference:
Principal Investigator:João Carlos Martins Azevedo
Start: 2007-05-01
End: 2012-01-31
TECNIFLOR - Técnicas de preparação do solo em sistemas florestais para otimização da sua sustentabilidade e produtividade
Funding body: AGRO - Programa Operacional Agricultura e Desenvolvimento Rural
Reference: AGRO nº 156
Principal Investigator:Felícia Maria da Silva Fonseca
Start: 2001-01-01
End: 2004-12-31

Total results: 26
1
Méndez-López M.,Parente-Sendín A.,Acemel-Míguez L.,Fonseca F.,Santos I.,de Figueiredo T.,Arias-Estévez M.,Alonso-Vega F.,Nóvoa-Muñoz J.C.
Mobilization of mercury by sediment transport after a prescribed fire in NE Portugal: Insight into size classes and temporal variation
Journal of Hazardous Materials, 484, , 2025

2
Royer A.C.,de Figueiredo T.,Fonseca F.,Lado M.,Hernández Z.
Short-Term Effects of Olive-Pomace-Based Conditioners on Soil Aggregation Stability
Agronomy, 14, , 2024

3
Méndez-López M.,Jiménez-Morillo N.T.,Fonseca F.,de Figueiredo T.,Parente-Sendín A.,Alonso-Vega F.,Arias-Estévez M.,Nóvoa-Muñoz J.C.
Mercury mobilization in shrubland after a prescribed fire in NE Portugal: Insight on soil organic matter composition and different aggregate size
Science of the Total Environment, 904, , 2023

4
Patrício M.B.,Lado M.,de Figueiredo T.,Azevedo J.C.,Bueno P.A.A.,Fonseca F.
Carbon Storage Patterns and Landscape Sustainability in Northeast Portugal: A Digital Mapping Approach
Sustainability Switzerland, 15, , 2023

5
Santos R.,Fonseca F.,Baptista P.,Paz-González A.,de Figueiredo T.
Erosion Control Performance of Improved Soil Management in Olive Groves: A Field Experimental Study in NE Portugal
Land, 12, , 2023

6
Faria M.,Bertocco T.,Barroso A.,Carvalho M.,Fonseca F.,Delerue Matos C.,Figueiredo T.,Sequeira Braga A.,Valente T.,Jiménez-Ballesta R.
A Comparison of Analytical Methods for the Determination of Soil pH: Case Study on Burned Soils in Northern Portugal
Fire, 6, , 2023

7
Fonseca F.,Castro M.,Alves L.,Castro J.,de Figueiredo T.
Impacts of Extensive Sheep Grazing on Soil Physical and Chemical Quality in Open Mountain Forests, NE Portugal
Spanish Journal of Soil Science, 13, , 2023

8
Méndez-López M.,Gómez-Armesto A.,Alonso-Vega F.,Pontevedra-Pombal X.,Fonseca F.,de Figueiredo T.,Arias-Estévez M.,Nóvoa-Muñoz J.C.
The role of afforestation species as a driver of Hg accumulation in organic horizons of forest soils from a Mediterranean mountain area in SW Europe
Science of the Total Environment, 827, , 2022

9
Fonseca F.,Silva D.,Bueno P.,Hernández Z.,Royer A.C.,de Figueiredo T.
Temporal dynamics of carbon storage in a Mediterranean mountain scrubland managed by prescribed fire
Catena, 212, , 2022

10
Illera-Vives M.,López-Fabal A.,Fonseca F.,López-Mosquera M.E.
Production and evaluation of seaweed-containing plant growth adjuvant formulation
Sustainable Global Resources of Seaweeds Volume 1 Bioresources Cultivation Trade and Multifarious Applications, 451-468, 2022

11
de Figueiredo T.,Poesen J.,Fonseca F.,Hernández Z.
Long term erosion rates in Douro Vineyards, Portugal: Effects of rainfall characteristics and plant density
Soil Conservation Strategies Management and Challenges, 67-105, 2021

12
de Figueiredo T.,Royer A.C.,Fonseca F.,Schütz F.C.d.A.,Hernández Z.
Regression models for soil water storage estimation using the ESA CCI satellite soil moisture product: A case study in northeast Portugal
Water Switzerland, 13, , 2021

13
De Figueiredo T.,Fonseca F.,Hernández Z.
Terraced vineyards of the douro wine region, Portugal: A soil and water management perspective
Pirineos, 175, , 2020

14
Fonseca F.,de Figueiredo T.,Vilela Â.,Santos R.,de Carvalho A.L.,Almeida E.,Nunes L.
Impact of tree species replacement on carbon stocks in a Mediterranean mountain area, NE Portugal
Forest Ecology and Management, 439, 181-188, 2019

15
Fonseca F.,De Figueiredo T.
Carbon and nitrogen in forest floor and mineral soil under four forest species in the Mediterranean region
Spanish Journal of Soil Science, 8, 42-56, 2018

16
Gutiérrez Montero M.,Fonseca F.,Figueiredo T.,Sánchez Bellón Á.
Assessment and suggestions for improvement of soils with different uses in a sector of Montesinho Natural Park, Portugal
Spanish Journal of Soil Science, 8, 24-41, 2018

17
Fonseca F.,de Figueiredo T.,Nogueira C.,Queirós A.
Effect of prescribed fire on soil properties and soil erosion in a Mediterranean mountain area
Geoderma, 307, 172-180, 2017

18
Sil Â.,Fonseca F.,Gonçalves J.,Honrado J.,Marta-Pedroso C.,Alonso J.,Ramos M.,Azevedo J.C.
Analysing carbon sequestration and storage dynamics in a changing mountain landscape in Portugal: Insights for management and planning
International Journal of Biodiversity Science Ecosystem Services and Management, 13, 82-104, 2017

19
de Figueiredo T.,Fonseca F.,Lima E.,Fleischfresser L.,Hernandez Z.
Assessing performance of post-fire hillslope erosion control measures designed for different implementation scenarios in NE Portugal: Simulations applying USLE
Wildfires Perspectives Issues and Challenges of the 21st Century, 201-228, 2017

20
Martins da Silva P.,Oliveira J.,Ferreira A.,Fonseca F.,Pereira J.A.,Aguiar C.A.S.,Serrano A.R.M.,Sousa J.P.,Santos S.A.P.
Habitat structure and neighbor linear features influence more carabid functional diversity in olive groves than the farming system
Ecological Indicators, 79, 128-138, 2017

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22
de Figueiredo T.,Fonseca F.,Martins A.
Soil loss and run-off in young forest stands as affected by site preparation technique: A study in NE Portugal
European Journal of Forest Research, 131, 1747-1760, 2012

23
Fonseca F.,de Figueiredo T.,Bompastor Ramos M.A.
Carbon storage in the Mediterranean upland shrub communities of Montesinho Natural Park, northeast of Portugal
Agroforestry Systems, 86, 463-475, 2012

24
Fonseca F.,de Figueiredo T.,Martins A.
Survival and early growth of mixed forest stands installed in a Mediterranean Region: Effects of site preparation intensity
Forest Ecology and Management, 262, 1905-1912, 2011

25
Castro J.,De Figueiredo T.,Fonseca F.,Castro J.P.,Nobre S.,Pires L.C.
Montesinho Natural Park: General description and natural values
Natural Heritage from East to West Case Studies from 6 Eu Countries, 119-132, 2010

26
Gouveia E.,Coelho V.,Fonseca F.,Nunes L.,Monteiro L.
Systemic immunity against soil borne Phytophthora and control of ink disease of chestnut by foliar spray of potassium phosphonate
Acta Horticulturae, 866, 449-453, 2010

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