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FROM NATURE TO PRODUCTS, TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY.

João Carlos Azevedo

Group: Socio-Ecological Systems
Phone: 273330901
E-mail: jazevedo@ipb.pt
ORCID: 0000-0002-3061-8261
Scopus Author ID: 57215410546

Career

  • Since 2014: Coordinator Professor at the School of Agriculture of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (ESA-IPB), Portugal
  • 1997 - 2014: Auxiliary Professor at the School of Agriculture of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (ESA-IPB), Portugal
  • 1993 - 1997: Assistant Professor at the School of Agriculture of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (ESA-IPB), Portugal

Roles

  • Since 2021: Associate Editor of Ecological Processes
  • Since 2020: Member of the International Editorial Board of Mountain Research and Development Journal
  • Since 2020: Member of the Consultative Committee of Scielo Portugal
  • Since 2018: Audit Committee Chair of the "Portuguese Society of Forest Sciences" (SPCF), Portugal
  • Since 2017: Coordinator of IUFRO - Landscape Ecology Working Party (IUFRO 8.01.02)
  • Since 2017: Member of the Coordination Committee and Executive Committee of the "National Mountain Research Network" (RNIM)
  • Since 2016: Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Mountain Science
  • Since 2015: Member of the Editorial Board of Ciência Rural
  • Since 2010: Member of the Editorial Board of Revista Árvore - Journal of Brazilian Forest Science

Qualifications

  • 2003 - PhD. in Forestry, Texas A&M University, United States of America
  • 1995 - MSc. in Forestry, Texas A&M University, United States of America
  • 1989 - Graduation in Forest Engineering, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), Portugal

Awards and Honors

  • 2017 - Outstanding Board Member and Scientific Editor Award, Journal of Mountain Science
  • 2003 - NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Award in Landscape Ecology, National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Michigan State University, Banff, Alberta, Canada
  • 2002 - Outstanding PhD Student Award, Department of Forest Science, Texas A&M University, United States of America
  • 2000 - Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento (FLAD) scholarship
  • 1995 - Fulbright and Luso-American Development Organisation scholarships

Interests

  • Forest landscape ecology
  • Sustainability in forested landscapes
  • Ecosystem services in changing landscapes
  • Sustainable forest bioenergy production systems
  • Mountain forestry

Projects:

An-Gel Sudoe - Lutar e alertar contra a geada da Primavera
Funding body: Interreg Sudoe
Reference: CMP259
Principal Investigator:António Castro Ribeiro
Start: 2024-01-01
End: 2026-12-31
USE4FOREST - Estratégia para a prevenção de incêndios no Sudoe através da melhoria dos espaços florestais
Funding body: Interreg Sudoe
Reference:
Principal Investigator:João Carlos Martins Azevedo
Start: 2024-01-01
End: 2026-12-31
ForestFisher - Áreas prioritárias para conservação e restauro de interações entre floresta e espécies de peixes frugívoros e pesca associada na Amazónia
Funding body: Biodiversa+ (European Biodiversity Partnership)
Reference: DivRestore/0010/2020
Principal Investigator:João Carlos Martins Azevedo
Start: 2022-04-01
End: 2025-03-31
SMURF - Sustainable Management models and value chains for small forests
Funding body: HORIZON EUROPE
Reference: HORIZON-CL6-2023-CIRCBI-01
Principal Investigator:João Carlos Martins Azevedo
Start: 2024-01-01
End: 2023-12-31
SUBe - Small scale power generation Unit using Biomass gasification
Funding body: FCT - PCIF
Reference: PCIF/GVB/0197/2017
Principal Investigator:Paulo Miguel Pereira de Brito
Start: 2019-03-01
End: 2023-02-28
FirESmart - Nature-based solutions for preventive fire management and sustained supply of ecosystem services
Funding body: FCT - PCIF
Reference: PCIF/MOG/0083/2017
Principal Investigator:João Carlos Martins Azevedo
Start: 2019-03-01
End: 2023-02-28
SAFe - Forest monitoring and alert system
Funding body: Promove LA CAIXA
Reference:
Principal Investigator:João Carlos Martins Azevedo
Start: 2018-11-01
End: 2022-05-31
BEEHAPPY - Bee (Apis mellifera L.) Health in the Azores: comparing ePidemiological Patterns in a unique natural laboratory
Funding body: PORTUGAL 2020 - COMPETE 2020 - Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização
Reference: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029871
Principal Investigator:Maria Alice Pinto
Start: 2018-06-01
End: 2022-05-31
CLIMO - Climate-Smart Forestry in Mountain Regions
Funding body: COST - European Cooperation in Science & Technology
Reference: CA COST Action CA15226
Principal Investigator:João Carlos Martins Azevedo
Start: 2016-01-01
End: 2020-12-31
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
A New CAP - A New CAP "Mountains of opportunities"
Funding body: DG AGRI - Directorate General for Agricultural and Rural Development
Principal Investigator:João Carlos Martins Azevedo
Start: 2014-01-01
End: 2015-12-31
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
HiCC - Biological Control by Hypovirulence Against Chestnut Blight in Portugal
Funding body: FCT - PTDC - Projectos em todos os domínios científicos
Reference:
Principal Investigator:Maria Eugénia Madureira Gouveia
Start: 2013-05-01
End: 2015-04-30
- 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
- Patterns and processes (neutral and adaptive) variation in hybrid zone of honey bee (Apis mellifera iberiensis) of Iberian peninsula: a population genetics approach integrating population genomics and landscape genetics
Funding body: FCT - PTDC - Projectos em todos os domínios científicos
Reference: PTCD/BIA-BEC/099640/2008
Principal Investigator:Maria Alice Pinto
Start: 2010-03-22
End: 2013-09-30
- Risco de degradação do solo associado com a produção de Biomassa e as alterações de uso nos montados da barragem do Alqueva
Funding body: FCT - PTDC - Projectos em todos os domínios científicos
Reference:
Principal Investigator:João Carlos Martins Azevedo
Start: 2010-04-01
End: 2013-09-30
- Initial Ecological Characterization Survey- Moncorvo Iron ore Deposite Project
Funding body:
Provision of Services
Principal Investigator:José Paulo Mendes Guerra Marques Cortez
Start: 2012-01-01
End: 2013-01-01
- 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
- Papel regulador dos Azinhais na propagação de incêndios florestais: definição de medidas de ordenamento e gestão à escala da paisagem
Funding body: IFAP - Fundo Florestal Permanente
Reference:
Principal Investigator:João Carlos Martins Azevedo
Start: 2009-02-01
End: 2010-12-31

Total results: 61
1
Imbrechts L.,Azevedo J.C.,Verburg P.
Trajectories and drivers signalling the end of agricultural abandonment in Trás-os-Montes, Portugal
Regional Environmental Change, 24, , 2024

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Sil Â.,Azevedo J.C.,Fernandes P.M.,Honrado J.P.
Will fire-smart landscape management buffer the effects of climate and land-use changes on fire regimes?
Ecological Processes, 13, , 2024

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Beltrán-Marcos D.,Suárez-Seoane S.,Fernández-Guisuraga J.M.,Azevedo J.C.,Calvo L.
Fire regime attributes shape pre-fire vegetation characteristics controlling extreme fire behavior under different bioregions in Spain
Fire Ecology, 20, , 2024

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Gerber D.,Azevedo J.C.,Nereu M.,de Oliveira A.S.,Marchante E.,Jacobson T.K.B.,Silva J.S.
Hakea decurrens invasion increases fire hazard at the landscape scale
Biological Invasions, 26, 3779-3793, 2024

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Pedersen J.S.T.,Dias L.F.,Kok K.,van Vuuren D.,Soares P.M.M.,Santos F.D.,Azevedo J.C.
Increased policy ambition is needed to avoid the effects of climate change and reach carbon removal targets in Portugal
Regional Environmental Change, 24, , 2024

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Azevedo J.C.,López-Bao J.V.,Dias R.,Santos J.P.V.,Pinto S.,Pereira J.,de Castro-Pardo M.
Perceptions and attitudes of stakeholders on the return of brown bears (Ursus arctos): Contributions from a workshop held in northern Portugal
Conservation Science and Practice, 6, , 2024

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Urbach D.,Azevedo J.C.,Belsky J.M.,Clark V.R.,Postigo J.,Wu Y.
Focus Issue: Restoring Mountain Systems for Social-Ecological Resilience
Mountain Research and Development, 43, 1-3, 2023

10
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

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Nunes L.J.R.,Nogueira J.,Rodrigues J.B.,Azevedo J.C.,Oliveira E.,de Figueiredo T.,Picos J.
Modern Animal Traction to Enhance the Supply Chain of Residual Biomass
AgriEngineering, 5, 1039-1050, 2023

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Lecina-Diaz J.,Campos J.C.,Pais S.,Carvalho-Santos C.,Azevedo J.C.,Fernandes P.,Gonçalves J.F.,Aquilué N.,Roces-Díaz J.V.,Agrelo de la Torre M.,Brotons L.,Chas-Amil M.L.,Lomba A.,Duane A.,Moreira F.,Touza J.M.,Hermoso V.,Sil Â.,Vicente J.R.,Honrado J.,Regos A.
Stakeholder perceptions of wildfire management strategies as nature-based solutions in two Iberian biosphere reserves
Ecology and Society, 28, , 2023

13
Jacobson T.K.B.,Gerber D.,Azevedo J.C.
Invasiveness, Monitoring and Control of Hakea sericea: A Systematic Review
Plants, 12, , 2023

14
Pamukcu-Albers P.,Azevedo J.C.,Ugolini F.,Zuniga-Teran A.,Wu J.
Urban resilience through green infrastructure
Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change: Design Principles for Climate Emergencies, 53-69, 2023

15
Nicoletti M.F.,Azevedo J.C.,Gerber D.,Bechara F.C.,Topanotti L.R.
Evaluating tree survival and modeling initial growth for Atlantic Forest restoration
Ciencia Rural, 53, , 2023

16
Iglesias M.C.,Hermoso V.,Campos J.C.,Carvalho-Santos C.,Fernandes P.M.,Freitas T.R.,Honrado J.P.,Santos J.A.,Sil Â.,Regos A.,Azevedo J.C.
Climate- and fire-smart landscape scenarios call for redesigning protection regimes to achieve multiple management goals
Journal of Environmental Management, 322, , 2022

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de Castro-Pardo M.,Martín Martín J.M.,Azevedo J.C.
A new composite indicator to assess and monitor performance and drawbacks of the implementation of Aichi Biodiversity Targets
Ecological Economics, 201, , 2022

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Bowditch E.,Santopuoli G.,Neroj B.,Svetlik J.,Tominlson M.,Pohl V.,Avdagić A.,del Rio M.,Zlatanov T.,Maria H.,Jamnická G.,Serengil Y.,Sarginci M.,Brynleifsdóttir S.J.,Lesinki J.,Azevedo J.C.
Application of climate-smart forestry – Forest manager response to the relevance of European definition and indicators
Trees, Forests and People, 9, , 2022

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Sil Â.,Azevedo J.C.,Fernandes P.M.,Alonso J.,Honrado J.P.
Fine-tuning the BFOLDS Fire Regime Module to support the assessment of fire-related functions and services in a changing Mediterranean mountain landscape
Environmental Modelling and Software, 155, , 2022

20
Campos J.C.,Rodrigues S.,Sil Â.,Hermoso V.,Freitas T.R.,Santos J.A.,Fernandes P.M.,Azevedo J.C.,Honrado J.P.,Regos A.
Climate regulation ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation are enhanced differently by climate-and fire-smart landscape management
Environmental Research Letters, 17, , 2022

21
Martin Barroso V.,de Castro-Pardo M.,Fernández Martínez P.,Azevedo J.C.
A regionalized IO-model to value seasonal recreational ecosystem services in a mountain National Park in Spain
Journal of Mountain Science, 19, 211-227, 2022

22
Azevedo J.C.,Clark V.R.,Millar J.,Mukwada G.,Postigo J.C.,Wurzinger M.,Mathez-Stiefel S.L.
Focus Issue: Pastoralism and Rangelands in Mountains
Mountain Research and Development, 41, 1-2, 2021

23
de Castro-Pardo M.,Azevedo J.C.,Fernández P.
Ecosystem services, sustainable rural development and protected areas
Land, 10, , 2021

24
de Castro-Pardo M.,Martínez P.F.,Zabaleta A.P.,Azevedo J.C.
Dealing with water conflicts: A comprehensive review of mcdm approaches to manage freshwater ecosystem services
Land, 10, , 2021

25
Pamukcu-Albers P.,Ugolini F.,La Rosa D.,Grădinaru S.R.,Azevedo J.C.,Wu J.
Building green infrastructure to enhance urban resilience to climate change and pandemics
Landscape Ecology, 36, 665-673, 2021

26
de Castro-Pardo M.,Azevedo J.C.
A goal programming model to guide decision-making processes towards conservation consensuses
Sustainability (Switzerland), 13, 1-25, 2021

27
Azevedo J.C.,Luque S.,Dobbs C.,Sanesi G.,Sunderland T.C.H.
The ethics of isolation, the spread of pandemics, and landscape ecology
Landscape Ecology, 35, 2133-2140, 2020

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Martínez P.F.,de Castro-Pardo M.,Barroso V.M.,Azevedo J.C.
Assessing sustainable rural development based on ecosystem services vulnerability
Land, 9, , 2020

30
Ferreira H.,Henriques D.,Neves C.J.,Machado C.A.S.,Azevedo J.C.,Francoy T.M.,Pinto M.A.
Historical and contemporaneous human-mediated processes left a strong genetic signature on honey bee populations from the Macaronesian archipelago of the Azores
Apidologie, 51, 316-328, 2020

31
de Castro-Pardo M.,Pérez-Rodríguez F.,Martín-Martín J.M.,Azevedo J.C.
Modelling stakeholders’ preferences to pinpoint conflicts in the planning of transboundary protected areas
Land Use Policy, 89, , 2019

32
Resende F.O.,Silva V.F.,Mendonca M.L.,Barbosa A.C.,Brito P.,Azevedo J.C.,Almeida A.,Gomes H.T.
Using biomass gasification for small scale power generation systems: Specifications of the conceptual framework
8th International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications, ICRERA 2019, 439-444, 2019

33
Sil Â.,Azevedo J.C.,Fernandes P.M.,Regos A.,Vaz A.S.,Honrado J.P.
(Wild)fire is not an ecosystem service
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 17, 429-430, 2019

34
Sil Â.,Fernandes P.M.,Rodrigues A.P.,Alonso J.M.,Honrado J.P.,Perera A.,Azevedo J.C.
Farmland abandonment decreases the fire regulation capacity and the fire protection ecosystem service in mountain landscapes
Ecosystem Services, 36, , 2019

35
Castro-Pardo M.d.,Pérez-Rodríguez F.,Azevedo J.C.,Urios V.
Looking for consensual protection categories to reduce conservation conflicts in protected areas
Ciencia Rural, 49, , 2019

36
de Castro-Pardo M.,Pérez-Rodríguez F.,Martín-Martín J.M.,Azevedo J.C.
Planning for democracy in protected rural areas: Application of a voting method in a Spanish-Portuguese reserve
Land, 8, , 2019

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Gómez-García E.,Azevedo J.C.,Pérez-Rodríguez F.
A compiled project and open-source code to generate web-based forest modelling simulators
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 147, 1-5, 2018

39
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

40
Carvalho-Santos C.,Monteiro A.T.,Azevedo J.C.,Honrado J.P.,Nunes J.P.
Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources and Reservoir Management: Uncertainty and Adaptation for a Mountain Catchment in Northeast Portugal
Water Resources Management, 31, 3355-3370, 2017

41
Pérez-Rodríguez F.,Azevedo J.C.,Menéndez-Miguélez M.
ApkFor©, an android open-source project for research and technology transfer in forest management
Forest Systems, 26, , 2017

42
De Magalhães S.R.,Ribeiro C.A.A.S.,Dos Santos Ferreira De Castro J.M.C.,Fernandes P.A.M.,Da Silva C.A.R.L.,Pinheiro H.M.P.,De Azevedo J.C.M.
Fire behaviour in different periods and configurations of a landscape in Northeastern Portugal
Ciencia Florestal, 27, 457-469, 2017

43
Sil Â.,Rodrigues A.P.,Carvalho-Santos C.,Nunes J.P.,Honrado J.,Alonso J.,Marta-Pedroso C.,Azevedo J.C.
Trade-offs and Synergies between Provisioning and Regulating Ecosystem Services in a Mountain Area in Portugal Affected by Landscape Change
Mountain Research and Development, 36, 452-464, 2016

44
Pérez-Rodríguez F.,Nunes L.,Azevedo J.C.
A software tool for accurate assessment of costs and CO2 emissions in wood transport using OpenStreetMap©
Mathematical and Computational Forestry and Natural-Resource Sciences, 8, 35-53, 2016

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Pinto M.A.d.S.,Gonçalves A.P.S.,Santos S.A.P.,de Almeida M.R.L.,de Azevedo J.C.M.
Biological invasion of Corythucha ciliata in green urban spaces in Portugal: A niche modeling approach using maximum entropy
Ciencia Florestal, 24, 597-607, 2014

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Azevedo J.C.,Perera A.H.,Pinto M.A.
Preface
Forest Landscapes and Global Change: Challenges for Research and Management, v-vi, 2014

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Azevedo J.C.,Pinto M.A.,Perera A.H.
Forest landscape ecology and global change: An introduction
Forest Landscapes and Global Change: Challenges for Research and Management, 1-27, 2014

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Azevedo J.C.,Perera A.H.,Pinto M.A.
Forest landscapes and global change: Challenges for research and management
Forest Landscapes and Global Change: Challenges for Research and Management, 1-262, 2014

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Azevedo J.C.,Pinto M.A.,Perera A.H.
Forest landscape ecology and global change: What are the next steps?
Forest Landscapes and Global Change: Challenges for Research and Management, 249-260, 2014

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Marta-Pedroso C.,Laporta L.,Proença V.,Azevedo J.C.,Domingos T.
Changes in the ecosystem services provided by forests and their economic valuation: A review
Forest Landscapes and Global Change: Challenges for Research and Management, 107-137, 2014

53
Pinheiro H.,de Castro J.P.M.,Azevedo J.C.
Landscape changes and carbon sequestration in the deilão Parish, northeastern Portugal
Revista Arvore, 38, 41-52, 2014

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Chávez-Galarza J.,Henriques D.,Johnston J.S.,Azevedo J.C.,Patton J.C.,Muñoz I.,De La Rúa P.,Pinto M.A.
Signatures of selection in the Iberian honey bee (Apis mellifera iberiensis) revealed by a genome scan analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms
Molecular Ecology, 22, 5890-5907, 2013

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Pinto M.A.,Henriques D.,Neto M.,Guedes H.,Muñoz I.,Azevedo J.C.,De La Rúa P.
Maternal diversity patterns of Ibero-Atlantic populations reveal further complexity of Iberian honeybees
Apidologie, 44, 430-439, 2013

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Azevedo J.C.,Possacos A.,Aguiar C.F.,Amado A.,Miguel L.,Dias R.,Loureiro C.,Fernandes P.M.
The role of holm oak edges in the control of disturbance and conservation of plant diversity in fire-prone landscapes
Forest Ecology and Management, 297, 37-48, 2013

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Castro J.,Azevedo J.C.,Martins L.
Temporal analysis of sweet chestnut decline in northeastern Portugal using geostatistical tools
Acta Horticulturae, 866, 405-410, 2010

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Azevedo J.C.,Wu X.B.,Messina M.G.,Fisher R.F.
Effects of the sustainable forestry initiative on the quality, abundance, and configuration of wildlife habitats
Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 23, 37-65, 2006

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Azevedo J.C.,Williams J.R.,Messina M.G.,Fisher R.F.
Impacts of the sustainable forestry initiative landscape level measures on hydrological processes
Water Resources Management, 19, 95-110, 2005

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Azevedo J.C.,Wu X.B.,Messina M.G.,Fisher R.F.
Assessment of sustainability in intensively managed forested landscapes: A case study in eastern Texas
Forest Science, 51, 321-333, 2005

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Azevedo J.C.M.,Jack S.B.,Coulson R.N.,Wunneburger D.F.
Functional heterogeneity of forest landscapes and the distribution and abundance of the red-cockaded woodpecker
Forest Ecology and Management, 127, 271-283, 2000

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