Vânia Proença

University of Lisbon — Portugal

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

26h-index6.0kcitations59works1.42yr avg
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Research Topics

Land Use and Ecosystem Services(20), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(19), Species Distribution and Climate Change(16), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management(11), Fire effects on ecosystems(10)

Publications55 total

Soft Range Limits Shape Sensitivity to Forest Cover More Strongly Than Hard Range Limits
Global Ecology and Biogeography·2025Open Access
Advancing Integrated Fire Management and Closer-to-Nature Forest Management: A Holistic Approach to Wildfire Risk Reduction and Ecosystem Resilience in Quinta da França, Portugal
Forests·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Semi-wild horse grazing as a rewilding strategy: assessing effects on vegetation structure and composition in the Côa Valley, Portugal
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution·2025Open Access
Advancing Integrated Fire Management and Closer-to-Nature Forest Management: A Holistic Approach to Wildfire Risk Reduction and Ecosystem Resilience in Quinta da França, Portugal
Preprints.org·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
How Do Bird Population Trends Relate to Human Pressures Compared to Economic Growth?
Sustainability·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Evaluating Domestic Herbivores for Vegetation Structure Management in Transitional Woodland–Shrubland Systems
Forests·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Predicting Fractional Shrub Cover in Heterogeneous Mediterranean Landscapes Using Machine Learning and Sentinel-2 Imagery
Forests·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Integrating K-Fold Cross-Validation with Advanced Classification Techniques for Shrub Coverage Mapping in Fire-Prone Landscapes using Sentinel-2 Imagery
2024· 3 cited
The use of domestic herbivores for ecosystem management in Mediterranean landscapes
Global Ecology and Conservation·2023· 15 citedOpen Access
Transformative Change Needs Direction
Sustainability·2022· 10 citedOpen Access
Ecosystem service deficits of European cities
The Science of The Total Environment·2022· 36 cited
Using Satellite NDVI Time-Series to Monitor Grazing Effects on Vegetation Productivity and Phenology in Heterogeneous Mediterranean Forests
Remote Sensing·2022· 28 citedOpen Access
An expanded framing of ecosystem services is needed for a sustainable urban future
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews·2022· 42 cited
Development of Semantic Maps of Vegetation Cover from UAV Images to Support Planning and Management in Fine-Grained Fire-Prone Landscapes
Remote Sensing·2022· 39 citedOpen Access
Beyond meat: Ecological functions of livestock
Science·2019· 6 cited
Spatial optimisation of urban ecosystem services through integrated participatory and multi-objective integer linear programming
Ecological Modelling·2019· 44 citedOpen Access
Functional shifts in bird communities from semi-natural oak forests to conifer plantations are not consistent across Europe
PLoS ONE·2019· 15 citedOpen Access
Pathways to Modelling Ecosystem Services within an Urban Metabolism Framework
Sustainability·2019· 46 citedOpen Access
Remotely sensed indicators and open-access biodiversity data to assess bird diversity patterns in Mediterranean rural landscapes
Scientific Reports·2019· 24 citedOpen Access
Finding the essential: Improving conservation monitoring across scales
Global Ecology and Conservation·2019· 21 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Henrique M. Pereira(21), Tiago Domingos(15), Inês Ribeiro(6), Jayne Belnap(5), Neil Brummitt(5), Dirk S. Schmeller(5), Chris van Swaay(5), Juan Fernández‐Manjarrés(4), Monika Böhm(4), Richard D. Gregory(4), Luı́s Vicente(4), Thomas Elliot(4), Benedetto Rugani(4), Paul Leadley(3), Rob Alkemade(3), Jörn P. W. Scharlemann(3), Georgina M. Mace(3), João P. Honrado(3), Mélodie A. McGeoch(3), João L. Guilherme(3)