António Alexandre
PhD StudentBiologist, educator and consultant in Permaculture and Urban Forestry. I am one of the founders of the HortaFCUL project, member of 2adapt, both from FCUL, and board member at URBEM. My research areas are Conservation and Urban Ecology/Sustainability. I worked in Animal Behaviour with wild Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii) in North Sumatra, Indonesia, resulting in my master's thesis ‘Effects of human disturbance on vocalizations of the Sumatran orangutan, Indonesia: conservation implications’ and other papers. In recent years I have been developing more and more work in the areas of Education, Sustainability, Climate Change, Permaculture and Urban Forests. I'm one of the coordinators of the FCULresta project - a tiny forest at FCUL, the first in Portugal, that aims to scientifically evaluate the Miyawaki method in a temperate climate and promote biodiversity and community work in an urban context - as well as the coordinator of 10 more tiny forests.
- Email: antoniojvsalexandre@gmail.com
- Web References: ORCID
- Research Group: Plant-Soil Ecology