Increase of nesting sites: installation and monitoring of nest boxes for insectivorous birds; reproductive phenology and breeding parameters; the use of cork as a new resource for nest boxes.
Insectivorous birds–forest pests’ relationships: symptoms identification of insect pests in cork oak stands and pine forests; the use of bird communities as indicators of pinewoods and „montados‟ health.
Structure of communities: trends of forest bird populations: the influence of land use management, vegetation composition and structure in bird communities; modelling bird distribution and community structural parameters.
Fragmentation effects: bird communities in patchwork landscapes; the effect of patch size, degree of isolation and lack of connectivity in bird communities; diagnosis and establishment of measures for forest management in order to increase bird diversity.
Publications
Godinho C, Rabaça JE 2011. Birds like it Corky: the influence of habitat features and management of ‘montados’ in breeding bird communities. Agroforestry Systems. Vol 82(2) 183-195 DOI: 10.1007/s10457-010-9345-4
Godinho C, Pereira P, Rabaça JE 2009. Recover a cork oak forest – birds as management indicators. 2nd European Congress of Conservation Biology, “Conservation biology and beyond: from science to practice”. Prague. Pp: 171.
Pires BA, Belo AF, Rabaça JE in litt. Aromatic plants in Eurasian blue tit nests: the „Nest Protection Hypothesis‟ revisited. Wilson Journal of Ornithology.
Salgueiro P, Costa H, Rabaça JE 2010. Time means… species! On the performance of species richness estimators and different sampling schemes. In Bermejo, A. (Ed.) Bird Numbers 2010 “Monitoring, indicators and targets”. Book of abstracts of the 18th Conference of the European Bird Census Council.SEO/BirdLife. Madrid. Pp: 53-54.