Scientific publications

2025

•  Abra FD, Goebel LGA, Gregory T, Alonso A, Grilo C,  Huijser MP (2025). A century documenting roads’ toll on global biodiversity. Global Ecology and    Conservation, 63, e03859.

• Katzner, T., Nelson, D.M., Marques, A.T., Voigt, C.C., Lambertucci, S., Rebolo, N., Bernard, E., Diehl, R., Murgatroyd, M. (2025). Impacts of onshore wind-energy production on biodiversity. Nature Reviews Biodiversity. 

• Marques, A.T., Silva, J.P. & Moreira, F. (2025). Species‐Specific Responses of Farmland Birds to Overhead Powerlines. Ecology and Evolution. 

• Crispim-Mendes, T., Marques, A. T., Valerio, F., Godinho, S., Pita, R., & Silva, J. P. (2025). Using spatially explicit individual-based models to prioritize conservation strategies: A case study on the little bustard. Journal of Environmental Management, 379: 124790. 

• Grilo C, Neves T, Bates J et al. (2025). Global Roadkill Data: a dataset on terrestrial vertebrate mortality caused by collision with vehicles. Scientific Data 12, 505. 

• Torres RT, Neves T, Grilo C et al. (2025). Wrong place at the wrong time: patterns explaining ungulate-vehicle collisions in Portugal. Mammalian Biology. 

• Biscaia E, Bernardino J, Bispo R (2025). An Approach for Predicting Spatially Indexed Carcass Persistence Probability to Estimate Bird Mortality at Power Lines. In: Henriques-Rodrigues, L., Menezes, R., Machado, L.M., Faria, S., de Carvalho, M. (eds) New Frontiers in Statistics and Data Science. SPE 2021. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 469. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68949-9_13 

2024

• Bastianelli LM, ... Grilo C, Heurich M (2024). Risk response towards roads is consistent across multiple species in a temperate forest ecosystem. Oikos, e10433.

• Ceia-Hasse A, Thomson MA. Noguera-Urbano EA, Carrillo-Restrepo JC, Cruz-Rodríguez CA, Correa-Ayram CA, Ochoa-Quintero JM, Rosa IMD (2024). Primate extinction, the legacy of 40 year's road expansion in Colombia. Animal Conservation, 27: 226-239. 

• Marques AT, Pacheco C, Mougeot F & Silva JP (2024). GPS tracking reveals the timing of collisions of threatened grassland birds with power lines. Bird Conservation International, 34: e22. 

• Marques AT, Crispim-Mendes T, Palma L, Pita R, Moreira F & Beja P (2024). Using individual-based demographic modelling to estimate the impacts of anthropogenic mortality on territorial predators. Ecological Modelling, 493: 110752. 

2023

• Carvalho-Roel CF, Iannini-Custódio AE, Júnior OM, Grilo C (2023). The spatial, climatic and temporal factors influencing roadkill change according to the taxonomic level. Journal of Environmental Management, 348: 119221.

• Martins RC, Bernardino J, Moreira F (2023). A review of post-construction monitoring practices used in the evaluation of transmission power line impacts on birds and mitigation effectiveness, with proposals for guideline improvement. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 100: 107068.

• Medrano-Vizcaíno P, Grilo C, Brito-Zapata D, González-Suárez M (2023). Landscape and road features linked to wildlife mortality in the Amazon. Biodiversity and Conservation, 32, 4337-4352.

• Moreira F, Martins RC, Aguilar FF, Canhoto A, Martins J, Moreira J, & Bernardino J (2023). Long-term management practices successfully reduce bird-related electrical faults in a transmission grid increasingly used by white storks for nesting. Journal of Environmental Management, 327, 116897.

 2022

• Bernardino, J., Martins, R.C., Bispo, R., Marques, A.T., Mascarenhas, M., Silva, R., Moreira, F. (2022). Ecological and methodological drivers of persistence and detection of bird fatalities at power lines: Insights from multi-project monitoring data. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 93, 106707.

• Ferreira, E., Valerio, F., Medinas, D., Fernandes, N., Craveiro, J., Costa, P., Silva JP,...Santos, S. (2022). Assessing behaviour states of a forest carnivore in a road-dominated landscape using Hidden Markov Models. Nature Conservation,47: 155-175. 

• Gauld, J., Silva, J.P., Atkinson, P.W., Record, P., Acácio, M., Arkumarev, V., Blas, J., Bouten, W., Burton, W., Catry, I., Champagnon, J., Clewley, G.D., Dagys, M., Duriez, O., Exo, M., Fiedler, W., Flack, A., Friedemann, G., Fritz, J., Garcia-Ripolles, C., Garthe, S., Giunchi, D., Grozdanov, A., Harel, R., Humphreys, E.M., Janssen, R., Kölzsch, A., Kulikova, O., Lameris, T.K., López-López, P., Monti, F., Nathan, R., Nikolov, S., Oppel, S., Peshev, H., Phipps, L., Pokrovsky, I., Ross-Smith, V.H., Saravia, V., Scragg, E.S., Sforzi, A., Stoynov, E., Thaxter, C., Van Steelant, W., van Toor, M., Vorneweg, B., Waldenström, J., Wikelski, M., Žydelis, R., Franco, A.M.A. (2022). Hotspots in the grid: avian sensitivity and vulnerability to collision risk from energy infrastructure interactions in Europe and north Africa. Journal of Applied Ecology, 59(6), 1496-1512.

• Marques, A. T., Palma, L., Lourenço, R., Cangarato, R., Leitão, A., Mascarenhas, M., Tavares, J.T., Tomé, R., Moreira, F. & Beja, P. (2022). Individual variability in space use near power lines by a long‐lived territorial raptor. Ecology and evolution, 12(4), e8811.

• Medrano-Vizcaíno, P., Grilo C., Gonzalez-Suarez M. (2022). Research and conservation priorities to protect wildlife from collisions with vehicles. Biological Conservation 280, 109952.

• Medrano‐Vizcaíno, P., Grilo C., Silva Pinto F.A., Carvalho WD, Melinski R.D., et al. (2022). Roadkill patterns in Latin American birds and mammals. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31, 1756-1783.

• Santos, S., Grilo, C., Shilling, F., Bhardwaj, M., Remus Papp, C. (2022). Ecological Solutions for Linear Infrastructure Networks: The key to green infrastructure development. Nature Conservation,47, 1-8.

• Silva, J. P., Marques, A. T., Bernardino, J., Allinson, T., Andryushchenko, Y., Dutta, S., Kessler, M., Martins, R. C., Moreira, F., Pallett, J., Pretorius, M. D., Scott, H. A., Shaw, J. M. & Collar, N. J. (2022).The effects of powerlines on bustards: how best to mitigate, how best to monitor? Bird Conservation International, 33, e30, 1-14.

2021

• Barrientos, R, Ascensão, F., D’Amico, M., Grilo, C., Pereira H.M. (2021). The lost road: Do transportation networks imperil wildlife population persistence? Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation 19, 411-416.

• Cerqueira, R.C., de Rivera, O.R., Jaeger, J.A.G., Grilo, C. (2021). Direct and indirect effects of roads on space use by jaguars in Brazil. Scientific Reports 11, 22617.

• Cobucci Cerqueira, R, Leonard, P.B., Gonçalves da Silva, L., Bager, A., Clevenger, A.P., Jaeger, J.A.G, Grilo, C (2021). Potential movement corridors and high road-kill likelihood do not spatially coincide for felids in Brazil: Implications for road mitigation. Environmental Management 67, 412–423.

• Coffin, A.W., Ouren, D.S., Bettez, N.D., Borda-de-Água, L., Daniels, A.E, Grilo, C., Jaeger, J.A.G, Navarro, L., Preisler, H.K, Rauscher, E.S.J. (2021). Ecologia de vias rurales: efectos, manejo y investigacion. Issues in Ecology, 23.

• Grilo C., Borda‐de‐Água, L., Beja, P., Goolsby, E., Soanes, K, le Roux, A., Koroleva, E., Ferreira, F.Z., Gagné, S.A., Wang, Y., González‐Suárez, M.(2021). Conservation threats from roadkill in the global road network. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30, 2200–2210.

• Marcelino, J., Moreira, F., Franco, A.M.A., Soriano-Redondo, A., Acácio, M., Gauld, J., Rego, F.C., Silva, J.P., Catry, I. (2021). Flight altitudes of a soaring bird suggest landfill sites as power line collision hotspots. Journal of Environmental Management 294, 113149.

• Marques, A.T., Batalha, H., Bernardino, J. (2021). Bird Displacement by Wind Turbines: Assessing Current Knowledge and Recommendations for Future Studies. Birds, 2(4): 460-475.

2020

• Alonso, H., Correia, R.A., Marques, A.T., Palmeirim, J.M., Moreira, F., Silva, J.P. (2020), Male post-breeding movements and stopover habitat selection of an endangered short-distance migrant, the Little Bustard Tetrax tetrax. Ibis, 162: 279-292.

• Barbosa P., Schumaker N.H., Brandon K.R., Bager, A., Grilo C. (2020). Simulating the consequences of roads for wildlife population dynamics. Landscape and urban planning, 193, 103672.

• Bernardino, J., Bispo, R., Martins, R.C., Santos, S., Moreira, F. (2020). Response of vertebrate scavengers to power line and road rights-of-way and its implications for bird fatality estimates. Nature Scientific Reports, 10: 15014.

• Grilo, C, Koroleva, E, Andrášik, R., Bíl, M., González‐Suárez M. (2020). Roadkill risk and population vulnerability in European birds and mammals. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

• Marques, A.T., Martins, R.C., Silva, J.P., Palmeirim, J.M., Moreira, F. (2020). Power line routing and configuration as major drivers of collision risk in two bustard species. Oryx, 1-10

• Marques, A.T., Moreira, F., Alcazar, R., Delgado, A., Godinho, C., Sampaio, H., Rocha, P., Sequeira, N., Palmeirim, J.M., Silva, J.P. (2020). Changes in grassland management and linear infrastructures associated to the decline of an endangered bird population. Scientific Reports, 10, 15150

• Pinto, F.A.S., Clevenger, A.P., Grilo, C. (2020). Effects of roads on terrestrial vertebrate species in Latin America. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 81, 106337.

2019

• Bernardino, J., Martins, R.C., Bispo., R., Moreira, F. (2019). Re-assessing the effectiveness of wire-marking to mitigate bird collisions with power lines: A meta-analysis and guidelines for field studies. Journal of Environmental Management, 252 (15):109651

• Craveiro, J., Bernardino, J., Mira, A., Vaz, P.G. (2019). Impact of culvert flooding on carnivore crossings. Journal of Environmental Management, 231: 878-885.

• D'Amico, M., Martins, R. C., Álvarez-Martínez, J. M., Porto, M., Barrientos, R., Moreira, F. (2019). Bird collisions with power lines: Prioritizing species and areas by estimating potential population-level impacts. Diversity and Distributions, 25(6), 975-982.

• Grilo, C., Lucas, P.M., Fernández-Gil, A., Seara, M., Costa, G., Roque, S., Rio-Maior, H., Nakamura, M., Álvares, F., Petrucci-Fonseca, F., Revilla, E. (2019). Refuge as major habitat driver for wolf presence in human-modified landscapes. Animal Conservation, 22: 59-71.

• Grilo, C., Pinto F.A.S., Andrášik, R., Pereira H.M., Clevenger A.P. (2019). Reply: Modeling scenarios of population response to roads as a conservation risk assessment strategy. Biological Conservation, 230, 201-202.

• Moreira F. (2019). Love me, love me not: Perceptions on the links between the energy sector and biodiversity conservation. Energy Research and Social Science, 51: 134–7.

• Polak T, Nicholson E, Grilo C, Bennett JR, Possingham HP. (2019). Optimal planning to mitigate the impacts of roads on multiple species. J Appl Ecol. 2019; 56: 201–213.

2018

• Barrientos R, Martins RC, Ascensao F, D'Amico M, Moreira F, Borda-de-Água L (2018). A review of searcher efficiency and carcass persistence in infrastructure driven mortality assessment studies. Biological Conservation, 222: 146-153.

• Bernardino J, Bevanger K, Barrientos R, Dwyer JF, Marques AT, Martins RC, Shaw J, Silva JP, Moreira F (2018). Bird collisions with power lines: State of the art and priority areas for research. Biological Conservation, 222: 1-13.

• Ceia-Hasse A, Borda-de-Água L, Pereira HM (2018). PopIn - An R package for assessing the impact of linear infrastructures on populations.

• Ceia-Hasse A, Borda-de-Água L., Navarro L., Pereira H.M. (2018). Population persistence in landscapes fragmented by roads: disentangling isolation, road mortality, and dispersal. Ecological modelling, 375: 45-53.

• González-Suárez M, Zanchetta Ferreira F, Grilo C (2018). Spatial and species-level predictions of road mortality risk using trait data. Global Ecol Biogeogr. 27: 1093–1105.

• Grilo C, Molina-Vacas G, Fernandez-Aguilar X, Rodriguez-Ruiz J, Ramiro V, Porto-Peter F, Ascensao F, Roman J, Revilla E (2018). Species-specific movement traits and specialization determine the spatial responses of small mammals towards roads. Landscape and Urban Planning, 169: 199-207.

• Grilo C, Coimbra MR, Cerqueira RC, et al. (2018). BRAZIL ROAD-KILL: a data set of wildlife terrestrial vertebrate road-kills. Ecology, 99: 2625-2625.

• Mahood SP, Silva JP, Dolman PM, Burnside RJ (2018). Proposed power transmission lines in Cambodia constitute a significant new threat to the largest population of the Critically Endangered Bengal florican Houbaropsis bengalensis. Oryx, 52(1): 147-155.

• Moreira, F., Martins, R.C., Catry, I., D’Amico, M. (2018). Drivers of power line use by white storks: A case study of birds nesting on anthropogenic structures. Journal of Applied Ecology, 55, 2263-2273.

• Pinto, F.A.S., Bager, A., Clevenger, A.P., Grilo, C. (2018). Giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) conservation in Brazil: Analysing the relative effects of fragmentation and mortality due to roads. Biological Conservation, 228, 148-157

• Secco H, Grilo C, Bager A (2018). Habitat selection by the black-tufted marmoset Callithrix penicillata in human-disturbed landscapes. Journal of Tropical Ecology 34 (2), 135-144.

• Silva JP, Correia R, Alonso H, Martins RC, D’Amico M, Delgado A, Sampaio H, Godinho C, Moreira F (2018). EU protected area network did not prevent a country wide population decline in a threatened grassland bird. Peerj, 6: e4284.

2017

• Ceia‐Hasse A, Borda‐de‐Água L, Grilo C, Pereira HM (2017). Global exposure of carnivores to roads. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 26, 592-600.

• Moreira F, Encarnação V, Rosa G, Gilbert N, Infante S, Costa J, D’Amico M, Martins, RC, Catry I (2017). Wired: Impacts of increasing power line use by a growing bird population. Environmental Research Letters, 12, 024019.

2016

• Grilo, C, Cardoso, TR, Solar, R, Bager, A (2016). Do the size and shape of spatial units jeopardize the road mortality-risk factors estimates? Natureza & Conservação, 14, 1, 8-13.

• Santos M, Bessa R, Cabral JA, Pacheco F, Leitão D, Moreira F, Pinto M, Lecoq M, Silva JP (2016). Impacts of land use and infrastructural changes on threatened Little Bustard Tetrax tetrax breeding populations: quantitative assessments using a recently developed spatially explicit dynamic modelling framework. Bird Conservation International, 26: 418-435.

• Grilo C, Del Cerro I, Centeno-Cuadros A, Ramiro V, Román J, Molina-Vacas G, Fernández-Aguilar X, Rodríguez J, Porto-Peter F, Fonseca C, Revilla E, Godoy JA (2016). Heterogeneous road networks have no apparent effect on the genetic structure of small mammal populations. Science of Total Environment, 565, 706-713.

2015

• Grilo, C., Ferreira, F.Z., Revilla, E. (2015). No evidence of a threshold in traffic volume affecting road-kill mortality at a large spatio-temporal scale. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 55, 54-58.

2014

• Ascensão, F., Grilo, C., LaPoint, S., Tracey, J., Clevenger, A.P., Santos-Reis, M. (2014). Inter-Individual Variability of Stone Marten Behavioral Responses to a Highway. PLoS ONE 9(7): e103544.

• Borda-de-Água, L., Grilo, C., Pereira, H.M. (2014). Modeling the impact of road mortality on barn owl (Tyto alba) populations using age-structured models. Ecological Modelling, 276, 24, 29-37.

• Grilo, C., Reto, D., Filipe, J., Ascensão, F. and Revilla, E. (2014). Understanding the mechanisms behind road effects:  linking occurrence with road mortality in owls. Animal Conservation, 17, 555-564.

2013

• Porto Peter, F., Molina-Vacas, G., Rodríguez, J., Grilo, C. (2013). Effects of roads on spatial behaviour and abundance of small mammals: gaps in knowledge.Oecologia Australis, 17(1): 63-76.

• Serronha, A.M., Mateus, A.R.A., Eaton, F. Santos-Reis, M, Grilo, C. (2013). Towards effective culvert design: monitoring seasonal use and behavior by Mediterranean mesocarnivores. Environ Monit Assess 185, 6235–6246.

• Villalva, P., Reto, D., Santos-Reis, M., Revilla, E., Grilo, C. (2013). Do dry ledges reduce the barrier effect of roads? Ecological Engineering, 57, 143-148.

2012

• Ascensão, F., Clevenger, A.P., Grilo, C., Filipe J., Santos-Reis, M. (2012). Highway verges as habitat providers for small mammals in agrosilvopastoral environments. Biodiversity and Conservation, 21, 3681-3697.

• Grilo, C., Sousa, J., Ascensão, F., Matos, H., Leitão, I., Pinheiro, P., et al. (2012). Individual Spatial Responses towards Roads: Implications for Mortality Risk. PLoS ONE 7(9): e43811.

2011

• Grilo, C., Ascensão, F., Santos-Reis, M., Bissonette J.A. (2011). Do well-connected landscapes promote road-related mortality? European Journal of Wildlife Research, 57, 707–716.

• Mateus, A.R.A., Grilo, C., Santos-Reis, M. (2011). Surveying drainage culvert use by carnivores: sampling design and cost–benefit analyzes of track-pads vs. video-surveillance methods. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 181, 101–109.

2009

• Gomes, L., Grilo, C., Silva, C., Mira A. (2009). Identification methods and deterministic factors of owl roadkill hotspot locations in Mediterranean landscapes. Ecological Research 24, 355–370.

• Grilo, C., Santos-Reis, M., Bissonette J.A. (2009). Spatial–temporal patterns in Mediterranean carnivore road casualties: Consequences for mitigation. Biological Conservation, 142, 301-313.

2008

• Grilo, C., Bissonette, J.A. & Santos-Reis, M. (2008). Response of carnivores to existing highway culverts and underpasses: implications for road planning and mitigation. Biodiversity and Conservation, 17, 1685–1699.