Unified Habitat classification System in AlUla County (2025-2026)

Funded by: AFAlUla - French Agency for AlUla Development

PI: João Campos

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Terrestrial High Resolution Habitats Map of the Red Sea Project  (2025-2026)

Funded by: RSG - Red Sea Global

PI: João Campos

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Due Diversity II: Supporting the Convention on Biological Diversity (2012-2014)

Funded by: ESA – European Space Agency

PI: José Carlos Brito

INSPIRE - Integrated Spacial Planning Across Realms (2023-2026)

Funded by: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia

PI: Sílvia Carvalho

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PLACES - PLAnning for the Conservation of life on Earth in the light of evolution and Sustainability (2023-2025)

Funded by: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia 

PI: Sílvia Carvalho

NGC - Next Generation Conservation: preserving the continuum of life in space and time (2015-2018)

Funded by: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia /Programa COMPETE

PI: Sílvia Carvalho

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GenePlan - Integrating evolutionary processes and systematic conservation planning (2012-2015)

Funded by: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia /Programa COMPETE

PI: Sílvia Carvalho

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Predator-prey Model (2023-2027)

Funded by: RCU – Royal Commission for AlUla 

PI: Leili Khalatbari

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Spatial Habitats Assessment for Biodiversity Conservation (2024-2025)

Funded by: RSG - Red Sea Global 

PI: José Carlos Brito

Baseline Survey for Raptors (2024-2025)

Funded by: RCU – Royal Commission for AlUla 

PI: José Carlos Brito

Investigate Acacia Trees Dieback Possible Solutions – Insect related (2023-2024)

Funded by: RCU – Royal Commission for AlUla 

PI: Leili Khalatbari

Inventory of AlUla Fauna (2022-2024)

Funded by: RCU – Royal Commission for AlUla  

PI: José Carlos Brito

Behavioral optimization of camouflage in remote Sahara-Sahel rodent communities (2020-2021)

Funded by: National Geographic Society  

PI: Zbyszek Boratyński

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ARIDADAPT - Climate change and genomics of adaptation to extreme desert conditions (2018-2020)

Funded by: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia /Programa COMPETE

PI: Zbyszek Boratyński

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The role of adaptation in Lesser Egyptian jerboa speciation (2016)

Funded by: Systematic Research Fund

PI: Nina Serén

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Understanding genetic diversity and population structure of endangered Gazella cuvieri and Gazella dorcas from Morocco using multiple molecular markers and a non-invasive sampling approach (2014-2015)

Funded by: ECWP - Emirates Center for Wildlife Propagation

PI: Teresa Luísa Silva

DESERTFLOW – Assessing gene flow and contact zone dynamics in desert lizards under climate change scenarios (2013-2015)

Funded by: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia /Programa COMPETE

PI: José Carlos Brito

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Diversity patterns in West Africa - the case of specious Gerbillus rodents (2013-2014)

Funded by: National Geographic Society

PI: Zbyszek Boratyński

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METALAND: Inferring metapopulation dynamics with landscape genetics for vertebrates of Mauritanian mountains (2010-2013)

Funded by: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia /Programa COMPETE

PI: José Carlos Brito

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Biogeographic and evolutionary patterns in isolated vertebrates from Mauritania (2008-2009)

Funded by: National Geographic Society

PI: José Carlos Brito

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Phylogeography of the Spiny-footed lizards, Acanthodactylus spp., in West Africa (2008-2009)

Funded by: National Geographic Society

PI: José Carlos Brito

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BIPEDEVO - Evolving on two legs: ecological and genomic attributes of bipedal rodents in desert ecosystems (2023-2024)

Funded by: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia 

PI: Gholam Hosein Yusefi

Assessing Asiatic cheetah's population size and structure in central deserts of Iran (2017-2018)

Funded by: Rufford Small Grants for Nature Conservation

PI: Leili Khalatbari

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Landscape genomics and adaptive genetic variation in desert populations of Guinea baboons (2022-2023)

Funded by: Primate Conservation Incorporated  

PI: Cristian Pizzigalli

Future prediction for conservation of the unknown Guinea baboons’ desert populations in Mauritania (2022-2023)

Funded by: Rufford Small Grants for Nature Conservation  

PI: Cristian Pizzigalli

Assessment of the Newly Discovered Population of the Globally Endangered Zolio's Lizard in Mauritania (2020-2021)

Funded by: Rufford Small Grants for Nature Conservation  

PI: Marisa Naia

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Conserving desert biodiversity through crocodile-based ecotourism in Mauritania (2015-2016)

Funded by: Rufford Small Grants for Nature Conservation

PI: Frederico Santarém

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Relict or endemic? Frog highlanders and the role of mountains and climatic fluctuations in the diversification of desert anurans (2014-2015)

Funded by: Synthesis 3 programme

PI: Duarte Gonçalves

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Combining ecological niche-based modelling and landscape genetics for conservation planning of endangered North African gazelles (2014-2015)

Funded by: Synthesis 3 programme

PI: Teresa Luísa Silva

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Conservation Status of Addax nasomaculatus in Mauritania (2014)

Funded by: Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund

PI: Cândida Gomes Vale

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Conservation Status of Agama tassiliensis and A. boueti in the Termit Massif and Tin Toumma Desert (Niger) (2011-2012)

Funded by: Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund

PI: Duarte Gonçalves

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Conservation Status of Papio papio, Crocodylus niloticus, and Agama boulengeri in Mauritania (2011-2012)

Funded by: Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund

PI: Cândida Gomes Vale

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Conservation Status of Mesalina pasteuri, Tarentola chazaliae, Lytorhynchus diadema, and Varanus griseus in the Parc National du Banc d’Arguin (Mauritania) (2011-2012)

Funded by: Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund

PI: Andack Saad Sow

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