Luis Filipe Neves Carreira dos Santos

@ipt.pt

Polytechnic University of Tomar
Professor



                       

https://researchid.co/lsantos

EDUCATION

PhD Biology; MSc Computer applications; BSc Hons Environmental Biology

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Aquatic Science, General Environmental Science

9

Scopus Publications

Scopus Publications

  • Environmental Factors Affecting the Efficiency of Water Reservoir Restoration Using Microbiological Biotechnology
    Robert Mazur, Mateusz Jakubiak, and Luís Santos
    MDPI AG
    Aquatic ecosystems are often subject to degradation due to various environmental stressors. The accumulation of an organic sediment layer causes shallowing, algal blooms, and hypertrophy in water reservoirs. The processes of overgrowth and shallowing lead to a reduction in the ecosystem services provided by the reservoir as well as potentially causing the disappearance of the water body. To address these challenges and restore the ecological balance of water reservoirs, effective and sustainable revitalisation methods are essential. In recent years, biotechnological approaches, particularly utilizing microbiological interventions, have emerged as promising strategies for water reservoir revitalization. Microorganisms, with their remarkable ability to degrade pollutants and enhance nutrient cycling, offer great potential in remediating environmental issues in a natural and eco-friendly manner. This article presents the results of a study of 33 Polish reservoirs subjected to reclamation with microbial biopreparations from 2014 to 2023. The results of changes in bottom sediment reduction, water transparency, dissolved oxygen concentration, and water turbidity are presented. Reduction in morphological changes in the fraction of soft organic sediments, an improvement in the oxygen profile of the bottom and surface water layers, and an increase in water transparency were observed after reclamation with the use of biopreparations.

  • MDIR Monthly Ignition Risk Maps, an Integrated Open-Source Strategy for Wildfire Prevention
    Luis Santos, Vasco Lopes, and Cecília Baptista
    MDPI AG
    Countries unaccustomed to wildfires are currently experiencing wildfire as a new climate-change reality. Understanding how fire ignition and propagation are correlated with temperature, orography, humidity, wind, and the mixture and age of individual plants must be considered when designing prevention strategies. While wildfire prevention focuses on fire ignition avoidance, firefighting success depends on early ignition detection, meaning that, in either case, ignition plays a major role. The current case study considered three Portuguese municipalities that annually observe frequent fire ignitions (Tomar, Ourém, and Ferreira do Zêzere) as the testing ground for the Modernized Dynamic Ignition Risk (MDIR) strategy, thus evaluating the efficiency of MDIR and the efficacy of the variables used. This methodology uses geographic information systems technology sustained by open-source satellite imagery, along with the Habitat Risk Assessment model from the InVEST software package, as drivers for the MDIR application. The MDIR approach grants frequent update capabilities and fully open-sourced high ignition risk area identification, producing monthly ignition risk maps. The advantage of using this method is the ease of adaptation to any current monitoring strategy, awarding further efficiency and efficacy in reducing ignitions. The approach delivered adequate results in estimating ignitions for the three Portuguese municipalities, achieving, for several months, prediction accuracy percentages of over 70%. For the studied area, MDIR clearly identifies areas of high ignition risk and delivers an average of 62% success in predicting ignitions, thus showing potential for analyzing the impact of policy implementation and monitoring through the strategy design.


  • Land use change and habitat degradation: A case study from tomar (portugal)
    Luciana Nolè, Angela Pilogallo, Lucia Saganeiti, Alessandro Bonifazi, Valentina Santarsiero, Luis Santos, and Beniamino Murgante
    Springer International Publishing

  • Habitat Degradation: A Comparative Study Between Tomar (PT) and Potenza (IT)
    Luciana Nolè, Angela Pilogallo, Lucia Saganeiti, Francesco Scorza, Luis Santos, and Beniamino Murgante
    Springer International Publishing

  • Study of the requirements of an autonomous system for surface water quality monitoring
    M. Barros, , P. Granchinho, C. Ferreira, P. Neves, H. Magalhaes, L. Santos, B. Lopes, J. Marques, H. Pinho,et al.
    AEDERMACP (European Association for the Development of Renewable Energies and Power Quality)
    In recent years, there has been increasing awareness of the preservation, protection and sustainable use of natural resources. Water resources, being one of the most important natural resources, face major threats due to contamination by pollutants of various types and origins. Maintaining the quality of water resources requires more robust, reliable and more frequent monitoring than traditional techniques of data collection based on sporadic, discontinuous and manual processes. The management of large geographical areas, the insufficient spatiotemporal discretization of the values of samples collected by traditional processes and the unpredictability of natural phenomena, require a new approach to data collection procedures. This article, which is the result of ongoing research, defines the technical requirements and technologies used in a continuous and regular monitoring of surface water quality in freshwater systems, whose data acquisition system helps to identify the sources of pollution and the contaminants flow along the waterways. The design of a versatile real-time water quality monitoring system, which, due to its environmental constraints should be based on renewable energies and wireless transfer of energy, will contribute to improve the management and effective protection of water resources.

  • Modelling past, present and future Ecosystem Services supply in a protected floodplain under land use and climate changes
    M. Gaglio, V. Aschonitis, L. Pieretti, L. Santos, E. Gissi, G. Castaldelli, and E.A. Fano
    Elsevier BV