Curriculum vitae
Personal information
Full name: Filipe Miguel de Carvalho Costa e Silva
Birth place and date: Lisbon, 29-10-1970
Nationality: Portugal
Institutional address:
Instituto Superior de Agronomia – Departamento de Engenharia Florestal
Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal
Telephone: ++ 21 365 3515
Fax: ++ 21 365 3338
E-mail: [email protected]
Languages written and spoken fluently: English and French
Languages read and spoken: Spanish
Academic degrees
Degree of Forestry Engineer by the Instituto Superior de Agronomia, with the final
classification of 15 (1993-1998).
Pos-graduation on Plant Production by the Instituto Superior de Agronomia (20002001).
Ph D by the Instituto Superior de Agronomia (2004-2008).
Previous and current scientific and/or professional activities
Responsible for the management and execution of the project “A European approach
for assessing regrowth potencial of woody plants: parameters for plant vitality and
dormancy of planting stock” (FAIR1-CT95-0497), in 1999.
Responsible for the management and execution of the project “Molecular
ecophysiology as tool for the selection of highly stress resistant poplar species for
multipurpose forests” (QLK5-CT-2000-01377), from 2001 to 2004.
Responsible for the management and execution of the project “Infrastructure for
Measurement of the European Carbon Cycle” (IMECC, EU I3 - 026188, 6th FP), from
2007 to 2011.
PhD Research Grant, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, 2005-2008.
Pos-doc. Research Grant, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, 2009.
Teaching experience on Ecophysiology lectures to freshmen students of several
courses in Instituto Superior de Agronomia from 2005 till the present.
Area of scientific activity
Tree physiology. Studies of water relations and plant hydraulic properties.
Present research interests
Terrestrial carbon balance in Mediterranean ecosystems using Eddy covariance.
Publications
International journals with referees
Costa e Silva, F.; Shvaleva, A.; Broetto, F.; Ortuño; Almeida, M. H.; Rodrigues
M.L.; Chaves, M.M.; Pereira, J.S. (2009). Acclimation to short-term low temperatures
in two Eucalyptus globulus clones with contrasting drought resistance. Tree
Physiology 29:77-86.
J. Climent, F. Costa e Silva, M.R. Chambel, M. Pardos, M.H. Almeida (2009).
Freezing injury in primary and secondary needles of Mediterranean pine species of
contrasting ecological niches. Annals of Forest Science 66: 407 DOI:
10.1051/forest/2009016.
Shvaleva, A.; Costa e Silva, F.; Scotti, P.; Oufir, M.; Hausman, J.F.; Guignard, C.;
Ramos, P.; Almeida, M.H.; Rodrigues, M.L.; Pereira, J.S.; Chaves, M.M. (2008).
Physiological and biochemical responses to low non-freezing temperature of two
Eucalyptus globulus clones differing in drought resistance. Annals of Forest Science,
65, 204. DOI: 10.1051/forest:2007087.
Costa e Silva, F.; Shvaleva, A.; Almeida, M. H.; Chaves, M.M.; Pereira, J.S. (2007).
Responses to chilling of two Eucalyptus globulus clones with contrasting drought
resistance. Functional Plant Biology 34:793-802.
Shvaleva, A.; Costa e Silva, F.; Breia, E.; Jouve, L.; Hausman, J.F.; Almeida, M. H.;
Maroco. J.P.; Rodrigues, M.L.; Pereira, J.S.; Chaves, M.M. (2006). Metabolic
response to water deficit in two Eucalyptus globulus L. clones with contrasting
sensitivity to drought. Tree Physiology 26:239-248.
Costa e Silva, F.; Shvaleva, A.; Maroco. J.P.; Almeida, M. H.; Chaves, M.M.;
Pereira, J.S. (2004). Responses to water deficits in two clones of Eucalyptus globulus
Labill. with contrasting drought tolerance. Tree Physiology 24:1165-1172.
Book chapters
M.H. Almeida, H. Merouani, F. Costa e Silva, J. Cortina, R. Trubat, E. Chirino, A.
Villagrosa, A. Khaldi, B. Stiti, L. El Alami and R. Vallejo. 2009. Germplasm
selection and nursery techniques (Chapter 11). In: J. Aronson, J.S. Pereira, and J.G.
Pausas (editors), Cork Oak Woodlands on the Edge. Island Press, p. 129.
Oral communications in Conferences, Symposia and Seminars
Costa e Silva, F.; Shvaleva, A.; Broetto, F.; Ortuño, M. F.; Breia, E.; Almeida, M. H.;
Rodrigues M.L.; Chaves, M.M.; Pereira, J.S. (2007). Responses to freezing of two
Eucalyptus globulus clones with contrasting drought resistance. In Actas del X
Congresso Hispano-Luso de Fisiologia Vegetal. Alcalá de Henares, Spain, 18-21
September.
Costa e Silva, F.; Shvaleva, A.; Almeida, M. H.; Rodrigues M.L.; Chaves, M.M.;
Pereira, J.S. (2006). Resposta a temperatures sub-óptimas em dois clones de
Eucalyptus globulus Labill. com diferente sensibilidade à secura. In Actas del VIII
Simposium Hispano Portugués de Relaciones Hídricas en las Plantas. Puerto de la
Cruz, Tenerife, Spain, 17-21 September.
Costa e Silva, F.; Shvaleva, A.; Almeida, M. H.; Rodrigues M.L.; Chaves, M.M.;
Pereira, J.S. (2005). Responses to sub-optimal temperatures in two different clones of
Eucalyptus globulus Labill. Interdrought-II. The 2nd International Conference on
Integrated Approaches to Sustain and Improve Plant Production under Drought Stress,
Rome, Italy, 24-28 September.
Costa e Silva, F.; Shvaleva, A.; Almeida, M. H.; Chaves, M.M.; Pereira, J.S. (2004).
Biomass partition in two poplar spp. under drought. In Understanding Poplar: From
Genes To Functions. Poplar-Symposium, Göttingen, Germany, 13 - 14 May.
Costa e Silva, F.; Shvaleva, A.; Maroco. J.P.; Almeida, M. H.; Chaves, M.M.;
Pereira, J.S. (2003). Physiological and morphological markers of drought resistance in
two clones of Eucalyptus globulus of contrasting drought tolerance. In Optimisation
of water use by plants in the Mediterranean. Association of Applied Biologists. Cala
Bona, Majorca, Spain 24 – 27 March.
Costa e Silva, F.; José, N.; Almeida, M. H.; Chaves, M.M.; Pereira, J.S. (2002).
Efeito do stress hídrico estival no desenvolvimento morfológico de dois clones de
eucalipto e duas proveniências de sobreiro de diferente resistência à secura. In Actas
del VI Simposium Hispano Portugués de Relaciones Hídricas en las Plantas.
Pamplona, Spain, 2-4 Outubro.
Costa-e-Silva, F.; S. Moura, M. H. Almeida, M. R. Chambel e C. Pereira (2001).
Cork-oak seedling production: Container capacity and substrate effect on seedling
field performance. Proceedings of the conference: Nursery production and stand
establishment of broad leaves to promote sustainable forest management. Ed. Lorenzo
Ciccarese, ANPA. Rome, Italy, 7-10 May.