Fernando Ascensão

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Fernando Ascensão is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Fernando Ascensão has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Ecology, 8 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 8 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Fernando Ascensão's work include Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation (49 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (43 papers) and Avian ecology and behavior (13 papers). Fernando Ascensão is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation (49 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (43 papers) and Avian ecology and behavior (13 papers). Fernando Ascensão collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, Spain and Brazil. Fernando Ascensão's co-authors include Henrique M. Pereira, Anthony P. Clevenger, Margarida Santos‐Reis, Rafael Barrientos, Marcello D’Amico, Clara Grilo, Richard T. Corlett, Jochen A.G. Jaeger, William F. Laurance and Lenore Fahrig and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Conservation Biology.

In The Last Decade

Fernando Ascensão

55 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Environmental challenges for the Belt and Road Initiative

2018 354 citations Fernando Ascensão, Lenore Fahrig et al. Nature Sustainability profile →

Peers

Fernando Ascensão

ECOLO

GPC

NLC

Jean‐Christophe Foltête France

Trista Patterson United States

J. Guy Castley Australia

Miroslav Šálek Czechia

Mark E. Hostetler United States

Jeffrey Hepinstall‐Cymerman United States

Jessie C. Buettel Australia

Anita T. Morzillo United States

Miriam Goosem Australia

Lisa Biber‐Freudenberger Germany

Jean‐Christophe Foltête France

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1.2k ×0.9

ECOLO

936 ×3.7

GPC

216 ×1.3

NLC

208 ×1.3

123 ×1.0

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Countries citing papers authored by Fernando Ascensão

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fernando Ascensão

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fernando Ascensão

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fernando Ascensão. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fernando Ascensão based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Fernando Ascensão. Fernando Ascensão is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Barrientos, Rafael, Fernando Ascensão, Lenore Fahrig, Fernanda Zimmermann Teixeira, & Marcello D’Amico. (2025). Population abundance should be an Essential Biodiversity Variable in infrastructure impact assessment. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 115. 108021–108021.

Ascensão, Fernando, et al.. (2025). Wildlife crossing signs have limited effectiveness in reducing vehicle speeds. Journal of Environmental Management. 396. 128107–128107.

Mestre, Frederico, Vinícius A. G. Bastazini, & Fernando Ascensão. (2025). Effects of road density on regional food webs. Conservation Biology. 39(4). e70007–e70007. 1 indexed citations

Ascensão, Fernando, Rafael Barrientos, & Marcello D’Amico. (2024). A framework for large-scale risk assessment of road-related impacts, with application to mustelids. Global Ecology and Conservation. 56. e03329–e03329.

Ascensão, Fernando, et al.. (2023). Prioritizing road mitigation using ecologically based land‐use planning. Austral Ecology. 48(4). 761–773. 4 indexed citations

Nunes, Alice, et al.. (2023). Rescuing Botany: using citizen-science and mobile apps in the classroom and beyond. PubMed. 2(1). 6–6. 9 indexed citations

Ascensão, Fernando, et al.. (2022). Forecasting seasonal peaks in roadkill patterns for improving road management. Journal of Environmental Management. 321. 115903–115903. 9 indexed citations

Díaz‐Delgado, Josué, Maurício Chagas da Silva, Débora Regina Yogui, et al.. (2022). Characterization of Traumatic Injuries Due to Motor Vehicle Collisions in Neotropical Wild Mammals. Journal of Comparative Pathology. 197. 1–18. 5 indexed citations

Pacífico, Erica, et al.. (2022). Power line electrocution as an overlooked threat to Lear's Macaw (Anodorhynchus leari). Ibis. 165(3). 998–1006. 2 indexed citations

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Noonan, Michael, Fernando Ascensão, Débora Regina Yogui, & Arnaud Léonard Jean Desbiez. (2021). Roads as ecological traps for giant anteaters. Animal Conservation. 25(2). 182–194. 15 indexed citations

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Ascensão, Fernando, et al.. (2021). Are road-kills representative of wildlife community obtained from atlas data?. Hystrix. 32(1). 89–94. 6 indexed citations

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Ascensão, Fernando, Débora Regina Yogui, Mário Henrique Alves, Emília Patrícia Medici, & Arnaud Léonard Jean Desbiez. (2019). Predicting spatiotemporal patterns of road mortality for medium-large mammals. Journal of Environmental Management. 248. 109320–109320. 36 indexed citations

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Aguiar, Ludmilla, et al.. (2018). Predicting wildlife road-crossing probability from roadkill data using occupancy-detection models. The Science of The Total Environment. 642. 629–637. 32 indexed citations

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D’Amico, Marcello, Inês Catry, Ricardo C. Martins, et al.. (2018). Bird on the wire: Landscape planning considering costs and benefits for bird populations coexisting with power lines. AMBIO. 47(6). 650–656. 52 indexed citations

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Ascensão, Fernando, Lenore Fahrig, Anthony P. Clevenger, et al.. (2018). Environmental challenges for the Belt and Road Initiative. Nature Sustainability. 1(5). 206–209. 354 indexed citations breakdown →

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Santos, Sara, et al.. (2016). Carcass Persistence and Detectability: Reducing the Uncertainty Surrounding Wildlife-Vehicle Collision Surveys. PLoS ONE. 11(11). e0165608–e0165608. 72 indexed citations

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Vale, David, et al.. (2016). Comparing access for all: disability-induced accessibility disparity in Lisbon. Journal of Geographical Systems. 19(1). 43–64. 32 indexed citations

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Ascensão, Fernando, Clara Grilo, Scott LaPoint, et al.. (2014). Inter-Individual Variability of Stone Marten Behavioral Responses to a Highway. PLoS ONE. 9(7). e103544–e103544. 27 indexed citations

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Ascensão, Fernando, Anthony P. Clevenger, Margarida Santos‐Reis, Paulo Urbano, & Nathan D. Jackson. (2013). Wildlife–vehicle collision mitigation: Is partial fencing the answer? An agent-based model approach. Ecological Modelling. 257. 36–43. 63 indexed citations

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Ascensão, Fernando & António Mira. (2005). Spatial patterns of road kills: a case study in Southern Portugal. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 19 indexed citations

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