The Ricardo Jorge Lopes Lab at the FCUL and CE3C uses birds to study the importance of key traits on the evolution and long-term conservation of biodiversity. These range from coloration and trophic interactions to host-parasite systems. As Curator of the Avian Collection of the MUHNAC - National Museum of Natural History and Science and Invited Curator at the MHNC-UP - Natural History and Science Museum of the University of Porto, we promote the value of avian specimens for research.

We mainly work with isolated, insular, fragmented, migratory and domesticated species, especially in Iberia, North Africa and Macaronesia.