Cristina Máguas was interviewed on national radio Antena 1: Invasive plants in Portugal – Os dias do Futuro
15 Mar 2012 | Antena 1

ESFE on TV - Biosfera: Interview about the use of ecological indicators of climate changes, aiming at providing a set of indicators to assist us in detecting the early signs of desertification and land degradation and even to anticipate it.
29 Feb 2012 | RTP 2

ESFE on TV - Biosfera: Interview about Riarian habitat and water quality in urban areas: water quality biomonitoring and evaluation of ecological status of riparian areas by using biodiversity and ecological indices.
29 Feb 2012 | RTP 2

Gestão e Conservação de Habitats e Flora Associada,
Otília Correia: O Papel do Fogo nos Ecossistemas Mediterrânicos
Miguel Porto: Efeitos a Longo Prazo da Limpeza de Matos Sobre as Comunidades Herbáceas em Sobreirais – Caso de Estudo da Serra do Caldeirão
25th March 2011

The 7th IAL Symposium: Lichen: from genome to ecosystem in a changing world
C Máguas: Keynote Lecturer - Carbon-water-nitrogen relationships between lichens and the atmosphere: Tools to understand metabolism and ecosystem change
P Matos:Lichen Functional diversity as a tool for assessing the first effects of climate change: developing an early-warning ecological indicator
9 - 13 January 2012 | Bangkok, Thailand

Project GISA: final seminar
GISA : Gestão Integrada da Saúde e do Ambiente | Health and Environment, Integrated Management
Conclusions regarding the impact of air quality for the health of childrens from the Alentejo coast.
ESFE participants: C Branquinho, P Pinho, S Augusto.
15 December 2011 | from 10:00 am | Sines, Centro de Artes

ESFE on TV - Sociedade Civil: Cristina Branquinho: Interview about Desertification and Land Degradation in Portugal.
28 November 2011 | RTP 2

Conference: Semana C&T - Conferência Carbono Verde
Cristina Máguas: Florestas mediterrânicas autóctones: dos matos ao montado
25 de Novembro de 2011| Pavilhão do Conhecimento, Lisboa

Conference: 12th European Ecological Federation Congress 2011
The ESFE group participated in the 12th EEF congress with 2 opening lectures, 2 presentations and 6 posters:
Cristina Antunes: Stable isotopes as a tool for the evaluation of ecological status of groundwater
dependent communities
Cristina Branquinho: Ecological Indicators of environmental change (session)
Patrícia Fernandes: The impact of climate change and forest structure on the trade-off between reproduction and vegetative growth on the exotic invasive Acacia longifolia.
Cristina Máguas: VM13C and M18O isotopes to trace plant integrated processes: the case study of Mediterranean
plant communities under drought stress
Paula Matos: Spatial and temporal changes in lichen functional diversity as an ecological indicator of climate change
Teresa Mexia: Soil quality improvement in the restoration of limestone quarries
Pedro Pinho: Using lichen functional-diversity as ecological indicator in a changing Mediterranean environment
Helena Serrano: Spatial and temporal population patterns in an extremely rare (and Al-hyperaccumulator) plant species
Andre Stoltenberg:
Sérgio Schozas: A multilevel approach for assessing plant taxa as indicators of biodiversity and habitat quality in Mediterranean psammophilous vegetation
Suzana Tápia: Testing methods for rapid assessment of functional plant community composition in a Quercus ilex L. montado in the southwest of Portugal
25-29 September 2011 | Spain, Ávila

Conference
Otília Correia: contribution from CBA at the meeting for the candidature of Arrábida Natural Park to World Heritage
10 Oct 2011 | Palmela, Cine Teatro São João

Workshop: Geoquímica Isotópica
Cristina Branquinho: Using biomonitors to measure the impact of metal pollution: the soil-air interface
5 Jully 2011 | 9:30h | Lisbon, FFCUL auditorium

Conferences: 7th International conference on Serpentine Ecology
HC Serrano: poster presentation.
12-16 June 2011 | Portugal, Coimbra

Biodiversidade em áreas de risco à desertificação: desafios para a sustentabilidade do meio rural
17 e 18 de Novembro de 2010, Castro Verde e Mértola
O ICNB, a UNCCD e a LPN, no âmbito do Ano Internacional da Biodiversidade, no quadro do Programa de Acção Nacional de o Combate à Desertificação e comemorando o 18 aniversário da criação do Parque Natural do Vale do Guadiana (18 de Novembro de 1995) promovem uma jornada de reflexão centrada na sistematização do conhecimento existente sobre biodiversidade de zonas semi-áridas e actualização de propostas de actuação.
O CBA-ESFE estará presente nas mesas redondas do seminário. Mais informações no folheto ou no ICNB.

IUFRO Landscape Ecology International Conference
A group of CBA members with some colleagues of CERENA participated in the IUFRO Landscape Ecology International Conference, dedicated to study Forest Landscapes and Global Change: New Frontiers in Management, Conservation and Restoration, that was held in Brangança, Portugal in September 2010.

10 November 2010 |Encontros Scientia (12h, room 2.2.14, C2 building, FCUL)
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Ecological Restoration – applied research projects at Outão quarry site

Otília Correia Professor at DBV/FCUL

 

Abstract I will present a summary of several research trials performed at a limestone quarry located in Outão, within the boundaries of the Arrábida Natural Park. The goal is to provide scientific assistance to improve the efficiency of restoration actions carried out by the mining enterprise (Secil) through the implementation, monitoring and analysis of field, nursery and greenhouse trials, according to several main targets:  i) Evaluate restoration success, by comparing floristic structure and diversity among areas differing in age since revegetation with a reference ecosystem; ii) Select and test the potential of native species for restoration and improve germination and establishment of target species; iii) Improve soil quality, namely water and nutrient availability, through soil amendments The results of these experiments provide guidelines to restoration and conservation practitioners, contributing to achieve more suitable and cost-effective restoration techniques and, therefore, to mitigate global change impacts and increase biodiversity in Mediterranean degraded areas.

 

03 November 2010 |Encontros Scientia (12h, room 2.2.14, C2 building, FCUL)
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The use of ecological indicators for monitoring environment changes

Cristina Branquinho Investigadora CBA (Ciência 2007)

Abstract One of the main objectives of the Environmental Stress and Functional Ecology group is to use biological organisms for monitoring the impact of pollution on environment and on ecosystem functioning and to use the knowledge and the scientific principles of structure and functioning of ecosystems to develop ecological management processes and define a sustainable strategy for the ecological restoration of degraded ecosystems. I will focus mainly on this objectives and show several cases studies of the work developed, namely on the use of ecological indicators of global change for: land-use changes, nitrogen pollution, toxic organic air pollution and climate change.

 

15 July to 15 September 2010 | “Biologia no Verão 2010”
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“Biologia no Verão” are public awareness actions promoted by the Agência Nacional para a Cultura Científica e Tecnológica. CBA promotes a series of open presentations of science in collaboration with the Sociedade Portuguesa de Botânica.