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Biodiversity & Conservation

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 EPIPHYTIC LICHENS AND BRYOPHYTES IN QUERCUS WOODS IN 2000 NATURA NETWORK FROM PORTUGAL. DIVERSITY AND CHARACTERIZATION FOR THEIR CONSERVATION
EUROPEAN BIODIVERSITY ASSESSMENT TOOLS - BIOASSESS
REDE NATURA 2000 NA PENÍNSULA DE SETÚBAL/SADO
CHOROLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL AFFINITIES OF ORTHOTRICHACEAE OF PORTUGAL AND SPAIN
BIODIVERSITY AND BIOMONITORING OF THE EPIPHYTIC VEGETATION ALONG THE ALENTEJO COAST
METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH TO IDENTIFY AND MONITOR BIODIVERSITY INDICATORS FOR CORK AND HOLM MONTADOS AT THE MANAGEMENT UNIT
SELECTION, IMPROVEMENT AND CONSERVATION OF CAROB TREE IN ALGARVE
GRAZING AND HONEY PRODUCTION ON ESTRELA AND MALCATA MOUNTAINS. ECOLOGICAL BASES FOR A SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF THE MOUNTAIN RESOURCES FROM BEIRA INTERIOR
STUDIES ON CORK-OAK GENETIC VARIABILITY RELATED TO IMPROVEMENT AND GENETIC RESOURCES

 

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1) to establish a collaboration process that facilitates the initiation and implementation of a planning policy, and consequent implementation of management actions on the sites numbered 9,10,11, 13, 33 and 34 in the national Natura 2000 Network;
2) to implement the management plans through inter-institutional collaboration that will promote and orientate suitable actions to ensure the conservation and rehabilitation of these priority Habitats of the Setúbal Peninsula, regardless of their ownership (private or public) ;
3) to define a regional complex of natural areas integrating areas of Community, National and Regional value, and to adopt suitable management strategies; and
4) to promote the natural values within the priority sites as essential factors to be accounted for in the regional development framework, and in the appreciation of the sites and farming estates.

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The main aim of this project is the chartacterization of Plagiochila species, frequently found in native forests of metropolitan and Madeira Archipelago, incorporating both morphological, molecular and ecological data from several individuals and populations. With this study, we shall define priorities about the conservation of selected species and communities, to perform a better management of the natural resources. The Madeira Laurisilva has a great biological diversity, with a large number of endemic species exclusive to the island, and many others common to the Archipelagos of the Macaronesia. Biochemical and molecular studies on selected taxa will be performed to support the morphological studies. With this project we intend to contribute for a better knowledge of the bryological diversity from Madeira and Portugal mainland and for their conservation. The conservation of the natural forests depends on all of us, starting by a better knowledge of the natural patrimony.

 

This project contributed to the development of new Iberian Floras (Bryophytes), based on reference material of species of Orthotrichaceae. It corresponds to the revision of Portugal Orthotrichum materials of the largest Portuguese herbaria, LISU, PO and COI. New field works in Portuguese areas not previously studied were made, namely at Serra da Estrela and Montezinho. More than 6 new species to Portugal were discovered.

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Evaluation of the potential impact of the " Complexo Industrial de Sines" activity in the cryptogamic flora (Lichens and Bryophytes) and assessment of future alterations in air quality within the surrounding area of this industrial complex.

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Biodiversity and population dynamic studies using image analysis and mathematical analysis. Stochastic modelling and integration in a Geographic Information System (GIS).

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Vegetation survey on protected semi-natural areas and on sites under differential fire managements in order to establish productivity models. These surveys include the vascular, the bryophyte and lichen vegetation, to gather regional data on the phenology of the melliferous species and the distribution patterns of the main floristic indicators of honey-types.


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The objectives of part of the project were to improve acclimatisation of cork oak plantlets established with in vitro cultures, to test previously used propagation protocols in different cork oak provenances and to study the effect of mycorrhiza on those processes.
The origin of the plant material was found to have a significant importance for in vitro establishment and propagation. Neither GA3 nor CO2 applications had positive effects on multiplication of cultures. Acclimatisation process is still limiting for cork oak mass propagation. Mycorrhiza inoculation improved the photosynthetic performance of the plantlets and the addition of ammonium to the medium together with mycorrhiza triggered better growth and plant performance.

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