The diverse physiography of the Portuguese land and marine territory, spanning from continental Europe to the Atlantic archipelagos, has made it an important repository of biodiversity throughout the Pleistocene glacial cycles, leading to a remarkable diversity of species and ecosystems. This rich biodiversity is under threat from anthropogenic drivers, such as climate change, invasive species, land use changes...
ABSTRACT: A global genome database of all of Earth’s species diversity could be a treasure trove of scientific discoveries. However, regardless of the major advances in genome sequencing technologies, only a tiny fraction of species have genomic information available. To contribute to a more complete planetary genomic database, scientists and institutions across the world have united under the Earth BioGenome P...
Francisco de Melo (1490-1536) foi o mais importante matemático português da geração anterior a Pedro Nunes. Os factos que justificam este julgamento têm crescido de forma significativa nos últimos anos, seja devido a estudos biográficos que sobre ele se fizeram, seja pelo aparecimento de nova documentação primária. Enquanto professor da Universidade de Paris, Melo escreveu diversos comentários a obras de matemá...
The existence of a German manuscript by Leonhard Thurneysser from Basel, started in 1555 “in the house of the noble lord and Lusitanian knight Master Damiani de Goes”, had fallen into the oblivion of historians for several decades. It contains reports on a number of plants and animals observed by the author during his stay in Portugal. Another very curious aspect is his description of the black Africans he met ...