Apresenta-se um estudo dos arrelvados naturais vivazes da bacia hidrográfica do rio Paiva, em particular das classes: 1) Festucetea indigestae; 2) Stipo giganteae-Agrostietea castellanae; 3) Molinio-Arrhenatheretea e 4) Nardetea. Com base em inventários realizados desde 2004, bem como em trabalhos publicados onde se estudou o território em causa, reconhecem-se oito associações e uma comunidade enquadráveis nas ...
Peat-rich heathlands, characterized and dominated by Ericaceae and Genisteae, are the southernmost outliers of the class Calluno-Ulicetea in the Mediterranean region. They occur in small and isolated patches along the Atlantic façade of the SW Europe on acidic soils with peat formation and on hydromorphic podzols. Such sites could have acted as refugia for hygrophilous plant during dry climatic phases in earth ...
The aim of the present thesis was to assess the use of phytosociology in wildlife management. In Section II, as a case study, I investigated red deer (Cervus elaphus hispanicus) and roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) free ranging populations occurring in the Natural Park of Montesinho, northeast Portugal, using faecal-pellet counts to assess deer use of semi-natural meadows (lameiros) and forest communities. Phytos...
Large mammalian herbivores are keystone species in different ecosystems. To mediate the effects of large mammalian herbivores on ecosystems, it is crucial to understand their habitat selection pattern. At finer scales, herbivore patch selection depends strongly on plant community traits and therefore its understanding is constrained by patch definition criteria. Our aim was to assess which criteria for patch de...
Large mammalian herbivores are keystone species in different ecosystems. To mediate the effects of large mammalian herbivores on ecosystems, it is crucial to understand their habitat selection pattern. At finer scales, herbivore patch selection depends strongly on plant community traits and therefore its understanding is constrained by patch definition criteria. Our aim was to assess which criteria for patch de...
The mesophilous woods dominated by Quercus faginea subsp. faginea or Acer monspessulanum thriving on neutral to alkaline deep clayish soils have been collected under the alliance Aceri granatensis-Quercion fagineae (Rivas Goday, Rigual & Rivas-Martínez in Rivas Goday, Borja, Esteve, Galiano, Rigual & Rivas-Martínez 1960) Rivas-Martínez 1987. Punctually, woods dominated by Q. faginea subsp. alpestris, Corylus av...
The natural occurrence of Ulmus glabra in mainland Portugal has been recently recognized. These punctuated occurrences are peripheral and scattered from the main distribution area in the centre and north of Europe. U. glabra colonizes soils of heavy textures, relatively rich in bases, cool and frequently rocky on steep slopes (e.g. ravines, shadowy canyons), under supra to orotemperate, humid to hyperhumid bioc...
Apresenta-se um estudo sistemático dos arrelvados naturais vivazes da bacia hidrográfica do rio Paiva, em particular das classes: 1) Festucetea indigestae; 2) Stipo giganteae-Agrostietea castellanae; 3) MolinioArrhenatheretea e 4} Nardetea. Com base em inventários realizados desde 2004, bem como em trabalhos publicados onde se estudou o território em causa, reconhecem- se oito associações e uma comunidade enqua...
A subaliança Fraxino angustifoliae-Ulmenion minoris (Populion albae, Populet alia albae, Salici purpureaePopuletea nigrae) reúne os bosques climácicos tempori higrófilos das zonas mais elevadas das margens dos rios - raramente inundadas - bem como de cabeceiras de linhas de água - onde o caudal não chega a ser permanente. Com base em inventários realizados desde 2004, são propostos dois novos sintáxones no âmbi...
No presente trabalho descreve-se uma nova associação Cytiso grondiflori-Arbutetum unedonis (Quercetea ilicis, Pistacio lentisci-Rhamnetalia alaterni, Erician arboreae) que representa a primeira etapa de substituição, ou orla, dos sobreirais de Physospermo cornubiensis Quercetum suberis quercetosum jagineae e dos carvaIhais de Hedero hibernieae-Quercetum /agineae, no sector Lusitano-Duriense.