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Sowing wildflower meadows in Mediterranean peri-urban green areas to promote gr...
Fernandes, Mariana P.; Matono, Paula; Almeida, Erika; Pinto-Cruz, Carla; Belo, Anabela D.F.Introduction: The increase of urban areas and their infrastructure network is homogenizing the landscape and threatening biodiversity and ecosystems functions and services. Wildflower meadows have a high biodiversity value and can prosper in degraded areas dominated by nitrophilous species, making them suitable to be used in peri-urban and urban areas to promote local flora, create habitat for pollinators and o...
Árvores ao pé da porta - árvores do Centro Histórico de Évora / Trees at your d...
Belo, Anabela D.F.; Pinto-Cruz, Carla; Castro, M.C.O inventário das árvores do Centro Histórico de Évora decorreu durante Maio de 2021 e consistiu no levantamento da sua localização exacta e na sua identificação taxonómica. Para cada árvore apresenta-se uma ficha da espécie com o nome científico, nome vulgar, família, origem e estatuto em Portugal, uma breve descrição dos caracteres diagnóstico (como folhas, flores ou frutos), o período do ano em que está em fl...
Farming for nature in the Montado: the application of ecosystem services in a r...
Helena Guimarães, M.; Pinto-Correia, Teresa; Costa Freitas, M. B.; Ferraz-de-Oliveira, Isabel; Sales-Baptista, ElviraThe Montado is a silvopastoral system with a tree cover of predominantly Quercus suber but also Quercus rotundifolia, where cattle or sheep graze the understory. It occupies more than one million hectares in southern Portugal, and a similar landscape, the Dehesa, covers ca. three million hectares in Spain. These silvopastoral systems can simultaneously benefit the environment and socio-economic activities by pr...
Genetic diversity and population structure of Cynara cardunculus L. in Portugal
Belo, Anabela D.F.; Pinto-Cruz, CarlaCynara cardunculus L. is a cardoon species native to the Mediterranean region, which is composed of three botanical taxa, each having distinct biological characteristics. The aim of this study was to examine wild populations of C. cardunculus established in Portugal, in order to determine their genetic diversity, geographic distribution, and population structure. Based on SSR markers, 121 individuals of C. card...