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A hybrid modelling approach for detecting seasonal variations in inland Green-B...
ALMEIDA, BRUNA; Cabral, PedroDeforestation, environmental pollution, and the overexploitation of resources, in addition to the Earth's natural cycles, are scaling up the impacts of climate change in the provision of Ecosystem Services (ES). Green-Blue Ecosystems (GBE) are impacted by climatic conditions, topography, and water presence. Data-driven modelling techniques may effectively capture the effects of seasonal variations while modelli...
Rasmussen’s Syndrome: Case-Series Study from a Refractory Epilepsy Reference Ce...
Serôdio, Miguel; Pires, Marcela; Azurara, Laura; Santos, Alexandra; Sá, Francisca; Silva, Rita; Canas, Nuno; Ferreira, José Carlos; Cabral, PedroIntroduction: Rasmussen’s syndrome (RS) is a rare immunomediated disease of childhood-predominant onset, presenting with refractory epilepsy and neurological deficits associated to progressive brain hemiatrophy. Its pathophysiological mechanisms are not well understood, and the effect of immunotherapy is not ascertained. Hemispheric surgery is an efficacious therapy for epilepsy, despite focal and cognitive seq...
Satellite-based Machine Learning modelling of Ecosystem Services indicators: A ...
ALMEIDA, BRUNA; David, João; S. Campos, Felipe; Cabral, PedroSatellite-based Machine Learning (ML) modelling has emerged as a powerful tool to understand and quantify spatial relationships between landscape dynamics, biophysical variables and natural stocks. Ecosystem Services indicators (ESi) provide qualitative and quantitative information aiding the assessment of ecosystems’ status. Through a systematic meta-analysis following the PRISMA guidelines, studies from one d...
Top 10+1 indicators for assessing forest ecosystem conditions: A five-decade fr...
Almeida, Bruna; Cabral, Pedro; Fonseca, Catarina; Gil, Artur; Scemama, PierreGlobally, land use change has consistently resulted in greater losses than gains in aboveground biomass (AGB). Forest fragmentation is a primary driver of biodiversity loss and the depletion of natural capital. Measuring landscape characteristics and analyzing changes in forest landscape patterns are essential for accounting for the contributions of forest ecosystems to the economy and human well-being. This st...
Ocean ecosystem services: modeling a factor development process to create susta...
Figueiredo, Ronnie; Cabral, PedroPurpose - The aim of this paper is to model a process for moving toward sustainable ecosystem service decisions in a Coastal Biodiversity and discuss the directions of the process for decision-makers to apply in ocean ecosystem services. Design/methodology/approach – After the development of theoretical approaches to understand their prospects for the future development of ecosystem services, we worked on a pro...
Data-driven decisions: Artificial intelligence-based experimental validation of...
Figueiredo, Ronnie; Cabral, PedroSeveral studies address the main topic of research, ecosystem services. It is also proven that decision-making in organizations generally involves a decision-maker, who assumes internal responsibility for the results. However, when the decision is collective, we need to think about the context of governance. How can we increase the sustainable decisions of ocean ecosystem services governance? When this decision...
The economic value of land-based ecosystem services in Portugal: a spatially ex...
Seixo, João; Vieira da Silva, Carina; Campos, Filipe S.; Cabral, Pedro; Nunes, Luís Catela; Cunha-e-Sá, Maria AntonietaThis study estimates the economic value of seven land based ecosystem services for mainland Portugal in 2018. The estimated services are Climate Regulation, Drought Regulation, Erosion Prevention, using the market price methodology, and Food Supply, Pollination, Recreation and Water Purification using a meta-analytic benefit transfer function. By estimating a unique meta-analytic benefit transfer function for e...
Revealing the role of crab as bait in octopus fishery: an ecological and fishin...
Leitão, Francisco; Monteiro, J. N.; Cabral, Pedro; Teodosio, Maria; Roa-Ureta, Ruben H.In southern Portugal, artisanal octopus fisheries play an important socioeconomic role. Live crab bait in traps was used up to 2010 and banned in 2012. Such regulation, based on co-management advice, was not established under a scientific fundament. As a result, a long-standing controversy ensued with some fishing associations claiming that live crab bait increased fishing effort and exploitation rates and ther...
Spatio-temporal analysis of the impact of landscape changes on vegetation and l...
Shamsudeen, Mohamed; Padmanaban, Rajchandar; Cabral, Pedro; Morgado, PauloLand-use changes adversely may impact ecological entities and humans by affecting the water cycle, environmental changes, and energy balance at global and regional scales. Like many megaregions in fast emerging countries, Tamil Nadu, one of the largest states and most urbanized (49%) and industrial hubs in India, has experienced extensive landuse and landcover change (LULC). However, the extent and level of lan...
Global mangrove deforestation and its interacting social-ecological drivers: a ...
Bhowmik, Avit K.; Padmanaban, Rajchandar; Cabral, Pedro; Romeiras, Maria M.Globally, mangrove forests are substantially declining, and a globally synthesized database containing the drivers of deforestation and drivers’ interactions is scarce. Here, we synthesized the key social-ecological drivers of global mangrove deforestation by reviewing about two hundred published scientific studies over the last four decades (from 1980 to 2021). Our focus was on both natural and anthropogenic d...