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Incorporating biotic interactions to better model current and future vegetation...
Rocha, Bernardo; Pinho, Pedro; Giordani, Paolo; Concostrina-Zubiri, Laura; Vieira, Gonçalo; Pina, Pedro; Branquinho, Cristina; Matos, PaulaMaritime Antarctica’s harsh abiotic conditions forged simple terrestrial ecosystems, mostly constituted of bryophytes, lichens, and vascular plants. Though biotic interactions are, together with abiotic factors, thought to help shape this ecosystem, influencing species’ distribution and, indirectly, mediating their response to climate, the importance of these interactions is still fairly unknown. We modeled cur...
Incorporating biotic interactions to better model current and future vegetation...
Rocha, Bernardo; Pinho, Pedro; Giordani, Paolo; Concostrina-Zubiri, Laura; Vieira, Gonçalo; Pina, Pedro; Branquinho, Cristina; Matos, PaulaMaritime Antarctica’s harsh abiotic conditions forged simple terrestrial ecosystems, mostly constituted of bryophytes, lichens, and vascular plants. Though biotic interactions are, together with abiotic factors, thought to help shape this ecosystem, influencing species’ distribution and, indirectly, mediating their response to climate, the importance of these interactions is still fairly unknown. We modeled cur...
Medical Ethnobotany of the Bissau-Guinean Community of Migrants Living in North...
Sambù, Alfredo; Cornara, Laura; Catarino, Luís; Indjai, Bucar; Biagi, Marco; Giordani, PaoloThis study compares the knowledge of medicinal plants of Bissau-Guinean migrants now established in Italy with the ethnopharmacology still present in their country of origin. We also investigated how traditional ethnobotanical knowledge is changing following the phenomenon of migration from Africa to Europe. The ethnobotanical data were collected during 2017–2018, by interviewing 49 informants belonging to 8 et...
Medical ethnobotany of the Bissau-Guinean community of migrants living in North...
Sambù, Alfredo; Cornara, Laura; Catarino, Luís; Indjai, Bucar; Biagi, Marco; Giordani, PaoloThis study compares the knowledge of medicinal plants of Bissau-Guinean migrants now established in Italy with the ethnopharmacology still present in their country of origin. We also investigated how traditional ethnobotanical knowledge is changing following the phenomenon of migration from Africa to Europe. The ethnobotanical data were collected during 2017–2018, by interviewing 49 informants belonging to 8 et...
Where are we now with European forest multi-taxon biodiversity and where can we...
Burrascano, Sabina; Chianucci, Francesco; Trentanovi, Giovanni; Kepfer-Rojas, Sebastian; Sitzia, Tommaso; Tinya, Flóra; Doerfler, Inken; Paillet, YoanThe European biodiversity and forest strategies rely on forest sustainable management (SFM) to conserve forest biodiversity. However, current sustainability assessments hardly account for direct biodiversity indicators. We focused on forest multi-taxon biodiversity to: i) gather and map the existing information; ii) identify knowledge and research gaps; iii) discuss its research potential. We established a rese...
Modelling the response of urban lichens to broad-scale changes in air pollution...
Rocha, Bernardo; Matos, Paula; Giordani, Paolo; Piret, Lõhmus; Branquinho, Cristina; Casanelles-Abella, Joan; Aleixo, Cristiana; Deguines, NicolasTo create more resilient cities, it is important that we understand the effects of the global change drivers in cities. Biodiversity-based ecological indicators (EIs) can be used for this, as biodiversity is the basis of ecosystem structure, composition, and function. In previous studies, lichens have been used as EIs to monitor the effects of global change drivers in an urban context, but only in single-city s...
Modelling the response of urban lichens to broad-scale changes in air pollution...
Rocha, Bernardo; Matos, Paula; Giordani, Paolo; Piret, Lõhmus; Branquinho, Cristina; Casanelles-Abella, Joan; Aleixo, Cristiana; Deguines, NicolasTo create more resilient cities, it is important that we understand the effects of the global change drivers in cities. Biodiversity-based ecological indicators (EIs) can be used for this, as biodiversity is the basis of ecosystem structure, composition, and function. In previous studies, lichens have been used as EIs to monitor the effects of global change drivers in an urban context, but only in single-city s...
Functional Traits in Lichen Ecology: A Review of Challenge and Opportunity
Ellis, Christopher J.; Asplund, Johan; Benesperi, Renato; Branquinho, Cristina; Di Nuzzo, Luca; Hurtado, Pilar; Martinez, Isabel; Rocha, BernardoCommunity ecology has experienced a major transition, from a focus on patterns in taxonomic composition, to revealing the processes underlying community assembly through the analysis of species functional traits. The power of the functional trait approach is its generality, predictive capacity such as with respect to environmental change, and, through linkage of response and effect traits, the synthesis of comm...
New Interpretative Scales for Lichen Bioaccumulation Data: The Italian Proposal
Cecconi, Elva; Fortuna, Lorenzo; Benesperi, Renato; Bianchi, Elisabetta; Brunialti, Giorgio; Contardo, Tania; Di Nuzzo, Luca; Frati, LuisaThe interpretation of lichen bioaccumulation data is of paramount importance in environmental forensics and decision-making processes. By implementing basic ideas underlying previous interpretative scales, new dimensionless, species-independent “bioaccumulation scales” for native and transplanted lichens are proposed. Methodologically consistent element concentration datasets were populated with data from biomo...
The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In C...
Hudson, Lawrence N; Newbold, Tim; Contu, Sara; Hill, Samantha L L; Lysenko, Igor; De Palma, Adriana; Phillips, Helen R P; Alhusseini, Tamera IThe PREDICTS project-Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)-has collated from published studies a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use. We have used this evidence base to develop global and regional statistical mod...