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Revisiting Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning through the Lens of Complex A...
Correia, Alexandra M.; Lopes, Luís FilipeUnderstanding the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) is essential to comprehend the impacts of biodiversity changes on ecosystem functioning. This knowledge helps to detect and anticipate significant trends in global biodiversity loss and the homogenization of biota worldwide to prevent them. Species act together with climate, resource availability, and disturbance regimes to modu...
Size does matter: intraspecific geometric morphometric analysis of wings of the...
Rodrigues-Filho, Sérgio J.M.; Prado e Castro, Catarina; Lopes, Luís Filipe; da Fonseca, Isabel Pereira; Rebelo, Maria TeresaBlowflies have forensic, sanitary and veterinary importance, as well as being pollinators, parasitoids and ecological bioindicators. There is still little work with real data and from experiments assessing the relationship between blowflies’ morphologic features and environmental and demographic factors. The present work tests whether the variation, in the shape and size, of Chrysomya albiceps (Wiedemann, 1819)...
On the Natural History of the Black Winged Firefly, Phosphaenopterus metzneri S...
Nunes, Viviane; Figueira, Gonçalo; Lopes, Luís Filipe; Souto, PaulaThe genus Phosphaenopterus Schaufuss, 1870 encompasses two species restricted to Europe, both underrepresented in the literature and entomological collections. Phosphaenopterus metzneri Schaufuss, 1870 is the most widely distributed within the genus, being recorded in France, Portugal, and Spain. Since its century-old original description based only on the male, the biology of this species was not further inves...
Vegetation evolution by ecological succession as a potential bioindicator of la...
Lopes, Luís Filipe; Oliveira, Sérgio; Neto, Carlos; Zêzere, JoséLandslides have a direct impact in the ecosystems dynamics being considered one of the main vegetation perturbation processes. Our objective is to determine the relation between vegetation cover evolution and time period after landslide disturbance, and therefore to assess the potential use of vegetation evolution within landslide areas as temporal bioindicators of landslide activity, in order to determine land...