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Is forest certification mitigating oak decline in Mediterranean open woodlands?
Mexia, Teresa; Caldeira, Maria Conceição; Lecomte, Xavier; Dias, Filipe S.; Tomé, Margarida; Nunes, Leónia; Bugalho, Miguel N.Forest certification is a voluntary conservation tool that aims to promote sustainable forest management. While research on forest certification has increased recently, there remains a significant gap in understanding how and to what extent certification can promote forest conservation. Mediterranean cork oak open woodlands are ecosystems of high conservation and socio-economic value. However, these ecosystems ...
Beyond the green: assessing quarry restoration success through plant and beetle...
Mexia, Teresa; Antunes, Cristina; Nunes, Alice; Mira, António; Correia, Ana Isabel; Serrano, Artur; Correia, OtíliaIn assessing the effectiveness of ecological restoration actions, outcomes evaluation using a multi-taxa approach can greatly contribute to a clearer understanding of their success/failure. Since comprehensive biodiversity assessments are rarely possible, choosing taxa groups that are indicative of the ecosystem’s structural and functional recovery is of major importance. Our goal was to evaluate the success of...
Beyond the green: assessing quarry restoration success through plant and beetle...
Mexia, Teresa; Antunes, Cristina; Nunes, Alice; Mira, António; Correia, Ana Isabel D.; Serrano, Artur; Correia, OtiliaIn assessing the effectiveness of ecological restoration actions, outcomes evaluation using a multi‐taxa approach can greatly contribute to a clearer understanding of their success/failure. Since comprehensive biodiversity assessments are rarely possible, choosing taxa groups that are indicative of the ecosystem's structural and functional recovery is of major importance. Our goal was to evaluate the success of...
Estimation of the allergenic potential of urban trees and urban parks: Towards ...
Cariñanos, Paloma; Grilo, Filipa; Pinho, Pedro; Casares-Porcel, Manuel; Branquinho, Cristina; Acil, Nezha; Andreucci, María Beatrice; Anjos, AndreiaThe impact of allergens emitted by urban green spaces on health is one of the main disservices of ecosystems. The objective of this work is to establish the potential allergenic value of some tree species in urban environments, so that the allergenicity of green spaces can be estimated through application of the Index of Urban Green Zones Allergenicity (IUGZA). Multiple types of green spaces in Mediterranean ci...
Green spaces are not all the same for the provision of air purification and cli...
Vieira, Joana; Matos, Paula; Mexia, Teresa; Silva, Patrícia; Lopes, Nuno; Freitas, Catarina; Correia, Otília; Santos-Reis, MargaridaThe growing human population concentrated in urban areas lead to the increase of road traffic and artificial areas, consequently enhancing air pollution and urban heat island effects, among others. These environmental changes affect citizen's health, causing a high number of premature deaths, with considerable social and economic costs. Nature-based solutions are essential to ameliorate those impacts in urban a...
Green spaces are not all the same for the provision of air purification and cli...
Vieira, Joana; Matos, Paula; Mexia, Teresa; Silva, Patrícia; Lopes, Nuno; Freitas, Catarina; Correia, Otília; Santos-Reis, MargaridaThe growing human population concentrated in urban areas lead to the increase of road traffic and artificial areas, consequently enhancing air pollution and urban heat island effects, among others. These environmental changes affect citizen's health, causing a high number of premature deaths, with considerable social and economic costs. Nature-based solutions are essential to ameliorate those impacts in urban a...
Ecosystem services: Urban parks under a magnifying glass
Mexia, Teresa; Vieira, Joana; Príncipe, Adriana; Anjos, Andreia; Silva, Patrícia; Lopes, Nuno; Freitas, Catarina; Santos-Reis, MargaridaUrban areas’ population has grown during the last century and it is expected that over 60% of the world population will live in cities by 2050. Urban parks provide several ecosystem services that are valuable to the wellbeing of city-dwellers and they are also considered a nature-based solution to tackle multiple environmental problems in cities. However, the type and amount of ecosystem services provided will ...