Quarry exploitation and restoration practices are expected to have overarching and contrasting impacts on animal communities. Although many studies describe these impacts, they generally overlook the effects on population dynamics and individual movements.We assessed the impacts of quarry exploitation and restoration activity on population dynamics, individual movement, and habitat use of a sand-dwelling specia...
Na Europa, a agricultura representa a forma dominante de uso do solo existindo um elevado grau de biodiversidade associada a estes habitats. Assim, os estudos de conservação deveriam focar-se nos habitats agrícolas e na grande perda de biodiversidade existente. A viticultura, um dos setores que mais tem influenciado esta perda, sendo economicamente muito importante, pode ser considerado um ótimo ponto de entrad...
The ICAAM Institute aims to study Mediterranean forest ecosystems in all aspects. Our Plant Breeding and Biotechnology Laboratory of ICAAM has always been involved in biotechnology of Mediterranean woody species, and has developed various in vitro techniques for vegetative propagation of Quercus and Pinus (Ragonezi et al. 2010, Zavattieri et al. 2009). The power of clonal propagation for the improvement of thes...