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Riparian galleries can act as refuge for birds in Eucalyptus plantations bit by...

Eucalyptus monocultures are known to hold reduced terrestrial biodiversity. We aimed to measure the effect of native riparian galleries embedded in plantations of the non-native Eucalyptus globulus in Portugal on bird richness and abundance. Between 2017 and 2019, we surveyed the breeding bird communities in native forests and two types of eucalyptus plantations: those bordering and those without native riparia...

MAMMALS IN PORTUGAL: A data set of terrestrial, volant, and marine mammal occur...

Mammals are threatened worldwide, with 26% of all species being included in the IUCN threatened categories. This overall pattern is primarily associated with habitat loss or degradation, and human persecution for terrestrial mam mals, and pollution, open net fishing, climate change, and prey depletion for marine mammals. Mammals play a key role in maintaining ecosystems func tionality and resilience, and theref...

MAMMALS IN PORTUGAL : A data set of terrestrial, volant, and marine mammal occu...

Mammals are threatened worldwide, with 26% of all species being includedin the IUCN threatened categories. This overall pattern is primarily associatedwith habitat loss or degradation, and human persecution for terrestrial mam-mals, and pollution, open net fishing, climate change, and prey depletion formarine mammals. Mammals play a key role in maintaining ecosystems func-tionality and resilience, and therefore...

MAMMALS in Portugal: A data set of terrestrial, volant, and marine mammal occur...

Mammals are threatened worldwide, with 26% of all species being includedin the IUCN threatened categories. This overall pattern is primarily associatedwith habitat loss or degradation, and human persecution for terrestrial mam-mals, and pollution, open net fishing, climate change, and prey depletion formarine mammals. Mammals play a key role in maintaining ecosystems func-tionality and resilience, and therefore...

Bottom-up cascading effects of quarry revegetation deplete bird-mediated seed d...

Quarrying activities cause profound modifications on ecosystems, such as removal of vegetation cover, biodiversity loss and depletion of ecosystem services. Ecological restoration stands as a solution to revert such effects. Concomitantly, awareness is currently being given on ecosystem services and ecological processes to evaluate restoration efficiency. The objective of the study was to assess restoration suc...

Reliability of quantitative and qualitative assessment of air leakage paths thr...

A full characterization of a building air leakage is labour intensive. As results of laboratory and mock-up experimentation rarely portray in situ conditions, the assessment of real case studies bring added value. Still, the results of experimentation of the latter face more challenges than the former. In this work a full quantitative and qualitative assessment of air leakage paths is performed, using a light s...

The influence of management and environmental factors on insect attack on cork ...

The decline of oak (Quercus spp.) forests is a current trend in Northern Hemisphere and is characterized by a loss in tree vigour and increased mortality. The canopy insects are suspected to have role in this decline, but there is poor knowledge about their incidence in evergreen-oak stands. The main aim of this study is to characterize the incidence of main insect groups affecting branches and leaves of an eve...

Rewiring of experimentally disturbed seed dispersal networks might lead to unex...

Rewiring of experimentally disturbed seed dispersal networks might lead to unex...

The consequences of species extinctions in ecological communities may be buffered through the rearrangement (rewiring) of the interactions between the remaining species. The structural and functional consequences of such extinctions can be explored by means of computer simulations that try to predict secondary extinctions and the degradation of ecosystem services. However, to improve the accuracy of these simul...

In-situ and laboratory airtightness tests of structural insulated panels (SIPs)...

One of the main factors influencing building airtightness is the construction typology. As building environmental performance requirements raise so does the prevalence of less conventional envelope construction systems as modular structural insulated panels (SIPs) buildings. In this paper, the airtightness performance of a constructive solution based on SIPs was evaluated. Airtightness tests were performed on t...