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Modeling soil water dynamics and pasture growth in the montado ecosystem using ...
Simionesei, Lucian; Ramos, Tiago B.; Oliveira, Ana R.; Jongen, Marjan; Darouich, Hanaa; Weber, Kirsten; Proença, Vânia; Domingos, Tiago; Neves, RamiroThe southern Iberian Peninsula is characterized by evergreen oak woodlands (locally known as montado), which constitute an important savanna-type agro-silvo-pastoral ecosystem. This ecosystem is facing a progressive decline for several reasons, with the foremost being overgrazing. Better management tools are necessary to accurately quantify the systems’ carrying capacity and the sustainable stocking rates that ...
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...
Highly productive sown biodiverse pastures with low invasion risk
Proença, Vânia; Aguiar, Carlos; Domingos, TiagoDriscoll et al. (1) have recently drawn attention to the risk of new pasture plants becoming invasive, because the same biological traits that promote pasture productivity may also facilitate the invasion of natural areas. The authors indicate some aspects that could mitigate the risk of invasion: namely, the use of native species to develop new pasture plants, the avoidance of new characteristics associated wi...
The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity ...
Hudson, Lawrence N.; Newbold, Tim; Contu, Sara; Hill, Samantha L. L.; Lysenko, Igor; De Palma, Adriana; Phillips, Helen R. P.; Senior, Rebecca A.Biodiversity continues to decline in the face of increasing anthropogenic pressures such as habitat destruction, exploitation, pollution and introduction of alien species. Existing global databases of species' threat status or population time series are dominated by charismatic species. The collation of datasets with broad taxonomic and biogeographic extents, and that support computation of a range of biodivers...
Changes in the ecosystem services provided by forests and their economic valuat...
Marta-Pedroso, Cristina; Laporta, Lia; Proença, Vânia; Azevedo, João; Domingos, TiagoIn this chapter we discuss the trends in forest change and the associated drivers, the economic value of forests, the principles and challenges in evaluating the economic value of forests, and the role of valuation in informing decision- making. We address current major forest conservation initiatives at different scales and the mechanisms involved, whether supported by economic valuation or not. Today, 30 % of...
The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity ...
Hudson, Lawrence N.; Newbold, Tim; Contu, Sara; Hill, Samantha L.L.; Lysenko, Igor; De Palma, Adriana; Phillips, Helen R.P.; Senior, Rebecca A.Biodiversity continues to decline in the face of increasing anthropogenic pressures such as habitat destruction, exploitation, pollution and introduction of alien species. Existing global databases of species’ threat status or population time series are dominated by charismatic species. The collation of datasets with broad taxonomic and biogeographic extents, and that support computation of a range of biodivers...
Condição e tendências recentes dos serviços de ecossistema florestal no Norte d...
Ribeiro, Sónia Carvalho; Azevedo, João; Guerra, Carlos; Proença, Vânia; Santos, Claudia Carvalho; Poças, Isabel; Correia, Teresa Pinto; Honrado, João P.Os serviços de ecossistema florestal estão incluídos num grupo mais vasto, definido como serviços de ecossistema (SE) pelo Millenium Ecosystem Assessement. Os serviços do ecossistema florestal são os benefícios que a sociedade em geral obtém da floresta e incluem serviços de produção, regulação, suporte e culturais. Este capítulo analisa a condição e as tendências recentes de um conjunto de serviços dos ecossis...
Fire regime as a driver of resilience, functional diversity and ecosystem servi...
Honrado, João José; Torres, João; Marques, Joana; Proença, Vânia; Pereira, Henrique; Alonso, Joaquim; Aguiar, CarlosMountain areas in Portugal are usually defined as territories with rough morphology, low demographic densities, and peculiar agrarian systems based on cattle raising and husbandry. The use of fire has been a common management practice in traditional land use, mainly to control vegetation encroachment and to promote pasturelands. Therefore, historically fire has been a strong driver of vegetation patterns, soil ...
Galicio-portuguese oak forest of Quercus robur and Quercus pyrenaica:biodiversi...
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