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Towards a climate-resilient conservation network in Portugal
Araújo, Miguel Bastos; Alagador, Diogo; Naimi, Babak; Neto, Dora; Rozenfeld, AlejandroIn response to the European Biodiversity Strategy 2030, Portugal is updating its conservation plans to expand the coverage of existing conservation areas from 22 % to 30 %. This expansion is also required to accommodate biodiversity adaptation needs amid climate change. To this end, we have developed a protocol that employs biological data, species distribution models, and optimization techniques within a syste...
Human disturbances affect the topology of food webs
Mestre, Frederico; Rozenfeld, Alejandro; Araújo, Miguel B.Networks describe nodes connected by links, with numbers of links per node, the degree, forming a range of distributions including random and scale-free. How network topologies emerge in natural systems still puzzles scientists. Based on previous theoretical simulations, we predict that scale-free food webs are favourably selected by random disturbances while random food webs are selected by targeted disturbanc...