Bioclimatic modelling, landscape structure, biodiversity and climate change
The work carried out in this WP is on floristic and faunistic diversity in Portugal and statistical analysis in order to relate indicators linked to biological communities with biophysical attributes and agroforestry models. Modelling Mediterranean species to evaluate the past and present species distribution range, using the strawberry tree as a case-study and different software types.
Team & Collaborators
- Margarida Ribeiro | WP leader
- José Carlos Gonçalves
- Teresa Albuquerque
- Catarina Gavinhos
- Luís Quinta-Nova
- Paulo Gomes
- Paulo Fernandez
- Maria João Martins
- Manuel Lameiras Campagnolo
- Saki Gerassis Davite
- Célia Nunes
- Alice Almeida | Grantee, C4-UBI (04/2019-05/2021)
Publications
Journal articles
- Almeida A.M., Martins M.J., Campagnolo M.L., Fernandez P., Albuquerque T., Gerassis S., Gonçalves J.C, RibeiroM. (2022) Prediction scenarios of past, present, and future environmental suitability for the Mediterranean species Arbutus unedo L. , Scientific Reports, 12, 1. (***)
- Ferreira M.R., Almeida A.M., Quintela-Sabarís C., Roque N., Fernandez P., Ribeiro M.M. (2021) The role of littoral cliffs in the niche delimitation on a microendemic plant facing climate change. PLoS One, 16(10), e0258976. (***)
(***) Articles published in a top 10% most cited journal of the respective field.
Conference articles
- Quinta-Nova L., Almeida, AM, & Carvalhinho J. (2020). Ecological Factors Affecting Plant Communities’ Distribution on International Tagus River Natural Park. In V. M. Bradley & I. Sahin (Eds.), Proceedings of iLSET 2020–International Conference on Life Sciences, Engineering and Technology, pp. 10-18).
Posters in Conferences
- Almeida A.M., Ribeiro, M.M., Martins, M.J., Campagnolo, M.L., Fernandez, P. (2021). MaxEnt modelling to predict current and future distributions of Arbutus unedo L. under climate change in the Mediterranean region, Early Career Biogeographers Conference of the International Biogeography Society, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 2021
- Almeida A.M., Ribeiro, M.M., Martins, M.J., Campagnolo, M.L., Fernandez, P. (2021). Modelling current and future Arbutus unedo L. potential distribution using MaxEnt. XV Congreso Nacional de la Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre (AEET): “El valor de la Naturaleza para una Sociedad Global”, Plasencia, Spain , October 2021.
- Ferreira M.R., Almeida A.M., Quintela-Sabarís C., Roque N., Fernandez P., Ribeiro, M.M. (2021). Ecological niche modelling of a microendemic plant under climate change scenarios. XV Congreso Nacional de la Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre (AEET): “El valor de la Naturaleza para una Sociedad Global”, Plasencia, Spain, October 2021.
- Quinta-Nova, L., Almeida, A., Carvalhinho, J. (2020). A influência da estrutura de uso na flora do Parque Natural do Tejo Internacional (PNTI). 19º Encontro Nacional de Ecologia – Desafios para a nova década – Biodiversidade e Ecossistemas (Painel), December 2020.
Oral communications
- Almeida A.M., Ribeiro M.M., Martins M.J., Campagnolo M.L., Fernandez P. (2020). Modelação da distribuição potencial presente e futura do medronheiro (Arbutus unedo L.) com o MaxEnt. 19º Encontro Nacional de Ecologia e Celebração dos 25 anos da SPECO, December 2020.
- Ferreira M., Almeida A.M., Quintela-Sabarís C., Roque N., Fernandez P., Capelo J., Ribeiro, M.M. (2020). O impacto da resolução espacial e dos fatores ambientais na distribuição ecológica da subespécie Cistus ladanifer subsp. sulcatus. 19º Encontro Nacional de Ecologia e Celebração dos 25 anos da SPECO, December 2020.
- Almeida AM, Ribeiro MM, Martins MJ, Campagnolo ML, Fernandez P. (2021) MaxEnt modelling to predict current and future distributions of Arbutus unedo L. under climate change in the Mediterranean region. ECBC Amsterdam 2021. Early Career Biogeographers Conference, October 2021.
- Ribeiro MM, Almeida AM, Martins MJ, Campagnolo ML, Gerassis S, Fernandez P, Albuquerque MTD, Gonçalves JC. (2020) The effect of global warming on the Mediterranean region using a typical species (Arbutus unedo L.). GeoEnv2021, 13th International Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications University of Parma, Parma, Italy, June 2020.
Related activities
- Ribeiro, M. M., Roque, N., Ribeiro, S., Gavinhos, C., Castanheira, I., Quinta-Nova, L., Albuquerque, T., Gerassis, S. (2019) Bioclimatic modeling in the Last Glacial Maximum, Mid-Holocene and facing future climatic changes in the strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo L.). In PLoS One 14: e0210062.
- Alegria, C., Quinta-Nova, L.C., Roque, N., Navalho, I. (2019). Mapping Forest Landscape Multifunctionality Using Multicriteria Spatial Analysis. In Floresta Ambiente. 26(2).
- Cerdeira, J.O., Monteiro-Henriques, T., Martins, M.J., Silva, P.C., Alagador, D., Franco, A.M.A., Campagnolo, M.L., Arsénio, P., Aguiar, F.C., Cabeza, M. (2018) Revisiting niche fundamentals with Tukey depth. In Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9: 2349-2361.
- Albuquerque MTD, Gerassis S, Roque N, Ribeiro S, Boente C, Ribeiro MM. 2019. Ecological modelling under climate change scenarios – a machine learning approach. 20th Annual Conference of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences, Pennsylvania, USA. August 2019 (oral communication).
- CULTIVAR – Rede de competências para o desenvolvimento sustentável e inovação no setor Agroalimentar. CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-000020. Portugal 2020. Participants: Universidade de Coimbra (UC), Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco (IPCB), Associação Centro de Apoio Tecnológico Agroalimentar de Castelo Branco (CAATA), Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN). IP: Funding: 2 344 688,13 €. PI: Professor Helena de Freitas. Started 16-12-2019 ends 15-12-2022.