A5100673165- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Plant Surface Properties and Treatments
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Forest ecology and management
- Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
- Forest Management and Policy
- Tree Root and Stability Studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Postharvest Quality and Shelf Life Management
- Plant Ecology and Soil Science
- Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Plant Reproductive Biology
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Insect behavior and control techniques
- Food Drying and Modeling
- Workaholism, burnout, and well-being
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária
1988-2024
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2012-2023
University of Lisbon
2004-2023
University of Leeds
2022
Universidade Federal do Paraná
2015
European Federation of Nurses Associations
2010
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa
2004
Scattered trees support high levels of farmland biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes, but they are threatened by intensification, urbanization, land abandonment. This study aimed to map quantify the decline orchard meadows (scattered fruit nature conservation value) for a region Southwestern Germany 1968 2009 period identify driving forces this decline. We derived meadow loss from aerial images used boosted regression modelling framework assess relative importance...
Climate change is impacting locally adapted species such as the keystone tree cork oak (Quercus suber L.). Quantifying importance of environmental variables in explaining distribution can help build resilient populations restoration projects and design forest management strategies. Using landscape genomics, we investigated population structure ecological adaptation this across Mediterranean Basin. We applied genotyping by sequencing derived 2,583 single nucleotide polymorphism markers...
Abstract Cork cambium (or phellogen) is a secondary meristem responsible for the formation of phelloderm and phellem/cork, which together compose periderm. In Quercus suber L., phellogen active throughout entire life tree, producing continuous renewable outer bark cork. To identify specific candidate genes associated with cork activity phellem differentiation, we performed comparative transcriptomic study Q. growth tissues (xylem phellogen/phellem) using RNA-seq. The present work provides...
Image-analysis techniques were applied to the surface of wine cork stoppers (tops and bodies) standard seven commercial quality classes characterize their porosity. Canonical discriminant analysis (CDA) stepwise (SDA) used differentiate class identify best features select these classes. The accuracy classification using CDA functions was on average greater than 50% for 67% a simplified three-grade classification. Based independent variables first function determined by method, set selected...
DNA methylation is thought to influence Quercus suber cork quality, which the main constraint for its economic valorisation. However, a deep knowledge of cytosine patterns disclosing epigenetic variability trees with different quality types totally missing. This study investigates hypothesis that variations in contribute differences cellular characteristics directly related original or traumatic phellogen activity. We used MSAPs (Methylation Sensitive Amplified Polymorphism) assess and leaf...
In temperate regions, the analysis of climate signals encoded in wood rings allows assessing tree sensitivity to and its potential effects on growth yield. Mediterranean cork oak (Quercus suber L.) has received limited attention for dendrochronological studies because are faint with a clear annual banding have been rather neglected. We analyzed climatic signal cork-ring chronologies AD 1996–2010 from distinct regions western Algeria [a mountain forest called Hafir-Zarieffet] southern...
The cork oak (Quercus suber L.) is periodically harvested for bark (cork) throughout its lifetime. Trees undergo physiological changes as they age which affect stem diameter growth and their sensitivity to climate. However, little known about trees age- or size-related it remains unclear if of different ages (sizes) have similar climate-growth relationships. In this study, we examined the increment in basal area 47 randomly selected (large small) oaks over a 12-year period assess divergent...