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Workshop cE3c: “Coastal Dune Forests under Scenarios of Groundwater Limitation: Tropics to Mediterranean”

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Location:

Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Building C1, 3rd Floor, FFCUL Auditorium 

 

Program:

08:30| Participants reception

09:00| Cristina Máguas -Welcome session

Session 1 Impacts of groundwater use on the hydrogeological systems Moderator: Maria João Pereira, CERENA, IST-UL

09:15| Catarina Silva (FCUL) The climate change influence on the freshwater-saltwater interface: causes and consequences

09:45| Vítor Guerreiro (REN-Armazenagem) Underground natural gas storage in Osso da Baleia

10:00| Ângela Pereira (IST-UL) Modeling of water table level at Osso da Baleia

10:15| Discussion of Session 1

10:30| Coffee Break

Session 2 Stable Isotopes as a tool to understand the impact of water dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems Moderator: Cristina Máguas, cE3c-FCUL

11:00| Rolf Siegwolf (Paul Scherrer Institute) Stable Isotopes as a reliable tool to investigate plant water sources and relations

11:40| Mari Cruz (Universidad de Sevilla) Avoider and tolerant strategies coexisting in Mediterranean dune species of Doñana dunes

12:00| Maria Zunzunegui (Universidad de Sevilla) The application of Stable Isotopes to investigate plant-water sources in sand dunes

12:15| Discussion of Session 2

12:45| LUNCH

Session 3 Groundwater use by vegetation - The particular case of coastal forests Moderator: Mari Cruz Diaz, Universidad de Sevilla

14:00| Simone Vieira (IB-UNICAMP) Biota - Functional Gradient – a case study

14:30| Cristina Máguas (cE3c-FCUL) Monitoring the impact of groundwater limitations in Osso da Baleia

14:45| Cristina Antunes (IB-UNICAMP/ cE3c-FCUL) Analyses of the first results concerning the project “Coastal dune forests under scenarios of groundwater limitation: from Tropics to Mediterranenan”

15:15| Cristina Nabais (CFE-UC) Kinetics of tracheid development under Mediterranean climate: implications in tree hydraulics

15:30| Discussion of Session 3

16:00| Coffee Break

Session 4 Modeling the impact of groundwater use under climate changes Moderator: Gil Penha-Lopes, cE3c-FCUL

16:30| Paula Mendes (CVRM, IST-UL) Groundwater and Climate Change: an overview

17:00| Maria João Pereira (CERENA, IST-UL) Climate change and drought events in the past decade in Portugal

17:15| Discussion of Session 4

17:30| Cristina Máguas (cE3c-FCUL) Conclusions of the workshop

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