Past Projects

International Research Project

• 2017
  

  Advance_eLTER project

  From 2017 to 2017

• 2016
  

  Disentangling evolutionary relationships across morphologically and ecologically diverse lichen genus Solenopsora

  From 2016 to 2017

• 2015
  

  INVAsive biology of XENopus laevis in Europe: ecology, impact and predictive models

  From 2015 to 2017

  BINGO - Breeding Invertebrates for Next Generation BioControl

  From 2015 to 2017

• 2014
  

  ISLANDS - Community Assembly on Remote Islands: Does the Equilibrium Theory Apply?

  From 2014 to 2016

  SIRCle - Social Innovation for Resilient Communities

  From 2014 to 2017

  BEST III - Measures towards Sustaining the BEST Preparatory Action to Promote the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in EU Outermost Regions and Overseas Countries and Territories

  From 2014 to 2017

  

  GREEN SURGE - Green Infrastructure and Urban Biodiversity for Sustainable Urban Development and the Green Economy

  From 2014 to 2017

  IlhasMac - Conservation of plant biodiversity in the Macaronesian Hotspot: Integrating phylogenetic, taxonomic, and ecological approaches to study the Cape Verde endemic flora

  From 2014 to 2016

• 2013
  

  ALIEN Challenge - European Information System for Alien Species

  From 2013 to 2016

  

  BIG- Biodynamic Island Group

  From 2013 to 2017

  ECOSUBVEG - Changes in submersed vegetation: assessing loss in ecosystems services frondose to depauperate systems dominated by opportunistic vegetation

  From 2013 to 2016

  NetBiome-CSA - Strengthening European research cooperation for smart and sustainable management of tropical and subtropical biodiversity in outermost regions and overseas countries and territories

  From 2013 to 2016

  SymbSaltStress - A systems approach to understand salt stress tolerance in Casuarina glauca and its relationship with symbiotic nitrogen fixation

  From 2013 to 2015

• 2012
  

  ISLAND-BIODIV - Understanding biodiversity dynamics in tropical and subtropical islands as an aid to science based conservation action

  From 2012 to 2015

  

  MOVECLIM - Montane vegetation as listening posts for climate change

  From 2012 to 2015

  BASE - Bottom-up Climate Adaptation Strategies towards a Sustainable Europe

  From 2012 to 2016

  

  Ancient responses to new challenges: ecology and evolution of the Odonata (ODOEVO2011)

  From 2012 to 2015

  

  TransBasin -Transboundary Water Basin Management

  From 2012 to 2015

  

  Inspected.NET: INvasive SPecies Evaluation, ConTrol & EDucation.NETwork

  From 2012 to 2016

  

  GWTropiMed - Coastal Dune Forests Under Scenarios of Groundwater limitation: Tropics To Mediterranean

  From 2012 to 2015

  

  OPERAs - Operational Potential of Ecosystem Research Applications

  From 2012 to 2017

National Research Project

• 2016
  Hybridoak - Characterization of cork formation and reproductive biology in a cork oak hybrids population

  From 2016 to 2016

  “Limonium spp. as a model for autonomous apomixis: characterization of geneticmolecular factors distinguishing apomictic sexual reproductive processes”

  From 2016 to 2016

• 2015
  

  AdaptforChange - Improve the success of reforestation in semi-arid areas: adaptation to climate change scenario

  From 2015 to 2016

  PRAC – REGIONAL PLAN FOR CLIMATE CHANGE OF AZORES

  From 2015 to 2017

  

  Ecological Restoration of a Mediterranean Limestone Quarry: the case study at Outão (Serra da Arrábida, Portugal)

  From 2015 to 2017

• 2014
  

  ClimAdaPT.Local - Municipal Strategies for Adaptation to Climate Change

  From 2014 to 2016

  CLIMA-Madeira - Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change in the Autonomous Region of Madeira

  From 2014 to 2015

  

  CATALISE - Capacitação para a transição local e inovação social

  From 2014 to 2015

  

  COMDUNES - Do inland sand dune communities follow strict ecological succession?

  From 2014 to 2015

  The secret of a winning strategy: common mechanisms in different symbioses

  From 2014 to 2017

• 2013
  

  HISTSELGENE​ - History, chance and selection during local adaptation: a genome-wide analysis

  From 2013 to 2015

  Evolution of sex allocation strategies in the mite Tetranychus urticae, a major crop pest

  From 2013 to 2016

  BUS - Urban Structures: a driver of biodiversity change in coastal ecosystems?

  From 2013 to 2015

  Population genomics of virulence adaptation in coffee leaf rust (Hemileia vastatrix) focusing durable resistance

  From 2013 to 2015

  New production process to control major pests and improve the quality of the final product and the management of natural resources, with biological control agents

  From 2013 to 2015

  Climacoffee - Implications of environmental changes of CO2 and temperature at the plant and bean quality levels in the coffee tree (Coffea spp.) - Multidisciplinary characterization of the impact and acclimation ability of the producing species

  From 2013 to 2015

• 2012
  

  Biodiversity on oceanic islands: towards a unified theory

  From 2012 to 2015

  

  Biodiversity, endemisms and protected species associated with lakes in Serra da Estrela (Portugal)

  From 2012 to 2015

  

  [HOLI-BioPest] Development of an integrated biomonitorization program for pesticide exposure in agricultural ecosystems: a holistic approach

  From 2012 to 2015

  The laminin matrices of early skeletal muscle development

  From 2012 to 2015

• 2010
  

  Xenopus laevis Eradication Plan in Oeiras Municipality Streams

  From 2010 to 2017

  

  Insects in Order

  From 2010 to 2017

Regional Research Project

• 2016
  

  ADRESS: Two years after the end of the treatments with the lufenuron bait stations

  From 2016 to 2016

  GPS Azores-Geographical and Political Scenarios for Maritime Spatial Planning in the Azores and North Atlantic

  From 2016 to 2016

• 2013
  

  Biological control of aphid’s pests attacking Macaronesia endemic plants mass produced in nurseries conditions

  From 2013 to 2016

• 2012
  

  ATLANTIS-MAR - Mapping coastal and marine biodiversity of the Azores

  From 2012 to 2015

  

  IMPACTBIO - Global warming, Plants, Bryophytes, Arthropods, Native, Invasive, Extinction, Expansion, Water balance, Forests

  From 2012 to 2015

  

  BioEcoValES - Biodiversity Economic Valuation of Endemic Species

  From 2012 to 2015

  SEA - Stock Evaluation of Abalone: Towards a sustainable fishery

  From 2012 to 2015

Services Acquisition

• 2017
  

  Drywood Termite Monitoring in Azores 2017

  From 2017 to 2017

• 2015
  

  Restoration of the areas subject to erosion in water reservoirs.

  From 2015 to 2017

  GestAqua-Desenvolvimento de metodologias para a recuperação e melhoria de gestão de ecossistemas aquáticos insulares no âmbito da implementação da Diretiva Quadro da Água

  From 2015 to 2017

  

  BAP - Plano de Acção para a Biodiversidade

  From 2015 to 2017

• 2014
  

  Drywood Termite Monitoring in Azores

  From 2014 to 2016

  

  Environmental monitoring of dioxins, furans and metals in the vicinity of a hospital incinerator

  From 2014 to 2017

  

  Monitoring restoration of ecosystem of ecological high value and development of restoration procedures for ecological continuities on roads and riparian corridors

  From 2014 to 2015

• 2012
  

  Monitoring of subterranean termite Reticulitermes flavipes in the municipality of Praia da Vitoria, Terceira

  From 2012 to 2017

• 2010
  

  Monitoring wood insect pests in the Palaces of Azores

  From 2010 to 2016