Seminários por alunos do Mestrado em Bioestatística (Disciplina Seminário de Bioestatística).
Por Pedro Guilherme Antunes Lopes da Silva Nicolau [orientadores: Tiago Marques (FCUL/St. Andrews) e Alison Johnston (British Trust for Ornithology)].
Abstract: In recent years, citizen science has proven to be a very powerful tool. An ordinary person, with a developed interest in nature, can contribute to a dynamic system of data collection, allowing for the creation of wide and robust datasets, both in space and time, which were previously unattainable. This project intends to take advantage of hundreds of observations submitted onto BirdTrack and the Nest Record Scheme, by casual birdwatchers daily, to better study the breeding phenology of a host of Afro-Palearctic migrant birds, in the United Kingdom. The two databases will be used to estimate the gap between arrival and the breeding onset, a measure hard to obtain, which has been overlooked in most past studies. Obtaining estimates of the gap will allow to see its variation with latitude and if it correlates with breeding success. By delving into this aspect, we might unfold an important mechanism that could be affecting bird populations across the UK, and possibly explain current downward population trends.
Ver também: Seminários por alunos do Mestrado em Bioestatística (fevereiro 2017):
- Estimating the phenology of arrival and breeding of Afro-Palaearctic migrant birds in the UK | 03 fevereiro 2017;
- Caracterização do perfil de iniciação do consumo tabágico dos alunos do 3.º Ciclo dos agrupamentos de escolas adstritos ao ACES Arco Ribeirinho | 10 fevereiro 2017;
- Desenvolvimento de uma ferramenta de análise e reporte para vigilância epidemiológica com base na rede Médicos Sentinela | 10 fevereiro 2017;
- Identificação de clusters espaço/temporais de anomalias congénitas em Portugal | 10 fevereiro 2017.