BioISI Research Seminar, por Manuela Pereira (CBS Group, BioISI / Ciências ULisboa).

This conference addresses the epistemological and ontological significance as well as the scope of new mechanism and, in particular, its relationship with the topics of reduction and emergence in the physical, chemical and biological sciences.

Encontro Scientia, por Marco Ferrante (IBBC - cE3c / GBA).

In this talk, we will explain some of the methods available for estimating reliable bird vocal activity rate from sound recordings, at individual (i.e. how long individuals need to be monitored) and at population level (number of individuals to record or number of recording days required).

Conferência do Centro de Ecologia, Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, por Tiziana Di Lorenzo (PhD in Groundwater Ecology, Permanent Researcher at the IRET-CNR, Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems of the National Research Council of Italy).

Encontro Scientia, por Nasrin Seyedi (Assistant professor - Forestry Department of Urmia University | External collaborator in ESFE-cE3c).

O debate inclui a apresentação do livro “Riscos Globais e Biodiversidade”, da autoria de Maria Amélia Martins-Loução (Ciências ULisboa).

This course offers an overview of the different ways to measure biodiversity, and provides tips for the stratification of primary biodiversity data and the construction of variables that describe its various facets. It also includes an in-depth review of the different types of data used to measure biodiversity and their problems and limitations.