Biologia

Hands on Functional Diversity: from Ecological Indicators to Ecosystem Services

Under the general framework of Global Change Ecology, the goal of this course is to provide the participants with the most recent and practical knowledge on the use of Functional Diversity. This includes the selection of functional traits and calculation of Functional Diversity Indexes. Examples of the application of this knowledge will be given regarding Ecological Indicators and Ecosystem Services.

The specific objectives are:

Soil ecology and ecosystem services

Lack of fertile land to feed the exponentially growing population, insufficient water availability and quality, changes in the flow of nutrients through the bio-geo-cycles (especially N and P) and climate and land use changes are impacting ecosystems and their capacity to deliver goods and services for humans. It is striking that all these issues interact around one common resource - SOIL and its biodiversity.

Sessão para consolidação do convénio de colaboração entre a FCUL e a PUC - Rio de Janeiro

A sessão será proferida pelo investigador Luiz Felipe Guanaes (PUC - Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil) e consistirá na exposição dos principais desafios em que o NIMA - Núcleo Interdisciplinar do Meio Ambiente está inserido (sustentabilidade do campus da PUC - Rio de Janeiro, elaboração de parâmetros e procura de respostas aos desafios das pesquisas multidisciplinares, sustentabilidade urbana).

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