No processo de globalização também a nossa alimentação sofreu alterações profundas - muitos alimentos que consumimos vêm do outro lado do mundo e passámos a comer frutas e legumes fora de época. A produção a larga escala tornou-se comum. O valor nutricional de muitos alimentos diminuiu e o seu nível de açucares aumentou - a saúde dos portugueses ressentiu-se, os diabetes e as doenças cardiovasculares aumentaram.
Mariana Marques, do cE3c, contribuiu para esta obra com fotografias de mamíferos obtidas através de armadilhagem fotográfica, no âmbito da sua tese de mestrado.
Por Gil Penha-Lopes e Daniel Melo-Mattos (CCIAM-cE3c).
As comemorações contam com diversas iniciativas, a ter lugar um pouco por todo o país, Europa e América do Sul - incluindo várias organizadas pelo cE3c - Centro de Ecologia, Evolução e Alterações Ambientais.
É a terceira vez que se assinala esta efeméride, cuja proposta de criação tem raízes no cE3c.
O programa completo de atividades está disponível aqui.
The objective of this course is to introduce participants to the details of communication and writing scientific publications. The main emphasis is on the most common form, the “primary scientific paper”, but other forms will be covered. Matters related to oral presentations, poster preparation and proposal writing will also be discussed. Thus participants will become familiar with the forms of presenting new findings to various scientific forums.
This course introduces the field of island biogeography, a discipline that has long influenced other research areas such as macroecology, community ecology, evolution and conservation biology. This course covers the main aspects of island biogeography, and on completion of the course the students shall have acquired knowledge and understanding on:
Natural history museums are privileged spaces for seminal research on different subjects of biological sciences such as biodiversity, evolution, ecology, biogeography and taxonomy. This crucial role is due to the fact that they represent biological diversity repositories becoming huge libraries of information on Earth living organisms. The long-term sampling through various decades renders tonatural history collections an historic perspective that allows reconstructing a “memory”, sometimes secular, of natural patterns and processes.
Objectives: To introduce participants to the details of communicating science to non-specialized audiences, including, but not exclusive to, public and private stakeholders, students and teachers, and media professionals. The course will particularly address the design, organisation, implementation and impact assessment of public engagement activities such as exhibitions, science festivals or games. At the end of the course, students should be able to develop and produce small-budget events or products to communicate scientific results and ideas.
Currently, climate changes or alterations are known to be reflected on the stable isotope ratios of Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Carbon, Oxygen and Sulphur present in atmospheric gas forms, fresh or ocean water, as well as in plants and animals and organic matter in the soil. Samples from those matrices can provide a record for such changes across a given length of time and / or space. Also, ecological and physiological processes often reflect on stable isotope ratios, again setting a record in plant, animal or other living tissues.
We begin with an introduction to R and provide a protocol for data exploration to avoid common statistical problems. We will discuss how to detect outliers, deal with collinearity and transformations.
