Healthy Ecosystems, Healthy People
A iniciativa conta com a participação de Jorge Palmeirim e de Cristina Máguas (Ciências ULisboa), sendo organizada pela EEF - European Ecological Federation.
Ecologia
Entrevista com José Ricardo Paula
A SPECO anunciou recentemente os vencedores do Prémio de Doutoramento em Ecologia - Fundação Amadeu Dias 2020. José Ricardo Paula é o grande vencedor desta edição e irá apresentar o seu trabalho no 19.º Encontro Nacional de Ecologia, este ano associado às cerimónias dos 25 anos da SPECO, e que se realiza em dezembro, em Ponte de Lima.
Pela primeira vez, chocos apresentam a capacidade de aprendizagem social
Um grupo de investigadores da Ciências ULisboa a trabalhar no Laboratório Marítimo da Guia do MARE conseguiu mostrar que chocos acabados de eclodir (até cinco dias) são capazes de ter uma aprendizagem social. O estudo publicado na Animal Cognition tem como primeiro autor Eduardo Sampaio, estudante de doutoramento em Biologia (ramo Etologia).
Applied Methods in Community Ecology and Functional Ecology
Objectives: This is a mostly practical course offering an overview on different community ecology and macroecological methods and software. These will include all steps of a research project, from the optimal sampling of communities to process inference from large-scale patterns of taxon, phylogenetic and functional diversity.
Advanced R for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Objectives: Provide students with statistical knowledge and tools to manipulate, analyze and visualize biological data with R. Introduction to modeling, simulations and Bayesian statistics.
Ecohydrological modeling for climate change impact assessment
Objectives: This course will teach how to apply the SWAT eco-hydrological model to assess the impacts of climate and associated changes on water-soil-plant interactions, and consequences to water resources, soil erosion and nutrient cycles.
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Urban Ecology: the green within the city
Objectives: The goal of this course is to provide to the participants with current and practical knowledge on urban ecology, including ecological and social aspects. It aims at providing an integrated approach on urban socio-ecological systems.
Hands on Functional Diversity: from Ecological Indicators to Ecosystem Services
Objectives: 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.
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Stable isotopes in Ecology and Environment: a tool to integrate scales and complexity
Overview: 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.
Colégio ULisboa POLAR2E
O POLAR2E tem como objetivo criar sinergias em áreas como as ciências da criosfera, a modelação climática, a ecologia de ambientes extremos, a deteção remota, a construção em ambientes extremos, a astrobiologia e a engenharia aeroespacial dentro da Universidade.