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Advanced Course Ciencia'16 - Portuguese Science Meeting |
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The impact of natural and anthropogenic pollution on ecosystems and human health: |
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Lisbon residents prefer their parks to be at hand Ana Catarina Luz at an UrbanL@b survey concluded that work or home proximity weighs in significantly when it comes to urban parks preference for leisure. Calouste Gulbenkian Gardens is the favourite. +info |
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Alice Nunes, Cristina Branquinho & Melanie Köbel @SERE18 eChanges investigators give lectures at this year edition of SERE Conference, themed “Restoration in the Era of Climate Change” + Clara Wendt's Poster +info Reykjavik. Iceland | 9-13 Sep 2018 |
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Seminário Internacional |
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Insights from urban ecology: Urban green infrastructure to improve cities livability |
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Centro de Competências na Luta Contra a Desertificação |
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Alice Nunes' PhD Merit Award 2018 |
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cE3c 4th Annual Meeting 2018 |
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Encontro com a Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal |
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The impact of nitrogen pollution on ecosystems Invited as an expert in Multi-country workshop on Monitoring air pollution impacts on Mediterranean ecosystems (Art 9 NEC Directive) organized by NitroPortugal, Roland Bobbink gave an interview to cE3c, here. |
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Science Fair @ Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência Adriana Príncipe showed the boardgame AgroForest with the aim of showing the multiple options that exist in the management of a montado from the project AdaptForChange. +info 23 June 2018 |
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Cristina Branquinho, Helena Serrano, Juliana Monteiro and Pedro Pinho @ CAPERmed Researchers on air pollution in Mediterranean ecosystems, together to coordinate expertise and identify current impacts and future challenges. |
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COST- European Cooperation in Science & Technology National Representants at eChanges - Optical synergies for spatiotemporal sensing of scalable ecophysiological traits (CA17134) |
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Nature within the city |
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eChanges Spring Field Work Joana Marques has been sampling lichens for urban ecology and ecosystem services in Antwerp Alice Nunes and Melanie Köbel have sampled functional diversity of Mediterranean woodlands in our research station at Herdade da Ribeira Abaixo. For Patrícia Santos PhD project, she, Helena Serrano, Inês Santos and Alexandra Oliveira have been traveling around Tenerife island looking for evidences of adaptive radiation in Aeonium species. Sara Lobo-Dias has been sampling in coastal sand dunes and Alexandra Oliveira and Paula Matos have been taking measures of lichens in the Atlantic coast. |
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Forum Ambiente |
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Paula Matos & Pedro Pinho |
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Cristina Branquinho Instituto Superior de Agronomia|18 May 2018 |
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Encontro Scientia cE3c |
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1st Workshop in Human Biomonitoring in Portugal |
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CIALP |
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Quarries Alive Cristina Branquinho(co-organizer) and Alice Nunes at the conference on "Enhancing Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services in Quarries - Challenges, Strategies and Practice" +info University of Évora, Portugal | 2-4 May 2018 |
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Paula Matos at Cork Talks eChanges investigator is participating in the 4th session of "Portugal Biodiverso - Is the Quercus suber montado good for the country?" Nova FCSH | 24 April 2018 |
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Helena Serrano & Pedro Pinho at INMS |
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Fronteiras XXI (II) |
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Europe at FCUL- NitroPortugal |
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Telejornal RTP 24 March 2018 |
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XXI ENEB - National Encounter for Biology Students |
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Cristinha Branquinho@Ovibeja presenting "AdaptForChange: Improve the success of reforestation in semi-arid areas: adaptation to climate change scenarios" OVIBEJA | 27 Apr 2018 |
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14º Congresso da Água |
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Alice Nunes TERRAenVISION presenting: "Predicting climate change effects on Mediterranean drylands through plant functional traits" and "Evaluating past reforestations success in semi-arid Mediterranean areas now and under a climate change scenario" +info Uni. Barcelona | 29 Jan - 2 Feb 2018 |
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eChanges annual field visit |
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Final conference Final conference of the program AdaPT with the presentation of AdaptForChange results Lisboa | 29-30 Nov 2017 +info |
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TV documentary about adaptation to climate change With the participation of Cristina Branquinho, Alice Nunes, Adriana Príncipe, and Melanie Kobel with results of the project AdaptforChange RTP2, Biosfera | 11 Nov 2017 +info |
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Green Roof |
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eChanges interviews |
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Lecture Urban Ecology Cristina Ramalho -Uni. of Western Australia- "On a path to improve the way we think about, understand and intervene in urban green spaces" 2.2.14, FCUL, Lisboa, Portugal | 2 November 2017 +info |
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ENE- Encontro Nacional de Ecologia |
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Science in 90 seconds Short audio clip on the project AdaptForChange main conclusions by Cristina Branquinho 26 Abril 2017 here |
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Prizes for PhD Alice Nunes and Helena Serrano won the 2nd and 4th prize in a competition organized by SPECO, Portuguese Ecology Society, for the best PhD in 2016-2017. Congratulations! +info |
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Video trailer Check here a small video produced during the NecoSchool: a Nitro Portugal Training school on the Long-term Effects of Nitrogen on Ecosystems in May 2017 +info |
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eChanges on the news Report on the work by Helena Serrano in a rare endemic species, Plantago almogravensis mercurioonline.pt | 8 May 2017 here |
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Environmental Ethic Lectures Cristina Branquinho presents "Razões Éticas para a preservação da Biodiversidade" Fundação Caloustre Gulbenkian, Lisboa, Portugal | 10 Oct 2017 +info |
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European Researchers' Night |
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Fact sheets State of the art knowledge in science, successes and case studies in restoration| COST Action ES1104 with papers by Laura Laura Concostrina, Alice Nunes, Cristina Branquinho, Melanie Köbel and Helena C Serrano +info & download |
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Ecology Day Celebration of the Ecology Day with a lecture on Urban Ecology and field visit to Campo Grande in Lisboa. co-organized with the Portuguese Ecology Society +info |
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eChanges at MedEC |
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Front Cover |
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Mark Sutton in interview |
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Alice Nunes PhD |
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eChanges at the Azores |
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Alice Nunes at "Sociedade Civil" |
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cE3c at the United Nations |
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Paula Matos Merit Award |
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Plant performance in geochemical islands |
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International training school NecoSchool - Global and long-term effects of nitrogen on ecosystems FCUL, Lisboa, Portugal | 15 – 26 May 2017 +info |
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Advanced Course Lichens as a tool for the interpretation of environmental changes and management cE3c Advanced Course FCUL, Lisboa, Portugal | 10- 14 July 2016 +info |
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Discussion |
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Seminar |
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Lecture |
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Master thesis defense |
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Encontro Scientia Development of ecological indicators of climate change based on lichen functional diversity, by Paula Matos room 2.2.14, FCUL | 16 February 2017 +info |
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Paper on the news "Tracking global change using lichen diversity: towards a global-scale ecological indicator" by Paula Matos in "Methods in Ecology and Evolution" is in the news FCUL | País ao Minuto | Wilder |
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Advanced Course |
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Seminar by Cristina Branquinho |
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Merry Christmas! |
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Blogs from the field |
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Restauro de ecossistemas degradados em zonas semi-áridas: as soluções da natureza |
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Final seminar |
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Noite Europeia dos Investigadores eChanges participated with a board game challenging the participants to manage a landscape in a sustainable way Pavilhão do Conhecimento, Lisboa | 30 September 2016 +info (Pt) |
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Best posters awards For the works of Melanie Batista "AdaptForChange: Evaluating the success of reforestations with native species performed during last 50 years along a desertification gradient in Alentejo" and Ana Lemos "Evaluating ecosystem services trade-offs due to land use changes: transition to an irrigated agriculture landscape" +info |
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Working at LTER Whim bog |
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Noite Europeia dos Investigadores A board game on how to manage a landscape in a sustainable way Pavilhão do Conhecimento, Lisboa | 30 September 2016 programa (Pt) | +info (Pt) |
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iLTER Open Science Meeting |
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Paper press-release Grazing or not grazing: implications for ecosystem services provided by biocrusts in Mediterranean cork-oak woodlands, Laura Concostrina +info (Pt) |
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XVIII Encontro da Rede de Estudos Ambientais em Países de Língua Portuguesa |
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World Congress Silvo-Pastoral Systems 2016 We will be joining the World Congress Silvo-Pastoral Systems congress that will be held in Évora, Portugal. Évora, Portugal | 27-30 September 2016 +info |
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Island Biology 2016 |
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Lichens as a tool for the interpretation of environmental changes and management CE3C Advanced Course FCUL, Lisboa, Portugal | 11- 15 July 2016 +info |
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PhD thesis defense |
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Portuguese Science Meeting |
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Science dissemination about the role of urban green areas for human wellbeing "O papel do parque da paz na nossa qualidade de vida através do testemunho dos líquenes". In partnership with SPECO Almada, Parque da Paz | 4 July 2016 +info |
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International training course Long-term trends in nitrogen cycles in ecosystems – Field monitoring and global comparisons organization: ILTER | Hokkaido University and Uryu Experimental Forest, Japan | 16-24 June 2016 registration (by January 30th, 2016) video - 2nd circular - contact |
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Conference |
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Public debate on Sustainable Development Objectives |
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TV documentary about legumes in a world under climate change With the participation of Alice Nunes and Melanie Batista presenting some results of the project AdaptforChange RTP2, Biosfera | 21 May 2016 +info |
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Opinion text |
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eChanges presentation to FCUL |
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Restoration of Arid Lands and Combat of Desertification: From Science to Practice,
COST Action ES1104 final conference Greenwich, London | 30-31 April 2016 videos: Melanie Köbel, Alice Nunes/ Teresa Mexia and Adriana Príncipe. +info |
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Climate Change and Human Health |
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Climate Change and Biodiversity Life streaming to secondary shools about the effectys of climate on biodiversity by Pedro Pinho within the project ClimaEduMedia |
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Restoration of Arid Lands and Combat of Desertification: |
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PhD in Environmental and Management Policies |
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Workshop on ecosystem restoration |
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ECOFLOR 2016 Forces in flowers: a case study of Montiaceae (Caryophyllales) |
Patrícia dos Santos |
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2nd eChanges Annual Meeting "Quest for ores: our natural resources" Last January 15th we visited the São Domingos Mines, located in Alentejo, Portugal. There we visited the old mining complex and enjoyed a nice lunch. |
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European Geosciences UnionGeneral Assembly 2016 Session Restoration and rehabilitation of degraded lands in arid, semi-arid and mediterranean environments | Vienna, Austria | 17–22 April 2016 +info |
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Biological soil crusts in the Negev – small, yet hugely important for the ecosystem |
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We are now taking a short break for Christmas and New Year, and celebrated with a group Christmas lunch. | ||||||
TRANSBASIN: Ecosystem Services in Semiarid Transboundary Basins |
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Joana Vieira master defense |
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Ecology of a rare and endemic Plantago species Helena Serrano | FCUL 6.2.51| 17 Dec 2015 | 12:00-13:00 +info |
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Workshop on Ecosystem Assessment and Ecosystem Services in Portugal Clube Naval de Cascais | 11 December 2015 +info |
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Award by research on urban ecology Lichens as ecological indicators in urban areas: beyond the effects of pollutants. 2.º Prémio de Investigação Cidade de Almada +info (Pt) |
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symposium "The soil within the Portuguese scientific research" |
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Urban climate (Pt) How can a better knowledge of urban climate help human beings to face upcoming environmental challenges "Os líquenes como indicadores das actividades humanas no ambiente urbano" | IGOT Lisboa | 25 Nov 215 poster program +info |
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Ecology of a rare and endemic Plantago species |
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Environmental impact of early discoveries Congresso Anual APH "1415 : de Ceuta para o mundo" | Cristina Braquinho | FLUL, Lisboa | 23-25 October 2015 flyer |
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Landlab:
Green roofs for sustainability in urban areas GreenFest 2015 | Cristina Branquinho | October 9 2015 | 12:15 - 12h25 |
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How to apply lichen function diversity for tracking global change - poster |
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Field guide for using epiphitic lichens as indicators of air quality:
a tool for the general public (portuguese) download |
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XVII meeting of network for environmental studies in Portuguese speaking countries XVII Encontro da Rede de Estudos Ambientais dos Países de Língua Portuguesa | Cristina Branquinho | U. Cabo Verde | 9-12 Set 2015 download +info |
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Functional traits: the interface between the formation of biodiversity and biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning |
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DesertNet International Newsletter: news about paper "Seasonal patterns of Mediterranean evergreen woodlands" |
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Noite Europeia dos Investigadores "Biodiversidade pela sua saúde e bem-estar" Quinta das Conchas, Lisboa, Portugal | 19 September 2015 | 10h00 – 13h00 +info (pt) |
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Participation at the International Workshop "Advances in Plant Biology and Biotechnology" Valencia, Spain | 28-29 September 2015 poster +info |
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Participation at the International Workshop "SER's 6th World Conference on Ecological Restoration" Manchester, UK | 23-27 August 2015 +info |
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Participation at the International congress "4th Iberian ecological congress" Coimbra, Portugal | 16-19 June 2015 download presentation +info |
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Participation at the International Workshop "Biodiversidade e Serviços dos Ecossistemas: do semiárido aos trópicos" FCUL, Lisboa | 8 June 2015 program |
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Participation at the International Congress "Global Challenges of Air Pollution and Climate Change to Forests" |
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AdaptForChange 2nd workshop "Ecosystem services in semiarid transboundary basins" FCUL, Lisboa | June 24 2015 program |
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AdaptForChange 1st workshop FCUL, Lisboa | April 10 2015 program |
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eChange first workshop Almada | 10 April 2015 |
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eChanges- Ecology of Environmental Change is a cE3c research group |