research areas

objectives

This line of research aims to investigate the diversity of functional characteristics of various kinds of organisms/species and its adaptation environmental conditions.

highlights

5 research papers

research projects & international networks

Ecological Restoration of a Mediterranean Limestone Quarry - The case study at Outão (Serra da Arrábida, Portugal) +info
Solenopsora - Disentangling evolutionary relationships across morphologically and ecologically diverse lichen genus Solenopsora +info
Restoration of the areas subject to erosion in water reservoirs - Biological soil crusts : The case study of the dam reservoir Salamonde. +info

dissemination outputs

publications

Adessi, A., Cruz de Carvalho, R., De Phillippis, R., Branquinho, C. & Marques da Silva, J. (2018) Microbial extracellular polymeric substances improve water retention in dryland biological soil crusts. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 116, 67-69. DOI:10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.10.002 (IF2017 4.926; Q1 Soil Science) +info

Paulo, J.T., Godinho, D.P., Silva, A., Branquinho, C. & Magalhães, S. (2018) Suppression of plant defenses by herbivorous mites is not associated with adaptation to host plants. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 19(6), 1783. DOI:10.3390/ijms19061783 (IF2017 3.687; Q2 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology) +info

Sauquet, H., Balthazar, M., Magall—n, S., Doyle, J.A., Endress, P.K., Bailes, E.J.,Barroso de Morais, E., Bull-Here–u, K., Carrive, L., Chartier, M., Chomicki, G., Coiro, M., Cornette, R., El Ottra, J.H.L., Epicoco, C., Foster, C.S.P., Jabbour, F., Haevermans, A., Haevermans, T., Hern‡ndez, R., Little, S.A., Lšfstrand, S., Luna, J.A., Massoni, J., Nadot, S., Pamperl, S., Prieu, C., Reyes, E., dos Santos, P., Schoonderwoerd, K.M., Sontag, S., Soulebeau, A., Staedler, Y., Tschan, G.F., Leung, A.W-S. & Schšnenberger, J. (2017) The ancestral flower of angiosperms and its early diversification. Nature Communications, 8(16047), 1-10. DOI:10.1038/ncomms16047 (IF2017 12.353; Q1 Multidisciplinary Sciences) +info

Godinho, D., Janssen, A., Dias, T., Cruz, C. & Magalh‹es, S. (2016) Down-regulation of plant defense in a resident spider mite species and its effect upon con- and heterospecifics. Oecologia, 180(1), 161-167. DOI:10.1007/s00442-015-3434-z (IF2016 3,130; Q2 Ecology) +info

Concostrina-Zubiri L, Granzow-de la Cerda I (2015) Confirmed presence of Gigaspermum repens (Hook.) Lindb. in the New World. Journal of Bryology 37:147-149. +info

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