Albano FigueiredoUniversity of Coimbra | UC · Department of Geography
Albano Figueiredo
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Introduction
Albano Figueiredo currently works at the Department of Geography and Tourism at the University of Coimbra. Albano does research in Physical Geography, and is focused on Biogeography. Their current projects are 'Climate change impacts on flora and vegetation', 'impacts associated to invasion on forests', and 'vegetation dynamics within natural parks'.
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As florestas de plantação representam um processo de intensificação na exploração florestal com escala mundial, procurando dar resposta a um aumento da procura de matérias primas, essencialmente lenhosas, com origem na floresta. Esta tendência, apesar de reduzir a pressão sobre as florestas nativas espontâneas, tem implicações ao nível dos serviços...
As florestas de plantação representam um processo de intensificação na exploração florestal com escala mundial, procurando dar resposta a um aumento da procura de matérias primas, essencilamente lenhosas, com origem na floresta. Esta tendência, apesar de reduzir a pressão sobre as florestas nativas espontâneas, tem implicações ao nível dos serviços...
Non-native nitrogen-fixing Acacia species have been invading riparian ecosystems worldwide, potentially threatening stream communities that strongly depend on allochthonous litter. We examined the effects of the invasion of native deciduous temperate forests by Acacia species on litter decomposition and associated fungal decomposers in streams. Lit...
A Região Centro, em termos de uso e ocupação do solo, é maioritariamente constituída por floresta, em regra monoespecífica, de eucalipto ou pinheiro-bravo. Por serem espécies muito combustíveis têm facilitado a propagação de grandes incêndios, de tal modo que entre 1980 e 2018 já ardeu uma área equivalente ao dobro da área florestal. O domínio dest...
Biological invasions are a major threat to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Forest invasion by alien woody species can have cross-ecosystem effects. This is especially relevant in the case of stream-riparian forest meta-ecosystems as forest streams depend strongly on riparian vegetation for carbon, nutrients and energy. Forest invasion by wo...
O problema das mudanças climáticas associadas ao aquecimento global promoveu a necessidade de identificação e implementação de medidas de mitigação e adaptação, com o objetivo de reduzir os impactes potenciais. No âmbito destas medidas, a redução de emissões de gases com efeito de estufa tem sido uma das medidas propostas mais recorrentes. No caso...
Os riscos de natureza biológica apresentam grande diversidade e complexidade, resultado tanto da natureza dos organismos envolvidos como da multiplicidade de processos que podem estar subjacentes à manifestação do próprio risco, o que dificulta a implementação de ações de controlo ou prevenção. De uma forma geral, os riscos biológicos decorrem de i...
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Polyploidization is a widespread mechanism of evolutionary divergence in flowering plants. Ecological divergence of polyploid lineages has been proposed as a key process shaping the distribution of cytotypes in nature (niche shift hypothesis); however, evidence for the role of niche separation in replicated diploid-polyploid species pairs is still...
The flora and vegetation of the archipelago of Cabo Verde is dominated by Macaronesian, Mediterranean, and particularly by African tropical elements, resulting from its southernmost location, when compared to the other islands of the Macaronesia (i.e., Azores, Madeira, Selvagens, and Canary Islands). Very likely, such a geographical position entail...
Centuries of exploiting resources on Macaronesian islands left a significant footprint on their landscapes, even in areas where human activity would seem to be virtually absent. To clarify such interference, this paper explored how the impact of land use determined some attributes of current laurel forest landscape. Focused on communities dominated...
Parmi les pays de l'Europe méditerranéenne, Portugal a les valeurs plus élevées de la superficie brûlée
au cours des dernières années. En raison de leur haut degré de combustibilité, les forêts de pins (Pinus
pinaster), dominantes dans la zone côtière au centre du Portugal, sont considérées comme vulnérables
aux incendies. Suite aux grands incendie...
Tendo em conta os impactes económicos, ecológicos e sociais das espécies invasoras já dispersas no território nacional é crucial um forte investimento para prevenir a entrada de novas espécies (potencialmente) invasoras e detetar precocemente novos focos de invasão de forma a promover uma gestão eficaz e atempada que limite novas invasões biológica...
Agriculture has changed significantly during the last 30 years in Portugal. One of the main changes is related to agricultural abandonment, mainly driven by demographic dynamics on areas that are marginal in terms of productivity. Such trend affects mainly rainfed agriculture, and was significant in the inland Norte and Centro regions of Portugal b...
The distribution of cytotypes in mixed-ploidy species is crucial for evaluating ecological processes involved in the establishment and evolution of polyploid taxa. Here, we use flow cytometry and chromosome counts to explore cytotype diversity and distributions within a tetraploid-octoploid contact zone. We then use niche modeling and ploidy seed s...
Although usually acknowledged as a major factor of landscape change, human actions are seldom introduced in biodiversity accounts and approaches, even in the contemporary ones, namely in those rooted in classical island biogeography (McArthur &Wilson, 1967). In fact, most models on biodiversity assume a rather conservative approach assuming that bi...
Despite the uncertainty associated to climate change impacts, considering significant range of projected climatic scenarios, results focused on such issue confirm that territories that implement nature-based solutions and give high relevance to nature conservation can reduce susceptibility to climate change. But such decision demands a deep knowled...
Abstratcs of presentations at the European Meeting of Fitosociology dedicated to the issue of
Biogeograohy and Sintaxonomy of the Atlantic Regions, Praia, Cabo Verde, November 5-7, 2017.
As espécies mais comuns de Acacia que ocorrem na Ilha da Madeira foram introduzidas durante os séculos XIX e XX, como ornamentais ou para uso florestal, tendo-se tornado espécies invasoras. De forma a avaliar os impactes associados à invasão por estas espécies, neste trabalho procede-se à i) caracterização da distribuição atual de espécies do géner...
The results about invasiveness in the Arouce Watershed (Oliveira-Costa & Souza, 2015), have suggested that the colonization of the region by the Acacia occur in a possible way: coming from the central area and disseminating to lower stream of the Arouce River. According the local invasiveness, the environmental conditions for Acacias in the study a...
Abstract: Madeira Island is a biodiversity hotspot due to its high number of endemic/native plant species. In this work we developed and assessed a methodological framework to produce a RapidEye-based vegetation map. Reasonable accuracies were achieved for a 26 categories classification scheme in two different seasons. We tested pixel and object ba...
Based on niche modelling, this work aims to assess how future climatic scenarios might prompt important changes in terms of floristic compositions for the laurel forests of Madeira.
Madeira Island pre-scientific description portrays it as a luxurious forest from sea level to the mountaintop. However, these native forests suffered degradation and loss of occupancy area since the Portuguese settlement of Madeira Island in 1425. Since early times numerous attempts were made to halt the process. In Madeira island five vegetation b...
This article explores differences on suitable area, ecological conditions and role in the laurel forests of Madeira and Tenerife islands for Ocotea foetens.
Different drivers can contribute to shape the pattern associated to invasion, and the disturbance of natural habitats has been reported as one of the main contributing factors. This work aims to evaluate how far land-use change is contributing to define the invasion pattern of two exotic acacia species (Acacia dealbata and Acacia melanoxylon) on th...
Biological invasion by exotic organisms became a key issue, a concern associated to the deep impacts on several domains described as resultant from such processes. A better understanding of the processes, the identification of more susceptible areas, and the definition of preventive or mitigation measures are identified as critical for the purpose...
Os processos de invasão estão identificados como uma das ameaças mais importantes à escala global. Tendo em conta a importância desta ameaça, desenvolve-se um esforço dedicado à monitorização do estado de invasão e susceptibilidade territorial, informação, necessária à definição de medidas que permitam mitigar os impactes associados a estes process...
A invasão biológica é considerada a 2º maior causa de perda da biodiversidade, resultado da degradação dos ecossistemas pela proliferação de espécies exóticas. O género Acacia tem destaque entre os géneros de plantas com as maiores taxas de transferência para fora da distribuição original, muitas vezes para regiões de clima mediterrâneo, incluindo...
O sucesso de EEI - Espécies Exóticas Invasoras - em habitats hospedeiros é hoje a segunda maior causa de perda da diversidade biológica, determinada sobretudo pela interação com as características dos ecossistemas. O género Acacia tem destaque, com plantas sendo translocadas há mais de 200 anos da Austrália, muitas vezes para regiões de clima tempe...
A invasão biológica é apresentada como a 2º maior causa de perda da biodiversidade (IUCN, 1999), resultado da degradação dos ecossistemas pela proliferação de espécies exóticas. O género Acacia Mill. é considerado modelo global, destacando-se entre os géneros de plantas exóticas com maiores taxas de transferência para fora da sua distribuição origi...
The Portuguese basic education curricula on Natural Sciences for students from 5th
to 9th grade (10 to 14 years old) focus on biodiversity loss and climate change, two of
the major global issues of the 21st century. These students are a crucial audience to
educate for biodiversity conservation and sustainable practices, so teachers and
educators pl...
Laurel forest communities extant at Madeira Island are characterized by high floristic diversity, presenting a significant proportion of endemic species. The invasion of their potential areas of distribution by tree exotic species perform a significant loss of biodiversity, based on the assumption that the recover of the native communities will rea...
Since the beginning of the last century, important changes have occurred in the woodlands of mainland Portugal, which have almost tripled in size, occupying around 40% of the territory according the most recent statistics. Such changes are mainly supported by an increase in the area occupied by fast-growing species (e.g. Pinus pinaster), some of wh...
RESUMO Dada a sua complexidade topográfica, a Ilha da Madeira apresenta uma elevada susceptibilidade à ocorrência de movimentos de massa, nomeadamente deslizamentos, processos entendidos como frequentes nas ilhas da Macaronésia. Além das condições topográficas, climáticas e do substrato rochoso, o tipo e magnitude dos processos geomorfológicos domi...
uma única espécie, o despovoamento rural, as vinhas-ao-alto no Douro vinhateiro, a proliferação de espécies arbóreas invasoras e a evolução pós-incêndio da vegetação. Embora se trate de ações suaves no tempo e por vezes no espaço podem, à la longue, trazer profundas alterações na paisagem. Abstract Landscape under risk in Portugal: a contribution U...
The aim of this research was to assess changes in the physical and chemical properties of soil and the rate of erosion under traditional land use and during the natural vegetation succession following land abandonment, in a marginal area of Portugal. A chronosequence was used, which included soils cultivated with cereal crops (the traditional land...
This paper analyses the effects of land abandonment on runoff and sediment yield in a central inland area of Portugal. Rainfall simulation experiments were performed in areas of traditional land use (land cultivated with cereals) with various types of soil plant cover associated with the period of abandonment (4–5 years, 15–20 years and 30–40 years...
No Interior Centro e Norte de Portugal desencadeou-se, nas últimas décadas do passado século, um fenómeno de acentuado abandono agrícola, com importantes alterações na ocupação e cobertura vegetal do solo. Essas mudanças devem-se, principalmente, ao processo de esvaziamento demográfico das áreas rurais, em consequência do enorme surto migratório, m...
Resumo As opções metodológicas adoptadas no âmbito da avaliação de impactes na vegetação natural decorrentes de alterações climáticas estão, em primeiro lugar, determinadas pela escala de análise. A este respeito é necessário ter em conta não só a dimensão do território em estudo como também o facto de a análise se direccionar à resposta individual...
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We are inviting submissions to the Special Issue on Wildland-Urban Interface and Risk of Wildfires. The wildland-urban interface (WUI), defined as the area where houses are in or near wildland vegetation, is the area where wildfires pose the greatest risk to people and goods due to the proximity of flammable vegetation. The WUI fire risks are inherently a multi/interdisciplinary problem that requires a holistic approach, from a technological point of view to the management of the built-environment and forest, evacuation, socio-economic impacts and health, climate changes and sustainability, education and raising awareness and public policies, promoting the adoption of sounding protocols/regulations amongst all civil protection bodies and civil society.
In this Special Issue, we invite submissions exploring:
- Risk assessment in the Wildland-Urban Interfaces (WUI)
- Wildfire exposure and vulnerability in WUI
. Risk perception and communication
- Modelling of Forest Fires and its impact on the WUI
- Impacts of Climate changes on WUI wildfires
- Fire safety engineering and resilience of the built environment
- Socio-economic impacts and recovering after a natural disaster
- Public policies and legislation for safe and resilient WUI areas
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 February 2022.
More information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/Wildland_Urban_Interface
To assess the effects of the invasion of native temperate deciduous forests by N-fixing species on stream structure and functioning, focusing on the invasion of deciduous forests in central Portugal by exotic evergreen, N-fixing Acacia species
The R&D Integrated Program CULTIVAR aims to respond to the challenges that the Agro-food sector of the Central Region faces, namely to characterize, conserve and valorize regional endogenous genetic resources in low density areas, through a territorial development strategy, promoting and consolidating the collaboration between science, technology and higher education institutions and the agro-food cluster.
https://icultivar.pt/
