
Luís SantosPolytechnic Institute of Tomar · Archaeology, Conservation Restoration, and Heritage
Luís Santos
PhD Biology and Ecological resources management
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Introduction
Energetic and motivated Environmental Biologist, willing to travel and broaden the horizons of nature conservation, with particular interest in freshwater environments. Though lecturing comes naturally, the need to connect to field experiences is part of the necessary equilibrium towards self and scientific sustainability.
Additional affiliations
January 2009 - present
Centro de Geociencias Universidade de Coimbra
Position
- Researcher
Description
- Biosphere Reserves, Biosphere observatory responsible.
Education
November 2004 - March 2008
September 2000 - June 2002
September 1994 - July 1999
Publications
Publications (38)
A two sides balance can be drawn from the last 20 years of active intents to change local, regional and global policies concerning water and global environment issues. On one hand, as a consequence of the “sustainable development” model, there is an increasing awareness of the issues in stake, and environment became a core part of any public policy...
Countries unaccustomed to wildfires are currently experiencing wildfire as a new climate-change reality. Understanding how fire ignition and propagation are correlated with temperature, orography, humidity, wind, and the mixture and age of individual plants must be considered when designing prevention strategies. While wildfire prevention focuses o...
Post pandemic tourism observes a worldwide consumer choice shift from the traditional sun and beach to adventure and nature-based tourism. While interesting for many countries such as Portugal where interior regions observe abandonment and deteriorating economic development, this new economic boost presents unforeseen risk. Both Municipalities hold...
Aquatic ecosystems are often subject to degradation due to various environmental stressors. The accumulation of an organic sediment layer causes shallowing, algal blooms, and hypertrophy in water reservoirs. The processes of overgrowth and shallowing lead to a reduction in the ecosystem services provided by the reservoir as well as may potentially...
The utilization of Effective Microorganisms (EMs) for lake restoration represents a sustainable approach to enhancing water quality and rebalancing the ecology of aquatic ecosystems. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of two bioremediation treatment cycles employing EM-enriched biopreparations on water quality in the Si...
Through ethnographic film, this research seeks to record and understand the relationship that Azinhaga, José Saramago’s birthplace, has with the author. The results indicate that this village is a place of memory for the Nobel Prize winner, with its people committed to the legacy he left behind. The conclusions are substantiated by the testimonies...
Aquatic ecosystems are often subject to degradation due to various environmental stressors. The accumulation of an organic sediment layer causes shallowing, algal blooms, and hypertrophy in water reservoirs. The processes of overgrowth and shallowing lead to a reduction in the ecosystem services provided by the reservoir as well as potentially caus...
Resilience and transformation in the territories of low demographic density II Integrated methodologies of human and social sciences Resilience and transformation in the territories of low demographic density II Integrated methodologies of human and social sciences EDITOR: LUIZ OOSTERBEEK {Area domeniu} 12
A arte, conforme definida por Leo Tolstoi (2013), é a atividade pela qual uma pessoa, tendo experimentado uma emoção, transmite-a intencionalmente a outros. A forte ligação entre o enquadramento geográfico e experiências do autor, despoleta a imaginação do leitor e a vontade de viver na primeira pessoa as experiências. Algumas obras literárias e au...
Art, as defined by Leo Tolstoy is the “the activity by which a person, having experiencedan emotion, intentionally transmits it to others”. The strong connection betweengeographic setting and the author’s experiences, triggers the imagination of the readerand the will to experience it thyself.Some of literary works and authors that stimulated reade...
Resumo: O turismo de natureza é uma das indústrias que mais cresceu no mundo desde o início do século. Este crescimento é raramente acompanhado pelos sistemas de gestão de áreas naturais que lutam contra o número crescente de turistas, falta de infraestruturas, informação e organização. Uma das soluções adotadas por muitas áreas naturais é a adoção...
Since the dawn of civilization, humankind shifts the planet’s natural resources at their own discretion, mining, deforesting, and farming and ultimately changing climate, are just some of the many environmental disruptions, expanding alongside the global population growth. The much-needed balance for a sustainable planet is nowadays compromised by...
Essential oils (EOs) are acclaimed for their antimicrobial properties, leading to their multiple applications in various fields. In this work, four aromatic plants were used, namely thyme (Thymus mastichina L.), everlasting (Helychrysum stoechas Moench), European pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium L.) and fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill.). Hydrodistillati...
Changing atmospheric conditions, including above all the deepening extreme weather phenomena, are increasing from year to year. This, in consequence, causes an increase in the incidence of low outflows. The study compares low water levels for two catchments: Biała Woda and Czarna Woda, and phosphorus and nitrogen load using the Nutrient Delivery Ra...
Changing atmospheric conditions, including above all the deepening extreme weather phenomena, are increasing from year to year. This, in consequence, causes an increase in the incidence of low outflows. The study compares low water levels for two catchments: Biała Woda and Czarna Woda, and phosphorus and nitrogen load using the Nutrient Delivery Ra...
From the beginning of the 21st century, following major global and European initiatives such as the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) and The Economics of Ecosystem and Biodiversity (2010), the idea that ecosystem services could be used as a decision support tool, gained considerable importance in several fields: from economy to public policy,...
The number of forest fires ignitions has decreased worldwide, thus observing increased levels of intensity and destruction, endangering urban areas, and causing material damages and deaths (Portugal-2017). Forest fire hazard mapping supported by the surveillance strategy targeted at very susceptible areas with high losses' potential are the common...
The increasing impacts of climate and land use change directly impact habitat quality and biodiversity. Monitoring the habitats quality can be a valuable tool for the conservation of biodiversity, as it is an indicator of biodiversity. This research work aims to ap-ply the InVEST Habitat Quality model to compare two different cases study from Portu...
Este Manual pretende ser um veículo de informação útil para tornar as populações mais resilientes aos riscos climáticos e aumentar a consciência ambiental coletiva.
Tem como objetivo numa primeira leitura, despertar em cada um dos leitores a importância da autoproteção e posteriormente desencadear conversas com familiares e amigos sobre boas prátic...
Main concepts regardings risks and climate change for general public
The understanding of protection initiatives' effects on the delivery of Ecosystem Services (ESs) is of paramount importance to attain sustainable management in Protected Areas (PAs). Protected floodplains provide important ESs to local populations such as water flow regulation and climate regulation through carbon storage. This study investigates t...
In recent years, there has been increasing awareness of the preservation, protection and sustainable use of natural resources. Water resources, being one of the most important natural resources, face major threats due to contamination by pollutants of various types and origins. Maintaining the quality of water resources requires more robust, reliab...
The delicate balance between human occupation and conservation policy is a concurrent conflict of historical, economic and cultural nature. Societal reasoning is a clear-cut understanding that the implementation of conservation policy brings loss, while this is a comfortable situation for conservationists, it brings serious consequences to communit...
The Upper Morgado shelter is a karst cavity located in the Nabão river valley whose
material culture is in many aspects associated to the dolmen world. This shelter was used and
reused in a long diachrony (since Neolithic times until the Early Bronze Age). Exchange and /or
Interchange is confirmed through the occurrence of some metal artefacts that...
Floods are among the natural phenomena, the more frequent and deadly having provoked in Portugal, more than 537 dead, between 1966 and 2016. The study of flood risk plays a key role in decision-making of its management.
GIS is defined by its ability to manage and perform analysis on spatial information, they are the appropriate tool to process info...
Climate change and sea level variation during the Quaternary shaped the southernmost Santa Catarina's Coastal Plain and its landscape, promoting vegetation changes and different geomorphological features that resulted in the formation of sand barriers, relocation of fluvial channels, lagoons and rivers. In this context, prehistoric occupation of th...
The Paul do Boquilobo is an important wetland ecosystem classified by Unesco as a MAB Biosphere reserve also awarded Ramsar site status, representing one of the most important habitats for the resident nesting colony of Cattle Egret (Bulbucus ibis). Yet owing to its location, it suffers from human induced impacts which include industrial and domest...
Wall tile panels were commonly used in recreational open outdoors spaces of 18th Century noble houses, the nature of their location and the lack of maintenance of such spaces, which lost their purpose during the 20th century, contributed to the natural deterioration of such panels. The need to preserve such an integrated patrimony resulted in the r...
Use of geographic information system predictive mapping to locate areas of high potential for prehistoric archaeological sites is becoming increasingly popular among archaeologists. The environmental variables influencing dispersion of original inhabitants is used to produce GIS layers representing the spatial distribution for the areas studied. Th...
Research on the interface between the lichens and substrates suggests that the
weathering of minerals can be accelerated by the growth of some species of lichens.
Under the Project RupScience (PTDC/HIS-ARQ/101299/2008) - "Review of
operational chains, Archaeometry and Chronology of rock art paintings. A
technological approach to material in context...