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Is already available the book of the conference

The book of the conference "Science in the Azores - What Future?", held in 2013 in Ponta Delgada, is already available in pdf version. In this book(...)

The domestic mouse came to Madeira four centuries before the Portuguese colonization

A study made by the Higher Council for Scientific Research of Spain (CSIC) suggests that four centuries before the Portuguese colonization Man had(...)

Azorean Biodiversity Group 2013 Report and 2008-2013 Achievements -Updated

We present the report of Azorean Biodiversity Group (CITA-A) for the year 2013 and a detailed report for the period 2008-2013 with main(...)

Long Term Monitoring of the Natural Forests of Azores -Collaboration with Natural Park of Graciosa

The Azorean Biodiversity Group started an unprecedented collaboration with several Azorean environmental organizations to perform a Long Term(...)

Centro de Clima, Meteorologia e Mudanças Globais - Bolsa de Investigação

Resultados do concurso para bolsa de investigação inserida no projecto “Respostas das comunidades fitoplanctónicas do Giro Subtropical do(...)

Azorean Biodiversity Portal was Accepted by FCT for the Research Infrastructure in the Roadmap

The Azorean Biodiversity Portal E-Infrastructure was approved by FCT for the National Research Infrastructure Roadmap. The approval of Azorean(...)

Paper on DORIS_Net FP7 project published by the European Journal of Remote Sensing

A research paper on DORIS_Net project development was published by the European Journal of Remote Sensing by our Post-Doc Artur Gil. Despite(...)

Investigators of Azorean Biodiversity Group participate in a new paper about the spiders of Madeira Island

Investigators of the Azorean Biodiversity Group participated in the publication - Crespo, L.C., Boieiro, M., Cardoso, P., Aguiar, C.A.S., Amorim,(...)

Eurodyssee Grants available for Azorean Biodiversity Group - Call is Open

The following projects are available after consulting http://www.eurodyssee.eu/traineeship-offers/backend/traineeship-list.html for the period 3rd(...)

A new species of endemc spider described for the Island of São Jorge

Savigniorrhipis topographicus Crespo, 2013, is a new species is described from the Azores by scientists of Azorean Biodiversity Group (CITA-A). This(...)

Meeting at Oxford of the Biodynamic Island Group (BIG)

The first workshop of the international research group, Biodynamic Island Group (BIG) was held in Oxford in October 2013. Two group members of the(...)

SPEA -Azores collaborate with Azorean Biodiversity Group for the biomonitorization of Azoeran native forests

The Azorean Biodiversity Group started an unprecedented collaboration with several Azorean environmental organizations to perform a Long Term(...)

João Pedro Barreiros elected Portugese representative of Latin-American Association of Marine Sciences Reserachers

Between the 27th and 31st October, our colleague João Pedro Barreiros attended, as an invited speaker, the XV Latin American Congress of Marine(...)

New paper shows that arthropod exotic species promote assemblage homogenization In Azores

In a paper published in the prestigious Journal, DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS (IF: 6.122) investigators of the Azorean Biodiversity Group (CITA-A),(...)

Meeting of the Coordinators of the Project ISLAND-Biodiv on Réunion island

From 2 to 9 September 2013, a team of coordinators of the international project "ISLAND-Biodiv" was present on the second meeting of the project in(...)

PRIZES 2013 – AZOREAN BIODIVERSITY GROUP (CITA-A)

PRIZES 2013 – AZOREAN BIODIVERSITY GROUP (CITA-A) The Azorean Biodiversity Group initiated last year the “Azorean Biodiversity Group Prizes”(...)

XVI Portuguese Conference on Artificial Inteligence - Azorean Biodiversity Group Contribution

The Azorean Biodiversity Group is participating as co-organizer and presenting talks in the XVI National Conference on Artificial Inteligence that(...)

New Focus of Dry Wood Termite - Cryptotermes brevis in Praia da Vitória city

Termite Cryptotermes brevis, which already occurs in the cities of Angra do Heroismo, Ponta Delgada, Horta and the locations of Calheta do Nesquim and(...)

THE TEN MOST CITED AND INFLUENTIAL PAPERS OF AZOREAN BIODIVERSITY GROUP, PUBLISHED BETWEEN 2000 AND 2012

1) Hortal, J., Borges, P.A.V. & Gaspar, C. (2006-2009). Evaluating the performance of species richness estimators: Sensitivity to sample grain size.(...)

Cooperation between Azorean Biodiversity Group and the Faial Island Natural Park

The Azorean Biodiversity Group started a long-term collaboration with the Faial island Natural Park. The aim of this collaboration is the inventory(...)