MEDIA

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(...)

Science in Azores

Presentation of Paulo A. V. Borges in the debate about Science in Azores during in the Meeting "1º Congresso de Ciência e Desenvolvimento Regional(...)

Very rare plant found on Terceira Island

During the fieldwork for the project NetBiome and ISLANDBIODIV were found two specimens of Grammitis azorica. This is a small fetus, endemic of(...)

Presenting PEERS - Platform for Enhancing Ecological Research & Sustainability in Lisbon

Peers (Platform for Enhancing Ecological Research & Sustainability) will be presented in Lisbon in the 4th July with three talks: Unificando os(...)

New exotic species in Azores

In a recent publication Borges et al. (2013) list thirteen widespread exotic invertebrate species (two Araneae, one Orthoptera, four Hemiptera, four(...)

Workshop - Predicting extinctions in Azores: a multi-scale assessment

The presentation of the final results of the Project "Predicting extinctions on islands: a multi-scale assessment" will be held in Angra do Heroísmo(...)

Investigating the past to foresee the future: a bibliometric analysis on Azorean research in SCI Journals during 1974-2012

The knowledge society requires all regions to participate in building a more sustainable future, in line with the European strategy for Horizon 2020.(...)