Long Term Ecological Monitoring Projects

ISLAND-BIODIV: Understanding biodiversity dynamics in tropical and subtropical islands as an aid to science based conservation action

ISLAND-BIODIV: Understanding biodiversity dynamics in tropical and subtropical islands as an aid to science based conservation action

ISLAND-BIODIV is a concerted, transnational and transregional collaboration to provide measures of biodiversity within island ecosystems and establish...

MOVECLIM - Montane vegetation as listening posts for climate change

MOVECLIM - Montane vegetation as listening posts for climate change

Recent climate change has deeply affected the unique and vulnerable polar and high mountain ecosystems. However, due to limited knowledge, high...

EDEN [PRO-BIO] Profiling Reliable Organisms as BIOindicators (An integrated approach for island systems)

EDEN [PRO-BIO] Profiling Reliable Organisms as BIOindicators (An integrated approach for island systems)

Arthropods as bioindicators of ecological stability Remote archipelagos enclose high endemism levels and a significant portion of terrestrial...

BALA - Biodiversity of Arthropods  the Laurissilva of Azores

BALA - Biodiversity of Arthropods the Laurissilva of Azores

Since 1999, our knowledge of arthropods in native forests of the Azores has improved greatly. Under the BALA project (Biodiversity of Arthropods of...

Biodiversity of the terrestrial arthropods of Madeira

Biodiversity of the terrestrial arthropods of Madeira

Two projects funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT, Portugal) allowed the implementation of the inventory of selected groups of...