Search Results - "Lomba, Ângela"
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Action needed for the EU Common Agricultural Policy to address sustainability challenges
Published in People and nature (Hoboken, N.J.) (01-06-2020)“…Making agriculture sustainable is a global challenge. In the European Union (EU), the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is failing with respect to biodiversity,…”
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Late Quaternary range shifts of marcescent oaks unveil the dynamics of a major biogeographic transition in southern Europe
Published in Scientific reports (09-12-2020)“…Marcescent forests are ecotones distributed across southern Europe that host increased levels of biodiversity but their persistence is threatened by global…”
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Adapting forest management to climate change in Europe: Linking perceptions to adaptive responses
Published in Forest policy and economics (01-05-2018)“…Climate change will impact forests and may impair their ability to provide essential ecosystem services in the decades to come. Addressing this challenge…”
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Using fire to enhance rewilding when agricultural policies fail
Published in The Science of the total environment (10-02-2021)“…Rewilding has been proposed as an opportunity for biodiversity conservation in abandoned landscapes. However, rewilding is challenged by the increasing fire…”
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Exploring the spatiotemporal dynamics of habitat suitability to improve conservation management of a vulnerable plant species
Published in Biodiversity and conservation (01-12-2016)“…Ongoing declines in biodiversity caused by global environmental changes call for adaptive conservation management, including the assessment of habitat…”
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Explaining farming systems spatial patterns: A farm-level choice model based on socioeconomic and biophysical drivers
Published in Agricultural systems (01-06-2021)“…Efforts to bring together landscape analysis and farming systems have failed to explain the drivers behind their spatial distribution. Since agricultural…”
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Evaluating an unmanned aerial vehicle‐based approach for assessing habitat extent and condition in fine‐scale early successional mountain mosaics
Published in Applied vegetation science (01-01-2016)“…QUESTION: Can very high‐resolution colour orthophotography and digital surface models (DSMs) from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) be effectively used for…”
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Where will conflicts between alien and rare species occur after climate and land-use change? A test with a novel combined modelling approach
Published in Biological invasions (01-05-2011)“…Protecting native biodiversity against alien invasive species requires powerful methods to anticipate these invasions and to protect native species assumed to…”
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A greener path for the EU Common Agricultural Policy
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (02-08-2019)“…It's time for sustainable, environmental performance The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union (EU) is one of the world's largest agricultural…”
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Rewilding complex ecosystems
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (26-04-2019)“…The practice of rewilding has been both promoted and criticized in recent years. Benefits include flexibility to react to environmental change and the…”
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Editorial: High Nature Value farming systems in Europe
Published in Ecology and society (01-06-2023)Get full text
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Assessing the potential delivery of ecosystem services by farmlands under contrasting management intensities
Published in Ecology and society (01-03-2022)“…Farming systems under contrasting management practices can contribute differently to the delivery of bundles of ecosystem services (ES) in agricultural…”
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Co-occurrences and species distribution models show the structuring role of dominant species in the Vez watershed, in Portugal
Published in Ecological indicators (01-07-2023)“…•Dominant species influence the distribution and composition of subordinate species.•The relative importance of dominant species analysed using species…”
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Impacts of sheep versus cattle livestock systems on birds of Mediterranean grasslands
Published in Scientific reports (24-05-2021)“…Mediterranean pastures are experiencing strong changes in management, involving shifts from sheep to cattle-based livestock systems. The impacts of such shifts…”
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Stakeholder perceptions of wildfire management strategies as nature-based solutions in two Iberian biosphere reserves
Published in Ecology and society (01-03-2023)“…Increased large and high-intensity wildfires cause large socioeconomic and ecological impacts, which demand improved landscape management approaches in which…”
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Innovation brokers in High Nature Value farming areas: a strategic approach to engage effective socioeconomic and agroecological dynamics
Published in Ecology and society (01-03-2023)“…High Nature Value (HNV) farmlands currently retain most of the biodiversity associated with agricultural landscapes in Europe. In a time of globalized food…”
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Improving the assessment and reporting on rare and endangered species through species distribution models
Published in Global ecology and conservation (01-12-2014)“…Species distribution models (SDMs) are increasingly used to understand rare and endangered species distributions, as well as the environmental pressures…”
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Reconciling nature conservation and traditional farming practices: a spatially explicit framework to assess the extent of High Nature Value farmlands in the European countryside
Published in Ecology and evolution (01-03-2015)“…Summary Agriculture constitutes a dominant land cover worldwide, and rural landscapes under extensive farming practices acknowledged due to high biodiversity…”
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Evaluating population and community structure against climate and land-use determinants to improve the conservation of the rare Narcissus pseudonarcissus subsp. nobilis
Published in Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid (1979) (01-01-2016)“…Climate and land-use changes are among the most relevant determinants of future persistence of rare plant species in rural landscapes. We analysed the…”
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