Thursday 3rd July 2014 – Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Building C1 room 1.3.33A
14:00 Registration
14:30 Welcome: Presentation of CAPERmed by Organizers and Opening Act
14:30 Welcome: Presentation of CAPERmed by Organizers and Opening Act
Monitoring, Indicators and Assessment
Chair: Silvana Munzi, Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
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14:45
15:30 16:30 |
Anticipating global tipping points using ecological indicators: climate
change, eutrophication and chemical pollution – C. Branquinho, Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Lichen functional diversity as early-warning indicators of global change in Mediterranean drylands – P. Matos Biomonitoring heavy metals and nitrogen in southern Europe – S. Izquieta Mosses and heavy metal pollution in Mediterranean environments – B. Estebanez Detecting biological effects of air pollutants with sensitive organisms (lichens) – L. Paoli Guidelines to measure the impact of reactive nitrogen on ecosystems: the use of lichens as biomonitors under global change – P. Pinho Coffee break + poster |
Monitoring, Indicators and Assessment
Chair: Rocío Alonso, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas
Chair: Rocío Alonso, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas
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17:00
18:30 20:00 |
Building a giant army of tiny soldiers for farming in the Mediterranean – C. Cruz
La Castanya (Montseny): a long term atmospheric deposition site for the study of effects to forested catchments – A. Avila Measurement and modelling of pollutant dry deposition to semi-natural Mediterranean ecosystems – M.R. Theobald Latitudinal change to ozone sensitivity in Quercus ilex L. across its latitudinal range – J. Merino Ozone fluxes and epidemiology of ozone injury to forests – E. Paoletti Adapting Mediterranean forests to climate change and ozone – P. Sicard Ecotoxicology of Air Pollution Research Group- CIEMAT - R. Alonso Poster session (see presented papers below) + aperitif Conference dinner |
Friday 4th July 2014 – Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Ecosystem Structure and Function
Chair: Raúl Ochoa-Hueso, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney
Chair: Raúl Ochoa-Hueso, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney
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9:15
10:00 11:00 |
Impacts of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on (semi-)natural ecosystems: an overview - Roland Bobbink, Radboud University
Mediterranean is different; in terms of ecosystem responses to N deposition too! Understanding why through temperate-like relic, circum-Mediterranean fir forests – J.A. Carreira Integrating the impacts of N pollution on the structure and functioning of Mediterranean ecosystems – T. Dias Effects of reactive nitrogen on the health condition and the biodiversity of forest areas - D. Elustondo Nutrient Network: some initial results and getting involved – C.J. Stevens You are NOT what you eat: the hopeless lack of homeostasis in N/P stoichiometry under chronic N deposition in Abies pinsapo forests – B. Viñegla Coffee break + poster |
Ecosystem Structure and Function
Chair: María Arróniz-Crespo, School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography, Bangor University
Chair: María Arróniz-Crespo, School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography, Bangor University
Ecosystem Structure and Function
Chair: Cristina Cruz, Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Chair: Cristina Cruz, Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
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12:30
13:30 14:30 16:00 16:30 17:00 18:00 |
Carbon
storage in grasslands: the impact of atmospheric nitrogen pollution –
I. Rogers
Ozone removal by a mixed oak-hornbeam mature forest in the Po Valley and related effects on net photosynthesis – G. Gerosa Responses of Abies pinsapo Boiss to ozone in both field and growth chamber conditions – J.I. Seco J. Merino Measuring the impact of dust deposition in a mixed landscape: the role of vegetation in ameliorating its effects – A. Santos Lunch Discussion session 1 Research in Mediterranean environment: state-of-the-art and perspectives Moderator: Cristina Branquinho, Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa Coffee break Horizon 2020 R&I opportunities for the biodiversity and ecosystems services within Call 2015 – A. Carvalho, Horizon2020 Framework Programme Promotion Office Discussion session 2 Round table “Possible common initiatives” Moderator: Elena Paoletti, Istituto per la Protezione della Piante - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Committee Meeting |
Poster session
- Is it possible to estimate atmospheric nitrogen deposition by analysis of terrestrial mosses? – M. Arróniz-Crespo
- Ozone symptoms in the field: reality or a misunderstanding? – F. Bussotti
- Desiccation tolerance mechanisms under climate change scenario – R. Cruz de Carvalho
- Measuring and modeling ozone fluxes in Mediterranean forest ecosystems in Italy – S. Fares
- Yield response of some Italian and Spanish cultivars of durum wheat to elevated ozone: a varietal screening – G. Gerosa
- Nitrogen deposition effects on leaf physiology of Mediterranean species – D. Liberati
- Stomatal conductance, photosynthesis and growth response of hornbeam and oak young trees after a two-years treatment with ozone and nitrogen addition – R. Marzuoli
- Effects of nitrogen addition on the interaction of the indigenous shrub Juniperus phoenicea with biological soil crust – L. Morillas
- Effects of meteorological changes and nitrogen addition on the soil
processes: the modulator role of biological soil crust – L. Morillas