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Programme CAPERmed 2014  (download pdf)

Proceedings (download pdf)


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

Monitoring, Indicators and Assessment

Chair: Silvana Munzi,  Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

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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

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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


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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


11:30
A nitrogen addition experiment in a coastal Mediterranean Ecosystem – S. Mereu

Functional diversity under changing environments: impacts on ecosystem services – L. Concostrina-Zubiri

The role of living organisms as modulators of the response of arid ecosystems to climate change and N deposition – E. Manrique

Linking plant functional diversity to the provision of ecosystem services in Mediterranean drylands – A. Nunes

Ecological impacts of increased nitrogen deposition in semiarid Mediterranean Spain – R. Ochoa-Hueso


Ecosystem Structure and Function
Chair: Cristina Cruz, Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa


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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

  1. Is it possible to estimate atmospheric nitrogen deposition by analysis of terrestrial mosses? – M. Arróniz-Crespo
  2. Ozone symptoms in the field: reality or a misunderstanding? – F. Bussotti
  3. Desiccation tolerance mechanisms under climate change scenario – R. Cruz de Carvalho
  4. Measuring and modeling ozone fluxes in Mediterranean forest ecosystems in Italy – S. Fares
  5. Yield response of some Italian and Spanish cultivars of durum wheat to elevated ozone: a varietal screening – G. Gerosa
  6. Nitrogen deposition effects on leaf physiology of Mediterranean species – D. Liberati
  7. Stomatal conductance, photosynthesis and growth response of hornbeam and oak young trees after a two-years   treatment with ozone and nitrogen addition  – R. Marzuoli
  8. Effects of nitrogen addition on the interaction of the indigenous shrub Juniperus phoenicea with biological soil crust – L. Morillas
  9. Effects of meteorological changes and nitrogen addition on the soil processes: the modulator role of biological soil crust – L. Morillas
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