Teaming to Upgrade to Excellence in Environmental Biology, Ecosystem Research and AgroBiodiversity

Informations projet

BIOPOLIS

N° de convention de subvention: 857251

DOI

10.3030/857251

Date de signature de la CE 2 Juillet 2019

Date de début 1 Octobre 2019

Date de fin 30 Septembre 2027

Financé au titre de

• Teaming of excellent research institutions and low performing RDI regions

Coût total

€ 14 988 525,00

Contribution de l’UE

€ 14 988 525,00

Coordonné par

ASSOCIACAO BIOPOLIS
Portugal

CORDIS fournit des liens vers les livrables publics et les publications des projets HORIZON.

Les liens vers les livrables et les publications des projets du 7e PC, ainsi que les liens vers certains types de résultats spécifiques tels que les jeux de données et les logiciels, sont récupérés dynamiquement sur OpenAIRE .

Livrables

Documents, reports (11)

1st Implementation Report

The Implementation Report is a standard deliverable which should be submitted at the time when the periodic report is submitted to the Research Executive Agency It will detail the future plans of the consortium regarding implementation of the project for the subsequent period including also ethical issues and how they will be addressed It should refer to policyrelevant key aspects of the project future actions plans of the consortium in relation to the implementation of the project This deliverable refers to the 1st year of implementation

Education and Training Strategy

Education and Training Strategy will be drafted by the CAEU in collaboration with the SC and the RUs benefiting from the best practice of UM The strategy will set the rules regarding for instance the processes of recruitment the mechanisms of supervision and mentoring of PhD students and Postdoctoral researchers and the general themes and calendar of the advanced courses

1st Report of the Education and Training Activities

1st Report of the Education and Training Activities address the Doctoral programs Post Doctoral Training Program and Advanced Training

2nd Implementation Report
3rd Implementation Report
Definition of CoE KPIs

The performance indicators identified in the application will be used as the starting point to define the Key Performance Indicators of the CoE, and its ability to achieve the identified impacts .

1st Review of the Affiliates Programme

1st Revision of the Affiliates Programme.

Strategic Research Programme

This deliverable is an update of the research strategy developed in the Business Plan, preparing a roadmap to steer the development of excellent research towards innovation. It will set up the Research Units (RU), and will create the conditions for implementing the research strategy.

Implementation Plan for Ethics and Animal Welfare Guidelines

This document reviews the best practices in the UM services CECEMA Centre dElevage et de Conditionnement Exprimental des Modles Animaux and get advice from them and will receive inputs from UM researchers involved in this component Given the research focus of the CoE particular attention will be given to the aspects regarding experiments with animals and the quality of the facilities to keep animals in captivity while complying with the three Rs strategy replacement reduction and refinement

Communication, Dissemination & Exploitation Plan

The CDE Plan main objectives are i To raise regional national and international awareness recognition and attractiveness of BIOPOLIS RI promoting its areas of excellence ii To disseminate BIOPOLISs research and innovation enabling others to use and take up results and thus maximising its impact iii To identify relevant audiences markets and business segments in order to create and foster concrete exploitation of research results and iv to contribute to fund raising and the sustainability of the CoE The Plan will detail the activities to be carried out including for instance the partner responsibilities in their implementation the calendar and the models of implementation

1st Research Funding Review

1st review of the Research Funding activities including participation in the final opportunities from H2020, in the Horizon Europe calls and future framework Programmes and accessing to Portuguese funds.

Open Research Data Pilot (2)

Review of the Data Management Plan including ORDP: Open Research Data Pilot

Revision and update of the Data Management Plan.

Data Management Plan including ORDP: Open Research Data Pilot

This Plan will include the provisions for making data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR), and it will describe the open access policies, following the guidelines set in the H2020 Online Manual.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (39)

Ancient dog introgression into the Iberian wolf genome may have facilitated adaptation to human-dominated landscapes

Auteurs: Diana Lobo, Hernán E. Morales, Cock Van Oosterhout, José Vicente López-Bao, Pedro Silva, Luis Llaneza, Carolina Pacheco, Diana Castro, Germán Hernández-Alonso, George Pacheco, John Archer, M. Tho
Publié dans: Genome Research, Numéro 35, 2025, Page(s) 432-445, ISSN 1088-9051
Éditeur: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
DOI: 10.1101/gr.279093.124

The Terrific Skink bite force suggests insularity as a likely driver to exceptional resource use

Auteurs: Michael J. Jowers, Yuri Simone, Anthony Herrel, M. Pilar Cabezas, Raquel Xavier, Magaly Holden, Renaud Boistel, John C. Murphy, Mathieu Santin, Stephane Caut, Renoir J. Auguste, Arie van der Meijden, Franco Andreone & Ivan Ineich
Publié dans: Scientific Reports, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Éditeur: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-08148-6

An island in a sea of sand: a first checklist of the herpetofauna of the Serra da Neve inselberg, southwestern Angola

Auteurs: Mariana P. Marques, Diogo Parrinha, Manuel Lopes-Lima, Arthur Tiutenko, Aaron M. Bauer, Luis M. P. Ceríaco
Publié dans: ZooKeys, Numéro 1201, 2024, Page(s) 167-217, ISSN 1313-2989
Éditeur: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1201.120750

How vulnerable are bryophytes to climate change? Developing new species and community vulnerability indices

Auteurs: H. Hespanhol, K. Cezón, J. Muñoz, R.G. Mateo, J. Gonçalves
Publié dans: Ecological Indicators, 2022, ISSN 1872-7034
Éditeur: ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.108643

Multi-temporal remote sensing of inland surface waters: A fusion of sentinel-1&2 data applied to small seasonal ponds in semiarid environments

Auteurs: Francesco Valerio, Sérgio Godinho, Gonçalo Ferraz, Ricardo Pita, João Gameiro, Bruno Silva, Ana Teresa Marques, João Paulo Silva
Publié dans: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Numéro 135, 2025, Page(s) 104283, ISSN 1569-8432
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2024.104283

Fine-scale survey of intertidal macroalgae reveals recent changes in a cold-water biogeographic stronghold

Auteurs: Cátia Monteiro, Joana Pereira, Rui Seabra and Fernando P. Lima
Publié dans: Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022, ISSN 2296-7745
Éditeur: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.880074

Phylogenetic evidence suggests the non-validity of the Iberian land snail genus Tartessiberus and confirms its synonymy with Iberus (Helicidae)

Auteurs: Michael J. Jowers, José Liétor, Antonio R. Tudela, Pedro A. Jódar, Inés Galán-Luque, Gregorio Moreno-Rueda
Publié dans: ZooKeys, Numéro 1201, 2024, Page(s) 219-231, ISSN 1313-2989
Éditeur: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1201.117318

Using GPS and accelerometer data to remotely detect breeding events in two elusive ground-nesting steppe birds

Auteurs: Gonçalo Ferraz, Carlos Pacheco, Mario Fernández-Tizón, Ana T. Marques, Paulo C. Alves, João P. Silva, François Mougeot
Publié dans: Animal Biotelemetry, Numéro 12, 2024, ISSN 2050-3385
Éditeur: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/s40317-024-00385-y

Novel method to investigate thermal exchange rates in small, terrestrial ectotherms: A proof-of-concept on the gecko Tarentola mauritanica

Auteurs: Gabriel Mochales-Riaño, Frederico M. Barroso, Valéria Marques, Alexandra E. Telea, Marco Sannolo, Catarina Rato, Miguel A. Carretero
Publié dans: PLOS ONE, Numéro 19, 2024, Page(s) e0316283, ISSN 1932-6203
Éditeur: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0316283

The genetics of adaptation in freshwater Eurasian shad ( Alosa)

Auteurs: Stephen J. Sabatino, Paulo Pereira, Miguel Carneiro, Jolita Dilytė, John Patrick Archer, Antonio Munoz, Francesco Nonnis-Marzano, Antonio Murias
Publié dans: Ecology and Evolution, 2022, ISSN 2045-7758
Éditeur: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8908

Multiple genomic ancestries in the broom hare mark the complex biogeographic history of hares in the Iberian Peninsula

Auteurs: João Souto, João P Marques, Liliana Farelo, José Costa, João Queirós, Christian Pietri, Fernando Ballesteros, Paulo C Alves, Pierre Boursot, José Melo-Ferreira
Publié dans: Evolution, Numéro 79, 2025, Page(s) 1469-1479, ISSN 0014-3820
Éditeur: Society for the Study of Evolution
DOI: 10.1093/evolut/qpaf082

DNA Markers for Detection and Genotyping of Xanthomonas euroxanthea

Auteurs: Kayla Gisela Silva,Leonor Martins,Miguel Teixeira,Joël F. Pothier and Fernando Tavares
Publié dans: Microorganisms, 2022, ISSN 2076-2607
Éditeur: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10061078

Predicting the expansion of invasive species: how much data do we need?

Auteurs: Joana Santana, Neftalí Sillero, Joana Ribeiro, César Capinha, Ricardo Jorge Lopes, Luís Reino
Publié dans: NeoBiota, Numéro 95, 2024, Page(s) 109-132, ISSN 1314-2488
Éditeur: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/neobiota.95.122335

Lymphocystis viral disease impacts the diversity and functional profiles of the skin microbiome in gilthead seabream

Auteurs: Raquel Xavier, Marcos Pérez-Losada, Sofia Marques Silva, Marilia Lino, Maria João Faleiro, Paula Canada
Publié dans: Frontiers in Microbiology, Numéro 15, 2024, ISSN 1664-302X
Éditeur: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1470572

Performance of post-mortem diagnostic tests for tuberculosis in wild ungulates at low and high prevalence assessed using Bayesian latent class models

Auteurs: Beatriz Cardoso, Saúl Jiménez-Ruiz, Alberto Perelló Jiménez, Miguel Nóvoa, João P. V. Santos, Margarida Correia-Neves, Christian Gortázar, Nuno Santos
Publié dans: Frontiers in Veterinary Science, Numéro 11, 2024, ISSN 2297-1769
Éditeur: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2024.1415277

Forest type modulates mammalian responses to megafires

Auteurs: Marcelo Magioli, Luanne Helena Augusto Lima, Priscilla Marqui Schmidt Villela, Ricardo Sampaio, Lilian Bonjorne, Renan Lieto Alves Ribeiro, Daniel Luis Zanella Kantek, Selma Samiko Miyazaki, Thiago B.
Publié dans: Scientific Reports, Numéro 14, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Éditeur: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-64460-3

An updated herpetofauna species inventory of Iona National Park in Southwestern Angola

Auteurs: Javier Lobón-Rovira, Pedro Vaz Pinto, François S. Becker, Krystal A. Tolley, John Measey, Bruce Bennet, Bastiaan Boon, Sango de Sá, Werner Conradie
Publié dans: Check List, 2022, ISSN 1809-127X
Éditeur: Centro de Referencia em Informacao Ambiental
DOI: 10.15560/18.2.289

Origins and taxonomic status of Hemidactylus geckos on the Îles Éparses of the Western Indian Ocean

Auteurs: D. James Harris, Mickaël Sanchez, Sara Rocha
Publié dans: Herpetozoa, Numéro 37, 2024, Page(s) 181-187, ISSN 2682-955X
Éditeur: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/herpetozoa.37.e118699

Adaptive or non-adaptive? Cranial evolution in a radiation of miniaturized day geckos

Auteurs: Javier Lobón-Rovira, Jesus Marugán-Lobón, Sergio M. Nebreda, David Buckley, Edward L. Stanley, Stephanie Köhnk, Frank Glaw, Werner Conradie, Aaron M. Bauer
Publié dans: BMC Ecology and Evolution, Numéro 24, 2024, ISSN 2730-7182
Éditeur: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-024-02344-w

MIMt: a curated 16S rRNA reference database with less redundancy and higher accuracy at species-level identification

Auteurs: M. Pilar Cabezas, Nuno A. Fonseca, Antonio Muñoz-Mérida
Publié dans: Environmental Microbiome, Numéro 19, 2024, ISSN 2524-6372
Éditeur: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/s40793-024-00634-w

Table for two: Diet composition differences of allopatric and sympatric populations of island geckos

Auteurs: Catarina J. Pinho, Bárbara Santos, Vanessa A. Mata, Ricardo J. Lopes, Maria M. Romeiras, Evandro P. Lopes, Paulo C. Alves, Brent C. Emerson, Raquel Vasconcelos
Publié dans: Global Ecology and Conservation, Numéro 57, 2025, Page(s) e03412, ISSN 2351-9894
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2025.e03412

Beta-lactam antimicrobials activity and the diversity of blaZ gene in Staphylococcus aureus isolates from bovine mastitis in the northwest of Portugal

Auteurs: Rachid Hnini, Eliane Silva, Luís Pinho, Mohamed Najimi, Gertrude Thompson
Publié dans: Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia, Numéro 53, 2024, ISSN 1516-3598
Éditeur: Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia
DOI: 10.37496/rbz5320230024

The evolutionary pathways for local adaptation in mountain hares

Auteurs: Iwona Giska, João Pimenta, Liliana Farelo, Pierre Boursot, Klaus Hackländer, Hannes Jenny, Neil Reid, W Ian Montgomery, Paulo A Prodöhl, Paulo C Alves, José Melo-Ferreira
Publié dans: Molecular Ecology, 2022, ISSN 1365-294X
Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1111/mec.16338

New data on the diversity and distribution of lineages of the Acanthodactylus erythrurus species complex in North Africa derived from mitochondrial DNA markers

Auteurs: D. James Harris, Dimitra Sergiadou, J. Filipe Faria
Publié dans: Herpetozoa, Numéro 37, 2024, Page(s) 281-286, ISSN 2682-955X
Éditeur: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/herpetozoa.37.e118175

A treasure trove of endemics: two new species of snake-eyed skinks of the genus Panaspis Cope, 1868 (Squamata, Scincidae) from the Serra da Neve Inselberg, southwestern Angola

Auteurs: Mariana P. Marques, Diogo Parrinha, Manuel Lopes-Lima, Arthur Tiutenko, Aaron M. Bauer, Luis M. P. Ceríaco
Publié dans: Evolutionary Systematics, Numéro 8, 2024, Page(s) 167-182, ISSN 2535-0730
Éditeur: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.8.121103

The effect of powerlines on bustards: how best to mitigate, how best to monitor?

Auteurs: João Paulo Silva, João Paulo Silva, Ana Teresa Marques, Joana Bernardino, Tris Allinson, Yuri Andryushchenko, Sutirtha Dutta, Mimi Kessler, Ricardo C. Martins, Francisco Moreira, John Pallett, Mattheuns D. Pretorius, H. Ann Scott, Jessica M. Shaw and Nigel J. Collar
Publié dans: Bird Conservation Intrenational, 2022, ISSN 1467-2235
Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0959270922000314

Genetic analysis of <i>Pinna rudis</i> L 1758 (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pinnidae) in the Northwest Cabo Verde Islands (Central-East Atlantic)

Auteurs: Evandro P. Lopes, Sarah Santos, Raquel Xavier, Joana L. Santos, M. Pilar Cabezas, Fernando Sequeira, António M. Santos
Publié dans: PeerJ, Numéro 13, 2025, Page(s) e18328, ISSN 2167-8359
Éditeur: PeerJ
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.18328

Age-related spatial ecology of Audouin’s gull during the non-breeding season

Auteurs: R Ponti, V Morera-Pujol, Á Sallent, J González-Solís, R Ramos
Publié dans: Endangered Species Research, Numéro 55, 2024, Page(s) 155-167, ISSN 1863-5407
Éditeur: Inter-Research Science Center
DOI: 10.3354/esr01370

Clarifying the taxonomy of some cryptic blennies (Blenniidae) in their native and introduced range

Auteurs: M. Pilar Cabezas, Oscar M. Lasso-Alcalá, Elena Quintero-T, Raquel Xavier, Tommaso Giarrizzo, Jorge L. S. Nunes, Fabiola S. Machado, Jesús Gómez, Wellington Silva Pedroza & Michael J. Jowers
Publié dans: Scientific Reports, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Éditeur: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-12580-z

Filling the gaps: herpetological checklist of Mayombe National Park and Cabinda Province (Angola) shed light on one of the most unexplored corners of tropical Central Africa

Auteurs: Javier Lobón-Rovira, Ninda L Baptista, Tyron Clark, Luke Verburgt, Gregory FM Jongsma, Werner Conradie, Luis Veríssimo, Pedro Vaz Pinto
Publié dans: African Journal of Herpetology, Numéro 74, 2025, Page(s) 1-59, ISSN 2156-4574
Éditeur: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2024.2421007

Social‐ecological memory: From concepts and methods to applications

Auteurs: Ana R. Cardoso, Cláudia Fernandes, João P. Honrado
Publié dans: Geographical Research, Numéro 63, 2025, Page(s) 179-198, ISSN 1745-5863
Éditeur: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1745-5871.12683

Modelling technical and biological biases in macroinvertebrate community assessment from bulk preservative using multiple metabarcoding markers

Auteurs: Filipa M. S. Martins, Miguel Porto, Maria J. Feio, Bastian Egeter, Aurélie Bonin, Sónia R. Q. Serra, Pierre Taberlet, Pedro Beja
Publié dans: Molecular Ecology, 2020, ISSN 0962-1083
Éditeur: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/mec.15620

The mitochondrial genomes of Iberian freshwater and diadromous fishes

Auteurs: Joana Veríssimo, Manuel Curto, Maria Judite Alves, Pedro Raposo de Almeida, Enric Aparicio, Miguel Clavero, Cátia Chaves, Carlos Fernandez-Delgado, Jesús Hernández, Sissel Jentoft, Lukáš Kalous,
Publié dans: Scientific Data, Numéro 12, 2025, ISSN 2052-4463
Éditeur: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-04297-7

Fine-scale abundance of rocky shore macroalgae species with distribution limits in NW Iberia in 2020/2021

Auteurs: Joana Pereira, Catia Monteiro, Rui Seabra, Fernando P Lima
Publié dans: Biodiversity Data Journal, 2022, ISSN 1314-2828
Éditeur: Pensoft Publishers Ltd
DOI: 10.3897/bdj.10.e80798

The legacy of recurrent introgression during the Radiation of Hares

Auteurs: MAFALDA S. FERREIRA, MATTHEW R. JONES, COLIN M. CALLAHAN, LILIANA FARELO, ZELALEM TOLESA, FRANZ SUCHENTRUNK, PIERRE BOURSOT, L. SCOTT MILLS7, PAULO C. ALVES, JEFFREY M. GOOD, AND JOSÉ MELO-FERREIRA
Publié dans: Systematic Biology, 2021, ISSN 1063-5157
Éditeur: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syaa088

Biogeographical patterns of amphibians and reptiles in the northernmost coastal montane complex of South America

Auteurs: Gilson A. Rivas,Oscar M. Lasso-Alcalá,Douglas Rodríguez-Olarte,Mayke De Freitas,John C. Murphy,Cristian Pizzigalli,John C. Weber,Laurent de Verteuil,Michael J. Jowers
Publié dans: PLoS One, 2021, ISSN 1932-6203
Éditeur: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246829

Oceanic islands act as drivers for the genetic diversity of marine species: Cardita calyculata (Linnaeus, 1758) in the NE Atlantic as a case-study

Auteurs: Livia Sinigaglia, L Baptista, C Alves, F Feldmann, C Sacchetti, C Rupprecht, T Vijayan, E Martín-González, SP Ávila, AM Santos, M Curto, H Meimberg
Publié dans: BMC Ecology and Evolution, Numéro 24, 2024, ISSN 2730-7182
Éditeur: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-024-02322-2

Environmental Gradients in Lizard Colouration

Auteurs: Lekshmi B. Sreelatha, Pedro Tarroso, Ossi Nokelainen, Zbyszek Boratyński, Miguel Angel Carretero
Publié dans: Ecology and Evolution, Numéro 15, 2025, ISSN 2045-7758
Éditeur: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.71012

Evidence of a twofold ecological trap driven by agricultural change causing a priority farmland bird population crash

Auteurs: João Gameiro, Ana Teresa Marques, Luís Venâncio, Francesco Valerio, Carlos Pacheco, Américo Guedes, José Pereira, Luís Ribeiro, Francisco Moreira, Pedro Beja, Beatriz Arroyo, João Paulo Silva
Publié dans: Conservation Science and Practice, Numéro 6, 2025, ISSN 2578-4854
Éditeur: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/csp2.13168

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Characterization of the oral microbiome of medicated type-2 diabetes patients

Auteurs: Ana Almeida-Santos, Daniela Martins-Mendes, Magdalena Gayà-Vidal, Lucía Pérez-Pardal and Albano Beja-Pereira
Publié dans: Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021, ISSN 1664-302X
Éditeur: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.610370

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LIFE EVERYWHERE

Numéro de demande/publication: No 018938656
Date: 2024-01-30
Demandeur(s): ASSOCIACAO BIOPOLIS