Key areas: Physical geography; soil hydrology; reviews; albedo; hydric stress
email: frankverheijen@gmail.com or verheijen@ua.pt
Key areas: Soil erosion, in particular in recently burnt forest areas; forest hydrology, in particular rainfall-runoff modeling, and interception measurement and modelling; soil water repellency; multivariate and statistical data analysis, in particular in vegetation community ecology
email: jjkeizer@ua.pt
Meet the project team! Effect of hydric stress on eucalypt physiology has been a longstanding research topic of Dr. Gloria Pinto and Dr. Maria Dias. Liliana Santos has the required expertise from her PhD to perform the molecular analyses, with the assistance of Dr. Artur Alves as a consultant who also leads the PANDORA project (PTDC /AGR-FOR/3807/2012), which focuses on diseases in Eucalypts in Portugal. Dr. Jacob Keizer has longstanding experience of eucalypts research in Portugal and is an expert on soil hydrology. He is also the postdoctoral supervisor of the RI (responsible investigator). This project proposal is partly in support of, and partly complementary to, the RI’s (responsible investigator) fellowship ‘SEPABA – Soil Erosion and Production After Biochar Application (SFRH/BPD/74108/2010). The new research on effects on disease suppression, described in this proposal, is entirely complementary while very relevant to the research of the fellowship and science in general. The IR has (co)authored all the Portuguese biochar publications in international peer-reviewed journals, and recently featured in a major science article in the Expresso, Portugal’s leading newspaper. He also cofounded, and is a board member of, the Biochar Investigation network of Portugal, or BINP http://www.cesam.ua.pt/BINP. The RI is also the national representative of Portugal for COST Action TD1107 ‘Biochar as option for sustainable resource management’. Dr. Frank Verheijen is the leader of WG2 'Land Use Management', which will compare Biochar's effects along Trans-European climatic gradients based on meta-analyses, and a Steering Committee member.
Key areas: Plant ecophysiology (photosynthesis, carbon metabolism and growth); stress physiology and plant response to environmental changes; metabolomics: Metabolite profiling; ecotoxicology; plant Biotechnology: in vitro plant micropropagation.
email: celeste.dias@ua.pt
Key areas: Functional biodiversity; bioremediation and microbial/enzyme-mediated processes; ecotoxicology & fate of environmental contaminants; biochar effects on soil functions; soil-biochar-biota interactions.
email: a.c.bastos@ua.pt
Degree: Post-doctural as Assistant Researcher, CESAM
Key areas: Plant ecophysiology; plant performance under stress; plant stock quality
email: gpinto@ua.pt
Key areas: Biology of stress; biodiversity and systematics of filamentous fungi; cryptic speciation in phytopathogenic fungi; climate change and fungal diseases of plants; microbial communities in estuarine and marine environments.
email: artur.alves@ua.pt
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Present research interests: Taxonomy of moulds; Functional foods evaluation; Evaluation of bioactive effects; Expanding knowledge in genomics, proteomics and metabolimics
email: ltsantos@ua.pt
