Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos

A decade of open biodiversity data in the Azores: closing knowledge gaps and building a foundation for long-term monitoring

Ten years of dedicated biodiversity research and coordinated open-data publication have built an extensive, reusable knowledge base for the Azores. We synthesize this collective achievement through the AZORES BIOTA and BioMonI-Plot collections, evaluating its contribution to addr...

The uncertain impacts of an 1.5 °C overshoot-and-decline scenario on carbon stocks and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems

Abstract Overshoot scenarios, in which global temperatures peak and then decline through emission reductions and CO 2 removal, are increasingly central to climate policy as we are already approaching 1.5 °C warming. Yet the ecological reversibility of such pathways remains poorly...

Biologging and mechanistic niche modelling reveal thermal dependence of individual lizard movement patterns

Abstract Assessing how variation in thermal physiology and body size influences locomotor performance under ecologically relevant conditions is essential to predicting population vulnerability to climate change. We combined fine‐scale animal biologging and individual‐level mechan...

Breeding bird data from the Côa River Basin (Portugal): twenty-six years of change in a Mediterranean landscape in transition

Breeding bird data from the Côa River Basin (Portugal): twenty-six years of change in a Mediterranean landscape in transition This data package brings together standardized breeding-bird transect data collected in the Côa River Basin, north-eastern Portugal, over twenty-six years...

Time and landscape context shape insular bat responses to wildfire

Abstract Background Wildfires are increasing in frequency and severity, yet their longer-term effects on island bats remain poorly understood. We assessed temporal and landscape-dependent patterns in bat activity following the 2016 wildfires on Madeira by resurveying 58 acoustic...