November 17, 2022 On November 16, the RIVEAL project organized its final seminar. This meeting took place at the Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa (ISA-ULisboa), and aimed to present the achieved results of the project throughout the four years of research work and knowledge transfer. The seminar was organized by the leading team...
Read MoreNovember 17, 2022 The Science Brief of the RIVEAL project assembles the scientific knowledge attained throughout its four years of research activity regarding how river regulation and climate change affect the fluvial ecosystems and their ecosystem services. Particularly, this Science Brief features the latest scientific knowledge acquired on topics like fast facts, knowledge gaps, effects...
Read MoreOctober 27, 2022 On October 25, the RIVEAL project organized a participatory workshop on the Alva River. This meeting took place online and aimed to make communities aware of the importance of environmental participation, contributing to a greater demand in relation to the sustainable management of river ecosystems. This event also intended to understand the...
Read MoreOctober 17, 2022 On October 12th, the RIVEAL project organized a participatory workshop on the Lima River, in partnership with the Ponte da Barca City Council. This meeting took place at the Casa da Cultura in Ponte da Barca and aimed to make communities aware of the importance of environmental participation, contributing to a greater...
Read MoreSeptember 29, 2022 The fifteenth factsheet of the RIVEAL project continues a series of information documents presenting the project outcomes. This factsheet – River regulation effects in riparian carbon stock – features the latest scientific knowledge about the effects of river regulation and land use changes in the carbon storage by riparian woods. In particular,...
Read MoreSeptember 19, 2022 The fourteenth factsheet of the RIVEAL project continues a series of information documents presenting the project outcomes. This factsheet – River regulation effects on the fluvial habitat – features the latest scientific knowledge acquired about the effects of river damming on the instream habitat in downstream river stretches. In particular, this factsheet...
Read MoreAugust 17, 2022 The thirteenth factsheet of the RIVEAL project starts a series of information documents presenting the project outcomes resulting from the performed project’s tasks. This factsheet – River regulation effects on vegetation – features the latest scientific knowledge acquired about the effects of river damming on the vegetation in downstream river stretches. In...
Read MoreJanuary 07, 2021 The paper “Multi-biologic group analysis for an ecosystem response to longitudinal river regulation gradients” was published on Science of the Total Environment journal (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/science-of-the-total-environment). The study assessed how multiple aquatic and riparian biological elements are affected by a gradient of regulation intensity and their interrelations while coping with this disturbance. The paper...
Read MoreNovember 24, 2020 The fifth factsheet of the RIVEAL project follows up a series of information documents introducing the biological elements considered for analysis in the project’s tasks. This factsheet – Macroalgae – features multicellular algae of thalli-like structures composing a heterogeneous group both in terms of taxonomy, morphology and ecological requirements. Learn more about...
Read MoreOctober 13, 2020 The fourth factsheet of the RIVEAL project starts a series of information documents introducing the biological elements considered for analysis in the project’s tasks. This factsheet – Macrophytes – features aquatic photosynthetic organisms large enough to see with the naked eye, that live in or near the water. In the RIVEAL project,...
Read MoreSeptember 24, 2020 The third factsheet of the RIVEAL project presents the adopted field sampling methodology and reports the activities acomplished towards data collection, during June and July 2019, to support data analysis. Learn more about the project’s field sampling methodology and the amount of data collected, here.
Read MoreSeptember 08, 2020 The second factsheet of the RIVEAL project describes the phenomenon of river regulation, one of the most endangering processes to river ecosystems. Understand how river regulation works and affects riverscapes and biota, here.
Read MoreAugust 20, 2020 The paper “Streamflow regulation effects in the Mediterranean rivers: How far and to what extent are aquatic and riparian communities affected?” was published on Science of the Total Environment journal (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/science-of-the-total-environment). The study focuses on how different plant groups (macrophytes, bryophytes, and riparian woody vegetation) respond to hydrological alterations along the river...
Read MoreAugust 17, 2020 The first factsheet of the RIVEAL project makes a concise presentation of the project overview, highlighting its objectives, case studies, activities and, expected results and outreach. Get acquainted on the project with this factsheet, here.
Read MoreJuly 24, 2020 During June 2020, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV or drone) overfly a stretch of near 5 km of the River Lima, collecting remotely sensed data within the scope of Project RIVEAL. The collected high-resolution imagery will provide details of the fluvial vegetation mosaic in different wavelengths for mapping and quantifying key ecosystem...
Read MoreJune 25, 2020 The paper “Functional Diversity of Riparian Woody Vegetation Is Less Affected by River Regulation in the Mediterranean Than Boreal Region” has been published on Frontiers in Plant Science journal (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science). The study is a comparative investigation of the functional diversity patterns of riparian woody vegetation to streamflow regulation in boreal Sweden and...
Read MoreDecember 10, 2019 Francisca Aguiar is proposing a special Issue ‘Spatial and Temporal Patterns and Ecosystem Services of Riparian Forests’ in the open access journal Forests (ISSN 1999-4907, IF=2.116). You can see further details here: The submission deadline is 20 February 2020. Special Issue Information Riparian forests are multifunctional ecotones that generate a large range...
Read MoreNovember 7, 2019 The Riveal website is a dissemination tool intended to exhibit the development and outcomes of the Riveal project.
Read MoreNovember 7, 2019 A general meeting of the RIVEAL project took place at Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, to discuss the working progress and results of the first year. This general meeting was attended by all project partners and intended to discuss the achievement of the proposed activities in the course the first year of the...
Read MoreJanuary 15, 2019 The first Workshop of the RIVEAL project took place at Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal. This meeting intended to present the project to the science community, water managers and decision makers, and general population. Herein, Francisca Aguiar presented the RIVEAL project in general while the remaining speakers talked about specific topics that...
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