Program:
1. COURSE 56 hours (7 Modules & 4 Thematic Lectures)
MODULES
1st part – Biodiversity: the big picture
Maria Romeiras (ISA/ULisboa)
Conservation of Biodiversity in Tropical Ecosystems
Susana Abreu Dias (ISA/ULisboa)
Conservation of Biodiversity in Temperate Ecosystems
2nd part – Biodiversity Tools
Rui Figueira (ISA/ULisboa)
GIS and big data Tools
Carlos Neto (IGOT/ULisboa)
Ecological Multivariate Patterns
Pedro Segurado (ISA/ULisboa)
Predictive modeling in ecological data
Paulo Branco (ISA/ULisboa)
Blue Green Infrastructures: working towards landscape connectivity
Dora Batista & Ana Filipa Filipe (ISA/ULisboa)
DNA base biodiversity: exploring new tools
3rd part – Thematic Lectures
Luís Catarino, Maria Cristina Duarte & Filipa Monteiro (FCUL)
From nature to the Lab: Collecting data and samples of Useful Wild Plants
Pedro Arsénio & Silvia Catarino (ISA/ULisboa)
Introduction to QGIS software: Concepts and main applications
Lilian Barros & Ângela Fernandes (IPB)
Extraction, Characterization, and Applications of Natural Products
Vitor Alves & Margarida Moldão (ISA/ULisboa)
Experimental design and data analysis
2. TUTORIALS 48 hours (hands-on learning)
3. PRESENTATION OF THE RESEARCH PROJECTS (8 hours; at the end of semester)