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Flood risk assessment in Ria de Aveiro under present and future scenarios
Thesis: Floods are a major threat to coastal regions, affecting millions of people, socioeconomic activities and natural ecosystems. Ria de Aveiro is a coastal lagoon,... -
Integration of Ecosystem Services and its Value in an Estuary Governance...
Thesis: Triggered by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, among other seminal publications, ecosystem services research has experienced an almost exponential growth over the... -
Recreational fisheries and bait digging in the Ria de Aveiro: 2012/2013
MSc: The Ria de Aveiro lagoon is the base of innumerable interactions between Man and Nature, with several economical activities exploiting its natural resources. Among these... -
Ecosystem services provided by estuaries: Phosphorus retention capacity...
Thesis: In salt marshes the nutritional factor is not only important for the inhabiting organisms, but has also, to a larger scale, an ecological importance. This can be... -
LAGOONS: Integrated water resources and coastal zone management in the...
Video: What kind of impacts can climate- and socio-economic change have on European lagoons? In this video, researchers explain the methodology used and highlight some of the... -
LAGOONS project website and book
The environmental issue of concern in the LAGOONS project is the anthropogenic deterioration and climate change impacts (especially the effects of extreme weather event) on... -
Geoportal LAGOONS project
Web-based source to descriptions of maps, data, models and reports from the Lagoons project. -
Proposal for the management of invasive alien plants in the BioRia -...
Invasive alien plants are changing the ecosystems and their functions, and reducing the abundance and diversity of native flora.The preservation of native ecosystems and... -
Degradation of the salt pans in Ria de Aveiro: hydrodynamical study
Thesis: A Ria de Aveiro, uma laguna mesotidal localizada no Noroeste da Costa Portuguesa, é caracterizada por grandes áreas de baixios intermareais e por uma rede de canais... -
Inside the Ria de Aveiro
Video: Ria de Aveiro is an estuarine ecosystem that has a high biodiversity of invertebrates. Invertebrates are the basis of food for many of the birds and fish of the estuary,... -
White Stork
Video: The White Stork is a bird admired and protected by the majority of the Portuguese and European population. Although it is possible to observe it in the Iberian Peninsula... -
Air travelers
Video: It is possible to observe in the Ria de Aveiro about 180 species of birds. Some remain throughout the year, others in the winter or summer and others stop just to rest... -
To born in Ria de Aveiro
Video: There is a high biodiversity of protected birds that breed in the Ria de Aveiro. Let us know when they arrive, how and where nests are built, how the puppies are, what... -
Climate change impact assessment on water inflow to a coastal lagoon: the...
A climate change impact study was performed for the watershed of the Ria de Aveiro Lagoon in Portugal. The total freshwater inflow to the lagoon was analysed considering long-... -
Ria de Aveiro POLIS LITORAL: Socio-economic and policies issues
The Ria de Aveiro with a population of 333,114 inhabitants (2010) in the watershed area, has considerable regional and national economic importance, namely through the... -
Contribution to the study of the Ria de Aveiro hydrodynamics
A contribution to the characterization and understanding of the hydrodynamic behavior of Ria de Aveiro lagoon is presented, based on an experimental study, as well as on a...