56 datasets found

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,...

Thesis: Triggered by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, among other seminal publications, ecosystem services research has experienced an almost exponential growth over the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Web-based source to descriptions of maps, data, models and reports from the Lagoons project.

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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-...

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...

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...