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Renaturalization and Valorization of Peatland Biodiversity

This study arises from a context of defining restoration's strategies for Azores Ramsar areas. It's intended to create information for a strategic definition of proposals for restoration.

 

Team:

Coordination:

 

Prof. Dr. Eduardo Dias

 

Research

Team:

 

-Prof. Dr. Jorge Pinheiro

- Prof. Dr. José Fontes

- Mest. Cândida Mendes

- Mest. Dinis Pereira

- Mest. Diana Pereira

 

Advisorss:

 

- Prof. Dr. Eduardo Brito de Azevedo

- Prof. Dr. Luís Santos Pereira

- Line Rochefort (phD)

- Antonio Cortízas (phD)

 

 

 

 

 

LIBRARY of

KNOWLEDGE

 New specie of Sphagnum on Terceira island - Sphagnum recurvum P. Beauv.

 

- Azores Sphagnum

 

- Study of ecological succession regenerative promoters of the peatlands...

 

- Evaluation of the value of peatlands ecossystems of the Azores...

 

- The RAMSAR Convention Manual

 

 

Posters:

 

-Peatlands of Sphagnum: Wetlands of interior - GEVA.

 

 

 

 

WETREST takes the first steps!

 

- The project was approved on January 25, 2012, although remained pending until the approval of a scholarship holder for the project.

But now, all the procedures it was completed, the project it will begin.

 

- The project focuses on the area RAMSAR of Terceira island.

Of all wetland in the Region, were officially designated 12 sites Ramsar, with a total area of approximately 13 000 ha, and all these sites are included in the Regional network of Protected Areas.



 

- It has a timescale of 3 years, and relies on the interconnection of 3 strengths areas of the DCA (Department of Agricultural Sciences - UAC):

  • Plant Ecology;

  • Soil Science;

  • Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics;

     
 

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  • Presentation of 1st Technical and Financial Report in February 2012.

 

  • 1st  Meeting of partners of the WETREST project in December 5, 2012.

 

  • It was initiated in March 2012 the season of fieldwork (GPR) for structural characterization dtudies of Sphagnum peatland.

 

  • It was established a protocol with DRRF (Regional Direction of Forest Resources) for the disposal areas for the experimental studies on restoration processes in grazed peatland.

 

  • Acquisition of a terrestrial GPR, with the support of DRCT.

 

  • Acquisition of a Probe for measuring the relative humidity at diferent depths, with the support of DRCT.

 

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