Author Archives: cbbesson@fc.ul.pt

Since March 2017, the PIEZAGRO team benefit from the inclusion of 4 new members: Ines Marques (Master fellowship, IDL-FCUL), Alexandra Correia (ISA), Clara Pinto (INIAV-ISA) and Teresa Soares David (INIAV). Welcome to you all and thank you for your precious … Continue reading →

Last week, a few members of the PIEZAGRO team went to Machoqueria do Grou (Coruche, Portugal) to select locals to install piezometric wells and to collect tree coring from Stone pines of a pure stand that had been planted in the … Continue reading →

A new paper related to the PIEZAGRO project has been recently published. Stable isotope datasets obtained in Herdade da Mitra (Évora, Alentejo, Portugal) were used together with datasets from several other European experimental areas to explore to what extent water … Continue reading →

  The PIEZAGRO team just submitted an application for the new Portuguese award  “Premio Floresta e Sustentabilidade 2016” for forest sustainability, in the investigation category “Projetos de I&D“. All fingers crossed !  

  We are proud to announce the recent publication of the first PIEZAGRO paper, in the special issue “Tree responses to extreme events” of the international journal “Frontiers in Plant Science”. You can access the online version by clicking on the thumbnail above.

Three Members of the Piezagro team from the Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL) went to Orense in Spain to participate to the 8th EGU Leonardo Conference (25–27 October 2016)  and the 2nd International Congress on Water (27-28 October 2016). They presented 4 … Continue reading →

The Piezagro team is very pleased to announce that ICNF and FCUL recently signed a collaboration protocole for the PIEZAGRO project to share precious georeferenced data of the distribution of  agroforestry species from the most recent Potuguese forestry inventory. ICNF shared … Continue reading →

Four communications will be presented by the PIEZAGRO team to the following congresses in Ourense, Spain in October 2016 The 2nd International Congress on Water: Floods and Drought will take place the same week (27-28 October 2016) in Ourense, Spain. 8th EGU Leonardo Conference: … Continue reading →

The PIEZAGRO kick off meeting took place on May 12, 2016 in the Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL), Faculda de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL). The main investigators envolved in the project (Cathy Kurz-Besson, Célia Gouveia and Rita Cardoso from IDL-FCUL as well as João … Continue reading →

The PIEZAGRO project was funded by FCT (PTDC/AAG-REC/7046/2014) and initiated on May 2016. It aims at assessing the vulnerability risk for the agroforestry sector in South Portugal under climate change by evaluating the impact of the evolution of the piezometric level. … Continue reading →