lurdes.cb.silva

Lurdes da Conceição Borges Silva
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Lurdes Borges Silva, she graduated in Biotechnology Engineering (2007).  Since 2012 holds a master’s degree in Plants Biodiversity and Biotechnology. In January of 2018, she completed her PhD (Biology) in Forest Management - Exotic Woodland, at University of Azores.

Currently, Lurdes Borges Silva is affiliated to the Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (CIBIO-InBIO) performing research activity in invasive and endemic plants.

Research interests: Forest management, forest biomass, forest carbon stock, allometry, dendrometry, dendrochronology, invasive forests species, wood anatomy, forest ecosystems in islands, natural forests, ecological services, biodiversity patterns, population genetic patterns systems, phylogenetic studies,  morphologic studies and conservation of diversity on oceanic archipelagos.

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Roxo, G., Silva, L., Silva, L.B., Rego, R., Resendes, R. & Moura, M. (2024). Early detection of Youngia japonica (L.) DC. (Asteraceae) in São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal. Invasive Plant Science and Management, 17, 3-8.
https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1017/inp.2023.32
Melo, C.S., da Silva, C.M., Scarponi, D., Martín-González, E., Rólán, E., Rojas, A., et al. (2023). Palaeobiogeography of NE Atlantic archipelagos during the last Interglacial (MIS 5e): A molluscan approach to the conundrum of Macaronesia as a marine biogeographic unit, 319, 108313.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108313
Pavão, D.C., Jevšenak, J., Engblom, J., Silva, B., Elias, R.B. & Silva, L. (2023). Tree growth-climate relationship in the Azorean holly in a temperate humid forest with low thermal amplitude, 77, 126050.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2022.126050
Novoa, A., Hirsch, H., Castillo, M.L., Canavan, S., González, L., Richardson, D.M., et al. (2023). Genetic and morphological insights into the Carpobrotus hybrid complex around the world, 89, 135-160.
https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.89.109164
Silva, L.C.B., Pavão, D.C., Elias, R.B., Moura, M., Ventura, M.A. & Silva, L. (2022). Taxonomic, structural diversity and carbon stocks in a gradient of island forests, 12, 1038.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05045-w