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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Pavão, D.C., Jevšenak, J., Petrillo, M., Camarinho, R., Rodrigues, A., Silva, B., et al. (2022). Dendrochronological potential of the Azorean endemic gymnosperm Juniperus brevifolia (Seub.) Antoine, 71, 125901.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2021.125901
Pavão, D.C., Porteiro, J., Ventura, M.A., Silva, L.B., Medeiros, A., Moniz, A., et al. (2021). Land cover along hiking trails in a nature tourism destination: the Azores as a case study.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-021-01356-6
Kerbs, B., Crawford, D.J., White, G., Moura, M., Silva, L.B., Schaefer, H., et al. (2020). How rapidly do self-compatible populations evolve selfing? Mating system estimation within recently evolved self-compatible populations of Azorean Tolpis succulenta (Asteraceae), 10, 13990-13999, .
https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6992
Matos, B., Silva, L.B., Camarinho, R., Rodrigues, A.S., Rego, R., Camara, M., et al. (2019). Linking Dendrometry and Dendrochronology in the Dominant Azorean Tree Laurus azorica (Seub.) Franco. Forests, 10.
https://doi.org/10.3390/f10070538
Crawford, D.J., Moura, M., Silva, L.B., Mort, M.E., Kerbs, B., Schaefer, H., et al. (2019). The transition to selfing in Azorean Tolpis (Asteraceae). Plant Systematics and Evolution, 305, 305-317.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-019-01573-7