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Lurdes da Conceição Borges Silva
Researcher

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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Publications

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.
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.
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.
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.
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, .