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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

Silva, L.B., Lourenco, P., Teixeira, A., Azevedo, E.B., Alves, M., Elias, R.B., et al. (2018). Biomass valorization in the management of woody plant invaders: The case of Pittosporum undulatum in the Azores. Biomass & Bioenergy, 109, 155-165.
Silva, L.B., Teixeira, A., Alves, M., Elias, R.B. & Silva, L. (2017). Tree age determination in the widespread woody plant invader Pittosporum undulatum. Forest Ecology and Management, 400, 457-467.
Silva, L.B., Sardos, J., de Sequeira, M.M., Silva, L., Crawford, D. & Moura, M. (2016). Understanding intra and inter-archipelago population genetic patterns within a recently evolved insular endemic lineage. Plant Systematics and Evolution, 302, 367-384.
Crawford, D.J., Hauber, D.P., Silva, L.B., de Sequeira, M.M., Moura, M., Santos-Guerra, A., et al. (2016). Breeding Relationships in Macaronesian Tolpis (Asteraceae-Cichorieae): F-1 Hybrid Pollen Fertility Within and Among Populations from the Azores, Canary Islands, and Madeira. Systematic Botany, 41, 881-893.
Teixeira, A., Mir, C., Silva, L.B., Hahndorf, I. & Silva, L. (2015). INVASIVE WOODLAND RESOURCES IN THE AZORES: BIOMASS AVAILABILITY FOR 100% RENEWABLE ENERGY SUPPLY IN GRACIOSA ISLAND. Papers of the 23rd European Biomass Conference: Setting the Course for a Biobased Economy.