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List of works by Cristina Branquinho

A new framework for selecting environmental surrogates

scientific article

A step towards the use of biomonitors as estimators of atmospheric PAHs for regulatory purposes ⬇️

scientific article published on May 10, 2013

A study protocol to evaluate the relationship between outdoor air pollution and pregnancy outcomes

scientific article (publication date: 15 October 2010)

A tale of two green walls: a functional trait approach to assess vegetation establishment on restored steep slopes

scientific article published on 06 October 2019

A trait-based conceptual framework to examine urban biodiversity, socio-ecological filters, and ecosystem services linkages

scientific article published in 2022

All for One: The Role of Colony Morphology in Bryophyte Desiccation Tolerance

scientific article published on 12 November 2019

Are Biocrusts and Xerophytic Vegetation a Viable Green Roof Typology in a Mediterranean Climate? A Comparison between Differently Vegetated Green Roofs in Water Runoff and Water Quality

scientific article published in 2021

Assessing human exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in a petrochemical region utilizing data from environmental biomonitors

scientific article

Assessment of Critical Levels of Atmospheric Ammonia for Lichen Diversity in Cork-Oak Woodland, Portugal

article

Associations between outdoor air quality and birth weight: a geostatistical sequential simulation approach in Coastal Alentejo, Portugal

article

Beneficial effect of pine thinning in mixed plantations through changes in the understory functional composition

article

Biocrust tissue traits as potential indicators of global change in the Mediterranean

Biomonitoring spatial and temporal impact of atmospheric dust from a cement industry

Bottom-up cascading effects of quarry revegetation deplete bird-mediated seed dispersal services

scientific article published in 2021

Calibrating Total Nitrogen Concentration in Lichens with Emissions of Reduced Nitrogen at the Regional Scale

Can ammonia tolerance amongst lichen functional groups be explained by physiological responses?

scientific article published on 31 January 2014

Carbon-Water-Nitrogen relationships between lichens and the atmosphere: Tools to understand metabolism and ecosystem change

scientific article

Causes of change in nitrophytic and oligotrophic lichen species in a Mediterranean climate: impact of land cover and atmospheric pollutants.

scientific article

Chemical and magnetic analyses on tree bark as an effective tool for biomonitoring: A case study in Lisbon (Portugal).

scientific article published on 22 December 2017

Consequence of altered nitrogen cycles in the coupled human and ecological system under changing climate: The need for long-term and site-based research

scientific article

Critical loads of nitrogen deposition and critical levels of atmospheric ammonia for semi-natural Mediterranean evergreen woodlands

scientific article published in 2012

Current and historical factors drive variation of reproductive traits in unisexual mosses in Europe: A case study

scientific article published in 2022

Declining trends of PCDD/Fs in lichens over a decade in a Mediterranean area with multiple pollution sources

scientific article published on 29 November 2014

Dehydration rate determines the degree of membrane damage and desiccation tolerance in bryophytes.

scientific article published on 10 September 2016

Differential proteomics of dehydration and rehydration in bryophytes: evidence towards a common desiccation tolerance mechanism

scientific article published on 13 February 2014

Disentangling natural and anthropogenic sources of atmospheric sulfur in an industrial region using biomonitors

scientific article

Do lichens have "memory" of their native nitrogen environment?

scientific article published on 30 October 2010

Does the exotic equal pollution? Landscape methods for solving the dilemma of using native versus non‐native plant species in drylands

scientific article

Drivers of woody dominance across global drylands

scientific article published on 11 October 2024

Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

scientific article published in July 2018

Ecological impacts of atmospheric pollution and interactions with climate change in terrestrial ecosystems of the Mediterranean Basin: Current research and future directions

scientific article

Ecological restoration across the Mediterranean Basin as viewed by practitioners

scientific article

Ecosystem services: Urban parks under a magnifying glass.

scientific article published on 24 October 2017

Effect of Cadmium Accumulation on the Performance of Plants and of Herbivores That Cope Differently With Organic Defenses

article

Elemental profile of native lichens displaying the impact by agricultural and artificial land uses in the Atlantic island of São Miguel (Azores)

scientific article published on 06 November 2020

Enhancing biodiversity and ecosystem services in quarry restoration – challenges, strategies, and practice

scientific article published on 09 March 2020

Estimation of the Allergenic Potential of Urban Trees and Urban Parks: Towards the Healthy Design of Urban Green Spaces of the Future

scientific article published on 15 April 2019

Evaluating green infrastructure in urban environments using a multi-taxa and functional diversity approach.

scientific article published on 14 January 2016

Evaluating sources of PAHs in urban streams based on land use and biomonitors

scientific article

Factors involved in spatiotemporal dynamics of submerged macrophytes in a Portuguese coastal lagoon under Mediterranean climate

article

Framework for Climate Change Adaptation of Agriculture and Forestry in Mediterranean Climate Regions

Framing the application of Adaptation Pathways for agroforestry in Mediterranean drylands

From species presences to abundances: Using unevenly collected plant species presences to disclose the structure and functioning of a dryland ecosystem

scientific article published on 21 February 2020

Functional Traits in Lichen Ecology: A Review of Challenge and Opportunity

scientific article published on 06 April 2021

Functional traits of epiphytic lichens respond to alkaline dust pollution

article by Polina Degtjarenko et al published December 2018 in Fungal Ecology

Geostatistical uncertainty of assessing air quality using high-spatial-resolution lichen data: A health study in the urban area of Sines, Portugal

scientific article

Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover

scientific article published on 18 March 2022

Grazing or Not Grazing: Implications for Ecosystem Services Provided by Biocrusts in Mediterranean Cork Oak Woodlands

scholarly article by Laura Concostrina-Zubiri et al published 26 July 2016 in Land Degradation and Development

Green spaces are not all the same for the provision of air purification and climate regulation services: The case of urban parks.

scientific article published on 14 October 2017

Guidelines for biomonitoring persistent organic pollutants (POPs), using lichens and aquatic mosses – A review ⬇️

scientific article published on June 13, 2013

How Do Taxonomic and Functional Diversity Metrics Change Along an Aridity Gradient in a Tropical Dry Forest?

scientific article published in 2022

How does an Al-hyperaccumulator plant respond to a natural field gradient of soil phytoavailable Al?

scientific article

How much matching there is in functional, phylogenetic and taxonomic optima of epiphytic macrolichen communities along a European climatic gradient?

scientific article published on 07 January 2020

Increasing biodiversity in wood-pastures by protecting small shrubby patches

scientific article published on 08 March 2020

Interpreting the dioxin and furan profiles in the lichen Ramalina canariensis Steiner for monitoring air pollution

scientific article published on 07 March 2007

Intra- and inter-specific variations in chitin in lichens along a N-deposition gradient

scientific article published on 9 October 2017

Intracellular and extracellular ammonium (NH4 +) uptake and its toxic effects on the aquatic biomonitor Fontinalis antipyretica

article

Intraspecific variability in herbivore response to elemental defences is caused by the metal itself

scientific article published in 2022

Lead (Pb) uptake and its effects on membrane integrity and chlorophyll fluorescence in different lichen species

article

Lichen functional groups as ecological indicators of the effects of land-use in Mediterranean ecosystems

scientific article published in 2012

Lichen traits responding to aridity

scientific article published in 2015

Lichens as an integrating tool for monitoring PAH atmospheric deposition: a comparison with soil, air and pine needles

scientific article

Lichens as ecological indicators in urban areas: beyond the effects of pollutants

scientific article published in 2014

Local topographic and edaphic factors largely predict shrub encroachment in Mediterranean drylands

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Mapping Exposure to Multi-Pollutants Using Environmental Biomonitors-A Multi-Exposure Index

scientific article published in June 2017

Mapping Lichen Diversity as a First Step for Air Quality Assessment

article by Pedro Pinho et al published November 2004 in Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry

Mapping Portuguese Natura 2000 sites in risk of biodiversity change caused by atmospheric nitrogen pollution.

scientific article

Measuring and mapping the effectiveness of the European Air Quality Directive in reducing N and S deposition at the ecosystem level

Metal hyperaccumulation patterns within Plantago phylogeny (Plantaginaceae)

scholarly article by Helena Cristina Serrano et al published 21 August 2016 in Plant and Soil

Microbial extracellular polymeric substances improve water retention in dryland biological soil crusts

Modeling the long-term natural regeneration potential of woodlands in semi-arid regions to guide restoration efforts

Modeling the provision of air-quality regulation ecosystem service provided by urban green spaces using lichens as ecological indicators

scientific article published on 02 February 2019

Multivariate geostatistical methods for analysis of relationships between ecological indicators and environmental factors at multiple spatial scales

scientific article published in 2013

Nickel phytoremediation potential of the Mediterranean Alyssoides utriculata (L.) Medik

scientific article

Nitrogen deposition effects on Mediterranean-type ecosystems: an ecological assessment

scientific article

Nitrogen tolerance in the lichen Xanthoria parietina: the sensitive side of a resistant species

scientific article published on 01 April 2013

Nutrient Addition and Drought Interact to Change the Structure and Decrease the Functional Diversity of a Mediterranean Grassland

scientific article published on 05 October 2018

One hundred priority questions for landscape restoration in Europe

article

Optimising Artificial Moss Growth for Environmental Studies in the Mediterranean Area

scientific article published on 19 November 2021

Phylogenetic structure of understorey annual and perennial plant species reveals opposing responses to aridity in a Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot

scientific article published on 13 December 2020

Physiological consequences of desiccation in the aquatic bryophyte Fontinalis antipyretica.

scientific article

Policies for plant diversity conservation on a global scale: a Nitrogen driver analysis

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Preparation of a lichen reference material

Production of moss-dominated biocrusts to enhance the stability and function of the margins of artificial water bodies

scientific article published on 05 February 2018

Rescuing Botany: using citizen-science and mobile apps in the classroom and beyond

Research agenda on biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services in European cities

scientific article published in 2021

Revisiting the plant hyperaccumulation criteria to rare plants and earth abundant elements

scientific article published on 13 October 2006

Seasonal patterns of Mediterranean evergreen woodlands (Montado) are explained by long-term precipitation

scholarly article by Alzira Ramos et al published March 2015 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Selecting Potential Moss Species for Green Roofs in the Mediterranean Basin

scientific article published on 27 May 2019

Selecting lichen functional traits as ecological indicators of the effects of urban environment

scientific article published on 10 November 2018

Shifts in grasses diversity patterns between two contrasting 40‐year climate periods in tropical dry islands

scientific article published in 2024

Soil indicators to assess the effectiveness of restoration strategies in dryland ecosystems

scholarly article by Edoardo A. C. Costantini et al published 10 March 2016 in Solid Earth

Soil indicators to assess the effectiveness of restoration strategies in dryland ecosystems

article by E. A. C. Costantini et al published 8 December 2015 in Solid earth discussions SED

Spatial modeling of PAHs in lichens for fingerprinting of multisource atmospheric pollution

scientific article

Spatially modelling the risk areas of chronic exposure to hydrothermal volcanic emissions using lichens

scientific article published on 12 August 2019

Stochastic Simulation Model for the Spatial Characterization of Lung Cancer Mortality Risk and Study of Environmental Factors

scientific article published in 2013

Strategic roadmap to assess forest vulnerability under air pollution and climate change

scientific article published in 2022

Structural diversity indices based on airborne LiDAR as ecological indicators for managing highly dynamic landscapes

scientific article published in 2015

Suppression of Plant Defenses by Herbivorous Mites Is Not Associated with Adaptation to Host Plants.

scientific article published on 15 June 2018

Temporary grazing exclusion as a passive restoration strategy in a dryland woodland: Effects over time on tree regeneration and on the shrub community

scientific article published on 04 November 2020

Testing the Poleotolerance Lichen Response Trait as an Indicator of Anthropic Disturbance in an Urban Environment

scientific article published in 2019

The Critical Levels of Atmospheric Ammonia in a Mediterranean Holm-Oak Forest in North-Eastern Spain

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The Effects of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition on Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity

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The Impact of the Rural Land-Use on the Ecological Integrity of the Intermittent Streams of the Mediterranean 2000 Natura Network

scholarly article published 2014

The application of lichens as ecological surrogates of air pollution in the subtropics: a case study in South Brazil.

scientific article published on August 2016

The cellular location of Cu in lichens and its effects on membrane integrity and chlorophyll fluorescence

The contribution of environmental biomonitoring with lichens to assess human exposure to dioxins

article

The contribution of small shrubby patches to the functional diversity of wood-pastures

scientific article published on 12 August 2020

The cost of surviving nitrogen excess: energy and protein demand in the lichen Cladonia portentosa as revealed by proteomic analysis

scientific article published on 4 January 2017

The ecological performance of metallophyte plants thriving in geochemical islands is explained by the Inclusive Niche Hypothesis

article

The effect of grazing exclusion over time on structure, biodiversity, and regeneration of high nature value farmland ecosystems in Europe

scientific article

The impact of Ni on the physiology of a Mediterranean Ni-hyperaccumulating plant

scientific article published on 17 March 2016

The impact of dehydration rate on the production and cellular location of reactive oxygen species in an aquatic moss

scientific article

The influence of growth form and substrate on lichen ecophysiological responses along an aridity gradient.

scientific article

The relative impact of lichen symbiotic partners to repeated copper uptake

The response of plant functional traits to aridity in a tropical dry forest

scientific article published on 25 July 2020

The role of forest in mitigating the impact of atmospheric dust pollution in a mixed landscape.

scientific article published on 11 April 2017

The use of lichen functional groups as indicators of air quality in a Mediterranean urban environment

scientific article published in 2012

Tools for determining critical levels of atmospheric ammonia under the influence of multiple disturbances.

scientific article

Towards an integrative approach to evaluate the environmental ecosystem services provided by urban forest

scientific article published on 22 March 2019

Tracking global change using lichen diversity: towards a global-scale ecological indicator

scientific article published in 2017

Tracking the Spatial Fate of PCDD/F Emissions from a Cement Plant by Using Lichens as Environmental Biomonitors

scientific article published in February 2016

Tracking tree canopy cover changes in space and time in High Nature Value Farmland to prioritize reforestation efforts

Traffic represents the main source of pollution in small Mediterranean urban areas as seen by lichen functional groups.

scientific article

Transformative or piecemeal? Changes in green space planning and governance in eleven European cities

scientific article published in 2022

Two roles for ecological surrogacy: Indicator surrogates and management surrogates

article

Understanding the performance of different lichen species as biomonitors of atmospheric dioxins and furans: potential for intercalibration

article

Unforeseen plant phenotypic diversity in a dry and grazed world

scientific article published on 7 August 2024

Urban Green Connectivity Assessment: A Comparative Study of Datasets in European Cities

scientific article published on 22 February 2024

Using Chlorophyll a Fluorescence Imaging to Select Desiccation-Tolerant Native Moss Species for Water-Sustainable Green Roofs

scientific article

Using a space-for-time approach to select the best biodiversity-based indicators to assess the effects of aridity on Mediterranean drylands

scientific article published in 2020

Using gradient Forest to predict climate response and adaptation in Cork oak

scientific article published in 2021

Using lichen functional diversity to assess the effects of atmospheric ammonia in Mediterranean woodlands

article by Pedro Pinho et al published 10 June 2011 in Journal of Applied Ecology

Using nitrogen concentration and isotopic composition in lichens to spatially assess the relative contribution of atmospheric nitrogen sources in complex landscapes.

scientific article published on 13 July 2017

Which plant traits respond to aridity? A critical step to assess functional diversity in Mediterranean drylands

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δ15N of lichens reflects the isotopic signature of ammonia source

scientific article published on 03 November 2018

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