LIFEPLAN – A Planetary Inventory of Life (2020-2025) aims to establish the current state of biodiversity across the globe, and to use new insights for generating accurate predictions of its future state under future scenarios.

The Natural History and Science Museum of the University of Porto (MHNC-UP), including its Botanical Garden and Hall of Biodiversity – Ciência Viva Center, is the first institution from Portugal to become an official member of the European Commission Global Coalition United for #Biodiversity.

The finding, now published in the Biodiversity Data Journal, was made by a team of researchers from the Centre for Biodiversity and Genetic Resources Research (CIBIO-InBIO), University of Porto, during the project InBIO Barcoding Initiative Database: Portuguese Bats (Chiroptera), which aims to disseminate DNA barcode data from bats in Portugal.

‘Portugal decided to join the Promote Pollinators initiative as it recognizes that only through experience sharing among its members, with better cooperation and establishment of best practices, it will be possible to increase the knowledge about pollinator status, trends and conservation strategies, with direct impact at a global scale, as well as with high national and regional relevance’.

Novo género e nova espécie de borboleta em Portugal em homenagem ao rio mondego e ao oceano atlântico.

O novo género de borboletas noturnas descrito por investigadores do CIBIO-InBIO inclui uma nova espécie para a ciência de Portugal e uma outra espécie já conhecida em vários países do Mediterrâneo.

O Herbário da Universidade de Coimbra partilha os dados dos ca. de 92.000 exemplares no GBIF | 22 de Maio | Dia Internacional da Biodiversidade 'As nossas soluções estão na natureza'.

Researchers from CIBIO-InBIO and CEF-ISA have joined efforts to coordinate the Silent Cities project in Portugal. Taking advantage of the available equipment, and an amazing network of volunteers it was possible to get excellent geographic coverage with the installation of 55 recording devices. CIBIO-InBIO researchers and the project PORBIOTA contributed with 13 devices.

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The data set contains eddy covariance measurements of carbon and water fluxes and ancillary measurements observed at a 50-year-old cork oak woodland (Quercus suber L.) at Herdade da Machoqueira do Grou, located in Central Portugal under Mediterranean climate conditions. The data were collected between 2010-09-01 to 2017-08-31

There is still a lot to be done regarding the inventory of Lepidoptera species from Portugal: species to be found, species to be named and described for the first time, and, sometimes, it is also needed to clarify the status of species previously described. Cochylimorpha punctiferana is one of those cases, the species was described in 1881 from a single specimen from Bragança in north-east Portugal, collected by Manuel d’Oliveira. It has since 1913 been considered a synonym of C.