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Melanie Köbel. Concluiu o Mestrado em Ecologia e Gestão Ambiental em 2013 pela Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Licenciatura em Biologia em 2010 pela Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia. Frequenta o Doutoramento em Biologia pela Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências desde 2018/03/01. Publicou 6 artigos em revistas especializadas. Participou em 5 eventos. Recebeu 1 prémio(s) e/ou homenagens. Participa e/ou participou como Bolseiro de Doutoramento em 1 projeto(s), Bolseiro de Integração na Investigação em 1 projeto(s), Bolseiro de Investigação em 4 projeto(s) e Investigador em 4 projeto(s). No seu currículo Ciência Vitae os termos mais frequentes na contextualização da produção científica, tecnológica e artístico-cultural são: Insectivores; Portugal; Production forests; Rodents; Holm-oak woodlands ; Biodiversidade; Ecologia vegetal; Alterações climáticas; Pastagens; Montado; Alentejo - Portugal; .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Melanie Köbel

Citation names

  • Köbel, Melanie

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
1A1C-2505-8AB0
ORCID iD
0000-0001-8272-7999
Researcher Id
E-9256-2015

Email addresses

  • mkobel@fc.ul.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
German Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2018/03/01 - 2022/02/28
Ongoing
 Biologia (Doutoramento)
Major in Ecologia
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2010 - 2013
Concluded
 Ecologia e Gestão Ambiental (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Searching for an ecological indicator based on plant functional diversity along a climatic gradient" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16
2007 - 2010
Concluded
 Biologia (Licenciatura)
Major in Ambiente
Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
 14
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2013 - 2018/02/28 Research Trainee (Research) Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
2008 - 2009 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2018/03 - 2022/02 Tracking climate change impacts in Mediterranean ecosystems using ecological indicators of ecosystem structure and functioning
SFRH/BD/130274/2017
PhD Student Fellow
Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2016 - 2018 ChangeTracker-Tracking climate change in drylands based on ecological indicators
PTDC/AAG-GLO/0045/2014
Research Fellow
Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal

Contract

Designation Funders
2017 - Current LIFE Desert-Adapt - Preparing desertification areas for increased climate change
LIFE16 CCA/IT/000011
Researcher
Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
Ongoing
2021/03/17 - 2025/03/16 Promoting the resilience of agroforestry systems in drylands to a more arid future ensuring ecosystem functions and services
PTDC/ASP-SIL/7743/2020
10.54499/PTDC/ASP-SIL/7743/2020
FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018 - 2021 FITOREMEDIAÇÃO II – Avaliação do Potencial de Fitorremediação para Mitigação/Restauro dos Solos da Exploração Mineira
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Researcher
Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
 Sociedade Mineira Neves-Corvo SA
Ongoing
2016/06/01 - 2019/11/30 Monitorizar as alterações climáticas em zonas áridas com base em indicadores ecológicos
PTDC/AAG-GLO/0045/2014
Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2014 - 2019 Environmental monitoring of dioxins, furans and metals in the vicinity of a hospital incinerator
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Researcher
Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
 Ambimed
Ongoing
2015/05 - 2017/01 AdaptForChange – Improve the success of reforestation in semi-arid areas: adaptation to climate change scenario
PT04-0002
Research Fellow
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
 EEA Grants
Concluded
2013/10 - 2015/01 Soils remediation and impacts on human public health
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Research Fellow
Sociedade Mineira Neves-Corvo SA
Concluded
2014 - 2015 LTsER Montado
LTER/BIA-BEC/0048/2009
Researcher
Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
2013/03 - 2013/09 DesertWarning- Modelling ecosystem structure and functional diversity as early-warning indicator of desertification and land-degradation – from regional to local level
PTDC/AAC-CLI/104913/2008
Research Fellow
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2008/09 - 2009/08 RED CONTAMAR – Red científica para la caracterización de los niveles de contaminación y la gestión sostenible de marismas de la región transfronteriza Portugal–España
RED CONTAMAR/ SP5. E101 /03
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2016/01/27 - 2016/09/30 BIOMON-AMBIMED: Biomonitorização ambiental de compostos nas imediações de uma incineradora hospitalar
BIOMON-AMBIMED
FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Alice M.R. Nunes; Köbel, Melanie; Príncipe, Adriana; Reis, Bruna; Domingues, Inês; Mariana F. Ramos; Alexandra M. L. Oliveira; et al. "Monitoring, restoring, and adapting agroforestry systems to increase resilience to climate change". Paper presented in 10th World Conference on Ecological Restoration (SER), Darwin, 2023.
    Accepted
  2. Köbel, Melanie; Alice M.R. Nunes; Príncipe, Adriana; Vizinho, André; Serrano, Helena; Soares, Cristina; Pinho, Pedro; Branquinho, Cristina. "Ecosystem composition, structure and function of afforested areas in Portuguese drylands". Paper presented in 13th European Conference on Ecological Restoration (SERE), Alicante, 2022.
    Published
  3. Alice M.R. Nunes; Köbel, Melanie; Domingues, Inês; Príncipe, Adriana; Alexandra M. L. Oliveira; Serrano, Helena; Branquinho, Cristina. "Using complementary diversity metrics to promote the resilience of agroforestry systems to climate change". Paper presented in the 13th European Conference on Ecological Restoration SERE2022: Restoring Nature, Reconnecting People, Alicante, 2022.
    Published
  4. Serrano, Helena; Domingues, Inês; Mendes, Cláudia; Köbel, Melanie; Nunes, Alice; Cristina Branquinho. "Challenges in mine ecological restoration (Serrano HC, Domingues I, Mendes C, Köbel M, Nunes A, Branquinho C.: Invited oral communication)". Paper presented in Symposium: Restoring ecosystem structure and functioning to an uncertain future under global change. 15th European Ecological Federation (EEF) Congress, Lisboa, 2020.
    Submitted
  5. Serrano, Helena; Köbel, Melanie; Jones, M; Dragosits, U; Pinho, Pedro; Oliveira, Maria; Matos, Paula; Branquinho, Cristina; Sutton, MA. "Assessment of plant species performance along an ammonia gradient". Paper presented in 3rd CAPERMED Meeting, Pamplona, 2018.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Köbel, Melanie; Bruna Reis; Príncipe, Adriana; Inês Rosário; Margarida Santo-Reis; Oliveira, Maria Alexandra; Serrano, Helena; Branquinho, Cristina; Alice M.R. Nunes. "Monitoring, restoring and adapting Portuguese agroforestry systems to enhance resilience to climate change". Paper presented in 22º Encontro Nacional de Ecologia, 2023.
  2. Reis, Bruna; Köbel, Melanie; Príncipe, Adriana; Rosário, Inês T.; Margarida Santos-Reis; Domingues, Inês; Alexandra M. L. Oliveira; et al. "Monitoring, restoring and adapting portuguese agro-forestry systems to enhance resilience to climate change". Paper presented in eLTER-Consortia Meeting Frankfurt-Germany, 17-21 April 2023, 2023.
  3. Köbel, Melanie; Príncipe, Adriana; Reis, Bruna; Domingues, Inês; Alexandra M. L. Oliveira; Alice M.R. Nunes; Serrano, Helena; Branquinho, Cristina. "Monitoring, restoring and adapting agro-forestry systems to enhance resilience to climate change". Paper presented in Ciências Research Day, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal,, 2022.
  4. Serafim, João; Alice M.R. Nunes; Príncipe, Adriana; Köbel, Melanie; Pinho, Pedro; Cristina Branquinho; Correia, Otília. "Assessing the role of macro and microclimate in Holm oak germination and survival in Mediterranean drylands". Paper presented in Encontro Nacional sobre Investigação em Alterações Climáticas, 2020.
Journal article
  1. David Eldridge; Jingyi Ding; Josh Dorrough; MANUEL DELGADO-BAQUERIZO; Osvaldo Sala; Nicolas Gross; Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet; et al. "Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands". Nature Plants (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41477-024-01670-7.
    10.1038/s41477-024-01670-7
  2. Deosaran, Rishi; Carvalho, Fabio; Nunes, Alice; Köbel, Melanie; Serafim, João; Hooda, Peter S.; Waller, Martyn; Branquinho, Cristina; Brown, Kerry A.. "Response of soil carbon and plant diversity to grazing and precipitation in High Nature Value farmlands". Forest Ecology and Management 555 (2024): 121734. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.121734.
    Published • 10.1016/j.foreco.2024.121734
  3. Melanie Köbel; Adriana Príncipe; Cristina Soares; Pedro Pinho; Alice Nunes; Cristina Branquinho. "More than trees: Stand management can be used to improve ecosystem diversity, structure and functioning 20 years after forest restoration in drylands". Science of The Total Environment (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166107.
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166107
  4. Maestre, Fernando T.; Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet; Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo; David J. Eldridge; Hugo Saiz; Miguel Berdugo; Beatriz Gozalo; et al. "Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands". Science 378 6622 (2022): 915-920. https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.abq4062.
    Published • 10.1126/science.abq4062
  5. M. Köbel; C.M.C.S. Listopad; A. Príncipe; A. Nunes; C. Branquinho. "Temporary grazing exclusion as a passive restoration strategy in a dryland woodland: Effects over time on tree regeneration and on the shrub community". Forest Ecology and Management 483 (2021): 118732-118732. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118732.
    10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118732
  6. Wendt, Clara Frasconi; Nunes, Alice; Köbel, Melanie; Verble, Robin; Matos, Paula; Boieiro, Mário; Branquinho, Cristina. "Ant functional structure and diversity changes along a post-grazing succession in Mediterranean oak woodlands". (2021): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/6036.
    10.1007/s10457-021-00648-0
  7. Massante, Jhonny Capichoni; Köbel, Melanie; Pinho, Pedro; Gerhold, Pille; Branquinho, Cristina; Nunes, Alice. "Phylogenetic structure of understorey annual and perennial plant species reveals opposing responses to aridity in a Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot". (2021): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/45566.
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144018
  8. Alice Nunes; Melanie Köbel; Pedro Pinho; Paula Matos; Edoardo A.C. Costantini; Cristina Soares; Francesco de Bello; Otília Correia; Cristina Branquinho. "Local topographic and edaphic factors largely predict shrub encroachment in Mediterranean drylands". Science of The Total Environment 657 (2019): 310-318. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.475.
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.475
  9. Cristina Soares; Adriana Príncipe; Melanie Köbel; Alice Nunes; Cristina Branquinho; Pedro Pinho. "Tracking tree canopy cover changes in space and time in High Nature Value Farmland to prioritize reforestation efforts". International Journal of Remote Sensing 39 14 (2018): 4714-4726. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2018.1475777.
    10.1080/01431161.2018.1475777
  10. Claudia M.C.S. Listopad; Melanie Köbel; Adriana Príncipe; Paula Gonçalves; Cristina Branquinho. "The effect of grazing exclusion over time on structure, biodiversity, and regeneration of high nature value farmland ecosystems in Europe". Science of The Total Environment 610-611 (2018): 926-936. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.018.
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.018
  11. Helena C. Serrano; Melanie Köbel; José Palma-Oliveira; Pedro Pinho; Cristina Branquinho. "Mapping Exposure to Multi-Pollutants Using Environmental Biomonitors—A Multi-Exposure Index". Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A (2017): 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/15287394.2017.1286930.
    10.1080/15287394.2017.1286930
  12. Köbel, Melanie. "Management of Eucalyptus plantations influences small mammal density: Evidence from Southern Europe". Forest Ecology and Management 385 (2017): 25-34.
    10.1016/j.foreco.2016.11.009
  13. Köbel, Melanie. "Which plant traits respond to aridity? A critical step to assess functional diversity in Mediterranean drylands". Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 239 (2017): 176-184. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168192317301120.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.03.007
Newsletter article
  1. Köbel, Melanie; Serrano, Helena Cristina; Branquinho, Cristina. "Soil phytoremediation: concepts and news. Quick Reference Sheet 22.", COST Action ES1104 Arid Lands Restoration and Combat of Desertification: Setting Up a Drylands and Desert Restoration Hub. Arid Lands Restoration Scientific Fact Sheets: State of the art knowledge in science, successes and case studies in restoration., 2016, https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/17103/25/17103%20KOTZEN%20Arid_Lands_Restoration_%28FINAL%29_2017.pdf.
Report
  1. Oliveira, Maria Alexandra; Serrano, Helena Cristina; Monteiro, Juliana; Köbel, Melanie; Ramos, Mariana; Branquinho, Cristina. 2021. Assessment of site selection and indicators regarding the monitoring of effects of air pollution on terrestrial ecosystems in Portugal.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Batista, Melanie Köbel, 1989-. "Searching for an ecological indicator based on plant functional diversity along a climatic gradient". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/7837.

Other

Dataset
  1. M. Köbel; A. Príncipe; C. Soares; P. Pinho; A. Nunes; C. Branquinho. Data from: More than trees: stand management can be used to improve ecosystem diversity, structure and functioning 20 years after forest restoration in drylands. 2024.
    10.6084/m9.figshare.23896563
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/05/23 Mais do que árvores: a gestão de povoamentos pode ser usada para melhorar a diversidade, estrutura e funcionamento do ecossistema, 20 anos após o restauro florestal de terras áridas. Reunião do Conselho Geral do Centro de Competências do Sobreiro e da Cortiça.
Centro de Competências do Sobreiro e da Cortiça (Coruche, Portugal)
2024/05/08 Projectos Land Under Pressure e Renewal em Noudar - Monitorizar, restaurar e adaptar sistemas agroflorestais para aumentar a resiliência às alterações climáticas Open Day Parque de Natureza de Noudar
Parque de Natureza de Noudar (Barrancos, Portugal)
2022/09 Ecosystem composition, structure and function of afforested areas in Portuguese drylands 13th European Conference on Ecological Restoration
Society for Ecological Restoration Europe (Alicante, Spain)
2019/09/28 Land use, ecosystems, and fire in the Mediterranean Basin 8th World Conference on Ecological Restoration
Society for Ecological Restoration (Cidade do Cabo, South Africa)
2019/07/30 Is grazing exclusion an effective measure to improve tree regeneration and plant functional diversity in a cork oak woodland? 15th European Ecological Federation (EEF) Congress and 18th National SPECO Meeting: Embedding Ecology in Sustainable Development Goals
European Ecological Federation & Sociedade Portuguesa de Ecologia (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/09 Evaluating reforestations in drylands as an adaptation measure to a climate change scenario SER Europe Conference 2018 - Restoration in the Era of Climate Change
Society for Ecological Restoration Europe (Reikjavik, Iceland)
2017/11 Evaluating past reforestations success to use forest as an adaptation strategy to a climate change scenario in Alentejo Encontro Nacional de Ecologia
Sociedade Portuguesa de Ecologia (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016/09 Plant functional traits after grazing exclusion in cork oak Montado World Congress Silvo-Pastoral Systems, Silvo-Pastoral Systems on a changing world: functions, management and people.
Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2016/03/30 Plant diversity along a desertification gradient: the importance of soils COST ES 1104 “Desert Restoration Hub” Final Conference: “Restoration of Arid Lands and Combat of Desertification: From Science to Practice
University of Greenwich (Greenwich, United Kingdom)
2015/05 Functional traits after grazing exclusion in the Montado 4º Congresso Ibérico de Ecologia – A Ecologia e os Desafios Societais
Sociedade Portuguesa de Ecologia (Coimbra, Portugal)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2017/07/16 - 2017/07/28 Transnational Access to eLTER site Whim Bog, Scotland
Workshop
 Transnational Access to eLTER site Whim Bog, Scotland
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2016/07/18 - 2016/08/06 Transnational Access to eLTER site Whim Bog, Scotland
Workshop
 Transnational Access to eLTER site Whim Bog, Scotland
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2015/09/08 - 2015/09/11 Participation in a COST Action ES1104 Working Group Meeting
Meeting
 OST ES 1104 “Desert Restoration Hub” Working Groups Meeting in Antalya, Turkey
European Cooperation in Science and Tencnology Action ES1104 "Desert Restoration Hub", Netherlands
2015/04/28 - 2015/05/01 Participation in COST Action ES1104 Working Group Meeting COST ES 1104 “Desert Restoration Hub” Working Groups Meeting in Antalya, Turkey
European Cooperation in Science and Tencnology Action ES1104 "Desert Restoration Hub", Netherlands
2013/05/13 - 2013/05/17 Short-Term Scientific Mission @ the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, University of Freiburg, Germany Grant given by: COST Action ES 1104, supported by the EU Framework Program Horizon2020
Workshop
 STSM: “Measurement of soil water balance with fast track Isotope field methods along a desertification gradient in the SE of Portugal”
European Cooperation in Science and Tencnology Action ES1104 "Desert Restoration Hub", Netherlands

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2016/05/26 - Current Biosfera, RTP2 Leguminous plants and climate change
Distinctions

Award

2016 Best poster award
Universidade de Évora Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Portugal