all posts Montado de Sobro, an extraordinary cultural landscape and ecosystem Growing exclusively in the western Mediterranean basin, especially in Portugal, Spain, Morroco and Algeria, the vast majority of the cork oak trees forms a unique ecosystem and cultural...
all posts About the usefulness of birds Birds have mattered to humans as much in the past as they do in the present. They draw attention and they are present in culture as symbols of wilderness, beautifulness and joy. The plumage, the flight and the song are just a...
all posts Natural history collections: a meeting place between biologists and historians Natural history collections and herbaria are meeting places between biologists and historians, between the past and the present. They contain selected zoological or botanical...
all posts 2020 The International Year of Plant Health Many people celebrated the new year of 2020 with wine. In everyday life or just at festive times, wine consumption has become essential for millions around the world. Given the current success, it is hard to...
all posts Public granaries: seeds banks before the concept even existed Since the end of the 19th century, botanists and state agronomists began to store seeds in order to improve agriculture production. In the first half of the 20th century, the first important...
all posts What we learnt in our first year “ReSEEDing”
One year of ReSEED Project! One year of a research journey in which the learnings and findings have strengthened the dimension of the challenge we have for the next four years. This project aims to examine the...
