Juliana Mafalda Polido Monteiro

Telephone: 21 750 00 00 (ext.22609)
Email: julianapolidomonteiro@gmail.com
Web References: Orcid, Research Gate
Research Group: <a href="/research/research-groups/towards-sustainable-and-resilient-ecosystems/system-ecology">System Ecology

PhD Student

Functional Diversity Bryophytes Biological Soil Crusts Freshwater Ecology

Juliana Polido Monteiro is conducting a Ph.D. in Biology by the University of Lisbon starting in 2018 within the Ecology of Environmental Change (eChanges) research group of CE3C. She is conducting the project “Functional ecology of moss-dominated biocrusts: towards the ecological restoration of degraded areas”, under the supervision of Dr. Cristina Branquinho (CE3C).

Juliana’s Ph.D. project aims are to:

evaluate the effects of soil degradation on Biological Soil Crusts (BSC) taxonomic and functional diversity;
identify the most relevant BSC functional traits to restore soil ecosystem processes in degraded environments;
develop cost-effective methods to produce laboratory-grown moss-dominated BSC with high functional interest; and
assess the effectiveness of transplanted laboratory-grown BSCs for enhancing and recovering soil structure and functions in vulnerable and/or degraded areas.