Articles
Publicity on PALMS ethnobotanical paper
Article on BBC-world website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/noticias/2014/03/140307_palmeras_conocimiento_finde_am.shtml
News article on Ecuadorian website La Hora:
http://www.lahora.com.ec/index.php/noticias/fotoReportaje/1101648455#.UyqjJPl5N8F
News on Mongabay.com:
http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0221-mark-traditional-palm-knowledge-at-risk.html
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News on Videnskab.dk (in Danish):
News from ELESPECTADOR.COM (in Spanish):
Award for the Ecuadorian PALMS book
The book "Palmas ecuatorianas: biología y uso sostenible" receives an award (28.12.2013)
The Municipality of Quito granted an award to the best book in biological sciences published in the district. In this category (of two in natural sciences) the book "Palmas ecuatorianas: biología y uso sostenible" received the prestigious Enrique Garcés Award. The annual competition is organized by the municipality as part of the city festivities and all universities and private writers settle in the district are called to submit books published during the year. Books are then evaluated by five anonymous specialists who gives a consensual opinion to the city council.
Big concratulations to the ecuadorian team
Research Protocols in Ecologia en Bolivia
The FP7 PALMS Research Protocols is published in a special issue of Ecologia en Bolivia - Volume 45 number 3
PhD Thesis Thea Kristiansen
A field-based investigation of palm species abundance, distribution and richness in the western Amazon
On Monday 13 December at 14.15, Thea Kristiansen defended her PhD dissertation with a lecture entitled Palm species diversity in the western Amazon at a public defence at the Department of Biological Sciences, Aarhus University.
Summary:
The tropical rainforest is one of the places on Earth that contains the most species of all. Precisely how many species exist – and where and why they are found – remain unanswered questions to a great extent. This PhD project studied palms in the western Amazon, and contributed to the collection of a comprehensive dataset with counts of species from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. The size of the dataset has made it possible to analyse processes on different spatial scales and thereby contribute to more precise basic knowledge. The results show that the most widespread species have broad tolerance, and that environmental factors, limited distribution and climatic stability can have an impact on the incidence, biodiversity and species composition of the palms.
Thea completed her PhD at the Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Aarhus Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University.
PALMS on EU CORDIS
Cordis is the Website of the European Commisions framework programmes. It is used widely by users and stakeholders around the world as a way to bring or obtain news and information about European research and development.
