Tree growth-climate relationship in the Azorean holly in a temperate humid forest with low thermal amplitude

DC Pavão, J Jevšenak, J Engblom, LB Silva, RB Elias… - …, 2023 - Elsevier
Dendroclimatic records in areas with high relative humidity and low thermal amplitude are
manifestly scarcer and only a few studies are applied to species that are present in areas …

Taxonomic, structural diversity and carbon stocks in a gradient of island forests

LC Borges Silva, DC Pavão, RB Elias, M Moura… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Assessment of forest ecosystems and their services is seen as a key action for the
advancement of biodiversity objectives, and to inform the development and implementation …

Climate–Growth Relationships in Laurus azorica—A Dominant Tree in the Azorean Laurel Forest

DC Pavão, J Jevšenak, LB Silva, RB Elias, L Silva - Forests, 2023 - mdpi.com
Forests on oceanic islands, such as the Azores archipelago, enable interesting
dendroclimatic research, given their pronounced climatic gradients over short geographical …

[HTML][HTML] Tree-ring distinctness, dating potential and climatic sensitivity of laurel forest tree species in Tenerife Island

MA García-López, V Rozas, JM Olano… - …, 2022 - Elsevier
Macaronesian laurel forests are the only remnants of a subtropical palaeoecosystem
dominant during the Tertiary in Europe and northern Africa. These biodiverse ecosystems …

Cloud Forest Tree Growth Responses to Climate and Drought Vary by Island and Species in the Macaronesian Region

MA García‐López, AI García‐Cervigón… - Journal of …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Macaronesian cloud forests are insular ecosystems subjected to local environmental
variability, but the responses of their tree species to climate variations have never been …

Dendrochronological potential of the Azorean endemic gymnosperm Juniperus brevifolia (Seub.) Antoine

DC Pavão, J Jevšenak, M Petrillo, R Camarinho… - …, 2022 - Elsevier
Tree-ring inter-annual pattern variation is crucial in dendrochronology, allowing the
identification of possible limiting factors on growth. Thus, trees exposed to subtropical or …

Microsatellites reveal high levels of genetic admixture in the natural populations of Laurus azorica, Lauraceae

RMC Rego, ÂF Vieira, L Silva, R Elias, C Silva… - Plant Systematics and …, 2024 - Springer
Laurus (Lauraceae) species are currently restricted to isolated refugia in the southern Black
Sea, Mediterranean Basin, southern Morocco, and Macaronesian archipelagos. One to …

Oceanic Island forests buried by Holocene (Meghalayan) explosive eruptions: palaeobiodiversity in pre-anthropic volcanic charcoal from Faial Island (Azores …

CA Góis-Marques, JM Rubiales… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract In Faial Island (Azores Archipelago, North Atlantic Ocean), charcoalified and
mummified wood fossils have been reported within late Holocene (Meghalayan) pyroclastic …

[HTML][HTML] Vascular plant taxa occurrences in exotic woodland and in natural and production forests on the Islands of São Miguel, Terceira and Pico (Azores)

LB Silva, P Madeira, D Pavão, RB Elias… - Biodiversity Data …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The data presented here originated from field expeditions carried out between
2017 and 2018, within the framework of Forest-Eco 2 project:" Towards an Ecological and …

[HTML][HTML] Land-use change and windstorms legacies drove the recolonization dynamics of laurel forests in Tenerife, Canary islands

V Rozas, MA García-López, JM Olano… - Forest Ecosystems, 2023 - Elsevier
Laurel forests are quite relevant for biodiversity conservation and are among the island
ecosystems most severely damaged by human activities. In the past, Canary laurel forests …