2023
Aguiar, Francisca, Feio, Maria João, Almeida, Salomé F.P., Calapez, Ana Raquel, Gebler, Daniel, Lozanovska, Ivana, Rivaes, Rui Pedro. 2023. Macrophytes in uncertain freshwater futures: effects of climate change in a Mediterranean regulated river. In: Jonas Schoelynck, Bart Slootmaekers & Giulia Lodi (Eds). Book of Abstracts, 16th International Symposium on Aquatic Plants, Antwerp, Belgium, 13–17 November 2023, University of Antwerp, Belgium: 23-24 p.
Aguiar, Francisca, Rui Rivaes, Maria João Feio, M. Rosário Fernandes, Salomé F.P. Almeida, Luisa Schmidt, Ana Delicado, Alexandra Correia, Ana Calapez, Ivana Lozanovska, Maria João Martins, Joana Sá Couto, Teresa Ferreira, Pedro Segurado. 2023. Fluvial vegetation affected by regulation provides gains and losses of Ecosystem Services. 65th Annual Symposium IAVS 2023: The future of vegetation in the 22nd Century 3-8 September 2023, Coffs Harbour, Australia.
2022
Aguiar, F. C., Couto, J. S., Schmidt, L., Delicado, A., Rivaes, R. 2022. River-human connections and affinity for nature of local populations to regulated rivers. Abstract Book 13th SERE Conference: SERE2022 Restoring Nature, Reconnecting People, 5-9 September 2022, Alicante, Spain: p. 208. (oral communication presented by F.C. Aguiar) [Link]
Aguiar, F. C., Rivaes, R., Segurado, P., Ferreira, M.T., Schmidt, L., Feio, M.J., Almeida, S.F.P., Fernandes, M.R., Correia, A., Calapez, A., Delicado, A., Mortágua, A., Vieira, C., Gebler, D., Lozanovska, I., Couto, J.S., Sales, M., Martins, M.J., Silva, P.C. 2022. Ecosystem Services of riparian forests in uncertain hydrological and land-use futures. Book of Abstracts RIPA-1: First International Conference on Riparian Ecosystems Science and Management, 6-8 April 2022, Bratislava, Slovakia: p.15.
2021
Aguiar FC, Martins MJ, Rivaes R, Lozanovska I, Ferreira MT, Silva PC, Fernandes MR. 2021. How regulated flows affect the provision of riparian ecosystem services? In: Eva Debinski, Martin Diekmann, Javier Loidi, Susan Wiser & David Zelený (Eds.). Book of Abstracts 63rd. IAVS Symposium, 20-23 September 2021, International Association for Vegetation Science: p.13. doi:10.21570/ABS-2021-63
Aguiar FC, Lozanovska I, Rivaes R, Vieira C, Ferreira MT. 2021. Further downstream where natural and regulated communities meet. Abstract Book Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences SEF12 Virtual Conference, 25-30 July, Dublin: 38.
2019
Aguiar FC, Rodrigues C, Soares P. 2019. Burning again? A story of dark days, landscape regeneration and novel environments in Portugal. 62nd Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science. Vegetation Science and Biodiversity Research, 14-19 July 2019, Bremen, Germany.
FC Aguiar. Project RIVEAL- Objectives, organisation, activities and outputs. Workshop Project RIVEAL – RIver and riparian forest Values and Ecosystem services in uncertain freshwater futures and Altered LandscapesP, 15 January 2019, Auditorio Pavilhão Florestal, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal [Link]
2018
Aguiar FC, Fernandes MR, Martins MJ, Ferreira MT. 2018. Effects of a large irrigation dam on aquatic and riparian plants: a history of survival and loss. International Conference in Ecological Sciences – Sfécologie2018, 24 October 2018, Rennes, France: 496.
Aguiar FC, Fernandes MR, Ferreira MT, Martins MJ. 2018. Surveying the past on reliquial habitats: the Guadiana river in the post-Alqueva era. Limnologia 2018 – XIX Congresso da Associação Ibérica de Limnologia, 24-29 June 2018, Coimbra. [Link]
Aguiar FC, Martins MJ, Silva PC, Chelu A, Fernandes MR, Ferreira MT. 2018. Into the human-disturbed landscapes: functional trade-offs between abundance and diversity in riparian plant ecosystems. 3rd International Conference on Integrative Sciences and Sustainable Development of Rivers. IS Rivers 2018, Lyon 4-8 June 2018.
2017
Aguiar, F.C. Local adaptation to climate change in Europe: a comprehensive overview. Full Conference program. 3rd European Climate Change Adaptation Conference “Our Climate Ready Future”, 5th-9th June 2017, Glasgow, UK: 334-335. [Link]
Aguiar FC, Martins MJ, Silva PC, Fernandes MR, Ferreira MT. 2017 Stressed riverscapes: riparian vegetation history in time and space. 60th International Association for Vegetation Science Annual Symposium 2017 Vegetation patterns in natural and cultural landscapes, 19th-24th June 2017, Palermo, Italy. [Link]
2015
Riparian landscape changes downstream run-of-river dams and storage reservoirs. EWRS Aquatic Plants 2015. 14-18 September 2015 Edinburgh, UK.
2014
Are dams regulating diversity of riparian forests? Functional trade-offs and synergies in Mediterranean Europe. 57st Annual Synposium of the Association for Vegetation Science, 1-5 September 2014, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. [Link]
FLOWBASE: base de dados de atributos funcionais de plantas lenhosas ripárias. Part II. FLOWBASE: Background, Design and Contents. 12 June 2014, Pavilhão Mário Azevedo Gomes, University of Lisbon, ISA, Lisbon. [Link]
2013
Evaluación de impactos de la regulación en el ecosistema fluvial a escala global. El papel de los grupos funcionales riparios. III Jornadas de Inginieria del Agua. La protección contra los riesgos hídricos. 23-24th October 2013, Valencia, Spain. [Link]
2012
Comparability of river quality assessment in Mediterranean rivers using macrophytes: a multi-step procedure. International Symposium on Aquatic Plants. Plants in Hydrosystems: from Functional Ecology to Weed Research, 27-31 August 2012, Poznan, Poland.
Overview of OASIS project objectives, methodology and working plan. Workshop/Kick-off Meeting OASIS Project: How to Run Regulated Rivers in Semi-arid Regions. 18 June 2012, ISA, Lisboa. [Link]
Functional diversity of river plants in temporary and perennial streams: news and views of the Mediterranean Basin. Society for Freshwater Sciences 2012 Annual Meeting. 19-24 May 2012, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
2011
Species compositional and Functional variation: dispersion indicators. 54th Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science, 20-24 June 2011, Lyon, France.
2010
Riparian vegetation metrics as tools for guiding ecological restoration in riverscapes. The 7th conference of the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER), 23-27 August 2010, Avignon, France
Floristic and functional gradients of river plant communities: a biogeographical study across the Mediterranean Basin. XV Congress of the Iberian Association of Limnology, 5-7 July 2010, Ponta Delgada, Açores.
2009
RVI: a vegetation-based index for the assessment of the ecological quality in Iberian rivers. 12th EWRS International Symposium on Aquatic Weeds, 24-28 August 2009, Jyväskylä, Finland. [Link]
Harmonisation and viewpoints in the Mediterranean WFD Intercalibration Exercise for River macrophytes. 12th EWRS International Symposium on Aquatic Weeds, 24-28 August 2009, Jyväskylä, Finland. [Link]
2008
Mahjonging Key functional and taxonomic tiles in near-natural Mediterranean riparian woods (SW Iberia, Portugal). 51st Annual Symposium of the International Association of Vegetation Science, 7-12 September 2008, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Tipologia ripícola de sistemas fluviais portugueses. 9º Congresso da Água, Água: desafios de hoje, exigências de amanhã, 2-4 April, 2008, Cascais, Portugal.
2006
Alien plant invasions in riparian landscapes of Portugal: patterns, losses and causes. V Congreso Ibérico de Limnología e XIII Congreso de la Asociación Española de Limnología, 2-7 July 2006 Barcelona, Spain.
Flora Macrofítica como Indicadora da Qualidade Ecológica de Sistemas Fluviais Portugueses. 8º Congresso da Água – Àgua, sede de sustentabilidade! 13-17 March 2006, Lisbon, Portugal.
2005
River vegetation Tales from Western Iberia. 48th Symposium of the International Association of Vegetation Science, 24-29 July 2005 Lisbon, Portugal.
2004
Exotic and endemic flora on reference and non-reference sites from Iberian fluvial systems. 13th International Conference on Aquatic Invasive Species, September 20-24 2004, Ennis, Irland.
Invasibility patterns displayed by riparian plants in semi-arid southern Iberian floodplains. XII Congresso Espanhol de Limnologia, 5-9 July 2004, Porto, Portugal.
2000
Riparian types in a Mediterranean Basin (Tagus river, Portugal). Conference Vegetation Management in Changing Landscapes, Association of Applied Biologists, 28-30 March 2000, University of York, York, UK.
1999
Alien perennial plants in an Iberian regulated river. 5th International Conference on the Ecology of Invasive Alien Plants, 13-16 October 1999, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Sardinia, Italy.
1992
As infestantes das vinhas da Zona Vitivinícola de Óbidos. II Simposium da Vivinicultura do Alentejo, 6-8 May 1992, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal.pk