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Jose Manuel Costa-Fernandez

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José Costa

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Impacts of genetic bottlenecks on soybean genome diversity

…, Y Zhu, IY Choi, RL Nelson, JM Costa… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
Soybean has undergone several genetic bottlenecks. These include domestication in Asia
to produce numerous Asian landraces, introduction of relatively few landraces to North …

First evidence for the joint dispersal of mycorrhizal fungi and plant diaspores by birds

M Correia, R Heleno, LP da Silva, JM Costa… - New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Seed dispersal allows plants to colonise new sites and escape from pathogens and
intraspecific competition, maintaining plant genetic diversity and regulating plant distribution. …

[HTML][HTML] Global and regional ecological boundaries explain abrupt spatial discontinuities in avian frugivory interactions

…, G Buitrón-Jurado, M Correia, JM Costa… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Species interactions can propagate disturbances across space via direct and indirect effects,
potentially connecting species at a global scale. However, ecological and biogeographic …

Endozoochory largely outweighs epizoochory in migrating passerines

JM Costa, JA Ramos, LP da Silva… - Journal of Avian …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Fruits and seeds are critical food sources for many European passerines during the autumn
migration, which in turn contribute to disperse seeds either internally, ie after ingestion (…

Natural woodlands hold more diverse, abundant, and unique biota than novel anthropogenic forests: a multi-group assessment

LP da Silva, RH Heleno, JM Costa, M Valente… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Biodiversity sustained by natural ecosystems, particularly forests, provides ecosystem services
essential to human well-being. However, many forests have been severely transformed, …

[HTML][HTML] The nexus between market needs and value attributes of smart city solutions towards energy transition. An empirical evidence of two European Union (EU) …

…, F Fuligni, S Barberis, K Verbeek, JM Costa… - Smart Cities, 2020 - mdpi.com
This study presents an experiential process and a market-oriented approach for realizing
cities’ energy transition through smart solutions. The aim of this study is twofold: (a) present a …

[HTML][HTML] Landscape simplification increases Bactrocera oleae abundance in olive groves: adult population dynamics in different land uses

D Paredes, JF Alves, S Mendes, JM Costa, J Alves… - Journal of Pest …, 2023 - Springer
Bactrocera oleae is the main pest in olive groves, and its management requires a
sustainable perspective to reduce the use of chemical products. Landscape context is being …

Sampling completeness in seed dispersal networks: when enough is enough

JM Costa, LP da Silva, JA Ramos, RH Heleno - Basic and Applied Ecology, 2016 - Elsevier
Ecological networks are an increasingly popular tool to explore community assembly rules
and frame practical conservation issues. However, most described networks vary largely in …

Co-occurrence of mycotoxins in swine feed produced in Portugal

I Almeida, HM Martins, S Santos, JM Costa… - Mycotoxin …, 2011 - Springer
A total of 404 samples of commercial swine feed from Portugal feed mills were analysed by
HPLC methods for the presence of mycotoxins: 277 samples of feed for fattening pigs were …

Rewiring of experimentally disturbed seed dispersal networks might lead to unexpected network configurations

JM Costa, JA Ramos, LP da Silva, S Timóteo… - Basic and Applied …, 2018 - Elsevier
… Author links open overlay panel José M. Costa a b , Jaime A. Ramos b , Luís P. da Silva a
b … of them consisting of a rectangle of 2 m × 25 m (50 m 2 ). Although we might have missed …