BIOGRAPHY
Employment history
2004-2012: Professor, at the University of Madeira
1999-2004: Assistant Professor, at the University of Madeira
1989-1999: Assistant Professor, at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
Main recent responsibilities:
Vice-President of the Biology Department, at the University of Madeira (2004-2006)
President of the Portuguese Phytossociological Association (2006-)
Phd - Thesis supervised
2010. Roberto Jardim: Flora and Vegetation of Port Santo (Madeira, Portugal) co-supervised by Prof. Carlos Aedo, Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid).
2008. Aida Pupo Correia: Landscape evolution in the Madeira archipelago: dynamics and Tempus. Co-supervised by Prof. José Aranha, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro).
2008. Maria Zita Ferreira: Biossistematics of the genus Andryala L. (Asteraceae), co-ssupervised by Prof. Inés Alvarez Fernández Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid).
2007. Albano Figueiredo: Natural Potential Vegetation and Climatic change scenarios in the Macaronseian contexto: The Madeira Island case.
Master - Thesis supervised
2013: Licínia Costa Ramos: " “Plantas medicinais e aromáticas em ambiente urbano: “saberes” madeirenses no concelho do Funchal” (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – Universidade Nova de Lisboa, mestrado em Antropologia especialidade Natureza e Conservação).
2011. Carlos Alberto Góis Marques: “Paleobotany in the Madeira island: the São Jorge site” (Master in Geology, speciality in Stratigraphy, sedimentology and paleontology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon).
2012. Eduardo Macedo: “Case study on the agricultural levadas of Madeira. The Levada Calheta-Ponta do Pargo” (Ecotourism Master, University of Madeira).
2005-2007. Aida Maria Correia de Nóbrega Pupo Correia: Recent history of Madeira vegetation and landscape. The utilization of old image records and photos. (Master Ciências da Terra e da Vida, University of Madeira).
2005-2007. Ana Henriqueta Spínola Gomes da Conceição: Botanists in the Madeira archipelago in the XIXth century. (Master Ciências da Terra e da Vida, University of Madeira)
2005-2007. Maria Zita Ferreira: Biosystematics of the genus Andryala L. (Asteraceae) in Macaronesia (Madeira, Azores and Canary Islands)] (Master Ciências da Terra e da Vida, University of Madeira).
Recent responsibilities
Visitor at different Herbaria: Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid (MA), Montpellier (MPU), Herbaria of the University of Coimbra (COI), Botanical Garden of the University of Lisbon (LISU), Natural History Museum, London (BM), Kew (K), Génova (GE e GDOR), Firenze (FI, FI-Webb), Roma (RO), Catania (CAT).
2012. Organizing committee of International Symposium about the Macaronesian Flora “FLORAMAC 2012”. The meeting will take place from 5-8 September 2012 in University of Madeira, Funchal, Madeira Island.
2010. Organizing committee of International Symposium about the Macaronesian Flora “FLORAMAC 2010”. The meeting will take place from 23-25 September 2010 in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island, Azores Islands.
2010. Mission to the Norte de Portugal, Flora Iberica expedition, June.
2009. Mission to Tunisia, March-April. Flora Iberica expedition/ Real Jardín Botánico (Madrid, Spain)
2007. Organizing committee. VI International Symposium on New Floricultural Crops ISHS Funchal, 12 a 15 Junho.
2007. Mission to Porto Santo e Madeira, expedição co-organizada com o Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid, 18 a 23 de Março.
2005. Organizing committee. 48th Symposium IAVS Lisboa 2005. Organização da Excursão Madeira (The vegetation of Madeira Island (Portugal). A brief overview and excursion guide. Quercetea 7: 105 -122.) de 18 a 23 de Julho (pre-symposium excursion).
2004. Organizing committee. V Encontro ALFA de Fitossociologia; Simpósio Internacional FIP 2004. Subordinado ao tema: História e Evolução da Vegetação, 7 a 10 de Setembro, Funchal (Madeira).
2001. Mission to Equador: Galápagos. 16 a 30 de Abril.
2000. Mission to the Azores collecting of herbarium specimens mainly Deschampsia e Holcus (Poaceae)
Thesis defence attendance
2011. Jan Jansen (Radboud University Nijmejen) subordinada ao tema “Vegetation of the Serra da Estrela and its management in a changing world”. Em 28 de Setembro.
2010. Elena Carrió (Universidade de Valência) subordinada ao tema “La hibridación en el origen y extinción de especies en el género Antirrhinum (Scrophulariaceae): el caso de las rupícolas amenazadas A. charidemi, A. subbaeticum y A. valentinum”. Avaliador!.
2010. Helena Canha Pinto Hespanhol (Universidade do Porto) subordinada ao tema “Bryophytes communities from rock outcrops: ecological characterization and conservation”. Em 7 de Janeiro de 2010 (arguente).
2009. Gina Maria de Oliveira Brito (Universidade de Aveiro) subordinada ao tema: Estratégias para a valorização do coberto vegetal da ilha do Porto Santo. Em 8 de Julho (vogal).
2007. Irene Gomes Câmara Camacho (Universidade da Madeira), subordinada ao tema: Estudo Aerobiológico da cidade do Funchal detecção bioquímica dos principais aeroalergénicos polínicos). Em 16 de Julho (vogal).
2005. Manuel Pimentel Pereira (Universidade da Corunha) subordinada ao tema: Estudio taxonómico y biogeográfico de las especies europeas del género Anthoxanthum L. (Poaceae: Pooideae: Avenae). Em 18 de Novembro.
News
29/03/2024 09:17
New paper: The conservation impact of botanical drones: Documenting and collecting rare plants from vertical cliffs and other hard-to-reach areas
Reference: Nyberg, B., Bairos, C., Brimhall, M., Deans, S.M., Hanser, S., Heintzman, S., Hillmann Kitalong, A., Menezes de Sequeira, M., Nobert, N., Rønsted, N., Soaladaob, N., Wood, K.R., & Williams, A.M. 2024. The conservation impact of botanical drones: Documenting and...
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22/07/2023 16:45
New paper: Contribution to the flora of the Selvagens archipelago (Portugal) (I)
Abstract: Plant specimens obtained by the authors from several expeditions to the Selvagens Islands (2004-2021), complemented by the study of herbarium specimens, led to the identification of several new species records for the Selvagens archipelago, namely the taxa currently considered as Canary...
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19/05/2023 16:13
Madeira: an Atlantic garden of rarities | 25th and 26th May 2023, University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal
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04/03/2023 15:26
New Paper: 1,3 Ma Flower and seed fossils Erica from Madeira Island
Description and systematic affinity of flower and seed fossils of Erica sect. Chlorocodon (Ericaceae) from the early Pleistocene of Madeira Island, Portugal
Góis-Marques, C.A., de Nascimento, L., Fernández-Palacios, J.M., Madeira, J., & Menezes de Sequeira, M. in press....
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28/01/2023 16:14
New Paper: Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on Andryala glandulosa subsp. cheiranthifolia (Cichorieae, Asteraceae) from Madeira Island, Portugal
New paper by Mª Zita Ferreira (GBM), Inés Álvarez Fernández (RJBM) & Miguel Menezes de Sequeira (GBM).
Andryala subglabrata (DC) M.Z.Ferreira, Alv.Fern. & M.Seq., stat. & comb. nov.
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Andryala glandulosa L.
Abstract: Currently two subspecies of Andryala glandulosa...
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08/11/2022 17:44
Celebrating Richard Thomas Lowe’s 220th birthday
O Grupo de Botânica da Madeira (Faculdade de Ciências da Vida, Universidade da Madeira) organizará de 2 a 4 de Dezembro 2022 um evento comemorativo dos 220 anos do nascimento de Richard Thomas Lowe. Este simpósio inicia-se com uma visita à Holy Trinity Church, no Funchal, e termina no dia 4 com a...
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29/01/2021 09:37
New Paper: Goats eat emblematic but Critically Endangered species that was only described in 2007
Population decline in the Critically Endangered Musschia isambertoi (Campanulaceae) endemic to Desertas Islands (Madeira Archipelago) calls for urgent conservation management
Abstract:
Macaronesian islands display a high degree of plant endemicity and correspond to some of the most threatened...
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01/02/2020 13:08
New paper in TAXON describes the oldest known carrot and the first evidence of Insular Woodiness
Tracing insular woodiness in giant Daucus (s.l.) fruit fossils from the Early Pleistocene of Madeira Island (Portugal)
Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/tax.12175
Abstract: Plants on oceanic islands can evolve insular syndromes such as secondary woodiness, a generalized trend...
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17/11/2019 17:37
New Paper dealing with charcoalified wood from Faial Island
New paper is out: Góis-Marques, C.A., Rubiales, J., de Nascimento, L., Menezes de Sequeira, M., Fernández-Palacios, J.M., Madeira, J., 2020. Oceanic Island forests buried by Holocene (Meghalayan) explosive eruptions: palaeobiodiversity in pre-anthropic volcanic charcoal from Faial...
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20/09/2019 14:46
New paper: Nomenclature and Typification of Names in the Ibero–North African Andryala arenaria (Asteraceae) and Taxonomic Implications
A new paper was published by our group, by Zita Ferreira, Inés Álvarez and Miguel Menezes de Sequeira, available here: novon.mobot.org/index.php/novon/article/view/297
Title: Nomenclature and Typification of Names in the Ibero–North African Andryala arenaria (Asteraceae) and Taxonomic...
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