BIOGRAPHY
Employment history
February 2010 onwards
Name of employer: Escola Secundária de Francisco Franco
Occupation or position held: tenured teacher
Biology and Geology
January 2002 - January 2010
Name of employer: Madeira Botanical Garden
Occupation or position held: Director
September 1996 - January 2002
Name of employer: Madeira Botanical Garden
Occupation or position held: Teacher/researcher
Activities and responsibilities: : Research on vascular flora and vegetation of Madeira and Selvagens Archipelagos and environment education
April 1989 - August 1996
Biology teacher in several basic and secondary schools of Madeira
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01/02/2020 13:08
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...
17/11/2019 17:37
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...
20/09/2019 14:46
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...
27/08/2019 12:08
Available here: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12371-019-00401-1 or rdcu.be/bPbkl
Reference: Góis-Marques, C.A., Elias, R.B., Steinbauer, M.J., de Nascimento, L., Fernández-Palacios, J.M., Menezes de Sequeira, M. & Madeira, J. 2019. The loss of a unique...
21/02/2019 12:51
A new paper describing a new and extinct Theaceae for Madeira Island was recently published in the journal Quaternary Science Review. You can check it out in: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379118309284
This discovery was also reported portuguese...
18/08/2018 09:22
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02/01/2018 21:55
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15/01/2016 11:42
We are proud to announce that we have two new doctors in our Group:
Zita Ferreira defended successfully her PhD. thesis entitled: “Biosystematics of the genus Andryala L. (Asteraceae)”.
Zita Ferreira thesis committee, from left to right: Miguel Sequeira, Carlos Neto, Jorge Capelo, Enrique...
02/10/2014 11:42
Our Group is co-organizing the XVII Congress of European Mycologists, that will be held in Madeira Island in September 2015. Registration opening soon at www.xviicem.org.
29/07/2014 13:36
Recently a new species of Andryala was described by our group. The study was published in the journal Novon: A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature, entitled "Andryala perezii (Asteraceae), a New Species from the Canary Islands". The comparison of Madeira and Canaries Island plants allowed...
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