- Portuguese Ecological Society
- Portugal
About Maria Amélia Martins-Loução
Soil Ecology / Plant Conservation / Ecosystem services
Full Professor. Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes. Faculdade de Ciências. Universidade de Lisboa
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This is very interesting and I wonder if you do this also in terms of soil microbiota.
I know there is, but we really need urgently some good tools to both "domesticated" soil ecosystems and identify reliable soil microbioma indicators. My group at Plant Soil Ecology is working on introducing microbioma consorcia for better plant production
This is very interesting and I wonder if you do this also in terms of soil microbiota.
This is fabulous since it was also in the same date, precisely that Ernst van Haeckel defined Ecology. And we always considered Humboldt as the father of Ecology.
Since 2016, after the ceremony in EU Parliament of the 150th year of that definition, SPECO (Portuguese Society of Ecology) has launched that day as the Ecology Day. The idea now is to spread all over the world numerous activities for people understand the role of ecology and ecologists in these changing biosphere.