Birds as bio-indicators: conservation state of watercourses through composition and structure analysis of bird communities; rehabilitation measures in riparian systems.
Rehabilitation plans for watercourses: diagnosis and selection of river stretches for rehabilitation; planning, execution and monitoring of rehabilitation measures; identification of local vegetation potential and development of propagation techniques; monitoring the effectiveness of rehabilitation actions.
Publications
Godinho C, Rabaça JE, Segurado P 2010. Breeding bird assemblages in riparian galleries of the Guadiana River basin: the effect of spatial structure and habitat variables. Ecological Research vol25(2): 283-294. DOI 10.1007/s11284-009-0655-9
Godinho C, Pereira P, Rabaça JE 2010. Bringing light to remnants of riparian areas in rice field channels: a combined application of linear transects and the mapping method. In Bermejo, A (Ed.). Bird Numbers 2010 “Monitoring, indicators and targets”. Book of abstracts of the 18th Conference of the European Bird Census Council.SEO/BirdLife. Madrid. Pp: 100-101.
Godinho C, Rabaça JE 2006. Breeding birds of the Gandum Stream: An assessment of bird community prior to river rehabilitation. XVIII Congresso Espanhol e III Ibérico de Ornitologia. Alicante, Spain.
Mendes A, Arizpe D, Rabaça JE 2008. Sustainable Riparian Zones – a management guide. Ed. Generalitat Valenciana, Valencia, Spain.
Mendes A, Almeida MH, Arvanitis K, Arizpe D, Chatzinikolaou Y, Crochet PA, Dias PC, Dimopoulos P, Dincuff E, Fabião A, Faivre B, Faria C, Fernandes MR, Ferreira MT, Frochot B, Giakoumi S, Godinho C, Hipólito R, Koutsikos N, Loi I, Pais F, Pereira C, Perret Ph, Prada MA, Rabaça JE, Roché J, Roque I, Viana J, Zogaris S 2010. The RIPIDURABLE project – sustainable management of riparian areas. 7th SER European Conference on Ecological Restoration 23-27 August Avignon France Pp: 122.
Rabaça JE, Mendes A, Dias PC, Godinho C, Roché JC, Frochot B, Faivre B, Dincuff E, Perret P, Crochet P-A, Roque I, Vaz A 2010. Birds & sustainable management in Mediterranean riparian areas: Bird studies in the RIPIDURABLE project. Special session 4. 7th SER European Conference on Ecological Restoration 23-27 August Avignon France. Pp: 120.
Rabaça JE, Godinho C 2008. Birds as bio-indicators of riparian ecosystems. In Arizpe, D., Mendes, A. & Rabaça, J.E. (eds.) Riparian Zones – a Management Guide. Ed. Generalitat Valenciana, Valencia, Spain.
Rabaça JE 2004. Avifauna dos corredores fluviais da bacia do Sado: composição dos povoamentos nidificantes e avaliação do interesse de conservação. In Correia, F.N., Saraiva, M.G. & Moreira, I. (Eds.), Conservação, Valorização e Gestão Ambiental de Sistema Fluviais. ISA Press, Lisboa. Pp: 329-344. Rabaça JE 1997. Breeding bird assemblages of watercourses of the Alcáçovas basin: evaluation criteria for river corridors. In Spina, F. (Ed.), 1st Meeting of the European Ornithological Union, Bologna. Pp: 171. Rabaça JE 1998. Assessing the ornithological importance of mediterranean river corridors: the INDOR, index of ornithological importance. In Farina, A., Kennedy, J. & Bossù, V. (Eds.) VII International Congress of Ecology, INTECOL. Firenze. Pp: 347.
Roché J, Godinho C, Rabaça JE, Frochot B, Faivre B, Mendes A, Dias, PC 2010. Birds as bio-indicators and as tools to evaluate restoration measures. 7th SER European Conference on Ecological Restoration 23-27 August Avignon France. Pp: 64.