Joana Amaral Paulo (isa114126)
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If you are a master's student and are interested in one of the following topics, please contact me by email.

You are also encouraged to come to me with ideas, questions, suggestions or proposals that you want to approach in your thesis.

A) The impact of the debarking intensity at the two first cork extractions on the cork and cork oak growth.

Framework and Objectives

The work will focus the data collection regarding the cork and the tree growth, in a trial established in 2003 for researching the impact of the debarking intensity on cork growth. The trial is located at Perímetro Florestal da Contenda and has already provided the first results that are published in the journal Annals of Forest Science. Read about it here.

The data will focus on the effect of the treatments, at the tree level, considering distinct dendrometric, cork, and physiological response variables. Since the number of response variables provided by the trial is large, the student will be allowed to focus on the ones that are more of his/her interest.

Fieldwork is expected to take 1 to 2 full weeks. The location of the trial will allow the student to get insights into the current multifunctional management of this area, enjoying the landscape and the teamwork. Laboratory work will depend on the response variables chosen. 

We are looking for

• A student passionate about montado, cork oak, cork, subericultura, effects of climate change...
• A student with a taste for experimental design and research.
• Students with availability to travel from Lisbon to Barrancos for 3 to 4 weeks.
• Good writing skills.

We offer

• Guidance and complementary training regarding the topics of montado, cork oak, cork, subericultura, effects of climate change...
  
• Complementary training on data analysis tools (Excel and R).
• Integrated work in a dynamic team.
• Travel expenses during fieldwork.

Supervisors: Joana A Paulo (joanaap@isa.ulisboa.pt).

Ongoing and completed thesis supervision (MSc and Ph.D.)

• Catarina Tonelo Jorge. Ongoing. Process based models for cork oak (Quercus suber L.). Ph.D. thesis. Instituto Superior de Agronomia.
• Firmino, P. Ongoing. Influence of edaphic, topographic and competition variables on cork quality and thickness and cork oak spatial distribution’. Ph.D. thesis. Instituto Superior de Agronomia.
• Margarida Rios. Ongoing. Characterization of stands and acorn availability in four Pyrenean oak forest patches in the Montesinho Natural Park covered by the AcornDew project. MSc thesis. Instituto Superior de Agronomia.
• Ana Caeiro. Ongoing. Valuing oak domes (Q. suber, Q. rotundifolia and Q. pyrenaica) in a circular economy context. MSc thesis. Instituto Superior de Agronomia.
  
• Pereira, B. 2022. Cork quality evolution analysis at the tree level. MSc thesis. Instituto Superior de Agronomia.
• Toscano, J. 2023. Cork porosity evolution analysis at the tree level. MSc thesis. Instituto Superior de Agronomia.
• Faias, S. P. 2020. Using neighborhood vegetation information on cork oak growth and yield modelling. PhD thesis. Instituto Superior de Agronomia.
• Canha, H. 2019. Avaliação de diferenças de crescimento entre clones de diferentes espécies de eucalipto no distrito de Gurué, província de Zambézia (Moçambique). MSc thesis. Instituto Superior de Agronomia.
• Aubard, V. 2018. MSc thesis: ‘Monitoring cork oak woodlands through remote sensing with Google Earth Engine‘, financed by the ERASMUS+ Learning agreement for traineeships motilities between program countries. MSc thesis.
• Ruiz, M. F. 2017. Validation of the method used by the SUBER model for the estimation of extracted cork dry weight with more than 9 years of growth. MSc thesis. Instituto Superior de Agronomia.
• Collado, E. 2016. Modeling height distribution on young cork oak plantations in Portugal. Master thesis. Instituto Superior de Agronomia.
• Braga F. 2015. Modelação do crescimento em altura de povoamentos jovens de sobreiro. [Modeling tree height growth of young cork oak trees]. Master thesis. Instituto Superior de Agronomia, University of Lisbon and Universidade de Évora.
• Castel-Branco, D. A. A. S. 2014. Analise de mortalidade em plantações jovens de Sobreiro (Quercus suber L.) e sua relação com a qualidade da estação. [Analysis of mortality rates in young cork oak plantations (Quercus suber L.) and relation to site quality]. Master thesis. Instituto Superior de Agronomia.
• Sousa, D. D. O. 2012. Implementação de Modelos de Produção em PGF: Aplicação de um caso de estudo no Conselho de Coruche. [Implementation of growth and yield model in forest management plans development: an application study in the Coruche council.] Master thesis. Instituto Superior de Agronomia.
• Campos, M. M. 2003. Instalação de um ensaio para estudo do efeito da condução do sub-bosque no calibre e qualidade da cortiça. [Installation of an experimental trial for the study of the effect of understory management on cork calibre and quality]. Master thesis. Instituto Superior de Agronomia, BISA: K10-838; RB-5644
• Melo, N. M. R. 2003. Determinação das componentes de biomassa por amostragem destrutiva em eucaliptais plantados a diferentes compassos [Determination of biomass componentes by destructive sampling in eucalyptus plantations with diferente spacings]. MSc thesis. Instituto Superior de Agronomia. BISA: K10-821, RB-5549