Manual de Boas Práticas - Inovenergy

Nos últimos 150 anos o clima tem-se tornado progressivamente instável e mais quente. Se nada for feito, estas alterações tendem a acentuar-se e afetarem negativamente o ambiente, com efeitos a nível dos recursos hídricos, das zonas costeiras, da agricultura, da saúde humana, da energia, e da biodiversidade. Estas alterações climáticas estão diretamente relacionadas com o crescimento das emissões dos Gases de Efeito Estufa (GEE), em que se salienta o papel do dióxido de carbono (CO2). Outros gases relevantes para o efeito de estufa incluem o metano (CH4), os óxidos de azoto (NOx) e os compostos fluorados. As emissões de CO2 e de NOx produzidas pelo Homem são maioritariamente atribuídas ao setor energético e aos transportes. A solução para reduzir o excessivo consumo de energia está longe de ser conhecida, contudo devemos procurar fontes de energia alternativas e adotar medidas que promovam essa redução. É neste âmbito que se aplica a eficiência energética. A forma como a energia é utilizada é impreterivelmente uma questão chave neste processo. Como tal, é imprescindível aumentar a eficiência energética nas operações das empresas, de modo a promover a redução de custos, aumentando a competitividade, contribuindo ainda para a redução da intensidade energética global.Os autores agradecem ao "Programa Operacional Fatores de Competitividade"- COMPETE, pelo financiamento atribuído ao projeto INOVENERGY. Os autores expressam também o seu agradecimento a todos os empresários e funcionários das empresas e associações agroindustriais que colaboraram no desenvolvimento deste estudo. Este guia foi desenvolvido no âmbito do projeto INOVENERGY (Eficiência Energética no setor Agroindustrial (FCOMP-05-0128-FEDER-018642).info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES: a data set on carnivore distribution in the Neotropics

Mammalian carnivores are considered a key group in maintaining ecological health and can indicate potential ecological integrity in landscapes where they occur. Carnivores also hold high conservation value and their habitat requirements can guide management and conservation plans. The order Carnivora has 84 species from 8 families in the Neotropical region: Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Otariidae; Phocidae; Procyonidae; and Ursidae. Herein, we include published and unpublished data on native terrestrial Neotropical carnivores (Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Procyonidae; and Ursidae). NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES is a publicly available data set that includes 99,605 data entries from 35,511 unique georeferenced coordinates. Detection/non-detection and quantitative data were obtained from 1818 to 2018 by researchers, governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, and private consultants. Data were collected using several methods including camera trapping, museum collections, roadkill, line transect, and opportunistic records. Literature (peer-reviewed and grey literature) from Portuguese, Spanish and English were incorporated in this compilation. Most of the data set consists of detection data entries (n = 79,343; 79.7%) but also includes non-detection data (n = 20,262; 20.3%). Of those, 43.3% also include count data (n = 43,151). The information available in NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES will contribute to macroecological, ecological, and conservation questions in multiple spatio-temporal perspectives. As carnivores play key roles in trophic interactions, a better understanding of their distribution and habitat requirements are essential to establish conservation management plans and safeguard the future ecological health of Neotropical ecosystems. Our data paper, combined with other large-scale data sets, has great potential to clarify species distribution and related ecological processes within the Neotropics. There are no copyright restrictions and no restriction for using data from this data paper, as long as the data paper is cited as the source of the information used. We also request that users inform us of how they intend to use the data

The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

The PREDICTS project—Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)—has collated from published studies a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use. We have used this evidence base to develop global and regional statistical models of how local biodiversity responds to these measures. We describe and make freely available this 2016 release of the database, containing more than 3.2 million records sampled at over 26,000 locations and representing over 47,000 species. We outline how the database can help in answering a range of questions in ecology and conservation biology. To our knowledge, this is the largest and most geographically and taxonomically representative database of spatial comparisons of biodiversity that has been collated to date; it will be useful to researchers and international efforts wishing to model and understand the global status of biodiversity