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Bio Ilhas Project: Blending Research with scientific and educational dissemination
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Freshwater ecosystems provide humanity with a wide range of services, particularly water supply and purification. However, many of these ecosystems and their associated biodiversity are threatened significantly. Therefore, the introduction of nature-based solutions, such as floating wetland islands, in these ecosystems can contribute to the improvement of water quality and habitat provision and, when integrated with an environmental education context, can be used as powerful tools to engage students, tourists, and the general public in interactive experiences, allowing them to become more familiar with the function of freshwater ecosystems and biodiversity. Both the Fervença and Côa rivers are located in the Douro basin. The Fervença is an urban river, about 25 km long, which flows through Bragança. Along its course, it encounters non-point and point sources of pollution. In the urban core, the riverbed has been regulated, an artificial riverbank has been created, and the riparian forest has been partially removed. In this area, algal blooms occur, especially in summer, which negatively affect the water and visual quality of the area. The Côa is about 140 km long and flows through an agricultural and natural landscape. Nevertheless, the longitudinal connectivity of the river is reduced by several weirs, and the coffer dam has never been removed, even after a dam construction project was abandoned due to the discovery of important archaeological heritage. The Bio ilhas project, led by the Bragança Ciência Viva Science Center, aims to place floating islands in the urban core of Fervença and the lentic area influenced by the Côa coffer dam, the river areas affected by human activity at different levels. Therefore, the present communication aims to present the Bio ilhas project and the related activities conciliating research with scientific and educational dissemination to ultimately contribute to freshwater ecosystem conservation.
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Bio Ilhas Project Scientific and Educational dissemination Freshwater ecosystems conservation
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Ferreira, Nathália Borges Bartoli; Sá, Isabel; Fachada; Calheiros, Cristina; Geraldes, Ana Maria (2024). Bio Ilhas Project: Blending Research with scientific and educational dissemination. In Book of Abstracts: Nature Based Solutions Summit - Urban Edition NBS Summit 2024. Porto