Amélia Dionísio

TL;DR: It is suggested that a standardized laboratory protocol for evaluating stone bioreceptivity and definition of a stone biOREceptivity index are required to enable creation of a database on the primary bioreCEPTivity of stone materials.

TL;DR: The results suggest that cyanobacteria and chlorophyta colonize a wide variety of substrata and that this is related primarily to the physical characteristics of the stone surface, microclimate and environmental conditions and secondarily to the lithotype.

TL;DR: Five Rubrobacter strains were isolated from tombs in the Roman Necropolis of Carmona, Portugal and Spain and showed different physiology and migration in denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis, suggesting they might represent new species within this genus.

TL;DR: It was possible to verify that 4 months after inoculation, colonization had led to development of biofilms similar to those occurring on stone monuments located outdoors, and showed that Anca limestone had the highest primary bioreceptivity, followed by Lioz limestone, with Portalegre granite being weakly colonized or not colonized at all.

TL;DR: A review about the main geophysical techniques applied to the study of cultural built heritage (excluding the archaeology field) is presented in this paper, the main investigations done in this field are showed, the method or methods most appropriate to answer each problem (moisture detection, characterization of the materials, study of the structural continuity of the material, assessment of intervention's effectiveness) are indicated and the main advances and gaps and future developments are also pointed out.