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Impacts of hypoxic events surpass those of future ocean warming and acidification
Sampaio et al, 2021 Nature Ecology and Evolution Expanding conservation culturomics and iEcology from terrestrial to aquatic realms
Jaric et al, 2020 PLoS Biology Octopuses “punch” fishes during collaborative interspecific hunting events
Sampaio et al, 2020 Ecology |
| RECENT NEWS
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| 2021 | See our recent study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution.
"Impacts of hypoxic events surpass those of future ocean warming and acidification". Eduardo Sampaio et al. Summing up: "In contrast to warming and acidification, hypoxic events elicited consistent negative effects relative to control biological performance [i.e., survival (-33%), abundance (-65%), development (-51%), metabolism (-33%), growth (-24%) and reproduction (-39%)], across all taxonomic groups (mollusks, crustaceans, and fish), ontogenetic stages, and climate regions studied" |
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| 2021 | See our two new chapters in:
"The Ocean Sunfishes: Evolution, Biology and Conservation" (T. Thys, G., Hays & J.D.R. Houghton, Eds.). CRC Press. One lead by Miguel Baptista. https://www.routledge.com/.../Thys.../p/book/9780367359744 |
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| 2021 | Our latest work with octopuses in "The New York Times", among many other international media.
THE SCIENTIFIC NATURALIST Open Access "Octopuses punch fishes during collaborative interspecific hunting events" in Ecology Eduardo Sampaio et al. |
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| 2021 | Our latest work with small cetaceans
Joana Castro et al. «Assessing the Behavioural Responses of Small Cetaceans to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles» is now out on Remote Sensing, with Open Access |
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| 2020 | José Ricardo Paula and Vanessa Lopes Letria won the 1st edition of SPECO Early Career Researcher Grants
In celebration of its 25 years, the Portuguese Society of Ecology (SPECO) opened a competition to support an original project in Ecology led by early career researchers contributing to the advancement of Ecology and the development of their career as independent researchers. José Ricardo Paula (PI) and Vanessa Lopes Letria (CO-PI) will use this grant to study the physiological and cognitive responses of fishes and cephalopods to hypoxia. |
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| 2020 | Our former PhD student José Ricardo Paula was awarded with the best PhD in Ecology 2020
José Ricardo Paula, a former PhD student of RRLab (MARE | FCUL) and now a Postdoctoral researcher in our lab, had his PhD thesis selected by SPECO - Portuguese Ecological Society and FAD - Fundação Amadeu Dias as the Best PhD Thesis in Ecology in 2020. Check his intreview to SPECO (in portuguese)! |
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| Tiago Repolho and Rui Rosa's latest grant
Dr. Tiago Repolho and Dr. Rui Rosa, were recently awarded with a grant by the PADI Foundation USA. This grant will allow us to study the effects of Ocean warming and Ocean acidification on seagrasses biological, photophysiological and biochemical processes. Project title: The effects of global climate change and environmental driven chronobiology on a pioneer seagrass species |
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| RRLab is on the News - Shark nursery in Cape Verde
Following Rui Rosa's presentation at the 1st Marine Biology Congress for portuguese speaking countries - "A brigde between seas" (Faro, Portugal), our on-going study regarding the characterization of shark nurseries in Cape Verde made waves in the portuguese media. It was featured in multiple mainstream online newspapers (TSF, Observador, Diário de Notícias, Lusa, Correio da Manhã, Porto Canal and so on...) , including a sports news website (A Bola) ! Talk about public outreach... :) This study was funded by the PADI Foundation, |
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| Rui Rosa's latest grant
Dr. Rui Rosa, was recently awarded with a new grant by the PADI Foundation USA. Through the direct involvement of the local population, this grant will allow us to describe and assess the first hammerhead shark nursery in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean. Hopefully, the research efforts and data collected will considerably improve the eficiency of conservation efforts directed to the emblematic scalloped hammerhead shark. Project title: Description and assessment of the first hammerhead shark nursery in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean. (Ref: 28572) |
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| JEB just sent one of our PhD Students to French Polynesia!
Our PhD Student José Ricardo Paula, was recently awarded with a new grant by the Company of Biologists - Journal of Experimental Biology, which will fund the development of field work at Moorea, French Polynesia. This grant will allow us to evaluate the potential effects of elevated CO2 (Ocean Acidification) in cleaner fish (Labroides dimidiatus and Labroides bicolor) cooperative behavioural responses under a neurobiological scope and its repercussions to coral reef ecosystems. Project title: Neurobiological responses to elevated CO2 in cleaning mutualisms (Ref: JEB 170212) |
EXPLORING THE OCEANS OF TOMORROW...
Led by Rui Rosa, the RRLAB seeks to understand how future environmental changes, such as climate change and ocean acidification, affect marine biodiversity. Future changes in ocean's chemistry, temperature and oxygen levels (hypoxia) are predicted to dictate deleterious physiological responses at organism-level, and drive, at community-level, profound impacts on diversity and biogeography. We have been investigating how these climate-related variables may interfere with critical biological processes, including acid-base regulation, energy metabolism, growth potential and calcification processes in coastal marine species.
Concomitantly, our research team is also studying bathymetric and global-scale patterns of marine biodiversity and their causes. In fact, broad-scale species richness gradients are among the most prevalent patterns in the planet, but understanding the causes is one of the greatest contemporary challenges for ecologists. Marine biodiversity research lags behind that on land, with only 10% of overall biodiversity research devoted to marine biodiversity and exhibits a general neglect of developments in general ecological theory.
