Miguel Furtado, PhD Student

Living on an island since he was born, Miguel always found himself a very attached person to the Ocean. As a consequence of his natural curiosity, he pursued his studies about marine life with a B.Sc. in Marine Biology (2011) and a M.Sc. in Marine Ecology (2013). Miguel has been working on different research projects, but more recently has been fulfilling his dream by focusing his research on the ecology of large migratory fish species. Under the guidance of Rui Rosa (MARE), Nuno Queiroz (CIBIO-InBIO) and Pedro Afonso (IMAR-Dop) he will be enrolled on his PhD project about the behaviour physiology of bluefin and bigeye tunas in the North Atlantic Ocean. The project aims to examine how movements and foraging behaviour of these two contrasting tuna species are constrained by environmental conditions and physiological limitations, as well as its modelling to climate change scenarios and fisheries.
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Interests and Expertise: Marine Ecology, Migrations, Foraging behavior, Physiology, Tunas, Climate change, Commercial fisheries, Conservation

Academic Qualifications
2013. M.Sc. in Marine Ecology - Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

​2012. 'Licenciatura' in Marine Biology - University of the Azores, Portugal.

Publications
Book Chapter:

Couto, A., Baptista, M., Furtado, M., Sousa, L.L., Queiroz, N., 2016. Life Histories of Oceanodromous Fishes. In: An introduction to fish migration. Eds. Morais, P., Daverat, F., CRC Press, Florida. pp. 123- 146.

International Publications:
Couto, A., Queiroz, N., Relvas, P., Baptista, M., Furtado, M., Castro, J., Nunes, M., Morikawa, H., Rosa, R., 2017. Occurrence of basking shark Cetorhinus maximus in southern Portuguese waters: a two-decade survey. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 564: 77-86.

Narvaez, P., Furtado, M., Neto, A.I., Moniz, I., Azevedo, J.M.N., Soares, M.C., 2015. Temperate facultative cleaner wrasses selectively remove ectoparasites from their client-fish in the Azores. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 540: 217-226.

Martins, G.M., Faria, J., Furtado, M., Neto, A.I., 2014. Shells of Patella aspera as ‘islands’ for epibionts. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. UK., 94: 1027-1032.

Pereira, M.J., Teixeira, B., Andrade, C., Furtado, M., 2012. Rapid and effective germination methods to overcome primary seed dormancy in several Azorean endemic species. Acta Hort., 938: 77-84.