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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.

| PhD students

Joana Castro
Catarina P. Santos
Emanuel Nunes
Miguel Furtado
Miguel Guerreiro
Sandra Melo
Francisco Borges
Jaquelino Varela
Jaquelino Varela
Eve Otjacques
Vasco Pissarra
Beatriz Pereira

| Master students

Lígia Cascalheira
Mark Deleja
Silvia Simão
André Rocha

| Undergraduate Students

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EMPEC
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