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Teresa Cruz

Pilot studies for stock enhancement of purple sea urchins (Paracentrotus lividu...

In the framework of stock enhancement, field experiments were conducted between March and July 2021 in rocky shores of Central Portugal to test the usefulness of refuges and calcein marking for juvenile sea urchins releases. Individuals with 10–20mmin test diameter were captured in nature and tagged through immersion in a calcein bath with a concentration of 150 mg L 1, during 48 hr. Artificial shelters were us...

Physical and chemical tagging methods for the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus ...

The sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus (Lamarck, 1816) (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) is an important economic resource in Europe, but intense harvesting has led to the collapse of several natural populations. Echinoculture, associated with restocking and stock enhancement practices, is an alternative to this problem. In these procedures, reliable individual identification through tagging is a valuable source of inf...

Antifungal and Anti-Inflammatory Potential of Bupleurum rigidum subsp. panicula...

Fungal infections remain a major health concern with aromatic plants and their metabolites standing out as promising antifungal agents. The present study aims to assess, for the first time, the antifungal and anti-inflammatory potential of Bupleurum subsp. paniculatum (Brot.) H.Wolff essential oil from Portugal. The oil obtained by hydrodistillation and characterized by GC-MS, showed high amounts of monoterpene...

Recruitment of the limpet Patella ulyssiponensis and its relationship with crus...

Recruitment of the limpet Patella ulyssiponensis was investigated in relation to the presence of living crustose coralline algae (CCA) in rocky-shore habitats. Juvenile limpets (à10 mm max- imum shell length) were counted in CCA-present and CCA-absent habitats, on three shores in SW Portugal during summer 2007 and winter 2009. Furthermore, the settling response of laboratory-reared larvae of P. ulyssiponensis t...

Coastal lagoons and their watersheds as GWDE: a case study in the southwest coa...

The study of groundwater dependent ecosystems opened the opportunity to involve specialists of different areas of knowledge in order to obtain answers for complex interrelations between groundwater and the associated ecosystems. The actual study, carried out in two coastal lagoons of the Portuguese SW coast, showed the high dependency of the marine life and vegetation of the lagoons and associated streams disch...

Biologia aquática: o Mira e a região costeira alentejana

Embora existam alguns trabalhos pontuais pioneiros anteriores a 1980, foi a partir desta data que se intensificaram os estudos sobre as comunidades vegetais e animais do rio e do estuário do Mira. Em água doce, estes trabalhos têm incidido preferencialmente sobre a comunidade piscícola, embora mais recentemente os macroinvertebrados bentónicos tenham começado a ser alvo de uma atenção particular, devido à sua i...

Manual da Classe Thecostraca. Subclasse Cirripedia. Superordem Thoracica. Ordem...

Neste artigo é feita descrição dos Cirripedia Thoracica da Península Ibérica

The effects of rearing temperature on reproductive conditioning of stalked barn...

Pollicipes pollicipes (Crustacea; Pedunculata) is a delicacy on the Iberian Peninsula where, in recent years, stock shortages associated with high market value have increased interest in the aquaculture potential of this species. Though broodstock has been maintained in captivity, detailed culture conditions are lacking. The present study investigated the effects of rearing temperature on reproductive condition...

Growth rate variation of the stalked barnacle Pollicipes pollicipes (Crustacea:...

This study describes the use of calcein as a chemical tagging methodology to estimate growth rate variation of the stalked barnacle Pollicipes pollicipes, an ecologically important intertidal species and economic resource, in SW Portugal. Calcein tagging had a high success rate (94%) in marking both juvenile and adult barnacles for a period of 2.5 months, pro- viding a valuable method for obtaining reliable dat...