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A framework for optimising opportunistic collaborative syntheses to propel ecol...
Sequeira, Ana M.M.; Bates, Amanda E.; Hays, Graeme; Sims, David W.; Andrzejaczek, Samantha; Audzijonyte, Asta; Baum, Julia K.; Beal, MartinEcological data are being opportunistically synthesised at unprecedented scales in response to the global biodiversity and climate crises. Such syntheses are often only possible through large-scale, international, multidisciplinary collaborations and provide important pathways for addressing urgent conservation questions. Although large collaborative data syntheses can lead to high-impact successes, they can al...
Lipkea ruspoliana Vogt, 1886 (Cnidaria: Staurozoa) in Portugal: the contributio...
Miranda, Lucília S.; Tavares, Sílvia; Dos Santos, Antonina; Gonçalves, Emanuel J.; Serrão, Ester A.; Coelho, Márcio A. G.Citizen science online platforms are increasingly making important sources of biological information available at the click of a button, allowing the interaction of volunteers and scientists to report and identify the world’s diversity. In this work, we combined the data available in citizen science platforms (iNaturalist and GelAvista) and the efort and collaboration of a diverse team of scuba-divers,· scienti...
Not out of the Mediterranean: Atlantic populations of the gorgonian Paramuricea...
A. G. Coelho, Márcio; Pearson, Gareth Anthony; Boavida, Joana; Paulo, Diogo; Aurelle, Didier; ARNAUD-HAOND, Sophie; Gómez-Gras, DanielThe accurate delimitation of species boundaries in nonbilaterian marine taxa is notoriously difficult, with consequences for many studies in ecology and evolution. Anthozoans are a diverse group of key structural organisms worldwide, but the lack of reliable morphological characters and informative genetic markers hampers our ability to understand species diversification. We investigated population differentiat...
Not out of the Mediterranean: Atlantic populations of the gorgonian Paramuricea...
Coelho, Márcio; Pearson, Gareth; Boavida, Joana R. H.; Paulo, Diogo; Aurelle, Didier; Arnaud‐Haond, Sophie; Gómez‐Gras, Daniel; Bensoussan, NathanielThe accurate delimitation of species boundaries in nonbilaterian marine taxa is notoriously difficult, with consequences for many studies in ecology and evolution. Anthozoans are a diverse group of key structural organisms worldwide, but the lack of reliable morphological characters and informative genetic markers hampers our ability to understand species diversification. We investigated population differentiat...
A low‐latitude species pump: Peripheral isolation, parapatric speciation and ma...
Almeida, Susana C.; Neiva, João; Sousa, Filipe; Martins, Neusa; Cox, Cymon J.; Melo‐Ferreira, José; Guiry, Michael D.; Serrão, Ester A.Geologically recent radiations can shed light on speciation processes, but incomplete lineage sorting and introgressive gene flow render accurate evolutionary reconstruction and interpretation challenging. Independently evolving metapopulations of low dispersal taxa may provide an additional level of phylogeographic information, given sufficiently broad sampling and genome-wide sequencing. Evolution in the mari...
Genomes Vary in Size and Spatial Patterns Within Chimeric Blades of Porphyra spp
Varela-Álvarez, Elena; Loureiro, João; Meirmans, Patrick G.; Castro, Mariana; Serrão, Ester A.Genome size variation is of crucial biological importance, however variation in genome sizes within a single individual/organism is rarely reported except for some species groups such as algae where polygenomy, endopolyploidy and mixopolyploidy have previously been reported. The red algal genus Porphyra forms part of very profitable marine food products commonly known as ‘Nori’. Farming of these valuable marine...
Weak biodiversity connectivity in the European network of no-take marine protec...
Assis, J.; Fragkopoulou, Eliza; Serrão, Ester A.; e Costa, Horta; Gandra, Miguel; Abecasis, DavidThe need for international cooperation in marine resource management and conservation has been reflected in the increasing number of agreements aiming for effective and well-connected networks of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). However, the extent to which individual MPAs are connected remains mostly unknown. Here, we use a biophysical model tuned with empirical data on species dispersal ecology to predict conne...
The collapse of marine forests: drastic reduction in populations of the family ...
Bernal-Ibáñez, Alejandro; Gestoso, Ignacio; Wirtz, Peter; Kaufmann, Manfred; Serrão, Ester A.; Canning-Clode, João; Cacabelos, EvaSpecies of the genera Cystoseira, Ericaria, Gongolaria, and Sargassum (family Sargassaceae) are key components of the Mediterranean-Atlantic marine forests, essential for biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Populations of these foundational species are particularly vulnerable to anthropogenic impacts, likely to be intensified under future scenarios of climate change. The decline and even disappearance of th...
Climate Change Impacts on Seagrass Meadows and Macroalgal Forests: An Integrati...
Duarte, Bernardo; Martins, Irene Isabel da Cruz; Rosa, Rui; Matos, Ana R.; Roleda, Michael Y.; Reusch, Thorsten B. H.; Engelen, Aschwin H.Marine macrophytes are the foundation of algal forests and seagrass meadows–some of the most productive and diverse coastal marine ecosystems on the planet. These ecosystems provide nursery grounds and food for fish and invertebrates, coastline protection from erosion, carbon sequestration, and nutrient fixation. For marine macrophytes, temperature is generally the most important range limiting factor, and ocea...
Polyploid lineages in the genus Porphyra
Varela-Álvarez, Elena; Loureiro, João; Paulino, Cristina; Serrão, Ester A.Whole genome duplication is now accepted as an important evolutionary force, but the genetic factors and the life history implications affecting the existence and abundance of polyploid lineages within species are still poorly known. Polyploidy has been mainly studied in plant model species in which the sporophyte is the dominant phase in their life history. In this study, we address such questions in a novel s...