Valuation of the ecosystem services delivered by Ria Formosa lagoon

RIAVALUE

scientists placing sensors in seagrass meadows

Valuation of the ecosystem services delivered by Ria Formosa lagoon

Datas

31.05.2016 - 30.05.2019

Grupos de Investigação

Marine Plant Ecology Research Group

Entidade Coordenadora

CCMAR

Coordenação do CCMAR

Rui Santos

Referência

PTDC/MAR-EST/3223/2014

Agencias de financiamento

FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia

Governo - República Portuguesa

Orçamento Total

199990.00 €

Orçamento do CCMAR

183900.00€

Atividades

MSc. thesis by Filipe Parreira entitled “Effects of the seaweed Caulerpa prolifera establishment on the biodiversity of Ria Formosa lagoon”, defended in October 2018. Marine Biology Master program, University of Algarve (Portugal). Co-supervisors: R Santos, B Martínez-Crego. Grade: 19/20

MSc. thesis by Sara de Agrela Vital entitled “Potential for a consumer control on the takeover of the Ria Formosa lagoon by the invasive seaweed Caulerpa prolifera”, defended in December 2022. Master in Biology and Marine Conservation. Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida (ISPA, Lisbon). Supervisor: B Martínez-Crego. Grade: 17/20

Communication in international congress by de los Santos CB, Martins M, Mace R, Silva A, Freitas C, Martínez-Crego B, Parreira F, Silva J, Veiga-Pires C, Calado G, Grilo C, Calixto V, Santos R. An ecosystem service approach to decision-making in the Ria Formosa lagoon (South Portugal). World Seagrass Conference. National University of Singapore, Singapore, June 11-14, 2018 (oral presentation).

Publicações

Martins, M. (2018). Long term carbon storage in seagrass meadows and saltmarshes in the Ria Formosa along a hydrodynamic gradient [Master’s Thesis, University of Algarve]. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/12222

Santos, R., Duque-Núñez, N., de los Santos, C. B., Martins, M., Carrasco, A. R., & Veiga-Pires, C. (2019). Superficial sedimentary stocks and sources of carbon and nitrogen in coastal vegetated assemblages along a flow gradient. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 610. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37031-6

de los Santos, C. B., Olivé, I., Moreira, M., Silva, A., Freitas, C., Araújo Luna, R., Quental-Ferreira, H., Martins, M., Costa, M. M., Silva, J., Cunha, M. E., Soares, F., Pousão-Ferreira, P., & Santos, R. (2020). Seagrass meadows improve inflowing water quality in aquaculture ponds. Aquaculture, 528, 735502. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2020.735502

Erzini K, Parreira F, Sadat Z, Castro M, Bentes L, Coelho R, dos Santos Gonçalves JM, Lino P, Martínez-Crego B, Monteiro P, Ribeiro J, de los Santos CB, Santos R (2022) Nursery and fish provisioning ecosystem services delivered by the Ria Formosa lagoon (Portugal). Ecosystem Services. 58: 101490. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101490

Parreira F, Martínez-Crego B^, Lourenço Afonso CM, Machado M, Oliveira F, dos Santos Gonçalves JM, Santos R^ (2021) Biodiversity consequences of Caulerpa prolifera takeover of a coastal lagoon. (^equally contributing authors). Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 255: 107344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2021.107344

de los Santos, C. B., Lahuna, F., Silva, A., Freitas, C., Martins, M., Carrasco, A. R., & Santos, R. (2022). Vertical intertidal variation of organic matter stocks and patterns of sediment deposition in a mesotidal coastal wetland. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 272, 107896. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2022.107896

Martins, M., de los Santos, C. B., Masqué, P., Carrasco, A. R., Veiga-Pires, C., & Santos, R. (2022). Carbon and Nitrogen Stocks and Burial Rates in Intertidal Vegetated Habitats of a Mesotidal Coastal Lagoon. Ecosystems, 25(2), 372–386. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-021-00660-6