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To study the biogeography of rocky shore fishes along the
coast of mainland Portugal and the relative degree of genetic
differentiation of their populations.
• To perform quantitative monitoring of the rocky shore
fish community at Arrábida, to determine patterns of
inter-annual variation in populations, their resilience and
stability and to access the effectiveness of the recently
established Marine Protected Area.
• To study the behaviour of the resident fish of the
intertidal communities during high-tide.
• To study the phylogeography of iberian cyprinids and
the reproductive biology and behaviour of the hybridogenic
cyprinid Squalius alburnoides.
• To study the colonization routes of Azores, Madeira
and Canaries and the relative importance of different source
populations in southwest Europe, the Mediterranean and western
Africa in this historical process.
• To study the sound productions in the context of social
behaviour in fish.
• To study the recruitment patterns and processes in
early life stages of fishes, addressing the following questions:
i) What are the micro-distribution patterns of fish larval
stages in different habitats?
ii) How are the fish larvae behavioural mechanisms related
to nearshore retention?
iii) What are the observed recruitment levels for littoral
fishes and how do they vary in space and time?
iv) How are the embryonic and larval development of littoral
fish species related to recruitment patterns?
• To enable our laboratory to continue the development
of methodologies for recording and analysing animal acoustic
signals, from the low-frequency band to ultrasound.
• To study the behavioural ecology of passerine migrants
during their stopover and wintering in Iberia.
• To continue the study of behaviour and ecology of
seabirds with special emphasis on shearwaters, integrating
it with oceanographic conditions and the ecology of other
marine organisms.
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:: Recent publications
• Almada V. C., Pérez-Portela
R., Robalo J. I. & Brito, A.
2009. Phylogenetic relationships of Gymnothorax bacalladoi
Böhlke and Brito 1987 a poorly known moray of the Macaronesian
islands. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 52: 252–256.
• Almada, V. C., Robalo, J.I.,
Levy, A., Freyhof, J., Bernardi, G, Doadrio,
I. 2009. Phylogenetic analysis of Peri-Mediterranean blennies
of the genus Salaria: Molecular insights on the colonization
of freshwaters. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52:
424–431.
• Levy, A., I. Doadrio,
V.C. Almada. 2009. Historical biogeography
of European leuciscins (Cyprinidae): evaluating the Lago Mare
dispersal hypothesis. Journal of Biogeography 36(1): 55-65.
• Patzner, R.A.; Gonçalves,
E.J.; Hastings, P. & Kapoor, B.G. (Eds.) 2009.
The Biology of Blennies. Science Publishers, Enfield, NH.
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