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Eco-Ethology Research Unit
Unidade de Investigação em Eco-Etologia

 
 
:: National Collaborations

National network for the study of marine biodiversity
A major collaborative effort involving people from CIMAR, UIE-ISPA and oceanography and fisheries department of University of Azores, including University of Oporto, University of Aveiro, UIE-ISPA, University of Algarve, University of Azores and National laboratory of energy and geology – LNEG

Network for ex-situ reproduction of critically endangered freshwater fish (UIE-ISPA, Aquário Vasco da Gama, Faculty of Veterinary medicine of Lisbon, QUERCUS (non-governmental organization))

Study and management of Cory’s shearwaters in the Salvage Islands and of Feae’s Petrel in the Desertas Islands ( UIE-ISPA, Dr Paulo Oliveira & Dília Menezes from Parque Natural da Madeira, Funchal, Dr José Pedro Granadeiro, from University of Lisbon, Dr Jaime A. Ramos, from Instituto do Mar, University of Coimbra)

External Group at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC)

:: International Collaborations


• Artur Andriolo, Fábio Prezoto, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil: Bioacoustical study of the Amazon river dolphin.

• Stuart Bearhop (Queen’s University, Belfast): studies that use stable isotopes to study the migration ecology and diet of birds. Ongoing projects include a Madeiran pelagic seabird (Pterodroma feae), the black-browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophrys) and a small passerine (the robin Erithacus rubecula).

• David R. Bellwood (James Cook University, Australia)

• Giacomo Bernardi (University of Califórnia, USA)

• British Antarctic Survey (R. A. Phillips & Janet Silk; Cambridge, UK): studies of pelagic seabirds (skuas – Stercoraridae and albatrosses Diomedeidae) in the South Atlantic, particularly in the Falkland Islands, as well as in the Madeiran archipelago, with a project focusing on Cory’s shearwaters Calonectris diomedea.

• Alberto Brito (University of La Laguna, Canary Islands)

• Redouan Bshary (Univ. Neucatel, Switzerland): Neuroendocrine control of cooperative behaviour in cleaner fish.

• Jennifer Caselle (Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, USA): evaluating the effects of protection on rocky fish communities in the Arrábida Marine Park

• Leonardo Congiu (Universidade de Pádua, Italy)

• Ignacio Doadrio ( Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales de Madrid, Spain)

• Jörg Freyof ( Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Germany)

• Lee Fuiman (Director of the Marine Science Institute, University of Texas at Austin, USA): ontogenetic variation on the behaviour of larval fish.

• Collaboration project (coordinated by R.W. Furness, University of Glasgow, UK) on the impact of fisheries discard rates on North Sea seabirds that resulted on a paper published in Nature.

• Bredan Godley & Annette Broderick (Marine Turtle Research Group, Univ. Exeter): study on the status and migration ecology of sea turtles nesting on Guinea-Bissau.

• Philip A. Hastings (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, USA)

• Sophie von der Heyden (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)

• Petya Ivanova ( Institute of Fishing Resources, Bulgaria)

• Maurice Kottelat (Cornol, Switzerland)

• Stan Kuczaj (University of Southern Mississipi, USA): Psychoacoustic studies of captive bottlenose dolphins at Zoomarine.

• Carlos Litulo (Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique)

• Mark McCormick (James Cook University, Australia: larval fish behaviour and reef fish communities.

• Long-term collaboration with the NGO New Island Conservation Trust (Falkland Is., UK) has been built and is still progressing, giving rise to many important scientific outputs.

• Robert A. Patzner (University of Salzburg, Austria)

• Ulrich Schliewen (Curator of Ichthyology at the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology
in Munich, Germany): marine fish taxonomy and systematics.

• Michael Taborsky (Univ. Bern, Switzerland): Hormones and helping behaviour in cooperative breeding cichlid fish

• George Turner ( University of Hull, U.K.): Fish Bioacustics

• Annemie van der Linden (Univ. Antwerp, Belgium): Development of a fMRI system to monitor brain activation in fish.

• Vera da Silva (Projeto Boto, Mamirauá, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Amazônicas, Manaus, Brazil): Bioacoustical study of the Amazon river dolphin.

• Paul Thompson (University of Aberdeen, UK): Study of dolphin movements using remote acoustic detection devices (T-PODs) and GIS.

• Maria Dolores Vinyoles ( Universidade de Barcelona, Spain)

• Gunther Zupanc (Univ. Bremen, Germany): Adult neurogenesis in teleost fish brains.

:: Training Networks

• ERASMUS students from Europe (Torino Univ; Univ Bern and Univ Neuchatel, Switzerland)

• Brazilian graduate students (CNPq) to conduct research project at our lab; Univ Brasilia; UNESP)

• Program in Psychobiology - Exchange programs with USP and UFRN (Brazil), Neuchatel (Switzerland), Vienna* (Austria) and Groeningen* (Netherlands).

:: Outreach activities

• public exhibit about freshwater fish of Portuguese waters, their habitats and threats; organized in cooperation with the National Aquarium (Aquário Vasco da Gama). Aquaria with live representatives of the Portuguese freshwater ichthyofauna were displayed together with representative amphibians. Texts on each individual species and on the different freshwater habitats and its conservation were also produced. See www.peixesdeportugal.com

• establishment, in the near future, of two aquaculture stations for ex-situ reproduction of critically endangered fish species; in cooperation with a local authority (Câmara Municipal de Oeiras), a National Park (Parque Natural de Sintra-Cascais) and a non-governmental organization (Quercus).

• ccooperation with the Institute for Nature Conservation (ICN) in the process of implementation of the marine protected area of Parque Natural da Arrábida; and contributing to the Red Data Book of Vertebrates.

• cooperation with the FCT program “Ciência Viva” through the PsyLink Project. This project aimed to teach basic notions of Psychology and Neurosciences to children of the first cycle of education in collaboration with the network of kinder gardens of Superior School of Education ESE João de Deus.

• Portuguese Delegate (Rui F. Oliveira), COST Action 867 (EC/ESF) on “Welfare of Fish in European Aquaculture”, 2006/2008.

 
 
last update: 17-1-2012