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

:: Main Scientific Domain

Marine Sciences

:: General Objectives

• Monitoring and surveys of marine biodiversity in Portuguese waters
• Biogeography of the Northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean
• Freshwater fish biogeography in the Iberian Peninsula
• Larval biology of inshore fish
• Ex-situ reproduction of critically endangered freshwater fish
• Fish bioacoustics
• Genetic and physiological control of alternative life histories in lampreys
• Ecology of Seabirds
• Proximate mechanisms and ecological consequences of alternative reproductive tactics in teleost fish
• Social modulation of hormones, brain and behaviour in teleost fish
• Fish welfare, using tilapia and zebrafish as study models
• Spatial memory in intertidal fish
• Field endocrinology, behaviour and conservation