2003-2007 - Universidade Técnica de Lisboa

Previous publications in the area (5 in the last 5 years. If available you must indicate at the end of the citation, impact factor of the journal (IF=) and
number of citations (n° C=). Give title and full citation in original language)
[IN THIS ITEM ABOUT THE FUTURE WE OPTED TO INCLUDE PUBLICATIONS ONLY FROM 2008]
Afonso P, Fontes J, Holland KN, Santos RS (2008) Social status determines behaviour and habitat usage in a temperate parrotfish: implications for marine reserve
design. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 359:215-227
Arrizabalaga H, Pereira JG, Royer F, Galuardi B, Goni N, Artetxe I, Arregi I, Lutcavage M (2008) Bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) vertical movements in the Azores
Islands determined with pop-up satellite archival tags. Fisheries Oceanography 17:74-83
Claudet J, Osenberg CW, Benedetti-Cecchi L, Domenici P, Garcia-Charton JA, Perez-Ruzafa A, Badalamenti F, Bayle-Sempere J, Brito A, Bulleri F, Culioli JM,
Dimech M, Falcon JM, Guala I, Milazzo M, Sanchez-Meca J, Somerfield PJ, Stobart B, Vandeperre F, Valle C, Planes S (2008) Marine reserves: size and age do
matter. Ecology Letters 11:481-489
Kadar E, Bettencourt R (2008) Ultrastructural and molecular evidence for potentially symbiotic bacteria within the byssal plaques of the deep-sea hydrothermal
vent mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus. Biometals 21:395-404
Magalhaes MC, Santos RS, Hamer KC (2008) Dual-foraging of Cory’s shearwaters in the Azores: feeding locations, behaviour at sea and implications for food
provisioning of chicks. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 359:283-293
Morato T, Varkey DA, Damaso C, Machete M, Santos M, Prieto R, Santos RS, Pitcher TJ (2008) Evidence of a seamount effect on aggregating visitors. Marine
Ecology-Progress Series 357:23-32
Special Requirements (equipment, facilities, staff or other special needs essential to carry out the future research program)
- There is the need of improving and upgrading of the experimental laboratories close to the harbor in view to take profit of the system of running salt water,
hyperbaric chambers and system of gas regulation to simulate different environments for the study of a set of organisms going from bacteria, to cold water
corals, deep-sea invertebrates and even deep-sea fishes.
- In terms of applied bio-technology, namely in the fields of research of innate immunity, genomic and proteomics devoted to study deep-sea organisms) special
facilities are need: e.g. laboratory space for carrying out cDNA libraries construction, storage for cDNA clones. Equipment: The need for incubators with orbital
shaker; Dry-ice machine for preservation, transportation and shipment of biological samples; cryostat instrument for frozen tissue sectioning (histology,
immunostaining, in-situ histochemistry of tissue sections); flow cytometer (for analysis of live cells).
- A network of different sensors for monitor purposes should be planned and implemented in the next years, able to respond to different research areas (biology,
animal ecology and distribution, oceanography and climate change) making use of the strategic location of the Azores in the central Atlantic. For this a good
investment to keep and improve bio-telemetry capabilities and habitat mapping (both benthos and pelagos) are a priority.
- Manpower: apart from high quality post-doc researches needed to accomplish our research goals, new technicians will be necessary to operate and maintain
new research technologies. This rather relevant issue since our RG has been losing permanent staff and no substitutes were appointed at the University level. This
would mean around two administrative staff, 5 technicians and up to 8-10 post-doc researchers in full contract.
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