Publications
- Gouvêa, L., Fragkopoulou, E., Legrand, T., Serrão, E. A., and Assis, J. 2024. Range map data of marine ecosystem structuring species under global climate change. Data in Brief, 52, 110023.
- Assis, J., Fernández Bejarano, S. J., Salazar, V. W., Schepers, L., Gouvêa, L., Fragkopoulou, E., Leclercq, F., Vanhoorne, B., Tyberghein, L., Serrão, E. A., Verbruggen, H., & De Clerck, O. 2024. Bio‐ORACLE v3.0. Pushing marine data layers to the CMIP6 Earth System Models of climate change research. Global Ecology and Biogeography. e13813
- Assis, J., Fragkopoulou, E., Gouvêa, L., Araújo, M. B., & Serrão, E. A. 2024. Kelp forest diversity under projected end‐of‐century climate change. Diversity and Distributions. 30, e13837.
- Neiva, J., Assis, J., Fragkopoulou, E., Pearson, G. A., Raimondi, P. T., Anderson, L., Krause-Jensen, D., Marbà, N., Want, A., Selivanova, O., Nakaoka, M., Grant, W. S., Konar, B., Roleda, M. Y., Sejr, M. K., Paulino, C., & Serrão, E. A. 2024. Trans-Arctic asymmetries, melting pots and weak species cohesion in the low-dispersal amphiboreal seaweed Fucus distichus. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 12, 1356987.
- Khaya K., Falace A., Serrão E.A., Neiva J., Reani A., Sabour B., Belattmania Z., 2024. Feasibility of ex-situ recruitment and outplanting of Gongolaria nodicaulis (Fucales, Phaeophyceae) for restoration of warm temperate marine forests in Atlantic Morocco. Botanica Marina.
- Mourato, C.V., Padrão, N., Serrão, E.A. and Paulo, D., 2023. Less Is More: Seagrass Restoration Success Using Less Vegetation per Area. Sustainability, 15(17), p.12937.
- Assis, J., Alberto, F., Macaya, E.C., Castilho Coelho, N., Faugeron, S., Pearson, G.A., Ladah, L., Reed, D.C., Raimondi, P., Mansilla, A. and Brickle, P., 2023. Past climate-driven range shifts structuring intraspecific biodiversity levels of the giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) at global scales. Scientific Reports, 13(1), p.12046.
- Fragkopoulou, E., Sen Gupta, A., Costello, M.J., Wernberg, T., Araújo, M.B., Serrão, E.A., De Clerck, O. and Assis, J., 2023. Marine biodiversity exposed to prolonged and intense subsurface heatwaves. Nature Climate Change, pp.1-8.
- Balogh, V., Fragkopoulou, E., Serrão, E.A. and Assis, J., 2023. A dataset of cold-water coral distribution records. Data in Brief, 48, p.109223.
- Anderson, A.B., Pinheiro, H.T., Batista, M.B., Francini-Filho, R.B., Gomes, L.E.O., Bernardino, A.F., Horta, P. and Joyeux, J.C., 2023. Biogeographic patterns of marine fishes associated with rhodolith beds in the Southwestern Atlantic reveal an ecotone of biodiversity. Biodiversity and Conservation, 32(2), pp.821-837.
- Anderson, A.B., Pinheiro, H.T., Francini-Filho, R.B., Ferreira, C.E. and Joyeux, J.C., 2023. Habitat use of five sympatric predatory reef fishes at a remote island in the south-western Atlantic. Journal of Fish Biology, 103(2), pp.324-335.
- Hill, R.W., Florn, A.M., Vermeij, M.J. and Frade, P.R., 2023. In situ testing of candidate odorant cues in coral-reef fish: a new method with tests of dimethylsulfoniopropionate and betaines. Frontiers in Marine Science.
- Gouveia, A., Godefroid, M., Dubois, P., Espino, F., Tuya, F., Haroun, R., Herrera, A. and Otero-Ferrer, F., 2023. Thermal stress response of Antipathella wollastoni (Gray, 1857) from the Canary Islands archipelago. Coral Reefs, pp.1-7.
- Tavares, A.I., Assis, J., Larkin, P.D., Creed, J.C., Magalhães, K., Horta, P., Engelen, A., Cardoso, N., Barbosa, C., Pontes, S. and Regalla, A., 2023. Long range gene flow beyond predictions from oceanographic transport in a tropical marine foundation species. Scientific Reports, 13(1), p.9112.
- Tuya, F., Schubert, N., Aguirre, J., Basso, D., Bastos, E.O., Berchez, F., Bernardino, A.F., Bosch, N.E., Burdett, H.L., Espino, F. and Fernández-Gárcia, C., 2023. Levelling-up rhodolith-bed science to address global-scale conservation challenges. Science of The Total Environment, p.164818.
- Peres, L.M.C., Gouvêa, L.P., Hayden, J., Burle, G., Bastos, E., Carneiro, A. and Horta, P.A., 2023. Effects of ocean warming and pollution on Sargassum forests. Marine Environmental Research, p.106167.
- Hestetun, J.T., Ray, J.L., Murvoll, K.M., Kjølhamar, A. and Dahlgren, T.G., 2023. Environmental DNA reveals spatial patterns of fish and plankton diversity at a floating offshore wind farm. Environmental DNA.
- Liboureau, P., Pearson, G.A., Barreto, L., Serrao, E.A., Kreiner, A. and Martins, N., 2023. Effects of thermal history on reproductive success and cross-generational effects in the kelp Laminaria pallida (Phaeophyceae). Marine Ecology Progress Series, 715, pp.41-56.
- Horta, P., Sissini, M., Mueller, C.M., Soares, F.M., Pagliosa, P., Rörig, L., Bonomi-Barufi, J., Berchez, F., da Cunha, L.C., Kerr, R. and Rossi, S., 2023. Brazil fosters fossil fuel exploitation despite climate crises and the environmental vulnerabilities. Marine Policy, 148, p.105423.
- Coelho, M.A., Pearson, G.A., Boavida, J.R., Paulo, D., Aurelle, D., Arnaud‐Haond, S., Gómez‐Gras, D., Bensoussan, N., López‐Sendino, P., Cerrano, C. and Kipson, S., 2023. Not out of the Mediterranean: Atlantic populations of the gorgonian Paramuricea clavata are a separate sister species under further lineage diversification. Ecology and Evolution, 13(1), p.e9740.
- Coelho, M.A., Ledoux, J.B., Boavida, J., Paulo, D., Gómez-Gras, D., Bensoussan, N., López-Sendino, P., Cerrano, C., Kipson, S., Bakran-Petricioli, T. and Garrabou, J., 2022. Complete mitochondrial genome of the branching octocoral Paramuricea grayi (Johnson, 1861), phylogenetic relationships and divergence analysis. Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 7(11), pp.1985-1988.
- Fonseca, A.L., Almeida, M.D.S., Horta, P.A., Pereira, M.A. and Misturini, D., 2022. Cultura oceânica, mudança climática e restauração do carbono azul.
- Tavares, A.I., Assis, J., Patrício, R., Ferreira, R., Cheikh, M.A., Bandeira, S., Regalla, A., Santos, I., Potouroglou, M., Nicolau, S. and Teodosio, M.A., 2022. Seagrass connectivity on the west coast of Africa supports the hypothesis of grazer-mediated seed dispersal. Frontiers in Marine Science, p.852.
- Almeida, S.C., Neiva, J., Sousa, F., Martins, N., Cox, C.J., Melo‐Ferreira, J., Guiry, M.D., Serrão, E.A. and Pearson, G.A., 2022. A low‐latitude species pump: Peripheral isolation, parapatric speciation and mating‐system evolution converge in a marine radiation. Molecular Ecology, 31(18), pp.4797-4817.
- Duarte, C.M., Gattuso, J.P., Hancke, K., Gundersen, H., Filbee‐Dexter, K., Pedersen, M.F., Middelburg, J.J., Burrows, M.T., Krumhansl, K.A., Wernberg, T. and Moore, P., 2022. Global estimates of the extent and production of macroalgal forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31(7), pp.1422-1439.
- Fragkopoulou, E., Serrão, E.A., De Clerck, O., Costello, M.J., Araújo, M.B., Duarte, C.M., Krause‐Jensen, D. and Assis, J., 2022. Global biodiversity patterns of marine forests of brown macroalgae. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31(4), pp.636-648.
- Quimbayo, J.P., Nunes, L.T., Silva, F.C., Anderson, A.B., Barneche, D.R., Canterle, A.M., Cord, I., Dalben, A., Ferrari, D.S., Fontoura, L. and Fiuza, T.M., 2022. TimeFISH: Long‐term assessment of reef fish assemblages in a transition zone in the Southwestern Atlantic. Ecology, p.e3966.
- Anderson, A.B., Pinheiro, H.T., Batista, M.B., Francini-Filho, R.B., Gomes, L.E.O., Bernardino, A.F., Horta, P. and Joyeux, J.C., 2022. Biogeographic patterns of marine fishes associated with rhodolith beds in the Southwestern Atlantic reveal an ecotone of biodiversity. Biodiversity and Conservation, pp.1-17.
- Gouvêa, L.P., Serrão, E.A., Cavanaugh, K., Gurgel, C.F., Horta, P.A. and Assis, J., 2022. Global impacts of projected climate changes on the extent and aboveground biomass of mangrove forests. Diversity and Distributions, 28(11), pp.2349-2360.
- Strasser, F.E., Barreto, L.M., Kaidi, S., Sabour, B., Pearson, G. and Martins, N., 2022. Population level variation in reproductive development and output in the golden kelp Laminaria ochroleuca under marine heat wave scenarios. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9.
- Anderson, A.B., Bernardes, M.B., Pinheiro, H.T., Guabiroba, H.C., Pimentel, C.R., Vilar, C.C., Gomes, L.E., Bernardino, A.F., Delfino, S.D., Giarrizzo, T. and Ferreira, C.E., 2022. Niche availability and habitat affinities of the red porgy Pagrus pagrus (Linnaeus, 1758): An important ecological player on the world’s largest rhodolith beds. Journal of Fish Biology, 101(1), pp.179-189.
- Neiva, J., Bermejo, R., Medrano, A., Capdevila, P., Milla-Figueras, D., Afonso, P., Ballesteros, E., Sabour, B., Serio, D., Nóbrega, E. and Soares, J., 2022. DNA barcoding reveals cryptic diversity, taxonomic conflicts and novel biogeographical insights in Cystoseira sl (Phaeophyceae). European Journal of Phycology, pp.1-25.
- Brazil: 200 years of relations (Book). RESTORESEAS mentioned in page 21
Bräuchler C, Eggers S, Frade PR, Inglez dos Reis M, Dorneles de Andrade EK, Krenn M, de Paula Passos L, Sehnal P and Vohland K (2022) In: Natural History Museum Vienna (ed.): Brazil: 200 years of relations. – 45pp., Wien (Verlag des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien), 2022. ISBN 978-3-903096-54-7
Thesis
Ongoing student projects
- Christian Pruckner, “Microbial key players in deep-sea coral restoration”, University of Vienna & Natural History Museum Vienna
- Christina Egger, “Comparative reproductive ecology and early ontology of coral garden forming gorgonians in the western Atlantic”, Center of Marine Sciences
- Alexander Knorrn, “Investigating the biodiversity of mauritanian marine forests”, Senckenberg
- Viktória Balogh, “Redistribution of cold-water coral biodiversity under global climate change scenarios”, Center of Marine Sciences
- Sofie Peeters, “Microbiome communities of European foundation species”, University of Ghent
- Asier Indart Ibargutxi, “Thermal plasticity across life stages of kelps”, Center of Marine Sciences
- David Milla-Figueras, “Marine forests in remote islands: Patterns, Connectivity, Functions and Conservation”, University of Açores
- Khaoula Khaya, “Diversity and ecological restoration of Fucoid forests at the Moroccan Atlantic coast”, University of CHouaib Doukkali
MEET SOME OF OUR SCIENTISTS
Presentations
VIDEOS
Meet one of our coral scientists, Marecellina Rola! She studied the microbiome community composition of cold-water corals.
Our e-bike “Jeanne” is designed to teach school classes about the importance of marine forests and how we can all do something to preserve them.
A ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) collecting Desmophyllum pertusum at Kosterfjorden-Väderöfjordens Natura 2000 in Sweden.
Coral larvae from the coral species Paramuricea grayi.
This video was used in the multimedia room, Deck50, at the Natural History Museum of Vienna, Austria, to stimulate public engagement with the restoration work done by RESTORESEAS.
Reports
There are currently no reports available. Please check back later.
Events
- Session “Host-microbiomes to protect and restore marine communities of animals, plants and algae” at ASLO 2023 Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
- 8th International Symposium on Deep Sea Corals – 29th May-2nd June, Edinburgh 2023
- Coral RESTORe-stATION at the Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria.
- Brazil: 200 years of relations exhibition at the Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria. RESTORESEAS was showcased as an example for research-based restoration solutions
In the media
- https://ars.electronica.art/futurelab/en/projects-nhm-on-tour-korallenrad/
- (In Czech) https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/veda/3604559-morske-louky-ohrozuje-parazit-podobny-houbam-vedci-z-brna-se-pokouseji-prozkoumat-jak-a
- (In Czech) https://program.rozhlas.cz/zaznamy#/plus/50/2023-08-04
- (In English) https://ldf.mendelu.cz/en/science-team-focuses-on-the-decline-of-seagrasses-important-ocean-ecosystems/?psn=600
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H30nJO82n4
- (In Portuguese) https://ndmais.com.br/meio-ambiente/ufsc-envia-proposta-ao-ministerio-do-meio-ambiente-para-combater-crise-sanitaria-em-sc/
- (In Portuguese) https://www.aquaculturebrasil.com/noticia/559/pesquisadores-da-ufsc-propoem-solucoes-para-crise-sanitaria-e-ambiental-do-litoral-ao-ministerio-do-meio-ambiente
- https://www.publico.pt/2022/07/04/azul/noticia/restaurar-pradarias-marinhas-importante-conservar-restam-2011194?fbclid=IwAR1S2XJOLjCmDIpo2FNHSL2ro1lwU5BAujic0pMzwce5vFH-Hr0cOAQVCCA
- https://noticias.ufsc.br/2022/05/professor-da-ufsc-assina-carta-na-science-sobre-preservacao-de-florestas-marinhas-construidas-por-animais/
- https://revistaforum.com.br/meio-ambiente/2022/12/15/precisamos-falar-dos-oceanos-128748.html
- https://www.correiocidadania.com.br/meio-ambiente/14891-temos-que-parar-o-desmatamento-ja
- https://www.revistaea.org/artigo.php?idartigo=4382
- https://www.even3.com.br/anais/iwdrbdcc2022/496111-plantando-carbono-azul-para-restaurar-a-lagoa-da-conceicao-/
- https://noticias.ufsc.br/2021/06/semana-do-meio-ambiente-na-ufsc-traz-videos-sobre-restauracao-de-ecossistemas/