Ana Cristina Matos Ricardo Costa

Researcher

Ana Cristina Costa is a marine biologist and assistant professor at the Department of Biology, University of the Azores, phD in Marine Sciences (Marine Ecology) in 2004, ACC has been developing teaching and research activities in this department since 1990.

She has been responsible for teaching several courses in the Biology undergrad degrees (Biology and Biological Sciences and Health) such as invertebrate zoology, oceanography coastal biology, marine ecology and toxicology as well as in master degrees (eg. Master Course in Biodiversity and Island Ecology, Erasmus Mundus Master Program in Marine Spatial Planning) and phD graduate program in Biology.

She has supervised several ungrad and grad (master and phD) students and young pos doc researchers. Her main interest is marine biodiversity and ecology and, to a lesser extent, taxonomy. She has also interests in marine environmental monitoring (under WFD and MDFD), conservation and planning (CZMP and MSP). Her more recent research has been in marine non indigenous species.

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Publications

Raposeiro, P.M., Martins, G.M., Moniz, I., Cunha, A., Costa, A.C. & Goncalves, V. (2014). Leaf litter decomposition in remote oceanic islands: The role of macroinvertebrates vs. microbial decomposition of native vs. exotic plant species. Limnologica, 45, 80-87.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.limno.2013.10.006

Pereira, C.L., Raposeiro, P.M., Costa, A.C., Bao, R., Giralt, S. & Goncalves, V. (2014). Biogeography and lake morphometry drive diatom and chironomid assemblages' composition in lacustrine surface sediments of oceanic islands. Hydrobiologia, 730, 93-112.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-014-1824-6

Micael, J., Parente, M.I. & Costa, A.C. (2014). Tracking macroalgae introductions in North Atlantic oceanic islands. Helgoland Marine Research, 68, 209-219.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10152-014-0382-7

Micael, J., Rodrigues, P., Costa, A.C. & Alves, M.J. (2014). Phylogeography and genetic diversity of Ophidiaster ophidianus (Echinodermata: Asteroidea)-evidence for a recent range expansion in the Azores. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 94, 1475-1484.

https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315414000563

Marinho, C., Silva, N., Pombo, S., Santos, T., Monteiro, R., Goncalves, A., et al. (2013). Echinoderms from Azores islands: An unexpected source of antibiotic resistant Enterococcus spp. and Escherichia coli isolates. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 69, 122-127.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2013.01.017

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