sergio.pa.marques

Sérgio Ávila
Researcher
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S.P. Ávila graduated in Biology in 1995, completed a MSc in Insular Ecology and Evolution in 2001, and a PhD degree in Biology/Palaeontology in 2005 from the University of the Azores. He supervised 10 PhD students (6 in progress), 1 MSc and 10 internships. In 2005, he established his research group (MPB-Marine Palaeontology and Biogeography Lab), now with 18 members. He participated in 16 research projects, with regional, national, or European funding, and published 78 SCI articles, 28 articles in other journals, 10 books and 6 chapters of books, and edited 7 books. He organized 16 advanced courses, 33 congresses and 31 scientific expeditions in the Azores, Madeira, Canaries and Cabo Verde archipelagos. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the “Santa Maria PalaeoPark”, appointed by the International Palaeontological Association. He is also the Scientific Advisor of the "Fossils’ House" Museum, at Santa Maria Island (Azores). Since 2005, he has been studying the patterns and processes of dispersal, colonization and speciation of shallow-water marine invertebrates in oceanic islands. He is the main author of the most recent theory of marine island biogeography, the SLS – Sea-Level-Sensitive model of marine island biogeography. His team has expertise in marine molluscs, echinoderms, crustacean barnacles, ostracods, bryozoans and coralline algae forming rhodoliths. His main interests are the geological evolution of the NE-Atlantic islands, and the palaeontology, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography of the Neogene to Recent ecosystems in reefless volcanic oceanic islands. He is Associate Editor of Frontiers of Biogeography and of Frontiers in Marine Science, Subject editor of Biodiversity Data Journal, and an Editorial Board Member of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, and Reviewer Board of Diversity. He is Taxonomic editor of the Paleobiology Database (https://paleobiodb.org/classic).

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MPB-Marine Palaeontology and Biogeography lab

Publications

Álvaro, N.V., Sinigaglia, L., Madeira, P., Hipólito, A., Melo, C.S., Arruda, S., et al. (2024). The razor clam Solen marginatus Pulteney, 1799: A new anthropogenic marine introduction in the Azores Archipelago, 70, 103387.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2024.103387
Sinigaglia, L., Baptista, L., Alves, C., Feldmann, F., Sacchetti, C., Rupprecht, C., et al. (2024). Oceanic islands act as drivers for the genetic diversity of marine species: Cardita calyculata (Linnaeus, 1758) in the NE Atlantic as a case-study, 24, 138.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-024-02322-2
Baptista, L., Curto, M., Waeschenbach, A., Berning, B., Santos, A.M., Ávila, S.P., et al. (2024). Population genetic structure and ecological differentiation in the bryozoan genus Reteporella across the Azores Archipelago (central North Atlantic), 10.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e38765
Baptista, L., Fassio, G., Gofas, S., Oliverio, M., Ávila, S.P. & Santos, A.M. (2023). Evaluating the taxonomic status of the large sized Tricolia Risso, 1826 in the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea, 186, 107857.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107857
Melo, C.S., da Silva, C.M., Scarponi, D., Martín-González, E., Rólán, E., Rojas, A., et al. (2023). Palaeobiogeography of NE Atlantic archipelagos during the last Interglacial (MIS 5e): A molluscan approach to the conundrum of Macaronesia as a marine biogeographic unit, 319, 108313.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108313