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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Curriculum Vitae
MPB-Marine Palaeontology and Biogeography lab

Publications

Avila, S.P., Cachao, M., Ramalho, R.S., Botelho, A.Z., Madeira, P., Rebelo, A.C., et al. (2016). The Palaeontological Heritage of Santa Maria Island (Azores: NE Atlantic): a Re-evaluation of Geosites in GeoPark Azores and Their Use in Geotourism. Geoheritage, 8, 155-171.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-015-0148-x
Avila, S.P., Cordeiro, R., Rodrigues, A.R., Rebelo, A.C., Melo, C., Madeira, P., et al. (2015). Fossil Mysticeti from the Pleistocene of Santa Maria Island, Azores (Northeast Atlantic Ocean), and the prevalence of fossil cetaceans on oceanic islands. Palaeontologia Electronica, 18.
Cordeiro, R. & Avila, S.P. (2015). New species of Rissoidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the Archipelago of the Azores (northeast Atlantic) with an updated regional checklist for the family. Zookeys, 1-19.
https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.480.8599
Chainho, P., Fernandes, A., Amorim, A., Avila, S.P., Canning-Clode, J., Castro, J.J., et al. (2015). Non-indigenous species in Portuguese coastal areas, coastal lagoons, estuaries and islands. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 167, 199-211.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2015.06.019
Avila, S.P., Madeira, P., Rebelo, A.C., Melo, C., Hipolito, A., Pombo, J., et al. (2015). Phorcus sauciatus (Koch, 1845) (Gastropoda: Trochidae) in Santa Maria, Azores archipelago: the onset of a biological invasion. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 81, 516-521.
https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyv012