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Eliza Fragkopoulou is a postdoc researcher at CCMAR, University of the Algarve, studying how climate change is affecting and will further affect the distribution and genetic diversity of marine species, at global scales. Her work is focused on marine species distribution models for past, present and future conditions based on different climate change scenarios. She has experience in meta-analyses and biodiversity data compilation under the framework of open science and the FAIR principle for findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable data. The outcomes of her research are completely aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Members. Working at the Center of Marine Sciences (recurrently classified as excellent in national evaluations) has resulted in collaborations with several national and international teams (e.g., from Norway, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Australia and Denmark).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Eliza Fragkopoulou

Citation names

  • Fragkopoulou, Eliza

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
5B1F-9922-2CB5
ORCID iD
0000-0002-0557-3954

Email addresses

  • eli_frag@hotmail.com (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences - Oceanography

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Greek Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Serbian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
French Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2020 - 2024
Concluded
 Ciências do Mar, da Terra e do Ambiente (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Potential consequences of future climate changes on the marine forest gene pools" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Highest distinction
2013 - 2015
Concluded
 Biologia Marinha (Mestrado)
Major in Sem especialização
Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"A GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF DIFFERENT PROTECTION LEVELS IN MARINE PROTECTED AREAS OF TROPICAL WATERS, FOLLOWING A NEW CATEGORIZATION" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17/20 Very Good
2012
Concluded
 Oceanography and Marine Sciences (Bachelor)
University of the Aegean School of Sciences, Greece
"Exploring the use of satellite images to determine the bathymetry of Kalloni Bay, Lesvos Island." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 7.1/10 Very good
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/05/01 - Current Postdoc (Research) Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/02/01 - 2024/07/18 PhD student Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
2018/07/15 - 2020/01/31 Research technician under the project MAR-01.04.02- FEAMP- Development of tools for the design of a network of marine protected areas for the integrated management of coastal zones. Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2015/05/01 - 2018/03/28 Leading Marine Biologist Guide. Organising eco-tours in the Ria Formosa Natural Park, guiding snorkeling/ bird watching groups, demonstrating traditional fishing gear, clam and oyster cultures. Paginas de Verão, Lda, Portugal
2014/11/01 - 2015/01/30 Intern diver/researcher. Sea urchin density monitoring and cartography of a biodiversity hotspot in Ria Formosa lagoon, Portugal. Species identification, density measurements, and samples collection. Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2014/10/01 - 2014/12/20 Intern researcher. Species distribution modeling of the sea urchin Echinus acutus using basic Maxent. Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
2014/09/01 - 2014/10/30 Intern diver. Seasonal underwater visual census of demersal fish in the Arrabida Marine Park Portugal. Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
2012/11/01 - 2013/02/20 Volunteer. Mapping the high-risk areas for Caretta caretta turtles around Kefalonia Island, Greece. Collecting presence data of injured and/or dead turtles and associating them to main shipping routes Municipality of Kefalonia, Greece
2012/09/01 - 2012/09/30 Assistant member crew on expedition for mapping the Posidonia oceanica meadows around the South coast of Kefalonia Island, Greece. Use of side scan sonar, sub bottom profiler, and drop of camera. University of Patras, Greece
2010/05/01 - 2012/02/25 Member of Marine Remote Sensing Group, participating in the expedition for exploring the Kalloni Bay, of Lesvos Island, Greece. Use of side scan sonar, sub bottom profiler and bathymeter. Panepistemio Aigaiou Tmema Okeanographias kai Thalassion Bioepistemon, Greece
2011/03/01 - 2011/07/01 Outdoor behavioural observer on seals. Monitoring seal activity, count and identification of seal species, recording behavioural patterns and interactions with anglers, monitoring the seals' responses University of Aberdeen Oceanlab, United Kingdom
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022 - Current Restore Seas (EU BiodivRestore-253)
DivRestore/0013/2020
PhD Student Fellow
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Ongoing
2021/03 - 2024/02 O Acordo de Paris e a redistribuição da biodiversidade marinha a nível global
Provided by PTCRIS: PTDC/BIA-CBI/6515/2020
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2020/02 - 2024/01 Potential consequences of future climate changes for marine forest gene pools
Provided by PTCRIS: SFRH/BD/144878/2019
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2018 - 2020 REDAMP - Development of tools for the design of MPA networks for the integrated management of coastal areas
MAR-01.04.02-FEAMP-0015 REDAMP
 N/A

Contract

Designation Funders
2024/05/01 - Current iCulture: A digital bio-platform and co-culture bioprocess to prospect and utilise macroalgae responsibly and sustainably
EU Horizon iCULTURE 101082010
Post-doc
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Ongoing
2018/07 - 2020/01 REDAMP- Developing tools for the successful design and implementation of coastal networks of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in Portugal
MAR-01.04.02-FEAMP-0015
Research Technician Fellow

Other

Designation Funders
2021 - 2024 PARIS - The Paris Agreement and the global redistribution of marine biodiversity
PTDC/BIA-CBI/6515/2020
PhD Student Fellow
Concluded
2013 - 2015 BUFFER- Partially protected areas as buffers to increase the linked social-ecological resilience
Biodiversa
Master Student Fellow
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Keith, DA; Nelson, W ; Fragkopoulou, Eliza; Assis, Jorge; Schubert, Nadine. "M1.10 Rhodolith/Maërl beds". In IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology 2.0 : descriptive profiles for biomes and ecosystem functional groups, edited by David Keith; José R. Ferrer-Paris; Emily Nicholson; Richard T. Kingsford, 1-170. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, 2020.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Lidiane Gouvêa; Eliza Fragkopoulou; Miguel B. Araújo; Ester A. Serrão; Jorge Assis. "Seagrass Biodiversity Under the Latest-Generation Scenarios of Projected Climate Change". Journal of Biogeography (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15021.
    10.1111/jbi.15021
  2. Jorge Assis; Ester A. Serrão; Eliza Fragkopoulou; Térence Legrand; Lidiane Gouvêa; Miguel B. Araújo. "Misconception of model transferability precludes estimates of seagrass community reorganization in a changing climate". Nature Plants (2024): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-024-01735-7.
    10.1038/s41477-024-01735-7
  3. Térence Legrand; Eliza Fragkopoulou; Lauren Vapillon; Lidiane Gouvêa; Ester A. Serrão; Jorge Assis. "Unravelling the role of oceanographic connectivity in the distribution of genetic diversity of marine forests at the global scale". Global Ecology and Biogeography (2024): https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13857.
    10.1111/geb.13857
  4. João Neiva; Jorge Assis; Eliza Fragkopoulou; Gareth A. Pearson; Peter T. Raimondi; Laura Anderson; Dorte Krause-Jensen; et al. "Trans-Arctic asymmetries, melting pots and weak species cohesion in the low-dispersal amphiboreal seaweed Fucus distichus". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2024.1356987.
    10.3389/fevo.2024.1356987
  5. Jorge Assis; Eliza Fragkopoulou; Lidiane Gouvêa; Miguel B. Araújo; Ester A. Serrão. "Kelp forest diversity under projected end-of-century climate change". Diversity and Distributions (2024): https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13837.
    10.1111/ddi.13837
  6. Ariadni Vafeiadou; Eliza Fragkopoulou; Jorge Assis. "A global dataset of demosponge distribution records". Data in Brief (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2024.110200.
    10.1016/j.dib.2024.110200
  7. Jorge Assis; Salvador Jesús Fernández Bejarano; Vinícius W. Salazar; Lennert Schepers; Lidiane Gouvêa; Eliza Fragkopoulou; Frederic Leclercq; et al. "Bio-ORACLE v3.0. Pushing marine data layers to the CMIP6 Earth System Models of climate change research". Global Ecology and Biogeography (2024): https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13813.
    10.1111/geb.13813
  8. Lidiane Gouvêa; Eliza Fragkopoulou; Térence Legrand; Ester A. Serrão; Jorge Assis. "Range map data of marine ecosystem structuring species under global climate change". Data in Brief (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.110023.
    10.1016/j.dib.2023.110023
  9. Eliza Fragkopoulou; Alex Sen Gupta; Mark John Costello; Thomas Wernberg; Miguel B. Araújo; Ester A. Serrão; Olivier De Clerck; Jorge Assis. "Marine biodiversity exposed to prolonged and intense subsurface heatwaves". Nature Climate Change (2023): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01790-6.
    10.1038/s41558-023-01790-6
  10. "Intense and prolonged subsurface marine heatwaves pose risk to biodiversity". Nature Climate Change (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01796-0.
    10.1038/s41558-023-01796-0
  11. Eliza Fragkopoulou; Alex Sen Gupta; Mark Costello; Thomas Wernberg; Miguel B. Araújo; Ester Serrão; Olivier De Clerck; Jorge Assis. "Marine biodiversity exposed to prolonged and intense subsurface heatwaves". (2023): https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Marine_biodiversity_exposed_to_prolonged_and_intense_subsurface_heatwaves/19174985.
    10.6084/m9.figshare.19174985
  12. Viktória Balogh; Eliza Fragkopoulou; Ester A. Serrão; Jorge Assis. "A dataset of cold-water coral distribution records". Data in Brief (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109223.
    10.1016/j.dib.2023.109223
  13. Lidiane P. Gouvêa; Eliza Fragkopoulou; Kyle Cavanaugh; Ester A. Serrão; Miguel B. Araújo; Mark John Costello; E. H. Taraneh Westergerling; Jorge Assis. "Oceanographic connectivity explains the intra-specific diversity of mangrove forests at global scales". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2023): https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209637120.
    10.1073/pnas.2209637120
  14. David Abecasis; Eliza Fragkopoulou; Bruno Claro; Jorge Assis. "Biophysical modelling and graph theory identify key connectivity hubs in the Mediterranean marine reserve network". Frontiers in Marine Science 9 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.1000687.
    10.3389/fmars.2022.1000687
  15. L. Marquez; E. Fragkopoulou; K. C. Cavanaugh; H. F. Houskeeper; J. Assis. "Artificial intelligence convolutional neural networks map giant kelp forests from satellite imagery". Scientific Reports 12 1 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26439-w.
    10.1038/s41598-022-26439-w
  16. Assis, Jorge; Serrao, Ester; Duarte, Carlos M.; Fragkopoulou, Eliza; Krause-Jensen, Dorte. "Major expansion of marine forests in a warmer Arctic". Frontiers in Marine Science (2022):
    10.3389/fmars.2022.850368
  17. Gouvêa, Lidiane P.; Horta, Paulo A.; Fragkopoulou, Eliza; Gurgel, Carlos F. D.; Peres, Leticia M. C.; Bastos, Eduardo; Ramlov, Fernanda; et al. "Phenotypic Plasticity in Sargassum Forests May Not Counteract Projected Biomass Losses Along a Broad Latitudinal Gradient". Ecosystems (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10021-022-00738-9.
    10.1007/s10021-022-00738-9
  18. Fragkopoulou, Eliza; Serrão, Ester A.; De Clerck, Olivier; Costello, Mark J.; Araújo, Miguel B.; Duarte, Carlos M.; Krause-Jensen, Dorte; Assis, Jorge. Corresponding author: Serrão, Ester A.. "Global biodiversity patterns of marine forests of brown macroalgae". Global Ecology and Biogeography (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.13450.
    10.1111/geb.13450
  19. Assis, Jorge; Failler, Pierre; Fragkopoulou, Eliza; Abecasis, David; Touron-Gardic, Gregoire; Regalla, Aissa; Sidina, Ebaye; Dinis, Herculano; Serrao, Ester A.. Corresponding author: Assis, Jorge. "Potential Biodiversity Connectivity in the Network of Marine Protected Areas in Western Africa". Frontiers in Marine Science 8 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.765053.
    10.3389/fmars.2021.765053
  20. Assis, J.; Fragkopoulou, E.; Serrão, E.A.; Horta e Costa, B.; Gandra, M.; Abecasis, D.. "Weak biodiversity connectivity in the European network of no-take marine protected areas". Science of The Total Environment 773 (2021): 145664. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145664.
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145664
  21. Fragkopoulou, Eliza; Serrão, Ester A.; Horta, Paulo A.; Koerich, Gabrielle; Assis, Jorge. Corresponding author: Fragkopoulou, Eliza. "Bottom Trawling Threatens Future Climate Refugia of Rhodoliths Globally". Frontiers in Marine Science 7 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.594537.
    Open access • 10.3389/fmars.2020.594537
  22. Assis, Jorge; Fragkopoulou, Eliza; Frade, Duarte; Neiva, João; Oliveira, André; Abecasis, David; Faugeron, Sylvain; Serrão, Ester A.. "A fine-tuned global distribution dataset of marine forests". Scientific Data 7 1 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0459-x.
    Open access • 10.1038/s41597-020-0459-x
  23. Pilczynska, Joanna; Cocito, Silvia; Boavida, Joana; Serrão, Ester A.; Assis, Jorge; Fragkopoulou, Eliza; Queiroga, Henrique. Corresponding author: Fragkopoulou, Eliza. "Genetic diversity increases with depth in red gorgonian populations of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean". PeerJ 7 (2019): e6794. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6794.
    10.7717/peerj.6794
  24. Zupan, Mirta; Fragkopoulou, Eliza; Claudet, Joachim; Erzini, Karim; Horta e Costa, Bárbara; Gonçalves, Emanuel J. "Marine partially protected areas: drivers of ecological effectiveness". Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 16 7 (2018): 381-387. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fee.1934.
    Published • 10.1002/fee.1934
Preprint
  1. Eliza Fragkopoulou; Térence Legrand; Juan David González-Trujillo; Jorge Assis. "The global biogeography of coastal oceanographic connectivity". 2024. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4319669/v2.
    10.21203/rs.3.rs-4319669/v2
  2. Térence Legrand; Eliza Fragkopoulou; Juan David González-Trujillo; Jorge Assis. "The global biogeography of coastal oceanographic connectivity". 2024. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4319669/v1.
    10.21203/rs.3.rs-4319669/v1
  3. Térence Legrand; Eliza Fragkopoulou; Lauren Vapillon; Lidiane Gouvêa; Ester A. Serrão; Jorge Assis. "Unravelling the role of oceanographic connectivity in intra-specific diversity of marine forests at global scale". 2023. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.07.12.548579.
    10.1101/2023.07.12.548579
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Potential consequences of future climate change for ecosystem structuring species". 2024. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Potential_consequences_of_future_climate_change_for_ecosystem_structuring_species/25306225.
    10.6084/m9.figshare.25306225
  2. Erzini, Karim; Costa, Barbara Horta e; Fragkopoulou, Eliza. "A global assessment of the effectiveness of different protection levels in marine protected areas of tropical waters, following a new categorization". Master, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/7706.

Other

Dataset
  1. Assis, Jorge; Fragkopoulou, Eliza. Global Marine Species Traits Database (marineSpeciesTraits). 2024.
    https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.27620676
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024 Global marine heatwaves pose risk to biodiversity across depths EuroMarine Open Science Day 2024
EuroMarine Network (Bologna, Italy)
2024 Potential Consequences of Climate Change on Marine Ecosystem Structuring Species Topics in Marine Biology Undergraduate Course
University of Algarve (Portugal)
2023 Global changes in species richness and community composition of ecosystem-structuring marine species under projected climate change Global changes in species richness and community composition of ecosystem-structuring marine species under projected climate change
ECCWO-5 International Symposium's. Effects of Climate Change on the World's Ocean (Bergen, Norway)
2023 Global redistribution of cold-water coral species leading to widespread community turnover under climate change ISDSC 8- 8th International Symposium of Deep-Sea Corals
(Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
2023 Climate shaping genetic biodiversity of polar marine forests European Phycological Congress
(France)
2023 The MPA guide: A global meta-analysis of ecological outcomes of MPA protection levels and stages of establishment using the MPA guide The MPA guide: A global meta-analysis of ecological outcomes of MPA protection levels and stages of establishment using the MPA guide
(Vancouver, Canada)
2023 Climate shaping genetic biodiversity of polar marine forests Climate shaping genetic biodiversity of polar marine forests
(Rhode Island, United States)
2023 Potential consequences of future climate change on marine forests CCMAR seminar
CCMAR - Centro de Ciências do Mar (Faro, Portugal)
2022 Marine biodiversity exposed to prolonged and intense subsurface heatwaves ISMS - 8th International Symposium on Marine Sciences
Grand Canaria, Spain
2022 Major restructuring of marine forests' biodiversity under projected climate change ISMS - 8th International Symposium on Marine Sciences
(Grand Canaria, Spain)
2021/10 Depth provides refugia for marine biodiversity during heatwave events. Early Career Biogeographers Conference
International Biogeography Society (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2021/07/22 Global species richness patterns of marine forests of large brown macroalgae. Annual meeting of the Phycological Society of America,
(Virtual)
2019/09 Dispersal mediated by ocean currents explains the genetic structure of marine forests 5th International Marine Connectivity Conference
(Aveiro, Portugal)
2016/07/15 Assessing the effectiveness of marine partially protected areas IMMR | International Meeting on Marine Research
(Peniche, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024 - Current PhD chapter: Improving SDM implementation and predicting the 4D distribution of marine commercial species
Co-supervisor
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
2023 - 2023 MSc thesis: Redistribution of sponge biodiversity under global climate change scenarios
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2022 - 2022 MSc thesis: Redistribution of cold-water coral biodiversity under global climate change scenarios
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2022 - 2022 MSc thesis: The global network of Marine Protected Areas is not ready to face projected climate change
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2021 - 2022 Internship on cold-water coral genetic data collection
Co-supervisor
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
2021 - 2022 Internship on assessing marine invasions: Posidonia versus Caulerpa
Co-supervisor
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
2021 - 2022 Biogeography of African algae patterns
Co-supervisor
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
2021 - 2021 Internship on marine forest genetic data collection
Supervisor
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
2021 - 2021 Internship on marine heatwave mortality with depth
Co-supervisor
2021 - 2021 Internship on Sargassum golden tides data collection
Supervisor
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
2020 - 2020 Internship on mangrove genetic data collection
Supervisor
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
2020 - 2020 Internship on marine forest genetic data collection
Supervisor
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2020 - 2020 Internship on marine forest genetic data collection
Supervisor
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2024 - Current European Marine Board of Early Career Ocean Professionals (ECOPs)
2022 - Current European Marine Science Network
2022 - Current Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity (GEO BON)
2022 - Current Ocean Decade initiative (U.N. Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development)

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2021/07 - Current Marine Biodiversity Observation Network - Group on earth observations
Member
 Marine Biodiversity Observation Network - MBON, Portugal
2018 - Current Marine Forests. Platform for free access to biodiversity distribution data of marine forests worldwide. World Wide Web electronic publication, CCMAR, http://www.marineforests.com
Member
 Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2023 As oceans warm, marine heat waves push deep beneath the surface Mongabay
2023 Interview on the effects of subsurface marine heatwaves on biodiversity Publico

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2023/09/28 - 2023/09/28 Podcast on Clubhouse Climate Change and Extreme Events in the Ocean
2023 - 2023 National radio broadcasting Antenna 1 Subsurface marine heatwaves and their effects on biodiversity
2023 - 2023 National TV News program RTP Notícias Subsurface heatwaves and their effects on marine biodiversity
Distinctions

Other distinction

2020 Doctorate Scholarship from the Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2018 Bolsa de Investigação Mestre
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2011 Erasmus Placement Grant
Panepistemio Aigaiou, Greece
2011 Principal´s Excellence Fund
University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
2011 SAMS Research Bursary
Scottish Association for Marine Science, United Kingdom
2006 Distinction Grant of University of the Aegean, Greece
Panepistemio Aigaiou, Greece