Ana Lígia Sequeira Primo (B015-74A3-0F7A)

Curriculum Vitae

Ana Lígia Sequeira Primo

Ana Ligia Primo completed her PhD in Biology (Speciality in Ecology) in 2012 by the University of Coimbra, Faculty of Science and Technology. She is currently a Junior researcher in the Centre for Functional Ecology of the University of Coimbra. She is currently Researcher at the Centre for Functional Ecology in the Department of Life Sciences of the University of Coimbra, She published 29 articles in peer reviewer journals and has 1 book section. Participated in the organisation of 11 events and participated in other 15 . She Co-supervised 1 PhD thesis, supervised 1 MSc dissertation and co-supervised 4. She participate as a researcher in several projects. Works in the area of Natural sciences with emphasis on Marine ecology. In their professional activities interacted with 143 collaborators with co-authorship in scientific papers. In her curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Ichthyoplankton; Zooplankton; climate change; fish recruitment; otolith microchemistry;

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Ana Lígia Sequeira Primo

Citation names

Primo, Ana Ligia

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: B015-74A3-0F7A
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8632-2929

Email addresses

ana.primo@uc.pt (Professional)

Addresses

Centre for Functional Ecology - CFE. Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Calçada Martim de Freitas, 3000-456, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

http://cfe.uc.pt/profile/members/1490 (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology

Education

	Degree	Classification
2012/12/21 Concluded	Biology (Speciality in Ecology) (Doutoramento) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal "Larval Fish Dynamics in the Mondego estuary: Linking early life stages and recruitment processes" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Aprovada com Distinção e Louvor
2008 Concluded	Ecology (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal "Climate variability impact in zooplankton community of the Mondego Estuary" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Muito Bom
2005 Concluded	Marine Biology and Fisheries (Licenciatura) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal "Caracterização da fauna bentónica associada a recifes naturais no Algarve Central" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	16

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018/12/21 - Current	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal

2013/05/01 - 2018/12/19	Postdoc (Research)	Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal
	Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal
2012/08/01 - 2013/04/30	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal
	Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal
2008/04/01 - 2012/03/31	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

2006/04/03 - 2006/09/29	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022 - Current	Researcher	European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium
	European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium
2019 - Current	WGEUROBUS - Towards a EURopean OBservatory of the non-indigenous calanoid copepod Pseudodiaptomus marinUS	International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Denmark
	International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Denmark

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2006/09/20 - 2008/03/27	Curricular internship of the Masters degree in Ecology.	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

2004/10/01 - 2005/12/31	Curricular internship for Marine Biology and Fisheries Degree.	Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2013/05/01 - 2018/12/19	FISH LARVAE CONDITION INDICES AS INDICATOR OF ESTUARINE HABITAT QUALITY AND RECRUITMENT SUCCESS: CLIMATE INDUCED VARIABILITY AND TROPHIC AMPLIFICATION SFRH/BPD/91030/2012 Post-doc Fellow	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2012/05 - 2015/09	COMPARE-Impact of climate variability on zooplankton community structure and function in estuarine ecosystems grant.Provided by PTCRIS: 121788 PTDC/MAR/121788/2010 Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2008/05/01 - 2012/12/21	Larval Fish Dynamics in the Mondego Estuary: Linking early life stages and recruitment processes. SFRH/BD/42351/2007 PhD Student Fellow Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal	Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023/03 - Current	LIFE22-NAT-PT-SeaGrassRIAwild - Mariculture for Ria de Aveiro subtidal seagrass Rewilding LIFE22-NAT-PT-SeaGrassRIAwild Researcher	Ongoing
2017 - 2022	ReNature - Valorização dos Recursos Naturais Endógenos da Região Centro CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-000007 Researcher Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal	Ongoing
2016 - 2019	MYTAG - Integrating natural and artificial tags to reconstruct fish migrations and ontogenetic niche shifts PTDC/MAR-EST/2098/2014 9471-RIDTI POCI-01-0145- FEDER-016787 Technical development Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal	Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional do Centro Ongoing
2011/01/01 - 2013/12/31	Projecto Estratégico - UI 239 - 2011-2012 PEst-OE/AGR/UI0239/2011 PEst-OE/BIA/UI4004/2011 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for People & the Planet, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Florestais, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2005 - 2005	Recruitment of Fish Species of Commercial Interest in the Arade River Estuary 22-05-01-FDR-00017 Technical development Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal

Other

	Designation	Funders
2022 - Current	COST Action - SEA-UNICORN (CA19107) CA19107 Researcher	Ongoing
2019 - Current	WKEUROBUS - ICES Workshop Towards an EURopean OBservatory of the invasive calanoid copepod Pseudodiaptomus marinUS. WGEUROBUS Researcher International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Denmark	Ongoing
2006 - Current	Long-term monitoring plan of plankton assemblages in the Mondego estuary N/A Researcher Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal	Ongoing
2023 - 2024/05	SAIL-BIO - Longitudinal Analyses of Pollution and Zooplankton in Antarctic Peninsula Region. PROPOLAR - Campanha Antártica Portuguesa 2023-24 PROPOLAR Researcher Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal	Ongoing
2020 - 2023/06/30	Fish larvae in the Azores islands – structure, dynamics and biodiversity in Northeast Atlantic UNESCO biosphere reserves. App#68546 Consultant Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal	PADI Foundation Concluded
2018 - 2021	Transferência de tecnologia e conhecimento produzida na Universidade de Coimbra para a economia do Mar MAR-01.03.01-FEAMP-0032 Researcher Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal	Concluded
2008 - 2019	Aquaculture project for turbot in Mira. II Benthic invertebrate monitoring. ACUINOVA Technical development Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal	Ongoing
2005 - 2005	Cartography and characterization of the marine communities off the National Underwater Ecological Reserve between Galé and Ancão CCMAR-CCDRALG-DRAOTA Technical development Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Marques, S.C.; Primo, A.L.; Falcão, J.; Martinho, F.; Mendes, S.; Azeiteiro, U.M.; Pardal, M.A.. "The impact of conspicuous environmental changes on the spatial and temporal dynamics of Acartia tonsa and Acartia clausi: A decadal study in a temperate estuary (Mondego, Portugal)". 145-171. 2018.
Conference abstract	José C. Xavier; José Abreu; Lucas Bastos; Bessa, Filipa; Débora Carmo; Patrícia Fialho; Diogo Francisco; et al. "Portugal and the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings: 10 years and counting". Paper presented in XV Conferência Portuguesa de Ciências Polares, Lisbon, 2023. Martinho, Filipe; Lourenço, Sara; Bueno-Pardo, Juan; Vaz, Ana Catarina Ventura Marques; Primo, Ana Ligia; Costa, Filipe; Pardal, Miguel Ângelo Carmo. Corresponding author: Martinho, Filipe. "Short and long-term temperature variations drive recruitment and connectivity in marine and estuarine juvenile fishe". Paper presented in Human impacts on marine functional connectivity, 2023. Accepted Martinho, F.; Vaz, A.; Primo, Ana Ligia; Crespo, Daniel; Pardal, M.Â.; Gillanders, Bronwyn M.; Vasconcelos, Rita P.; Tanner, Susanne E.; Reis-Santos, Patrick. "Linking daily growth chronologies and otolith chemistry of juvenile European flounder Platichthys flesus to unravel estuarine nursery use patterns.". Paper presented in VII Iberian Congress of Ichthyology, Faro, 2018.
Conference paper	Monteiro, Marta; Azeiteiro, Ulisses; Martinho, Filipe; Miguel L. Pardal; Primo, Ana Ligia. "Long term changes in ichthyoplankton communities in an Iberian Coastal ecosystem". Paper presented in VII Iberian Congress of Ichthyology- SIBIC 2020-15-19, Santiago de Compostela, 2020.
Conference poster	Guerreiro, Milene Alexandra; VERISSIMO, ANA; Rodrigues, Manuel José; Costa, Filipe; Pardal, MA; Primo, Ana Ligia; Martinho, Filipe. Corresponding author: Guerreiro, Milene Alexandra. "Fish larvae biodiversity of the Azores Islands – a morphological and molecular analysis.". Paper presented in SIBIC 2024 - X Iberian Congress of Ichthyology, 2024. Martinho, Filipe; Primo, Ana Ligia; Antunes, J C; Cabral, H. "Using autonomous surface vehicles for unravelling migrations and connectivity patterns in a marine flatfish". Paper presented in WFC2021 – World Fisheries Congress, 2021. Martinho, Filipe; Pardal, MA; Primo, Ana Ligia. "Synchronous effects of climate variability on fish larvae and juveniles in an estuarine nursery". Paper presented in ECSA 58 - EMECS 13 - Estuaries and coastal seas in the Anthropocene - Structure, functions, services and management, 2021. Uttieri, M; Primo, Ana Ligia; et al.. "EUROBUS – Towards a EURopean Observatory of the non- indigenous calanoid copepod Pseudodiaptomus marinus". Paper presented in 54th European Marine Biology symposium, 2019. Primo, Ana L.; Martinho, Filipe; Vaz, Ana; Pardal, Miguel A.. "Pelagic larval growth and recruitment success of Platichthys flesus in the Mondego estuary". Paper presented in 6th International Otolith Symposium 2018, 2018. Martinho, Filipe; Cabral, H.; Crespo, D.; Ferreira, H.; Ferreira, M.; Fonseca, V. F.; Freitas, V.; et al. "MYTAG – Integrating natural and artificial tags to reconstruct fish migrations and ontogenetic niche shifts". Paper presented in 10th International Flatfish Symposium, 2017. Marques, Sónia C.; Primo, Ana; Ikauniece, A; Azemar, F; Michèle, T; Peck, M; Pardal, Miguel A.; et al. "Climate-induced signatures in the zooplankton communities: a meta-analysis at a European scale". Paper presented in International Meeting on Marine Research, 2014. Marques, Sónia C.; Primo, Ana; Martinho, Filipe; Azeiteiro, U.M.; Pardal, Miguel A.. "An estuarine zooplankton´s perspective of weather extremes: a comparison between drought and regular years". Paper presented in XVII Congress of the iberian association of limnologia, 2014. Primo, Ana; Azeiteiro, U.M.; Marques, Sónia C.; Ré, P.; Pardal, Miguel A.. "Estuarine ichthyoplankton vertical dynamics: implications for larval transport". Paper presented in V Jornadas Ibéricas de Ictiologia: Conhecer para preservar, 2014. Primo, Ana; Marques, Sónia C.; Baptista, J.; Martinho, Filipe; Pardal, Miguel A.. "Seasonal distribution pattern of larval and juvenile flatfish assemblage in a temperate estuary (Western Portugal)". Paper presented in 8th International Flatfish Symposium, 2011.
Encyclopedia entry	Primo, Ana. "Ecology of Marine Fish Larvae". In Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, 2021. https://www.springer.com/series/15893. Accepted Primo, Ana L.; Marques, Sónia C.. "Jellyfish, Global Changes, and Marine Ecosystem Services". In Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, 2021. https://www.springer.com/series/15893. Under revision
Journal article	Monteiro, Marta; Pardal, Miguel; Azeiteiro, Ulisses; Pereira, Susana Cardoso; Vaz, Nuno; Primo, Ana Ligia; Ramirez-Romero, Eduardo; Molinero, Juan-Carlos; Sónia Cotrim Marques. Corresponding author: Monteiro, Marta. "Climate-driven shifts in decapod larvae assemblages in a temperate estuary". Marine Environmental Research (2024): Under revision Primo, Ana Lígia; Cruz, Carlos; Martinho, Filipe; Guerreiro, Milene Alexandra; Rodrigues, Manuel J.; Pardal, Miguel. "Climate forcing on estuarine zooplanktonic production". Marine Pollution Bulletin 194 (2023): 115287. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115287. 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115287 Lourenço, Sara; Bueno-Pardo, Juan; Vaz, Ana; Primo, Ana Lígia; Costa, Filipe; Pardal, Miguel A.; Martinho, Filipe. "Short and long-term temperature variations drive recruitment variability in marine and estuarine juvenile fishes". Marine Pollution Bulletin 192 (2023): 115093. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115093. 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115093 Ana Vaz; Ana Lígia Primo; Daniel Crespo; Miguel Pardal; Filipe Martinho. "Interannual variability in early life phenology is driven by climate and oceanic processes in two NE Atlantic flatfishes". Scientific Reports 13 1 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30384-7. 10.1038/s41598-023-30384-7 Walter Leal Filho; Gustavo J Nagy; Filipe Martinho; Md Mustafa Saroar; Mónica Gómez Erache; Ana Lígia Primo; Miguel A. Pardal; Chunlan Li. "Influences of Climate Change and Variability on Estuarine Ecosystems: An Impact Study in Selected European, South American and Asian Countries". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2022): https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/1/585. 10.3390/ijerph19010585 Dolgner, Nuno; Marques, Sónia Cotrim; Monteiro, Marta; Primo, Ana Lígia; Pardal, Miguel A.; Azeiteiro, Ulisses M.. "A warming decade unveils changes in the chaetognath Parasagitta friderici and appendicularian Oikopleura dioica abundance in a coastal system of the Iberian Peninsula". Regional Studies in Marine Science 48 (2021): 102016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2021.102016. 10.1016/j.rsma.2021.102016 Pinto, M.; Monteiro, J.N.; Crespo, D.; Costa, F.; Rosa, J.; Primo, A.L.; Pardal, M.A.; Martinho, F.. "Influence of oceanic and climate conditions on the early life history of European seabass Dicentrarchus labrax". Marine Environmental Research 169 (2021): 105362. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2021.105362. 10.1016/j.marenvres.2021.105362 Monteiro, M; Azeiteiro, Ulisses; Martinho, Filipe; Pardal, Miguel; Primo, Ana Ligia. "Long-term changes of ichthyoplankton communities in an Iberian estuary are driven by varying hydrodynamic conditions". Journal of Plankton Research 43 1 (2021): 33-45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbaa057. 10.1093/plankt/fbaa057. Published Guerreiro, Milene Alexandra; Guerreiro, Milene Alexandra; Martinho, Filipe; Baptista, Joana; Costa, Filipe; Pardal, Miguel Ângelo; Primo, Ana Lígia. "Function of estuaries and coastal areas as nursery grounds for marine fish early life stages". Marine Environmental Research 170 (2021): 105408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2021.105408. Accepted • 10.1016/j.marenvres.2021.105408 Primo, Ana Ligia; CE1E-7D40-85B1; Daniel Crespo; 3C1C-B206-7950; Miguel A. Pardal; Primo, Ana Lígia; Vaz, Ana Catarina; et al. "Contrasting links between growth and survival in the early life stages of two flatfish: insights into population connectivity". Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 254 (2021): 107314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2021.107314. Accepted • 10.1016/j.ecss.2021.107314 Guerreiro, Milene Alexandra; Marques, Sonia Cotrim; Martinho, Filipe; Azeiteiro, Ulisses Miranda; Pardal, Miguel Angelo; Primo, Ana Ligia. "Surf zone zooplankton communities from the west coast of the Iberian Peninsula - Influence of season, substrate type and environmental factors". Regional Studies in Marine Science (2021): https://publons.com/publon/50757340/. 10.1016/J.RSMA.2021.102050 Uttieri, M.; Aguzzi, L.; Aiese Cigliano, R.; Amato, A.; Bojanic, N.; Brunetta, M.; Camatti, E.; et al. "WGEUROBUS – Working Group “Towards a EURopean OBservatory of the non-indigenous calanoid copepod Pseudodiaptomus marinUS”". Biological Invasions (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85077691361&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Published • 10.1007/s10530-019-02174-8 Martinho, Filipe; Pina, Beatriz; Nunes, Margarida; Vasconcelos, Rita P; Fonseca, Vanessa; Crespo, Daniel; Primo, Ana Ligia; et al. "Water and otolith chemistry: implications for discerning estuarine nursery habitat use of a juvenile flatfish". Frontiers in Marine Science (2020): doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00347. Published D'Ambrosio, Mariaelena; Primo, Ana L.; Pardal, Miguel A.; Martinho, Filipe; Guerrero, Elena; Marques, Sónia C.. "Spatial distribution and seasonal patterns of the siphonophores Muggiaea atlantica and Muggiaea kochii in a temperate estuarine ecosystem". Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 218 (2019): 179-187. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2018.12.018. 10.1016/j.ecss.2018.12.018 Primo, A.L.; Correia, C.; Marques, S.C.; Martinho, F.; Leandro, S.; Pardal, M.. "Trophic links and nutritional condition of fish early life stages in a temperate estuary". Marine Environmental Research (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85039040672&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.marenvres.2017.12.007 Marques, S.C.; Pardal, M.Â.; Primo, A.L.; Martinho, F.; Falcão, J.; Azeiteiro, U.; Molinero, J.C.. "Evidence for Changes in Estuarine Zooplankton Fostered by Increased Climate Variance". Ecosystems (2017): 1-12. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85015949523&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1007/s10021-017-0134-z D'Ambrosio, M.; Molinero, J.C.; Azeiteiro, U.M.; Pardal, M.A.; Primo, A.L.; Nyitrai, D.; Marques, S.C.. "Interannual abundance changes of gelatinous carnivore zooplankton unveil climate-driven hydrographic variations in the Iberian Peninsula, Portugal". Marine Environmental Research 120 (2016): 103-110. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84980378894&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.marenvres.2016.07.012 Gonçalves, D.A.; Marques, S.C.; Primo, A.L.; Martinho, F.; Bordalo, M.D.-B.; Pardal, M.Â.. "Mesozooplankton biomass and copepod estimated production in a temperate estuary (Mondego estuary): Effects of processes operating at different timescales". Zoological Studies 54 AUGUST (2015): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84940056332&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1186/s40555-015-0135-6 Primo, A.L.; Kimmel, D.G.; Marques, S.C.; Martinho, F.; Azeiteiro, U.M.; Pardal, M.A.. "Zooplankton community responses to regional-scale weather variability: A synoptic climatology approach". Climate Research 62 3 (2015): 189-198. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84922454354&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.3354/cr01275 Rabbaniha, M.; Molinero, J.C.; López-López, L.; Javidpour, J.; Primo, A.L.; Owfi, F.; Sommer, U.. "Habitat association of larval fish assemblages in the northern Persian Gulf". Marine Pollution Bulletin (2015): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84933575858&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.06.028 Marques, S.C.; Primo, A.L.; Martinho, F.; Azeiteiro, U.M.; Pardal, M.Â.. "Shifts in estuarine zooplankton variability following extreme climate events: A comparison between drought and regular years". Marine Ecology Progress Series 499 (2014): 65-76. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84895513922&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.3354/meps10635 Primo, A.L.; Azeiteiro, U.M.; Marques, S.C.; Martinho, F.; Baptista, J.; Pardal, M.A.. "Colonization and nursery habitat use patterns of larval and juvenile flatfish species in a small temperate estuary". Journal of Sea Research 76 (2013): 126-134. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84873247411&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.seares.2012.08.002 Engelen, A.H.; Primo, A.L.; Cruz, T.; Santos, R.. "Faunal differences between the invasive brown macroalga Sargassum muticum and competing native macroalgae". Biological Invasions 15 1 (2013): 171-183. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84870836706&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1007/s10530-012-0276-z Primo, A.L.; Azeiteiro, U.M.; Marques, S.C.; Pedro, R.; Pardal, M.A.. "Seasonal, lunar and tidal control of ichthyoplankton dynamics at the interface between a temperate estuary and adjacent coastal waters (western Portugal) \| Control estacional, lunar y mareal de la dinámica del ictioplancton en la interfaz entre un estuario templado y las aguas costeras adyacentes (oeste de Portugal)". Scientia Marina 76 2 (2012): 237-246. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84863576866&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.3989/scimar.03415.18A Primo, A.L.; Marques, S.C.; Falcão, J.; Crespo, D.; Pardal, M.A.; Azeiteiro, U.M.. "Environmental forcing on jellyfish communities in a small temperate estuary". Marine Environmental Research 79 (2012): 152-159. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84863874352&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.marenvres.2012.06.009 Viegas, I.; Marques, S.C.; Bessa, F.; Primo, A.L.; Martinho, F.; Azeiteiro, U.M.; Pardal, M.Â.. "Life history strategy of a southern European population of brown shrimp (Crangon crangon L.): Evidence for latitudinal changes in growth phenology and population dynamics". Marine Biology 159 1 (2012): 33-43. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84855187023&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1007/s00227-011-1787-3 Primo, A.L.; Azeiteiro, U.M.; Marques, S.C.; Ré, P.; Pardal, M.A.. "Vertical patterns of ichthyoplankton at the interface between a temperate estuary and adjacent coastal waters: Seasonal relation to diel and tidal cycles". Journal of Marine Systems 95 (2012): 16-23. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84857781955&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2011.12.008 Falcão, J.; Marques, S.C.; Pardal, M.A.; Marques, J.C.; Primo, A.L.; Azeiteiro, U.M.. "Mesozooplankton structural responses in a shallow temperate estuary following restoration measures". Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 112 (2012): 23-30. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84866932049&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.ecss.2011.06.007 Primo, A.L.; Azeiteiro, U.M.; Marques, S.C.; Pardal, M.T.. "Impact of climate variability on ichthyoplankton communities: An example of a small temperate estuary". Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 91 4 (2011): 484-491. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79751527979&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.ecss.2010.11.009 Primo, A.L.; Azeiteiro, U.M.; Marques, S.C.; Martinho, F.; Pardal, M.A.. "Changes in zooplankton diversity and distribution pattern under varying precipitation regimes in a southern temperate estuary". Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 82 2 (2009): 341-347. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-61549094342&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.ecss.2009.01.019 Marques, S.C.; Azeiteiro, U.M.; Leandro, S.M.; Queiroga, H.; Primo, A.L.; Martinho, F.; Viegas, I.; Pardal, M.Â.. "Predicting zooplankton response to environmental changes in a temperate estuarine ecosystem". Marine Biology 155 5 (2008): 531-541. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-52049103352&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1007/s00227-008-1052-6
Report	Primo, Ana. 2018. Report of the Workshop entitled “Towards a European observatory of the invasive calanoid copepod Pseudodiaptomus marinus” (WKEUROBUS). http://ices.dk/sites/pub/Publication%20Reports/Expert%20Group%20Report/EPDSG/2018/01%20WKEUROBUS%20-%20Report%20of%20the%20workshop%20on%20EUROBUS.pdf. Gonçalves, J.M.S. ; Monteiro, P.; Coelho, R.; Afonso, C.M.L.; Almeida, C.; Veiga, P.; Machado, M.; et al. 2007. Cartografia e caracterização das biocenoses marinhas da Reserva Ecológica Nacional Submarina entre a Galé e a barra Nova do Ancão.
Thesis / Dissertation	Primo, Ana. "Larval Fish Dynamics in the Mondego Estuary: Linking early life stages and recruitment processes.". PhD, Universidade de Coimbra, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/21406. Primo, Ana. "Climate variability impact in zooplankton community of the Mondego Estuary". Master, Universidade de Coimbra, 2008. Primo, Ana. "Caracterização da fauna bentònica associada a recifes naturais no Algarve central". Degree, Universidade do Algarve, 2005.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/11/25	Climate-driven changes of ichthyoplankton communities in an Iberian estuary – a 13 years study	(Porto, Portugal)
2024/07/08	Long-term impacts of warming on juvenile seabass recruitment into estuaries	All About the Bass Symposium. University of Essex (Essex, United Kingdom)
2023/05/08	Um fotógrafo, dezasseis investigadores e vinte larvas de peixe entram num bar…	SciComPT 2023 (Braga, Portugal)
2023/05/07	Ichthyoplankton communities at the northern Canary Current Upwelling Ecosystem - interannual variability and environmental forcing	46rd Larval Fish Conference (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/05	Climate-driven changes of ichthyoplankton communities in an Iberian estuary – a 13 years study	46rd Larval Fish Conference (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/05	Short and long-term temperature variations drive recruitment and connectivity in marine and estuarine juvenile fishes	Symposium on Human Impacts on Marine Functional Connectivity (Sesimbra, Portugal)
2023/05	Impact of climate variability on the use of an estuary as a nursery habitat for flatfish species	Symposium on Human Impacts on Marine Functional Connectivity (Sesimbra, Portugal)
2023/05	Connectivity between coastal areas and estuaries for fish early life stages – a functional approach	Symposium on Human Impacts on Marine Functional Connectivity (Sesimbra, Portugal)
2022/10/26	GO WITH THE FLOW - A decade of Climate variability impact on planktonic communities	DCV Talks Departamento de Ciências da Vida da Universidade de Coimbra
2021/12/13	A pesca local com redes de tresmalho e emalhar na costa portuguesa	Workshop UC Mar – Pesca sustentável em Portugal Centro de Ecologia Funcional (Coimbra, Portugal)
2021/09	Squeezing water from a stone: relating water and otolith chemistry to disclose estuarine nursery habitat use of a juvenile flatfish	WFC2021 – World Fisheries Congress (Adelaide, Australia)
2020/06	Long-term changes in ichthyoplankton communities in an Iberian Coastal Ecosystem	VIII Iberian Congress of Ichthyology – SIBIC 2020
2020/06	Connectivity between larval and juvenile fish assemblages: links between estuaries and coastal areas	VIII Iberian Congress of Ichthyology – SIBIC 2020
2019/09	Using autonomous surface vehicles for unravelling migrations and connectivity patterns in a marine flatfish	International Marine Connectivity Conference - iMarCo 2019 (Aveiro, Portugal)
2019/09	You are what you eat: links between feeding habits, nutritional condition and growth on fish early life stages	International Marine Connectivity Conference - iMarCo 2019 (Portugal)
2019/06	Daily growth chronologies in a marine flatfish during estuarine colonization	5th International Sclerochronology Conference (Croatia)
2019/06	Linking daily growth chronologies and otolith chemistry of juvenile European flounder Platichthys flesus to unravel estuarine nursery use patterns	VII Iberian Congress of Ichthyology (Portugal)
2019/05	Pelagic larval growth and recruitment success of flatfish species in the Mondego estuary	43rd Annual Larval Fish Conference (Spain)
2019/05	Importance of nurseries areas for early life stages of fish at central coast of Portugal	43rd Annual Larval Fish Conference (Spain)
2018/06/12	Linking daily growth chronologies and otolith chemistry of juvenile European flounder Platichthys flesus to unravel estuarine nursery use patterns.	VII Iberian Congress of Ichthyology (Faro, Portugal)
2018/04/15	Pelagic larval growth and recruitment success of Platichthys flesus in the Mondego estuary	6th International Otolith Symposium (Keelung, Taiwan)
2018/04/15	Interannual variability in early life history of European flounder, Platichthys flesus and common sole, Solea solea	6th International Otolith Symposium (Keelung, Taiwan)
2018/04/15	Linking daily growth chronologies and otolith chemistry of juvenile European flounder Platichthys flesus in estuarine nursery areas	6th International Otolith Symposium (Keelung, Taiwan)
2018/01/29	Insights on the occurrence of the invasive copepod Pseudodiaptomus marinus in the Mondego estuary.	EUROBUS – Towards an EURopean Observatory of the invasive calanoid copepod Pseudodiaptomus marinUS (Nápoles, Italy)
2017/11/11	Interannual variability in early life history of european flounder Platichthys flesus	10th International Flatfish Symposium (Saint-Malo, France)
2017/09/06	Going with the Flow - A Decade of Climate Variability Impact on Planktonic Communities	2nd World Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation (Coimbra, Portugal)
2017/06/28	MYTAG – Integrating natural and artificial tags to reconstruct fish migrations and ontogenetic niche shifts	TiBE 2017 \| BIO-LOGGING (Vairão, Portugal)
2014/07/06	Estuarine ichthyoplankton and extreme climatic events: community structure, dynamics, and trophic interactions	LIMNOLOGIA: XVII Congresso da Associação Ibérica de Limnologia (Santander, Spain)
2014/05/12	Environmental forcing on jellyfish communities in a small temperate estuary	ECSA 54 - Coastal systems under change: tuning assessment and management tools. (Sesimbra, Portugal)
2012/07/03	Using multitable techniques for assessing the temporal variability of species-environment relationship in a copepod community from a temperate estuarine ecosystem	6th Workshop on Statistics, Mathematics, and Computation and 3rd Portuguese-Polish Workshop on Biometry (Covilhã, Portugal)
2012/05/24	Nursery habitat use patterns of larval and juvenile flatfish species in a small temperate estuary	International Meeting of Marine Resources (Peniche, Portugal)
2010/08	Influence of interannual climate variability on larval fish assemblages in Mondego estuary	45th European Marine Biology Symposium (Edimburgo, United Kingdom)
2008/02/07	Impact of climate variability in zooplankton diversity and distribution pattern in a southern temperate estuary.	43rd Estuarine & Coastal Sciences Association – International Symposium (Lisboa, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2021 - Current	Ichthyoplankton dynamics: drivers of connectivity between coastal and estuarine areas Co-supervisor of Milene Guerreiro
2019 - 2021	Copepod secondary production response to climate variability in the Mondego estuary Supervisor of Carlos Daniel de Carvalho e Cruz	Ecologia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018 - 2020	Long-term changes in icthyoplankton communities in a Iberian coastal ecosystem Co-supervisor of Marta Raquel Ferreira Monteiro	Biologia Aplicada (Master) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2019 - 2019	Seasonal variation of zooplankton biomass and copepod production at the Mondego estuary Supervisor of Pedro Yan Ozório de Gouvêa
2017 - 2019	Importance of nursery areas for early life stages of fish at the central coast of Portugal Co-supervisor of Milene Guerreiro	Ecologia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal
2016 - 2018	MYTAG - Integrating natural and artificial tags to reconstruct fish migrations and ontogenetic niche shifts (PTDC/MAR-EST/2098/2014) - RESEARCH GRANT Co-supervisor	Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal
2017 - 2017	Seasonal Variation os Surf zone communities at Central coast of Portugal Co-supervisor of Milene Guerreiro	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2014 - 2015	Surf zone zooplankton communities: spatial patterns on rocky and sandy beaches of the Portuguese coast Co-supervisor of Marta Frazão	Ecologia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2013 - 2014	Mesozooplankton biomass and secondary production in a temperate estuary: effects of processes operating at different time scales Co-supervisor of Dina Amanda Gonçalves	Ecologia (Master) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2024/06/17 - 2024/06/21	Annual meeting of the ICES Working Group on the Value of Coastal Habitats for Exploited Species (WGVHES) (2024/06/17 - 2024/06/21) Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/05/22 - 2023/05/25	Symposium on Human Impacts on Marine Functional Connectivity (2023/05/22 - 2023/05/25) Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)	European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Denmark
2023/05/07 - 2023/05/11	46rd Larval Fish Conference (2023/05/07 - 2023/05/11) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	American Fisheries Society, United States Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Portugal
2023/02/01 - 2023/04/30	Science outreach - Planktonic stages of fishes from the Portuguese coast. Photographic exhibition. Milene Guerreiro, Ana Lígia Primo, Filipe Martinho, Miguel Ângelo Pardal (2023/02/01 - 2023/04/30) Exhibition (Co-organisor)	Centro de Interpretação e Educação Ambiental do Concelho de Alcobaça, Portugal
2022/09/01 - 2022/09/30	Science outreach - Planktonic stages of fishes from the Portuguese coast. Photographic exhibition. Milene Guerreiro, Ana Lígia Primo, Filipe Martinho, Miguel Ângelo Pardal (2022/09/01 - 2022/09/30) Exhibition (Co-organisor)	Escola Universitária Vasco da Gama, Portugal
2021/12/01 - 2022/01/31	Science outreach - Planktonic stages of fishes from the Portuguese coast. Photographic exhibition. Milene Guerreiro, Ana Lígia Primo, Filipe Martinho, Miguel Ângelo Pardal (2021/12/01 - 2022/01/31) Exhibition (Co-organisor)	CMIA – Centro de Monitorização e Interpretação Ambiental, Portugal Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal
2020/07/28 - 2020/09/30	Science outreach - Planktonic stages of fishes from the Portuguese coast. Photographic exhibition. Milene Guerreiro, Ana Lígia Primo, Filipe Martinho, Miguel Ângelo Pardal (2020/07/28 - 2020/09/30) Exhibition	CMIA – Centro de Monitorização e Interpretação Ambiental, Portugal Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal
2020 - 2020	Science outreach - Planktonic stages of fishes from the Portuguese coast. Photographic exhibition. Milene Guerreiro, Ana Lígia Primo, Filipe Martinho, Miguel Ângelo Pardal (2020 - 2020) Exhibition (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2019 - 2019	Science outreach - Estádios planctónicos de peixes da costa Portuguesa / Planktonic stages of fishes from the Portuguese coast – Photographic exhibition (2019 - 2019) Exhibition	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Câmara Municipal de Coimbra, Portugal
2018/07/12 - 2018/07/14	Science outreach- III Summer School. Ecologia de Campo. Workshop de actividades de Ecologia. (2018/07/12 - 2018/07/14) Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)	Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal
2017/07/13 - 2017/07/15	Science outreach - II Summer School. Ecologia de Campo. Workshop de actividades de Ecologia. (2017/07/13 - 2017/07/15)	Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal
2016/07/14 - 2016/07/16	Science outreach - I Summer School. Ecologia de Campo. Workshop de actividades de Ecologia. (2016/07/14 - 2016/07/16)	Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal
2015/08/01 - 2015/08/29	Science outreach - Ciência Viva: Do linguado à pulga da areia. Workshop de actividades de Ecologia Marinha. (2015/08/01 - 2015/08/29)	Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal Centro de Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente, Portugal
2014/08/26 - 2014/09/13	Science outreach - Ciência Viva: Do linguado à pulga da areia. Workshop de actividades de Ecologia Marinha. (2014/08/26 - 2014/09/13)	Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Portugal Centro de Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente, Portugal Ciência Viva, Portugal

Event participation

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2021	Copepod secondary production response to climate variability in the Mondego estuary Supervisor	Carlos Carvalho e Cruz (Master)
2020/12/17	Environmental control of planktonic communities in a coastal Marine Protected Area (PNLN) (Thesis) Main arguer	Ruben Pereira (Master) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2020/05/25	EFEITO COMBINADO DO AQUECIMENTO E DA ACIDIFICAÇÃO DOS OCEANOS NO CAMARÃO PALAEMON VARIANS (LEACH, 1814): DESENVOLVIMENTO LARVAR E RESPOSTAS BIOQUÍMICAS (Thesis) Main arguer	Joana Figueira (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
2020	Long-term changes in ichthyoplankton communities in an Iberian coastal ecosystem Supervisor	Marta Monteiro (Master) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2019	Importance of nurseries areas for early life stages of fish at central coast of portugal Supervisor	Milene Guerreiro (Master) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2017	Surf Zone zooplankton communities from the central coast of Portugal – influence of season and substrate type Supervisor	Milene Guerreiro (Other) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2018/03 - Current	Ecologia das Populações	Ecologia (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2016 - Current	Ecologia Bentónica Estuarina	Biologia (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2016/12 - 2016/12	Seminário em Biologia Marinha I	Biologia Marinha (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2013/10 - 2013/10	Ecologia das Populações	Ecologia (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2013/01 - 2013/01	Recursos Marinhos	Ciências do Mar - Recursos Marinhos (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Interview (tv / radio show)

	Program	Topic
2018/03/11 - 2018/03/11	Primeiro Jornal	Estudo pioneiro sobre a solha - Projecto MYTAG

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2022/01/01 - Current	Frontiers in Marine Science
2015 - Current	PLoS ONE (1932-6203)	Public Library of Science
2015 - Current	Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (1469-7769)	Cambridge University Press
2015 - Current	Continental Shelf Research (0278-4343)	Elsevier

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2023/02/10 - Current	International Day of Women and Girls in Science	International Day of Women and Girls in Science Centro de Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal
2022/11/09 - Current	Inovação@UC	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2019 - 2019	43rd Annual Larval Fish Conference Congress	43rd Annual Larval Fish Conference
2019 - 2019	International Marine Connectivity Conference - iMarCo 2019 Conference	International Marine Connectivity Conference - iMarCo 2019
2018 - 2018	6th International Otolith Symposium Congress	6th International Otolith Symposium
2018 - 2018	EUROBUS – Towards an EURopean Observatory of the invasive calanoid copepod Pseudodiaptomus marinUS Meeting	EUROBUS – Towards an EURopean Observatory of the invasive calanoid copepod Pseudodiaptomus marinUS
2017 - 2017	10th International Flatfish Symposium Congress	10th International Flatfish Symposium
2017 - 2017	2nd World Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation Congress	2nd World Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation
2014 - 2014	V Jornadas Ibéricas de Ictiologia: Conhecer para preservar. Conference	V Jornadas Ibéricas de Ictiologia: Conhecer para preservar.
2014 - 2014	XVII Congress of the Iberian Association of Limnologia Congress
2014 - 2014	ECSA 54 - Coastal systems under change: tuning assessment and management tools. Conference	ECSA 54 - Coastal systems under change: tuning assessment and management tools
2012 - 2012	International Meeting of Marine Resources Conference	International Meeting of Marine Resources
2011 - 2011	International Flatfish Symposium Congress	8th International Flatfish Symposium
2010 - 2010	45th European Marine Biology Symposium Congress	45th European Marine Biology Symposium
2008 - 2008	43rd Estuarine & Coastal Sciences Association – International Symposium Congress	43rd Estuarine & Coastal Sciences Association – International Symposium