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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Martin Souto Souto

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
E01A-19FA-6BB7
ORCID iD
0000-0002-5739-3090
Education
Degree Classification
2014 - 2018/07/10
Concluded
 2018 (Doctor)
Major in Botanica
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
"Reconstrucción paleoambiental de turberas del Norte de la Península Ibérica mediante análisis de macrofósiles vegetales y grado de humificación de la turba." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Sobresaliente Cum Laude
2007 - 2008
Concluded
 Biodiversidade e Conservación do Medio Natural (DEA)
Major in Botanic
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela - Campus Vida, Spain
 Sobresaliente
2000 - 2006
Concluded
 2006 (Licenciatura)
Major in Botanica
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela - Campus Vida, Spain
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/09 - 2024/09 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
2019/10 - 2022/05 Postdoc (Research) Universidade dos Açores Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Universidade dos Açores Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2017/08/10 - 2018/12/31 Contracted Researcher (Research) Herbario Sant, Facultade de Farmacia, USC, Spain
Herbario Sant, Facultade de Farmacia, USC, Spain
2017/05/24 - 2017/08/09 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Departamento de Edafoloxía e Química Agrícola, Spain
2012/11/06 - 2013/01/04 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2011/01/01 - 2011/08/31 Contracted Researcher (Research) Museo de Historia Natural (MHN) da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela,, Spain
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela - Campus Vida, Spain
2008/01/01 - 2008/04/10 Contracted Researcher (Research) Museo de Historia Natural (MHN) da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela,, Spain
Museo de Historia Natural (MHN) da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela,, Spain
2007/02/23 - 2007/12/31 Contracted Researcher (Research) Museo de Historia Natural (MHN) da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela,, Spain
Museo de Historia Natural (MHN) da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela,, Spain
2006/11/02 - 2006/12/31 Contracted Researcher (Research) Museo de Historia Natural (MHN) da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela,, Spain
Museo de Historia Natural (MHN) da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela,, Spain
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019/10 - 2021 DiscoverAZORES. When were the Azores archipelago really colonized? A high-resolution paleolimnological approach.
02/SAICT/2017-028511
Post-doc Fellow
Ongoing
2017/05/24 - 2017/08/09 Identification, classification and localisation of the types of peatland habitat corresponding to Group 71 (Acid sphagnum bogs) of Annex I to Directive 92/43/EEC present in Galicia
SA-A-0005/17
Research Fellow
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela - Campus Vida, Spain
Concluded
2009/04 - 2009/05 Study of plant macroremains in Poaceae
Ref.09PXiB200019PR
PhD Student Fellow
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia, Argentina

Contract

Designation Funders
2020 - Current IMPACOM, Climate Impacts of the Common Era on Aquatic Systems in NW Spain
PID2019-107424RB-I00
Post-doc
Universidade da Coruña - Campus de Elviña, Spain
Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva (InBIO)
LA/P/0048/2020
10.54499/LA/P/0048/2020
Researcher
Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2024 - 2025 ExTRAP Exploratory study of Tephra Records in Azores Peat bogs
ExTRAP
Researcher
Ongoing
2023/09/15 - 2024/11/29 PUNA RESILIENTE, Avaliação do impacto das alterações climáticas nas zonas húmidas dos altos Andes para conceber estratégias de adaptação para comunidades locais vulneráveis.
PUNARESILIENTE
Researcher
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Departamento de Edafoloxía e Química Agrícola, Spain
Ongoing
2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31 Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva
UIDP/50027/2020
10.54499/UIDP/50027/2020
Researcher
Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2022/09 - 2023/12 Materials for the integration and dissemination of knowledge: The peatlands of the Azores and climate change React-EU-PO Azores 2020. Assessment of peat biomass per hectare and installation of permanent plots
nº 51 /SRAAC/2022
Researcher
Direção Regional dos Recursos Florestais, Portugal
Concluded
2020/10 - 2022 Determination of the state of conservation, design of a system of monitoring and drafting of conservation measures for the types of habitat of the acid peatlands, calcareous fens and para-peatlands of Galicia
22/2020PN CVP 90712400-5
Post-doc
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela - Campus Vida, Spain
 Xunta de Galicia
Concluded
2018/05 - 2018/11 Establishment of a specific typology of herbaceous-dominated ecosystems with a peatland component (phase 2). Paraturberas. Selection and description of variables to diagnose the conservation status of the structure and function parameter.
MAPAMA 2017
Researcher
2018/09/16 - 2018/09/23 Report on the potential toxicity of ashes produced during the fire at the company Alumisel SAU. Concentration of toxic elements and substances in combustion ashes in relation to the reference xeneric levels
2018-CE189
Concluded
2015/10/17 - 2016/01/31 Experimental cultivation of Palmaria palmata. Collaboration agreement for carrying out research, advice and training
2015-CE186
Research Fellow
Algas Atlánticas Algamar S.L./ IGAFA /Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Concluded
2012/11/06 - 2013/01/04 Report on the phenolic states, flowering, growth habits and morphological characterization of Camellia spp. obtained in Galicia
2012-CL078
Research Fellow
Asociacion Productores de Plantas Ornamentales de Galicia (ASPROGA), Spain
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2019 - 2021 FunAqua, Global DNA-based inventory of aquatic fungi for documenting global fungal biodiversity in water and sediments
projekt P180023PKKH
Researcher
Eesti Maaülikooli Tehnikainstituut, Estonia
Ongoing
2012/12 - 2019/07 Group of Environmental and Environmental Studies Applied to Natural and Cultural Heritage (GEMAP)
GI-1243
Researcher
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela - Campus Vida, Spain
Concluded
2009/07/13 - 2011/12/01 Implications of environmental changes on carbon sink and contaminants through the study of Galician peatlands
(2009-PG152) Ref.09PXiB200019PR
Researcher
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela - Campus Vida, Spain
Concluded
2009/04 - 2009/06 Techniques for phytolith analysis in sediments.
(2009-PG152) Ref.09PXiB200019PR.
PhD Student Fellow
Museo de Historia Natural (MHN) da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela,, Spain

Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia, Argentina
Concluded
2008/09/21 - 2008/10/01 Latitudinal diversity in the deep bottoms of the Atlantic Ocean, DIVA-ARTABRIA II, on board the oceanographic research vessel "Hespérides"
CTM2004-00740/MAR
Researcher
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela - Campus Vida, Spain
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Martínez, X., Singul, F & Souto, M.. Os últimos carballos do Banquete de Conxo. Spain: Alvarellos editora. 2016.
    Published
  2. Fraga, M.I., Souto, M., & Castro, D.. Guia verde de Santiago de Compostela. Spain: Alvarellos editora. 2010.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Pontevedra-Pombal, X., Souto, M., Castro, D., López-Sáez, JA., Pérez-Díaz, S., Fraga, MI., García-Rodeja, E.. "Origin and evolution of the blanket bog of Zalama (Montes de Ordunte, Northern Iberian Peninsula)". In Inventary, value and restoration of peatlands: recent contributions, 227-240. Bilbao, Spain: Diputación Foral de Bizkaia, 2018.
    Published
  2. Souto M., Pontevedra-Pombal X., Castro D., López-Sáez JA., Pérez-Diaz S., Garcia-Rodeja E. & Fraga MI.. "Reconstrucción paleoambiental de los últimos 8.000 años de la turbera de Zalama (Sierra de Ordunte, País Vasco)". In Retos y oportunidades en la Ciencia del Suelo, 53-56. Spain: Andavira SL., 2014.
    Published
Conference abstract
  1. Felix Pina Castillo; Souto, Martin; Gonçalves, Vítor; Pedro M. Raposeiro. "Paleoecological study of the Caiado peatland (Pico Island)". Paper presented in Spring Seminar BioIsle, Seminário – Biodiversidade e Ilhas, Ponta Delgada, 2024.
    Published
  2. Pedro M. Raposeiro; Catarina Ritter; Abbott, Mark; Hernández, Armand; Pimentel, Adriano; Plóciennik, Mateusz; Berlajolli, Violeta; et al. "Chironomid-based palaeotemperature and precipitation oxygen isotope estimates for the North Atlantic region (Azores archipelago)". Paper presented in Spring Seminar BioIsle, Seminário – Biodiversidade e Ilhas, Ponta Delgada, 2024.
    Published
  3. Souto, Martin; Pedro M. Raposeiro; Gonçalves, Vítor. "Diversity of Pteridophyta spores in Azores Lake sediments". Paper presented in Spring Seminar BioIsle, Seminário – Biodiversidade e Ilhas, Ponta Delgada, 2024.
    Published
  4. Martin Souto; Pedro M. Raposeiro; Pontevedra-Pombal, Xabier; Gonçalves, Vítor; Souto, Martin. "Diversity of Testate Amoebae in the Azores archipelago and their use as a paleoenvironmental indicator". Paper presented in Spring Seminar BioIsle, Seminário – Biodiversidade e Ilhas, Ponta Delgada, 2022.
    Published
  5. Souto, Martin; Pedro M. Raposeiro; Balibrea, Ana; Gonçalves, Vítor. "Increasing the knowledge of the Macaronesian mycoflora: new records of basidiomycetes from Azores". Paper presented in FloraMac2022, La Gomera, 2022.
    Published
  6. Souto, Martin; Santos, Sofia; Pedro M. Raposeiro; Pontevedra-Pombal, Xabier; Ritter, Catarina; Gonçalves, Vítor. "Evolution of lakes to peatlands in Azores Islands, a multiproxy palaeoecological analysis". Paper presented in XXI Conference of the Iberian Association of Limnology, Aveiro, 2022.
    Published
  7. Santos, Sofia; Souto, Martin; Gonçalves, Vítor; Pedro M. Raposeiro. "Reconstruction of past vegetation using plant macrofossils in sediments from Lake Prata (São Miguel)". Paper presented in Spring Seminar ¿BIOISLE, Ponta Delgada, 2022.
    Published
  8. Raposeiro, P.M, Gonçalves, V., Pla-Rabes, S., Hernández, A., Sáez, A., Bao, R., de Boer, E.J., Richter, N., Souto, M., B. "First human impacts and responses of aquatic ecosystems responses on remote oceanic islands: The Azores archipelago as a case study.". Paper presented in 12th Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences (SEFS-12), Dublin, 2021.
  9. Souto, M., Gonçalves, V., Pla-Rabes, S., Richter, N., Sáez, A., Bao, R., de Boer, E.J., Benavente-Marín, M., Hernández,. "Use of fossil NPPs on the Azores to reconstruct past environmental changes". Paper presented in 12th Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences (SEFS-12), Dublin, 2021.
  10. Fehlinger, L. et al.. "EUROPONDS - paneuropean insights into the ecological role of ponds: early career freshwater biologists shedding light on often overlooked small water bodies.". Paper presented in 12th Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences (SEFS-12) Dublin, Ireland, dublin, 2021.
    Published
  11. Costa, Ana Cristina; Balibrea, Ana; Pedro M. Raposeiro; Santos, Sofia; Souto, Martin; Gonçalves, Vítor. "Espécies aquáticas de água doce não indígenas presentes nos Açores". Paper presented in Spring Seminar Webinar–BIOISLE, Ponta Delgada, 2021.
    Published
  12. Pedro M. Raposeiro; Souto, Martin; Ritter, Catarina; Marques, Helena; Costa, Ana Cristina; Pla-Rabes, Sergi; de Boer, Erik J.; et al. "Resposta dos sistemas lacustres açorianos aos impactos humanos, uma perspectiva paleolimnológica". Paper presented in Spring Seminar Webinar–BIOISLE, Ponta Delgada, 2021.
    Published
  13. Ritter, Catarina; Gonçalves, Vítor; Souto, Martin; Abbott, Mark; Pedro M. Raposeiro. "Registo climático do final do Holoceno nos Açores através de isótopos de oxigénio de quironomídeos lacustres". Paper presented in Spring Seminar Webinar–BIOISLE, Ponta Delgada, 2021.
    Published
  14. Santos, Sofia; Souto, Martin; Gonçalves, Vítor; Pedro M. Raposeiro. "Reconstrução da vegetação passada usando macrofósseis de plantas em sedimentos da lagoa de São Brás (São Miguel)". Paper presented in Spring Seminar Webinar–BIOISLE, Ponta Delgada, 2021.
    Published
  15. Souto, Martin; Gonçalves, Vítor; Pedro M. Raposeiro. "Macrofósseis vegetais em sedimentos lacustres, um novo modelo paleobotânico de estudo nos Açores". Paper presented in Spring Seminar Webinar - BIOISLE, Ponta Delgada, 2021.
    Published
  16. Pontevedra-Pombal, Xabier; Carballeira, Rafael; Guinarte, R; Castro, Daniel; Souto, Martin; Hernández, Armand; Pedro M. Raposeiro; Saez, Alberto; Bao, Roberto. "Paleoecological changes in thecamoebian populations coupled to the evolution of the Doniños coastal lake (NW Iberian Peninsula)". Paper presented in XX Congress of the Iberian Association of Limnology (AIL-2020) / III Iberoamerican Congress of Limnology, Murcia, 2020.
    Published
  17. Souto, Martin; Gonçalves, Vítor; Ritter, Catarina; Pla-Rabes, Sergi; Ricther, Nora; Saez, Alberto; Bao, Roberto; et al. "The drastic loss of Laurisilva forest after human arrival: A case study from Corvo Island". Paper presented in XX Congress of the Iberian Association of Limnology (AIL-2020) / III Iberoamerican Congress of Limnology, Murcia, 2020.
    Published
  18. Souto, Martin; Gonçalves, Vítor; Ritter, Catarina; Pla-Rabes, Sergi; Ricther, Nora; Saez, Alberto; Bao, Roberto; et al. "Non-pollen palynomorphs preserved in sedimentary archives of Lake Caldeirão, Azores: Fungal and algal remains as paleoecological indicators". Paper presented in XX Congress of the Iberian Association of Limnology (AIL-2020) / III Iberoamerican Congress of Limnology, Murcia, 2020.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Costa, Ana Cristina; Botelho, A.Z.; Parente, Manuela; João Faria; Paola Perretti; Balibrea, Ana; Pedro M. Raposeiro; et al. "Aquatic NIS in the Azores at the blinking of two decades of research and monitoring". Paper presented in NeoBiota 13th International Conference on Biological Invasions, 2024.
  2. Lorente, B.; Souto, M.; Raposeiro, P.; Gonçalves, V.. "Diversity of Desmidiales in freshwater systems of the Azores archipelago". Paper presented in Floramac, 2022.
  3. Fehlinger, L., Rimcheska, B, Fekete, J., Misteli, B., Chonova, T., Misteli, B., Balibrea, A., Kolár, V., Souto, M., Nava. "A comparative study of larval Odonata data within permanent ponds across Hungary". Paper presented in 6th European Congress on Odonatology (ECOO 2022), 2022.
  4. Souto, M., Magdalena, A., Gonçalves, V., Pontevedra-Pombal, X., Pimentel, A., Ritter, C., Abbott, M. & Raposeiro, P.. "Paleoenvironmental interpretation in the testate amoebae assemblages in a sedimentary record Azores". Paper presented in 12th Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences (SEFS-12) Dublin, Ireland, 2021.
  5. Fehlinger, L. et al.. "Ecological assessment of a renaturalised pond in the quarries of Alpedrete". Paper presented in 12th Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences (SEFS-12) Dublin, Ireland, 2021.
  6. Fehlinger, L., B. Rimcheska, J. Rubio-Ríos , E. Fenoy , M. Mathieu-Resuge , M. Sarkezi , C. Englisch, D. Cunillera-Montc. "3rd European FreshProject EUROPONDS". Paper presented in IX simposio de investigación en ciencias experimentales, 2020.
  7. Souto, M., Gonçalves, V., Ritter, C., Richter, N., Sáez, A., Bao, R., Giralt, S. & Raposeiro, P.M.. "Non-pollen palynomorphs preserved in sedimentary archive of Caldeirao Lake, Azores. Fungi and algal remains as paleoecological indicators". Paper presented in Limnologia 2020, 2020.
  8. Souto, M., Gonçalves, V., Ritter, C., Richter, N., Sáez, A., Bao, R., Giralt, S. & Raposeiro, P.M. "The drastic loss of Laurisilva forest after human arrival. Corvo Island as a case study". Paper presented in Limnologia2020, 2020.
  9. Raposeiro, P.M., Gonçalves, V., de Boer, E.J., Rull, V., Hernández, A., Souto, M., Costa, A.C., Pla-Rabes, S., Ritter, C. "Evidence of early settlement of the Azores archipelago using a high-resolution paleolimnological approach.". Paper presented in Limnología2020, 2020.
  10. Pontevedra-Pombal, X., Carballeira, R., Guinarte, R., Castro, D., Souto, M., Hernández, A., Raposeiro, P.M., Sáez, A., &. "Changes in the tecameba population coupled to the evolution of the Doniños coastal lake (NW Iberian Peninsula).". Paper presented in Limnología2020, 2020.
  11. Bao, R., Buchaca, T., Carballeira, R., Castro, D., Fernández-Pena, P., González-Villanueva, R., Hernández, A., Leira, M.. "Catastrophic vs. gradual ecological change in a coastal back-barrier perched lake as a function of climate-forced barrier breaching in the last 2,700 yr". Paper presented in AGU Fall Meeting, CA. EEUU, 2019.
  12. Souto, M. & Pontevedra-Pombal, X.. "Fungi remains from different microhabitat of a raised bog and their potential as non-pollen palynomorphs". Paper presented in International Workshop on Phytoliths and Non-Pollen Palynomorphs – Barcelona, 2019.
    http://nonpollenpalynomorphs.tsu.ru/index.html
  13. Pérez-Díaz, S., López-Sáez, J.A., Galop, D., Pontevedra-Pombal, X., Souto, M. & Fraga, M.I.. "Early pastoral activity in the Eastern Cantabrian Mountains. Palaeoenvironmental Approach". Paper presented in XVII Congreso mundial UISPP, 2014.
    10.1130/abs/2018rm-314389
  14. Castro, D., Souto, M., Garcia-Rodeja, E., Pontevedra-Pombal, X. & Fraga, M.I.. "Analysis of macrofossils in an Ombric Histosol of the Serra do Xistral, Galicia: contributions to the interpretation of environmental changes in the last 5,000 years.". Paper presented in V Congresso Ibérico da Ciencia do Solo 2012, 2012.
  15. Souto, M., Castro, D., Pancotto, V. & Fraga, M.I.. "Bryophytic flora of Sphagnum magellanicum Brid. mires from Tierra del Fuego National Park (Ushuaia, Argentina)". Paper presented in IMCG Field Symposium 2010, 2010.
  16. Fernandez Pepi, M.G., Patterer, N.I., Souto, M., Pontevedra-Pombal, X., Fraga, M.I., Arriaga, M. & Zucol, A.F.. "Phytolithic analysis of a peat bog at Cumbres Cabaleiros, Spain". Paper presented in XIV Simposio Argentino de Paleobotánica y Palinologia, 2009.
  17. Quintela-Sabarís C. Souto, M.. "The gardens of the South Campus of Santiago de Compostela: our natural heritage". Paper presented in 3rd Galician Forum of Environmental Educators, 2009.
  18. Quintela-Sabarís C., Souto, M. & Fraga M.I.. "Influence of soil and climatic condition on metal accumulation of Cistus ladanifer". Paper presented in COST Action 859, Phytotechnologies to promote sustainable land use management and improve food safety. 1º scientific meeting of WG1: Root to shoot translocation of pollutants and nutrients, 2006.
Journal article
  1. Raposeiro, Pedro M.; Ritter, Catarina; Abbott, Mark; Hernandez, Armand; Pimentel, Adriano; Lasher, Everett; Plóciennik, Mateusz; et al. "Late Holocene climate dynamics in the Azores archipelago". Quaternary Science Reviews 331 (2024): 108617. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108617.
    10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108617
  2. Souto, Martin; Raposeiro, Pedro Miguel; Balibrea, Ana; Gonçalves, Vítor. "Checklist of Basidiomycota and New Records from the Azores Archipelago". Diversity 16 3 (2024): 170. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d16030170.
    10.3390/d16030170
  3. Raposeiro, Pedro M.; Hernández, Armand; Pla-Rabes, Sergi; Gonçalves, Vítor; Bao, Roberto; Sáez, Alberto; Shanahan, Timothy; et al. "Reply to Elias et al.: Multiproxy evidence of widespread landscape disturbance in multiple Azorean lakes before the Portuguese arrival". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 4 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2120107119.
    10.1073/pnas.2120107119
  4. Raposeiro, Pedro M.; Hernández, Armand; Pla-Rabes, Sergi; Gonçalves, Vítor; Bao, Roberto; Sáez, Alberto; Shanahan, Timothy; et al. "Climate change facilitated the early colonization of the Azores Archipelago during medieval times". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 41 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2108236118.
    10.1073/pnas.2108236118
  5. Costa, Ana C.; Balibrea, Ana; Raposeiro, Pedro M.; Santos, Sofia; Souto, Martin; Gonçalves, Vítor. "Non-indigenous and Invasive Freshwater Species on the Atlantic Islands of the Azores Archipelago". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9 (2021): 1-19. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.631214.
    Published • 10.3389/fevo.2021.631214
  6. Souto, Martin; Gonçalves, Vítor; Pontevedra-Pombal, Xabier; Raposeiro, Pedro. "Distribution of testate amoebae in bryophyte communities in São Miguel Island (Azores Archipelago)". Biodiversity Data Journal 9 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/bdj.9.e63290.
    10.3897/bdj.9.e63290
  7. Alejandro Gómez-Pazo, Augusto Pérez-Alberti , Pedro Fraga-Santiago , Martin Souto , X. L. Otero. "Contribution of GIS and geochemical proxies to improving habitat identification and delimitation for the Natura 2000 network: The case of Coastal lagoons in Galicia (NW Iberian Peninsula)". Applied Sciences 10 24 (2020):
    Published • doi.org/10.3390/app10249068
  8. Castro, D.; Souto, M.; Fraga, MI., García-Rodeja, E.; Perez Diaz, S., Lopez Saez, JA, Pontevedra-Pombal, X.. "High-resolution patterns of palaeoenvironmental changes during the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the north-western Iberian Peninsula". Geoscience Frontiers 11 (2020): 1471-1475. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987120301341.
    Published • doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2020.05.015
  9. Souto, M.; Castro, D.; García-Rodeja, E.; Pontevedra-Pombal, X.. "The Use of Plant Macrofossils for Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions in Southern European Peatlands". Quaternary 2 4 (2019): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/quat2040034.
    Published • 10.3390/quat2040034
  10. Lorenzo, S., Souto, M. & González, M.A.. "Técnicas de ilustración científica en Historia Natural. As coleccións malacolóxicas da USC como modelo de estudo.". Nova Acta Científica Compostelana (Bioloxía) 26 (2019): 19-28. https://revistas.usc.gal/index.php/nacc/article/view/6288.
    Published
  11. Pontevedra-Pombal, X., Castro, D., Souto, M., Fraga, I., Blake, W.H., Blaauw, M., López-Sáez, J.A., Pérez-Díaz, S., Valc. "10,000 years of climate control over carbon accumulation in an Iberian bog (southwestern Europe).". Geoscience Frontiers 10 (2018): 1521-1533.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2018.09.014
  12. Carballeira, R. & Souto, M.. "Presencia de Cyperus papyrus L. (Cyperaceae) en la bioregión atlántica de la Península Ibérica". 43 (2018): 1-4.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.24310/abm.v43i0.5011
  13. Pontevedra-Pombal, X., Castro, D., Carballeira, R., Souto, M., López-Sáez, J.A., Pérez-Díaz, S., Fraga, M.I., Valcárcel,. "Iberian acid peatlands: types, origin and general trends of development". Mires and Peat 19 (2017): 1-19. http://mires-and-peat.net/media/map19/map_19_21.pdf.
    Published
  14. Carballeira, R., Souto, M., Andrés, S., García-Rodeja, E. & Pontevedra-Pombal, X. "Presencia de Dolomedes fimbriatus (Clerck, 1758) (Araneae, Pisauridae) en Galicia (España)". Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31 (2017): 107-109.
    Published
  15. Souto, M., Castro, D., Pontevedra-Pombal, X., Garcia-Rodeja, E., Fraga, M.I. (. "Characterisation of Holocene plant macrofossils from North Spanish ombrotrofic mires: bryophytes.". Mires and Peat 19 (2017): 1-12. http://mires-and-peat.net/media/map19/map_19_02.pdf.
    Published
  16. Pérez-Díaz, S.; López-Sáez, J.A.; Pontevedra-Pombal, X.; Souto-Souto, M.; Galop, D.. "8000 years of vegetation history in the northern Iberian Peninsula inferred from the palaeoenvironmental study of the Zalama ombrotrophic bog (Basque-Cantabrian Mountains, Spain)". Boreas 45 4 (2016): 658-672. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84969962356&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/bor.12182
  17. Souto M., Castro D., Pontevedra-Pombal X., Garcia-Rodeja E., Fraga M.I. "Characterisation of Holocene plant macrofossils from North Spanish ombrotro-fic mires: vascular plants". Mires And Peat 18 (2016): 1-21. http://mires-and-peat.net/media/map18/map_18_11.pdf.
    Published
  18. Souto, Martin; Castro, Daniel; Pancotto, Veronica; Isabel Fraga, M.. "Liverworts ofSphagnum magellanicumBrid. raised bogs from Tierra del Fuego National Park, Ushuaia Argentina". Journal of Bryology 37 2 (2015): 104-111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1743282014y.0000000131.
    Published • 10.1179/1743282014y.0000000131
  19. Castro, D., Souto, M., Garcia-Rodeja, E., Pontevedra-Pombal, X. & Fraga, M.I.(. "Climate change records between the mid- and late Holocene in a peat bog from Serra do Xistral (SW Europe) using plant macrofossils and peat humification analyses". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 420 (2015): 82-95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.12.005.
    Published • 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.12.005
  20. Fraga, M.I., Romero-Pedreira, D., Souto, M., Castro, D. & Sahuquillo, E.. "Assessing the impact of wind farms on the plant diversity of blanket bogs in the Xistral Mountains (NW Spain)". Mires and Peat 4 (2008): 1-10. http://www.mires-and-peat.net/pages/volumes/map04/map0406.php.
    Published
Manual
  1. García-Rodeja, E., Fraga, M.I., Pontevedra-Pombal, X., Sahuquillo, E., Romero Pedreira, D., Nóvoa Muñoz, J.C., Souto, M.. Mountain mires of Galicia : (serras do Xistral, Toxiza and Ancares): post symposium excursion field guide,. Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 2008.
    Published
Online resource
  1. Souto, Martin; Gonçalves, Vitor; Pontevdra-Pombal, X; Pedro M. Raposeiro. Records of testate amoebae in São Miguel island (Azores Archipelago). Occurrence dataset. Version 1.7. Universidade dos Açores via GBIF.org. 2020. https://doi.org/10.15468/69rr5t..
  2. Fraga, M.I., Quintela Sabarís, C., Souto, M., Leonardo Docanto, F. & Guerra Bouzas, X.. Green routes of the USC. A trip around the world with trees. 2008. https://www.usc.gal/export9/sites/webinstitucional/gl/servizos/museohn/descargas/Roteiro_2_.pdf.
Report
  1. Gonçalves, Vítor; Helena Sousa Marques; Balibrea, Ana; Noemie Taymans; Lidia Vilaverde; Souto, Martin; Pedro M. Raposeiro. 2024. Caracterização Hidromorfológica das Massas de Água Interiores Superficiais na Região Autónoma dos Açores. Relatório da monitorização do 2º ano.
  2. Gonçalves, Vítor; Pedro M. Raposeiro; Helena Sousa Marques; Felix Pina Castillo; Souto, Martin; Cordeiro, Rita; Costa, Ana Cristina. 2024. Monitorização das Massas de Água Interiores e de Transição da Região Hidrográfica dos Açores. Life19 IPC/PT/000004 - LIFE IP CLIMAZ. Relatório da 3ª Campanha do ano 1 (R3/Ano1).
  3. Gonçalves, Vítor; Pedro M. Raposeiro; Helena Sousa Marques; Felix Pina Castillo; Souto, Martin; Cordeiro, Rita; Costa, Ana Cristina. 2024. Monitorização das Massas de Água Interiores e de Transição da Região Hidrográfica dos Açores. Life19 IPC/PT/000004 - LIFE IP CLIMAZ. Relatório da 4ª Campanha do ano 1 (R4/Ano1).
  4. Pérez Haase, A. Margalef, O., Olid, C., Souto, M.. 2023. Technical Report on Carbon Storage and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Sierra del Escudo, Burgos.
  5. Pontevedra Pombal, X., Carballeira, R., Blanco-Chao, R., Costa-Casais, M., García-Rodeja, E., M. Souto, Valcárcel, M.. 2022. Study of peatland formations in the Suído Norte sector, Galicia. Guiding Criteria..
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Souto, Martin. "Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of peatlands in the North of the Iberian Peninsula through the analysis of plant macrofossils and the degree of peat humification.". PhD, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela - Campus Vida, 2018. https://minerva.usc.es/xmlui/handle/10347/17268.
Working paper
  1. Pontevedra-Pombal X, Souto M., Carballeira R, Blanco-Chao R, Costa-Casais M, García-Rodeja E, Valcárcel, M.. 2021. "Identification of Peatland habitats in Galicia. Department of soil science and agricultural chemistry & Department of geography.".
  2. Martínez-Cortizas A, Silva-Sánchez N, Pontevedra-Pombal X, Souto M, García-Rodeja E.. 2019. "Establishment of a specific typology of herbaceous ecosystems with a peatland component.".
  3. García-Rodeja E, Pontevedra-Pombal X, Souto M, Silva-Sánchez N, Martínez-Cortizas A. 2019. "Description of procedures to estimate the pressures and threats that affect or may affect the conservation status of each type of herbaceous ecosystem with a peatland component (mesoeutrophic mires).".
  4. Pontevedra-Pombal, X., Souto, M., Andrés, S, Carballeira, R., Blanco, R., Valcárcel, M., Fraga, M.I., García-Rodeja, E.. 2017. "Identification, classification and localisation of types of peatland habitats corresponding to Group 71 (acid sphagnum mires) of Annex I to Directive 92/43/EEC present in Galicia: network extension areas. final report.".
  5. García-Rodeja, E., Fraga, M.I., Pontevedra-Pombal, X., Sahuquillo, E., Romero Pedreira, D., Nóvoa Muñoz, J.C., Souto, M. 2008. "Wind farms on Peatlands of serras septentrionais (Galicia, NW Spain) : symposium excursion field guide.".
  6. Souto, M., Fraga, M.I.. 2005. "Patent application and DUS (distinctness, homogeneity and stability) examination for Liquidambar styraciflua L. cultivars. ‘Petit Ball’ e ‘Compostela’, UPOV".

Artistic / Performance

Visual artwork
  1. Souto, Martin. Coleoptera, Monotomidae, Cryptophagidae, Fauna Ibérica Vol. 35.
  2. Souto, Martin. Pannariaceae. Flora Liquenológica Ibérica Vol. 6. Sociedad Española de Liquenología (SEL).
  3. Souto, Martin. Mollusca: Solenogastres, Caudofoveata & Monoplacophora. Fauna Ibérica, vol. 38.
  4. Souto, Martin. Coleoptera, Latriidae. Fauna Ibérica, vol. 42.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/06/28 Island lake ecosystems experience abrupt regimes shifts due to Global Warming XXII Congreso de la Asociación Ibérica de Limnología
Universidade de Vigo (Vigo, Spain)
2024/06/04 Diversity of Pteridophyta spores in Azores lake sediments Bioisle 7º Spring Seminar
Universidade dos Azores (Ponta Delgada, Portugal)
2024/06/03 Paleoecological study of the Caiado peatland (Pico Island) Bioisle 7º Spring Seminar
Universidade dos Azores (Ponta Delgada, Portugal)
2024/06/03 Chironomid-based paleotemperature and precipitation oxygen isotope estimates for the North Atlantic region (Azores Archipelago) during the Medieval Climate Anomaly and the Little Ice Age. Bioisle 7º Spring Seminar
Universidade dos Azores (Ponta Delgada, Portugal)
2024 Non-uniform change of ecosystem functioning on islands of Macaronesia during the last 10,000 years IBS 2024
2023/10/03 Effects of taxonomic identification bias on ecological inferences: research community survey on testate amoeba microscopy dataset. ISTA 2023
International Society of Testate Amoebae (Madrid, Spain)
2023/10/03 Diversity of Testate Amoebae in the Azores archipelago and their use as a paleoenvironmental indicator ISTA 2023
International Society of Testate Amoebae (Madrid, Spain)
2023/10 Synthesis of global distribution of testate amoebae diversity, testate amoeba taxonomy and traits database ISTA 2023
International Society of Testate Amoebae (Madrid, Spain)
2023/07/28 Palaeoclimate interpretation of oxygen stable isotope data and chironomid from a North Atlantic (Azores archipelago) lake sediment archives. 11th Workshop IAVCEI Commission on Volcanic Lakes
IAVCEI Commission on Volcanic Lakes (Ponta Delgada, Portugal)
2023/07/16 Tracking historical human disturbances on remote islands using a multiproxy approach: Lake Ginjal record (Terceira Island, Azores) XXI Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research INQUA 2023
International Union for Quaternary Research (Roma, Italy)
2023/07/15 Mid Holocene vegetation changes and climate variability on the North Atlantic from Caveiro Lake margin peat record (Pico island, 38ºN, Azores archipelago) XXI Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research INQUA 2023
International Union for Quaternary Research (Roma, Italy)
2023/07/14 Chironomid-based palaeotemperature and precipitation oxygen isotope estimates for the North Atlantic region (Azores archipelago) XXI Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research INQUA 2023
International Union for Quaternary Research (Roma)
2023/07/14 Reconstructed lake food webs reveal ecosystem-level responses to late Holocene climate and human-induced changes across the Azores Archipelago XXI Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research INQUA 2023
International Union for Quaternary Research (Roma, Italy)
2023/06/03 Diversity of Desmidiales in freshwater systems of the Azores archipelago Bioisle 6º Spring Seminar, UAC
UAC (Ponta Delgada, Portugal)
2023/06/03 Palaeoclimate interpretation of oxygen stable isotope data and chironomid from a North Atlantic (Azores archipelago) lake sediment archives Bioisle 6º Spring Seminar, UAC,
UAC (Ponta Delgada, Portugal)
2023/06/02 Diversity of basidiomycetes fungi from Azores archipelago. Bioisle 6º Spring Seminar, UAC
UAC (Ponta Delgada, Portugal)
2023/06/02 Studies of aquatic plants communities in lakes of the Azores archipelago Bioisle 6º Spring Seminar, UAC,
UAC (Ponta Delgada, Portugal)
2022/09/15 Increasing the knowledge of the Macaronesian mycoflora: new records of basidiomycetes from Azores Floramac
(La Gomera, Spain)
2022/08/07 Lipid export from water to land: Results from the pan-European project EUROPONDS 36th Congress of the international society of Limnology, SIL 2022 Berlin
(Berlin, Germany)
2022/07/05 Evolution of lakes to peatlands in Azores Islands, a multiproxy palaeoecological analysis. 2º Meeting of the Iberian Ecological Society (SIBECOL), XXI Conference of the Iberian Association of Limnology (AIL), 21º National Congress of the Portuguese Ecological Society (SPECO)
(Aveiro, Portugal)
2022/06/30 Odonata fauna across European ponds - case study from EUROPONDS project. 6th European Congress on Odonatology (ECOO 2022)
(Kamnik, Slovenia)
2022/06/26 EUROPONDS fresh project - ecological contribution of ponds to their landscapes. World Biodiversity Forum, Inspiration for Action.
(Davos, Switzerland)
2022/05/30 Testate Amoebae diversity in the Azores archipelago and its use as a paleo-environmental indicator. 5º Spring Seminar, UAC
Universidade dos Azores (Ponta Delgada, Portugal)
2022/05/30 Historical reconstruction of vegetation using plant macrofossils in sediments of the Prata lagoon (São Miguel) 5º Spring Seminar, UAC
Universidade dos Azores (Ponta Delgada, Portugal)
2018/11/20 Fungi in forest ecosystems Lecture series Campus Crea School of Forestry, Pontevedra Campus (University of Vigo)
Universidade de Vigo (Pontevedra, Spain)
2018/10/18 Fossil bryophytes in ombrotrophic bogs of the northern Iberian Peninsula XXVI Meeting of the Spanish Society of Bryology (SEB), Reinosa, Cantabria
Sociedad Española de Briología (SEB) (Reinosa, Spain)
2017/09/29 O ecosistema das Brañas do Sar Ciclo de conferencias Centro sociocultural de Sar
Centro sociocultural de Sar (Santiago de compostela, Spain)
2017/09/08 O Xistral: unha viaxe no tempo VII Xornadas da Delegación Territorial de Galicia da Sociedade Española de Ciencias do Solo
Sociedade Española de Ciencias do Solo (Valadouro, Spain)
2016/11/03 Complementary products of agro-farming: The mycology.
Asociación galega de cooperativas agrarias (AGACA) (Carballo, Spain)
2014/06/24 Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the last 8,000 years of the Zalama peatland (Sierra de Ordunte, Basque Country). VI Congreso Ibérico de la Ciencia del Suelo
Sociedade Española de Ciencias do Solo (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2020/09 - 2021 Paleoenvironmental interpretation of the changes in the Tecamebas communities in a lacustrine core of Lagoa da Prata, (Sao Miguel, Azores).
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela - Campus Vida, Spain
2018 - 2019 Environmental changes in the subantarctic region from the study of vexetal macrofossils in a Tierra del Fuego peatland
Co-supervisor
 Traballo de fin de grao (Other)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela - Campus Vida, Spain
2018 - 2019 Techniques of Scientific Illustration in Natural History: The malacological collections of the USC as a case study.
Co-supervisor
 2018-2019 Traballo de Fin de Grao (Other)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela - Campus Vida, Spain

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2021/05/27 - 2021/05/28 Spring Seminar Webinar - Biodiversidade e Ilhas, UAC, 27-28/V /2021 São Miguel, Açores. (2021/05/27 - 2021/05/28)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade dos Açores Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2016/03 - 2016/04 Roteiros botánicos guiados pola Alameda de Santiago de Compostela (2016/03 - 2016/04)
Seminar
 Museo de Historia Natural (MHN) da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela,, Spain
2014/10 - 2014/11 Mycoloxy workshops for the Natural History Museum of the USC: mushrooms, what are they, how to collect them? (2014/10 - 2014/11)
Seminar
 Museo de Historia Natural (MHN) da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela,, Spain
2010/10/01 - 2010/12/31 Biodiversidade e coleccions de Historia Natural Membro do equipo técnico da exposición e organización de actividades de divulgación científica. Contratante: Conselleria de Innovación e Industria: 20h/ semanais (2010/10/01 - 2010/12/31)
Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Museo de Historia Natural (MHN) da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela,, Spain
2009/01/02 - 2009/05/30 Cape Verde Islands: first scale of the Beagle and model of diversification and irradiation of marine molluscs. Member of the technical team of the exhibition and organisation of scientific dissemination activities. Contracting authority: Consejeria de Innovación e Industria: 20h/weekly (2009/01/02 - 2009/05/30)
Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Museo de Historia Natural (MHN) da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela,, Spain
2008/10/24 - 2008/11/29 From nature to the kitchen: History of the plants in our gardens. Member of the technical team of the exhibition and botanist. Aid for the Promotion of Scientific Culture. FECYT (2008-PN016) Ref. FCT-08-0691 Contractor: Consellería de Innovación e Industria: 15 h/weekly (2008/10/24 - 2008/11/29)
Exhibition (Member of the Scientific Committee)
 Museo de Historia Natural (MHN) da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela,, Spain
2008/04/27 - 2008/04/30 Peatlands, Energy and Climate Change IMCG Symposium on Windfarms on peatland. This event focused on the intersection of European policy for wind farm development with peatland interests. (2008/04/27 - 2008/04/30)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela - Campus Vida, Spain

International Mire Conservation Group, Germany
2007/11/05 - 2007/12/31 Know to protect, endangered species of Galician flora and fauna Member of the technical team of the exhibition, scientific illustrator and organisation of scientific dissemination activities. DIVERCIENCIA.(2007-PG014). Contractor: Regional Ministry of Innovation and Industry, 20 h/week. (2007/11/05 - 2007/12/31)
Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Museo de Historia Natural (MHN) da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela,, Spain
2006/11/02 - 2006/12/31 “O mundo na tua cabeza, que sabemos e como no lo contaron”. Membro do equipo técnico da exposición itinerante e organización de actividades de divulgación científica. Semana da Ciencia, (2006 CP173) Contratante: Consellería de Innovación e Industria 40 h/ semanais, 02/11/2006 – 31/12/2006 (2006/11/02 - 2006/12/31)
Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Museo de Historia Natural (MHN) da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela,, Spain

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023/03 - 2023/03 Diversity MDPI
2019 - 2022 Tarrelos, Federación Galega de Micoloxía (ISSN: 1888 7066) Galician Mycology Federation
2017 - 2017 Polish Journal of Natural Sciences (PL ISSN 1643-9953) University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Polonia
Distinctions

Award

2021 Premis Citat de Barcelona, Ciències Ambientals i de la Terra 2021
Ajuntament de Barcelona, Spain