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ResearcherID :
56196396700
Job Type
Teaching/Education
Research
Subject Area
Biological Oceanography, Marine Ecology
Activities
Maria Alexandra Teodosio Chicharo is Associate
Professor at the University of Algarve, Portugal, where she is Coordinator of
the Research Group ECOREACH “Ecology and Restoration of Riverine, Estuarine and
Coastal habitats” in the Marine Sciences Centre (CCMAR). She the co-coordinator
of the master programme in Marine Biology and in Biodiversity and Conservation.
She is Associate Editor of the Estuarine Coastal Shelf Science Journal. She has
supervised six PhD students, 20 masters’ students, and over 30 undergraduates. Her
major research interests include the nutritional condition of fish larvae in
coastal ecosystems, and the effects of global changes, namely jellyfish species
invasions and acidification in planktonic communities. She is member of the
Expertpanel BIO3: Biodiversity and Ecology of the Research Foundation-Flanders
(FWO), and she is also a panel member of Marine Sciences to the Portuguese
Research Foundation (FCT). She has been involved in 22 European and national
funded research projects. She has published 70 peer-reviewed research articles,
and has contributed to six book chapters. H- Index (Scopus): 23
She is coordinating the South Iberia Station Plankton within the METABASE Explorer The Marine Ecological Time-series Database IGMETS WGZE Associated Working Groups
