Soraia Vanessa Teixeira de Aguiar Vieira
Senior Official (MARE-UE - MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre)
Fixed-term employment contract
MARE-UE - MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (Doutorando)
Marine benthic ecologist investigating how environmental conditions and biological interactions shape benthic biodiversity, food-web complexity and ecosystem functioning. My research integrates meiofauna ecology, sediment-associated microbial communities, stable-isotope food-web analysis, molecular approaches and quantitative modelling across estuarine, coastal and emerging deep-sea ecosystems. Building on published work on biodiversity-function relationships, I am developing an independent trajectory towards Predictive Experimental Benthic Ecology, connecting field evidence with controlled experimental validation; ecological indicators and predictive models. Focusing on ecosystem resilience, early-warning responses, restoration, blue-carbon processes and the translation of benthic knowledge into monitoring and decision-support frameworks.
Experimental Benthic Ecology, biodiversity-function relationships, ecological indicators and predictive models
Restoration, blue-carbon processes and the translation of benthic knowledge into monitoring and decision-support frameworks.
Restoration, blue-carbon processes and the translation of benthic knowledge into monitoring and decision-support frameworks.
2026 MARE-UÉvora Mini-Grant, awarded 1st place. DeepOMICS investigates how hydrothermally related environmental gradients structure bacterial and nematode communities in deep-sea sediments of the Azores Plateau.
2025/10/31Benthic biodiversity and bottom-up effects based onfoodweb attributes in response to sediment condition inSado estuary (SW Coast, Portugal)PhD Student Fellow 2021.06804.BD, Universidade de Évora, Portugal (FCT)
2025/10/31Benthic biodiversity and bottom-up effects based onfoodweb attributes in response to sediment condition inSado estuary (SW Coast, Portugal)PhD Student Fellow 2021.06804.BD, Universidade de Évora, Portugal (FCT)
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Fundo Ambiental
acrónimo: GraciosAzul
finished in 30/11/2024
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.112243
Vieira, S., Sroczy?ska, K., Neves, J., Martins, M., Costa, M. H., Adão, H., & Vicente, C. S. (2023). Distribution patterns of benthic bacteria and nematode communities in estuarine sediments. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 291, 108448.
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