Helena Adão

Associate Professor (Department of Biology)

Employment contract in public functions indefinitely

Nematodes assemblages are strongly important to investigate and monitoring the coastal and the marine ecosystems:

1-Ecology of deep sea nematodes: Mud Volcanos, Cadiz Gulf and Nazaré Canyon.

2- The functional responses and resilience of seagrass beds after habitat loss and during the natural recovery process: enzymatic activity of the sediments; physiological condition of the plants; macrofauna and meiofauna responses; trophic relations (stable isotopes ecology) and ictiofauna associated responses. An experimental field work to analyse the clam harvesting in natural recovery of seagrass beds was also developed.

3- A combined morphological and molecular analysis of the nematodes assemblages, to provide a tool for fast assessment of the biodiversity and abundance changes to assess GES: dT-RFLP and qPCR


4- The responses of the trophic webs to the presence of a non-indigenous species;