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Employment (2)

National Research Council: Rome, IT

2020 to present | Pos-doc contract (CNR · Institute of Water Research IRSA)
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Vanessa Modesto

Universidade do Minho: Braga, Braga, PT

2016-06-01 to 2020-11-23 | Estudante de Doutoramento (Biologia)
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Vanessa Modesto

Education and qualifications (3)

Universidade do Minho: Braga, Braga, PT

2016-06-01 to present | PhD student
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Vanessa Modesto

Universidade de Coimbra: Coimbra, Coimbra, PT

2009-10-01 to 2011-09-13 | Mestre em Ecologia Aplicada (Ciências e Tecnologia)
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Vanessa Modesto

Universidade de Coimbra: Coimbra, Coimbra, PT

2005-10 to 2009-06 | Licenciatura em Biologia (Ciências e Tecnologia)
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Funding (8)

SYMBIOREM- Symbiotic, circular bioremediation systems and biotechnology solutions for improved environmental, economic and social sustainability in pollution control (No 101060361).

2023 to 2025 | Grant
HORIZON EUROPE European Innovation Council (Brussels, BE)
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Vanessa Modesto

Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS6) - Towards a technological platform for NANOPLASTICS detection (NANOPLASTICS) (CAS Project 30602).

2023 to 2024 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
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Vanessa Modesto

INTERREG Italia-Svizzera Parchi Verbano Ticino (ID 481668).

2022 to 2023 | Grant
European Regional Development Fund (Verbania, IT)
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Vanessa Modesto

ENTERPRISING between hydrodyNamics flows and bioTic communities in fluvial Ecosystems: advancement in dischaRge monitoring and understanding of Processes Relevant for ecosystem sustaInability by the development of novel technologieS with fIeld observatioNs and laboratory testinG

2020 to 2021 | Contract
Ministero dell'Istruzione dell'Università e della Ricerca (Roma, IT)
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2017SEB7Z8

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FRESHCO - Multiple implications of invasive species on freshwater mussel coextinction processes.

2016 to 2020 | Grant
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisboa, PT)
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PTDC/AGR-FOR/1627/2014

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ECO-IAS: Ecosystem-level impacts of an invasive alien species

2014 to 2015 | Contract
Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (Faro, PT)
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info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/COMPETE/116685/PT

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SIGNAL - Effects of pollution on estuarine zooplankton-zooplanktivorous fish ecological interactions in relation to climate changes

2012 to 2013 | Grant
Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (Faro, PT)
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info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/5876-PPCDTI/110331/PT

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EEMA – Evaluation of the Ecological Status of Coastal and Transitional Water Bodies and Ecological Potential of Heavily Modified Water Bodies in Portugal

2010 to 2011 | Grant
N/A (N/A, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

POVT-12-0133-FCOES-00017

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Works (17)

Interspecific differences in the physiological condition of native freshwater mussels in response to the invasive Asian clam Corbicula fluminea

Hydrobiologia
2025-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Vanessa Modesto; Martina Ilarri; Paulo Castro; Francisco Carvalho; Thais Cavalheri; Manuel Lopes-Lima; Amílcar Teixeira; Rodrigo O. A. Ozório; Carlos Antunes; Ronaldo Sousa
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What we know and do not know about the invasive Asian clam Corbicula fluminea

Hydrobiologia
2025-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Vanessa Modesto; Martina Ilarri; Anna M. Labecka; Noé Ferreira-Rodríguez; Neil E. Coughlan; Xiongjun Liu; Ronaldo Sousa
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Freshwater mussels’ valve movement response as early-warning system of river’s ecosystem conditions

2025-01-20 | Preprint
Contributors: Donatella Termini; Nina Benistati; Ashkan Pilbala Ashkan Pilbala; Vanessa Modesto; Nicoletta Riccardi; Luigi Fraccarollo; Sebastiano Piccolroaz; Dario Manca; Tommaso Moramarco
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Using freshwater mussel valvometry data as a real-time biological warning system for aquatic ecosystems

2025-01-20 | Preprint
Contributors: Sebastiano Piccolroaz; Ashkan Pilbala; Nicoletta Riccardi; Nina Benistati; Vanessa Modesto; Donatella Termini; Dario Manca; Augusto Benigni; Cristiano Corradini; Tommaso Lazzarin et al.
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Real-time biological early-warning system based on freshwater mussels’ valvometry data

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
2024-05-30 | Journal article
Contributors: Ashkan Pilbala; Nicoletta Riccardi; Nina Benistati; Vanessa Modesto; Donatella Termini; Dario Manca; Augusto Benigni; Cristiano Corradini; Tommaso Lazzarin; Tommaso Moramarco et al.
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Real-Time Biological Early Warning System based on Freshwater Mussels’ Valvometry Data

2023-11-14 | Preprint
Contributors: Ashkan Pilbala; Nicoletta Riccardi; Nina Benistati; Vanessa Modesto; Donatella Termini; Dario Manca; Augusto Benigni; Cristiano Corradini; Tommaso Lazzarin; Tommaso Moramarco et al.
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Supplementary material to "Real-Time Biological Early Warning System based on Freshwater Mussels’ Valvometry Data"

2023-11-14 | Preprint
Contributors: Ashkan Pilbala; Nicoletta Riccardi; Nina Benistati; Vanessa Modesto; Donatella Termini; Dario Manca; Augusto Benigni; Cristiano Corradini; Tommaso Lazzarin; Tommaso Moramarco et al.
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First comparative assessment of contamination by plastics and non-synthetic particles in three bivalve species from an Italian sub-alpine lake

Environmental Pollution
2023-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Camilla Della Torre; Nicoletta Riccardi; Stefano Magni; Vanessa Modesto; Marco Fossati; Andrea Binelli
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Mussel behaviour as a tool to measure the impact of hydrodynamic stressors

Hydrobiologia
2023-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Vanessa Modesto; Luca Tosato; Ashkan Pilbala; Nina Benistati; Luigi Fraccarollo; Donatella Termini; Dario Manca; Tommaso Moramarco; Ronaldo Sousa; Nicoletta Riccardi
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Trophic niche overlap between native freshwater mussels (Order: Unionida) and the invasive Corbicula fluminea

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
2021-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Vanessa Modesto; Ester Dias; Martina Ilarri; Manuel Lopes‐Lima; Amílcar Teixeira; Simone Varandas; Paulo Castro; Carlos Antunes; Ronaldo Sousa
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Potential impacts of the invasive species Corbicula fluminea on the survival of glochidia

Science of The Total Environment
2019-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Vanessa Modesto; Paulo Castro; Manuel Lopes-Lima; Carlos Antunes; Martina Ilarri; Ronaldo Sousa
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Fish and mussels: Importance of fish for freshwater mussel conservation

Fish and Fisheries
2018-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Vanessa Modesto; Martina Ilarri; Allan T Souza; Manuel Lopes‐Lima; Karel Douda; Miguel Clavero; Ronaldo Sousa
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Palatability of the Asian clam Corbicula fluminea (Mu¨ller 1774) in an invaded system

2017-03 | Magazine article
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Palatability of the Asian clam Corbicula fluminea (Müller 1774) in an invaded system

Hydrobiologia
2017-03-06 | Journal article
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cv-prod-id-2291653

Contributors: Castro, P. S.; Ilarri, M. I.; Modesto, V.; Antunes, C.; Sousa, R.
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Differences in the macrozoobenthic fauna colonising empty bivalve shells before and after invasion by Corbicula fluminea

Marine and Freshwater Research
2015-01-30 | Journal article
DOI:

DOI: 10.1071/MF14004

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Spatial and temporal dynamics of corbicula fluminea (mü ller, 1774) in relation to environmental variables in the mondego estuary (Portugal)

2013 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1093/mollus/eyt026

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2-s2.0-84889861638

Contributors: Modesto, V.; Franco, J.N.; Sousa, R.; Patrício, J.; Marques, J.C.; Neto, J.M.
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Population dynamics of Corbicula fluminea (Müller, 1774) in mesohaline and oligohaline habitats: Invasion success in a Southern Europe estuary

2012 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1016/j.ecss.2011.07.014

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2-s2.0-84866903908

Contributors: Franco, J.N.; Ceia, F.R.; Patrício, J.; Modesto, V.; Thompson, J.; Marques, J.C.; Neto, J.M.
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