Miguel Leal (0000-0003-0672-6251)

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My research is currently focused on marine ecology and physiology, with special emphasis on invertebrates and trophic interactions. I'm also actively working on marine biodiversity issues, particularly biodiversity valuation and bioprospecting. I'm further focused on applied research, such as marine natural products and the pharmaceutical industry, and aquaculture of invertebrate species.
My goals are to provide insights into functional diversity, use large marine data-sets to effectively support decision making, enlighten the role of marine biodiversity and food-webs to ecosystem functioning and services, and ultimately link technical and scientific productivity with decision making towards Ocean conservation.

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Universidade de Aveiro: Aveiro, Aveiro, PT

2019-06-01 to 2020-12-31 | Researcher (CESAM)

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Miguel Leal

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0672-6251

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Universidade de Aveiro: Aveiro, Aveiro, PT

MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Center: Lisbon, PT

Eawag: Kastanienbaum, CH

Universidade de Aveiro: Lisbon, PT

Bio3: Lisbon, PT

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University of Aveiro: Aveiro, PT

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciencias: Lisboa, PT

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciencias: Lisboa, PT

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Scitation - Science Communication Lda: Lisbon, PT

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DiversiFish – Diversification of finfish species aquaculture to address human malnutrition

SmartBioR - Smart Valorization of Biological Marine Resources

Rastreabilidade da Origem Geográfica como uma Via de Valorização Inteligente dos Recursos Marinhos Endógenos

Dynamics of functional traits across ontogenetic and environmental gradients: From individuals to ecosystems

Vulnerability of marine tropical organisms to increasing ocean temperatures

Ecosystem consequences of eco-evolutionary change

SYnergies through Merging BIOlogical and biogeochemical expertise in COral REsearch

Metamorphosis does not reset embryonic and larval history. Clarifying the role of offspring provisioning and larval feeding on early post-settlement performance of coastal marine invertebrates

Trophic plasticity in coral nutrition  its relevance for marine biotechnology and coral reefs conservation

Southern Ocean Studies for Understanding Global  Climate Issues

Peri-urban mangrove forests as filters and potential phytoremediators of domestic sewage in East África

Transboundary netwworks of marine protected areas for integrated conservation and sustainable development: biophysical, socio-economic and governance assessment in East Africa

Merit scholarship

Works (50 of 78)

Conserved fatty acid profiles and lipid metabolic pathways in a tropical reef fish exposed to ocean warming – An adaptation mechanism of tolerant species?

The evolutionary ecology of fatty‐acid variation: Implications for consumer adaptation and diversification

Summer Is Coming! Tackling Ocean Warming in Atlantic Salmon Cage Farming

Noise pollution on coral reefs? — A yet underestimated threat to coral reef communities

Fifty Shades of Blue: How Blue Biotechnology is Shaping the Bioeconomy

Fifty years of capacity building in the search for new marine natural products

Synergistic Effects of Ocean Warming and Cyanide Poisoning in an Ornamental Tropical Reef Fish

Blue Bioeconomy Roadmap for Portugal

Dietary β-1,3/1,6-glucans improve the effect of a multivalent vaccine in Atlantic salmon infected with Moritella viscosa or infectious salmon anemia virus

A key metabolic gene for recurrent freshwater colonization and radiation in fishes

An experimental test of how parasites of predators can influence trophic cascades and ecosystem functioning

Stable isotopes as tracers of trophic interactions in marine mutualistic symbioses

Present and future invasion perspectives of an alien shrimp in South Atlantic coastal waters: an experimental assessment of functional biomarkers and thermal tolerance

How to Succeed in Marketing Marine Natural Products for Nutraceutical, Pharmaceutical and Cosmeceutical Markets

Environmental health assessment of warming coastal ecosystems in the tropics – Application of integrative physiological indices

Thermal stress and energy metabolism in two circumtropical decapod crustaceans: Responses to acute temperature events

Aquaculture of marine non-food organisms: wha, why and how?

3D chemoecology and chemotaxonomy of corals using fatty acid biomarkers: Latitude, longitude and depth

Corals

Habitat-dependent niche partitioning between colour morphs of the algal-dwelling shrimp Hippolyte obliquimanus

The Ecology and Evolution of Stoichiometric Phenotypes

Thermal stress, thermal safety margins and acclimation capacity in tropical shallow waters—An experimental approach testing multiple end-points in two common fish

Trophic and stoichiometric consequences of nutrification for the intertidal tropical zoanthid Zoanthus sociatus

Transgenerational selection driven by divergent ecological impacts of hybridizing lineages

Stoichiometric traits of stickleback: Effects of genetic background, rearing environment, and ontogeny

Aquaculture of marine non-food organisms: What, why and how?

Natural products discovery needs improved taxonomic and geographic information

Bioprospecting of Marine Macrophytes Using MS-Based Lipidomics as a New Approach

Molecular trophic markers in marine food webs and their potential use for coral ecology

Bacterial communities from corals cultured ex situ remain stable under different light regimes — Relevance for in toto aquaculture

Marine bioactive compounds from cnidarians

Photobiology of the zoanthid Zoanthus sociatus in intertidal and subtidal habitats

Symbiont type influences trophic plasticity of a model cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis

Trophic Ecology of Benthic Marine Invertebrates with Bi-Phasic Life Cycles

Marine Natural Products: Biodiscovery, Biodiversity, and Bioproduction

Trace element fingerprinting of cockle (Cerastoderma edule) shells can reveal harvesting location in adjacent areas

Development of a Standardized Modular System for Experimental Coral Culture

Marine ornamental fish imports in the European Union: an economic perspective

Potential use of fatty acid profiles of the adductor muscle of cockles (Cerastoderma edule) for traceability of collection site

Seafood traceability: current needs, available tools, and biotechnological challenges for origin certification

White but not bleached: photophysiological evidence from white Montastraea cavernosa reveals potential overestimation of coral bleaching

A expedição

Caught in the Act: how the U.S. Lacey Act can hamper the fight against cyanide fishing in tropical coral reefs

Concurrent imaging of chlorophyll fluorescence, chlorophyll a and GFP-like proteins of symbiotic cnidarians

Coral feeding on microalgae assessed with molecular trophic markers

Diagnostic gene expression biomarkers of coral thermal stress

Diagnostic gene expression biomarkers of coral thermal stress

Trophic plasticity in coral nutrition its relevance for marine biotechnology and coral reefs conservation

Southern Ocean Studies for Understanding Global Climate Issues