Group name / denomination Hydrobiology

Liliana Carvalho: 2003-2005 SFRH/BD/7073/2001 - 8.250 EUR Catarina Teixeira: 2006-2007 SFRH/BD/22317/2005 - 5.500 EUR FLAD grants:

Rita Teixeira: 2004 IMAR / FLAD Grant Program - 1.200 EUR Others:

Ciência Viva- Biologia no Verão 2003. Bactérias na Praia - 20.000 EUR

University of Porto. Escola de Ciências da Vida e da Saúde. Summer course 2006 - 500 EUR University of Porto. Escola de Ciências da Vida e da Saúde. Summer course 2007 - 1.000 EUR

6b. Group team

1. Researchers in the group (Include only PhD. integrated in the LA)

001. Adriano Agostinho Donas Bôto Bordalo e Sá (Cat.: Professor Associado, Gr. Acad.: Agregação)

002. Ana Paula de Campos Mucha (Cat.: Investigador Auxiliar, Gr. Acad.: Doutoramento)

003. Catarina Maria Pinto Mora Pinto de Magalhães (Cat.: Não aplicável (bolseiro), Gr. Acad.:

Doutoramento)

004. Sandra Cristina da Costa e Silva Ramos (Cat.: Não aplicável (bolseiro), Gr. Acad.: Doutoramento)

2. Other researchers in the group (Include here collaborators with PhD. only) 001. Corália Maria Fortuna de Brito Vicente (Cat.: Professor Catedrático, Gr. Acad.: Agregação)

002. José Manuel Lage Campelo Calheiros (Cat.: Professor Catedrático, Gr. Acad.: Agregação) 003. Rui Manuel Vitor Cortes (Cat.: Professor Catedrático, Gr. Acad.: Agregação)

004. Pedro Manuel Silva Duarte (Cat.: Professor Associado, Gr. Acad.: Doutoramento)

005. Pedro Miguel Alfaia Barcia Re (Cat.: Professor Associado, Gr. Acad.: Doutoramento)

006. Cristina Isabel Ramires Rigaud de Abreu (Cat.: Assistente, Gr. Acad.: Doutoramento) 007. Raquel Beatriz Ribeiro de Mesquita (Cat.: Não aplicável (bolseiro), Gr. Acad.: Doutoramento)

3. Other researchers in the group (non PhD.)

001. Ana Margarida Pinto Henrique Machado (Cat.: Não aplicável (bolseiro), Gr. Acad.: Licenciatura)

002. Catarina Fernanda de Carvalho Pinheiro Teixeira (Cat.: Não aplicável (bolseiro), Gr. Acad.:

Mestrado)

003. Eva Catarina Costa Amorim (Cat.: Outra, Gr. Acad.: Licenciatura)

004. Joana Savva Bordalo e Sa (Cat.: Outra, Gr. Acad.: Licenciatura)

005. Liliana Isabel Queirós de Almeida Carvalho (Cat.: Outra, Gr. Acad.: Mestrado) 006. Maria Isabel da Silva Costa Azevedo (Cat.: Outra , Gr. Acad.: Mestrado)

6c. Objectives & achievements 1. Objectives (2000 ca.)

The activities within the lab are spread over three main areas: (i) research; (ii) consulting; and (iii) outreach. The lab aims to contribute to the aquatic research from a multidisciplinary point of view, dealing from water quality monitoring to modelling, from early life stages of fish to denitrification and global warming and epidemiology. Research is carried out in temperate (Portugal) and tropical environments (Thailand – SE Asia, Guinea-Bissau– W Africa, S. Tomé and Principe – W Africa). The main research areas are (a) monitoring estuarine water quality in terms of physical (conductivity, salinity, temperature, turbidity), chemical (dissolved oxygen, inorganic carbon, pH, nitrate, nitrite, ammonium, phosphate, silicate) and biological (bacteria, viruses, fecal indicators, primary production) parameters, (b) estuarine primary productivity, (c) nitrogen cycle and global warming, (d) anthropogenic impact in estuarine communities, (e) phytoremediation and bioremediation, (f) estuarine fish assemblages, with special emphasis to the estuarine nursery role for early life stages of fishes (g) watershed restoration, (h) ecological modelling, (i) tropical water quality and cholera, (j) water management and public health.

2. Main achievements (2000 ca.)

Monitoring estuarine water quality: research in the River Douro estuary involving monthly water column (since 2005) key environmental data.

Estuarine primary productivity: research in the River Douro estuary has been performed in the water column, intertidal sediments and hard surfaces.

Nitrogen cycle and global warming: research has been carried out in the water, sediments and hard surfaces in several estuaries in Portugal (Douro, Cávado, Sado and Ave) as well as in Bangpakong estuary, Thailand. Nitrogen fixation, nitrification, denitrification, annamox and nitrous oxide production, a powerful green-house gas were evaluated. In addition, the structure of the microbial populations involved in nitrification and denitrification are also studied.

Anthropogenic impact on estuarine communities: research performed in Douro and Lima estuaries in order to understand the effect of heavy metals and other pollutants on macrobenthic and microbial communities and on the denitrification process.

Phytoremediation and bioremediation: the role of the interaction between plants and microorganisms in the removal of heavy metals and other pollutants from sediments has been

Estuarine fish assemblages: research conducted in the Lima River estuary to understand the dynamics of fishes, focusing on the potential nursery role of estuaries and ultimately assess the carrying capacity of these ecosystems for fish species, some with high economical important such as sardines and flatfishes.

Watershed restoration: using the River Febros watershed (a tributary of the Douro) as a model, different tools for water quality, sediment quality and river bank quality have been employed.

Ecological modeling: by means of an object-oriented model several key parameters, including primary production, have been modelled in the River Douro estuary.

Tropical water quality, cholera and public health: research done in Thailand and Guinea-Bissau.

In Thailand the water quality of the Bangpakong River watershed and subtidal sediments has been carried out. In Guinea-Bissau, water quality and its relation to disease including cholera has been evaluated and sustainable measures do increase water quality have been designed.

6d. Productivity

1. Publications in peer review journals (3000 ca.) (Up to a max of 10. Always indicate at the end of the citation, impact factor of the journal (IF=) and number of citations (nº C=).

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The Laboratory of Hydrobiology members have published a total of 23 ISI-listed peer-reviewed articles in the period 2003-2007. The mean Impact Factor (based on ISI JCR 2007) for those 23 publications was 2.53. Each PhD member as a score of 1.9 publications (ISI) per year.

1. Bordalo, AA, Savva-Bordalo, J. 2007. The quest for safe drinking water: an example from Guinea-Bissau (West Africa). Water Research 41: 2978-2986. IF 2007=3.427, nºC=9.

2. Magalhães, CM, Costa, J, Teixeira, C, Bordalo, AA. 2007. Impact of trace metals on denitrification in estuarine sediments of the Douro River estuary, Portugal. Marine Chemistry 107: 332-341. IF 2007=3.805, nºC=9.

3. Magalhães, CM, Bano, N, Wiebe, WJ, Hollibaugh, J, Bordalo, AA. 2007. Composition and activity of betaproteobacteria ammonia-oxidizing communities associated with intertidal rocky biofilms and sediments of the Douro River estuary, Portugal. Journal of Applied Microbiology 103: 1239-1250. IF 2007=2.501, nºC=0.

4. Azevedo, IC, Duarte, PM, Bordalo, AA. 2006. Pelagic metabolism of the Douro estuary (Portugal) – Factors controlling primary production. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 69: 133- 146. IF 2006/2007=1.733/1.799, nºC=2.

5. Ramos, S, Cowen, RK, Paris, C, Ré, P, Bordalo, AA. 2006. Environmental forcing and larval fish asssemblage dynamics in the Lima River estuary (northwest Portugal. Journal of Plankton Research 28: 275-286. IF 2006/2007=1.619/1.897, nºC=1.

6. Magalhães, CM, Joye, SB, Moreira, R, Wiebe, WJ, Bordalo, AA. 2005. Effect of salinity and inorganic nitrogen concentrations on nitrification and denitrification rates in intertidal sediments