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Filipe Parreira completed his Master's in Marine Biology in 2018 by the University of the Algarve where he began his PhD in 2022 (ongoing). He is currently working as a Researcher at the Marine Plant Ecology Research Group (ALGAE) at the Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR) of the Algarve since 2018, with a focus on the ecology of marine vegetated habitats. Published 2 articles in peer review journals, has 1 article currently submitted, 3 environmental impact reports for local agencies and coauthored 1 conference paper. He participated in 5 different research projects. He mentored 10 IMBRsea Master students in their lab work and is currently mentoring 1 BSc student for her final project and 1 MSc student for her MSc thesis. He was also awarded with a mobility fund in 2015 to complete his BSc studies in Woods Hole MA, USA. His main study interests are seagrass biodiversity and conservation, invasive seaweeds, macrofauna assemblages and trophic modelling. He is also a well trained scientific diver with more than 100 scientific dives in Ria Formosa lagoon.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Filipe Parreira

Citation names

  • Parreira, Filipe

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
0213-723C-8560
ORCID iD
0000-0002-6898-4742

Email addresses

  • fbparreira@ualg.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Marine Biology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biodiversity Conservation
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Plant sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2022/02/18 - 2026
Ongoing
 Ciências do Mar, da Terra e do Ambiente (Doutoramento)
Major in Ciências do Mar
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2015 - 2018
Concluded
 Marine Biology (Mestrado)
Major in Ecology
Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
"Effects of the seaweed Caulerpa prolifera establishment on the biodiversity of Ria Formosa lagoon" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15
2015 - 2015
Concluded
 The Global Ocean (Outros)
Major in Oceanografia
Boston University, United States

Sea Education Association, United States
2012 - 2015
Concluded
 Biology (Licenciatura)
Major in Marine Biology
Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
 13
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/02/01 - 2022/10/31 Researcher (Research) Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
2018/11/28 - 2019/01/31 Research Trainee (Research) Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
2018/04/16 - 2018/05/18 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2018/04/09 - 2018/04/20 Research Assistant (Research) Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
2016/11/01 - 2016/11/30 Visiting Researcher (Research) Sea Education Association, United States
Sea Education Association, United States
2015 - 2015 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
Universidade dos Açores, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017/03/17 - 2017/09/29 Skipper and Nature Guide Passeios Ria Formosa, Portugal
2015/06/15 - 2015/08/01 Skipper Best Spot Azores Dive Center, Portugal
2014/07/01 - 2014/08/01 Nature Guide Picos de Aventura, Portugal
2013/07/01 - 2013/08/01 Nature Guide Pico Sport, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021 - 2023 SeagHorse - Restoration of Seagrass habitat and SeaHorse populations of Ria Formosa lagoon
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Research Technician Fellow
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
 EDULOG Fundação Belmiro de Azevedo
Ongoing
2020 - 2021 FarFish - Responsive Results-Based Management and capacity building for EU Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement- and international waters
H2020-SFS-2016-2017/H2020-SFS- 2016-2-727891
Research Technician Fellow
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Concluded
2019 - 2020 MONIPOR - Melhoria da Avaliação do Estado das Massas de Água, Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente, componente macroalgas, sapal e ervas marinhas
POSEUR-03-2013-FC-000001
Research Technician Fellow
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Concluded
2018 - 2019 RiaValue - Valuation of the ecosystem services delivered by Ria Formosa lagoon
PTDC/MAR-EST/3223/2014
Master Student Fellow
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Concluded
2015 - 2015 ECOSUBVEG - Changes in submersed vegetation: assessing loss in ecosystem services from frondose to depauperate systems dominated by opportunistic vegetation
07.032700/2012/635752/SUB/B2
Undergraduate volunteer researcher (Research trainee)
Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Carmen Barrena de los Santos; Márcio Martins; Richard Mace; André Silva; Cátia Freitas; Begoña Martinez-Crego; Filipe Parreira; et al. "An ecosystem service approach to decision-making in the Ria Formosa lagoon (South Portugal)". Paper presented in World Seagrass Conference, 2018.
Journal article
  1. Erzini, Karim; Parreira, Filipe; Zineb Sdat; Castro, Margarida; Luís Bentes; Rui Coelho; Jorge M. S. Gonçalves; et al. Corresponding author: Erzini, Karim. "Influence of seagrass meadows on nursery and fish provisioning ecosystem services delivered by Ria Formosa, a coastal lagoon in Portugal". Ecosystem Services 58 (2022): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101490.
    Open access • Published
  2. Parreira, Filipe; Martínez-Crego, Begoña; Lourenço Afonso, Carlos Manuel; Machado, Margarida; Oliveira, Frederico; Manuel dos Santos Gonçalves, Jorge; Santos, Rui. "Biodiversity consequences of Caulerpa prolifera takeover of a coastal lagoon". Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 255 (2021): 107344. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2021.107344.
    10.1016/j.ecss.2021.107344
  3. M. Martins, Gustavo; Hipólito, Cláudia; Parreira, Filipe; C.L. Prestes, Afonso; Dionísio, Maria A.; N. Azevedo, José M.; Neto, Ana I.. "Differences in the structure and functioning of two communities: Frondose and turf-forming macroalgal dominated habitats". Marine Environmental Research 116 (2016): 71-77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2016.03.004.
    10.1016/j.marenvres.2016.03.004
Report
  1. João Silva; Carmen Barrena de los Santos; Márcio Martins; Filipe Parreira; Rui Santos. Corresponding author: João Silva. 2021. Relatório Técnico de suporte ao Estudo de Impacto Ambiental relativo ao projecto de “Ampliação complementar do Porto de Recreio de Olhão”.
  2. Márcio Martins; Filipe Parreira; Carmen Barrena de los Santos; João Silva; Rui Santos. Corresponding author: Márcio Martins. 2020. Avaliação de incidência ambiental relativo ao projeto "Requalificação da Frente Ribeirinha de Faro, Intervalos 3 e 4".
  3. Carmen Barrena de los Santos; Márcio Martins; André Silva; Filipe Parreira; João Silva; Rui Santos. Corresponding author: Carmen Barrena de los Santos. 2020. Avaliação de incidência ambiental relativo à construção de um passadiço em madeira sobre a Ria Formosa, na zona adjacente à cidade de Faro..
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Parreira, Filipe. "Effects of the seaweed Caulerpa prolifera establishment on the biodiversity of Ria Formosa lagoon". Master, Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/12366.
Activities

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/06/13 - 2022/06/28 Speaker to the school group Padre João Coelho Cabanita as part of the dissemination of the SeagHorse project works. I gave several speaks, from first grades to nineth grades, how we determined the natural diet of seahorses and its importance for the survivability of the species.
Meeting
2021/05 - 2021/05 Speaker to the secondary education class of Escola Secundária Dr.ª Laura Ayres in Quarteira, Portugal where I discussed the importance of seagrass meadows in Ria Formosa, the ecosystem services they provide and the threats they face, including the recent expansion of an invasive green seaweed in the lagoon.
Meeting
Agrupamento de Escolas Dra Laura Ayres, Portugal
2019/05 - 2019/05 Guide for the Education Week with Initiatives in Environmental Volunteering (SEIVA, in Portuguese). During one day I took several school classes to see seagrass meadows in the Culatra Island, in the Ria Formosa lagoon. I spoke about the ecosystem services they provide, particularly the provision of food and shelter for macroinvertebrates and nursery for fish and cephalopods. We than collected sediment samples, sorted and identified the associated infauna and epifauna into major groups to show them the biodiversity enhancement of seagrasses.
Other
 Semana de Educação com Iniciativas de Voluntariado Ambiental (SEIVA)
Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2021/07 - Current BSc final project Isadora Hahn
2022/04 - 2022/12 MSc Thesis Hillary Stratton
2022/04 - 2022/05 Biodiversity analysis Nikhil Thomas
2022/04 - 2022/05 Biodiversity analysis Afonso Gomes
2022/04 - 2022/05 Biodiversity analysis Almudena Díaz
2022/04 - 2022/05 Biodiversity analysis Claudia Santana
2021/10 - 2021/11 Biodiversity analysis Denzel Atumurirava
2021/10 - 2021/11 Biodiversity analysis Luana Millecamps
2021/10 - 2021/11 Biodiversity analysis Gioia Klerk
2021/10 - 2021/11 Biodiversity analysis Sarah Elkin
2021/10 - 2021/11 Biodiversity analysis Anjelina Potin
2021/10 - 2021/11 Biodiversity analysis Jodanne Pereira
Distinctions

Award

2015 Mobility fund FLAD-UAc “Crossing the Atlantic 2015”
Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento, Portugal