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The researcher has dedicated her academic years to the study of marine invertebrates, specifically brachyuran crabs, and of taxonomy and systematics. The researcher's master's dissertation produced identification keys of the first larval stage of brachyuran crabs from the Western Indian Ocean. The researcher's interests are focused in how natural history museum collections and their integration in digital repositories and open access online databases can help further studies in biodiversity, ecosystem services preservation strategies and modelling of ecological responses to climate change and human influence on natural habitats. Currently the researcher is conducting a PhD in Marine Sciences within the scope of the project COBIO-NET (Coastal biodiversity and food security in peri-urban Sub-Saharan Africa: assessment, capacity building and regional networking in contrasting Indian and Atlantic Oceans), financed by FCT and AGA KHAN Foundation.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Marta Alexandra Rodrigues dos Santos Bento

Citation names

  • Bento, Marta
  • Marta Alexandra Bento
  • Marta Alexandra Rodrigues dos Santos Bento

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
1911-B7F3-BF8C
ORCID iD
0000-0001-9790-0272
Google Scholar ID
Z8G-2rUAAAAJ
Researcher Id
AAU-8021-2020
Scopus Author Id
57300508100

Email addresses

  • martarsbento@gmail.com (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Marine Biology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2018/09/01 - 2024/12/11
Concluded
 Ciências do Mar (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"The effects of marine invertebrate biodiversity and habitat condition on African mangrove and seagrass ecosystem functioning and services: the case study of Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovada com Distinção e Louvor
2017
Concluded
 Ecologia Marinha (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Keys and bibliography for the identification of larval stages of brachyuran crabs from the Western Indian Ocean" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
2015
Concluded
 Biologia Ambiental (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 13
2012
Concluded
 Produção Alimentar em Restauração (Licenciatura)
Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/09/14 - Current Estudante PhD Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2017/09/21 - 2018/06/15 Volunteer - Preparation and cataloging of the Formicidae collection Universidade de Lisboa Museu Nacional de História Natural, Portugal
2017/09/11 - 2017/09/15 Course - Entomological Collections, Insect Systematics and Evolution Universidade de Lisboa Museu Nacional de História Natural, Portugal
2017/04/01 - 2017/04/02 Participation in the workshop - Preparação de insectos (Insect preparation) Universidade de Lisboa Museu Nacional de História Natural, Portugal
2008/12/04 - 2008/12/05 Conference attendance - Natureza e Sociedade: Balanço e novas opções para Portugal Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2008/04/15 - 2008/04/16 Attendance at the seminar - Ecologia de Estradas & Carnívoros (Road Ecology & Carnivores) Grupo Lobo, Portugal
2008/04/12 - 2008/04/13 Participation in the workshop on arachnids - Dias de Aracnologia (Arachnology Days) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2004/10/14 - 2006/05/15 Volunteering at the Botanical Garden and Herbarium, Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon ( Jardim Botânico e Herbário da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa) Universidade de Lisboa Museu Nacional de História Natural, Portugal
2000/12/19 - 2001/01/02 Volunteering in the Quintinha (Farm animals) Jardim Zoológico de Lisboa, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019/09 - 2023/08 The effects of marine invertebrate biodiversity and habitat condition on African mangrove and seagrass ecosystem functioning and services: the case study of Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe
SFRH/BD/147875/2019
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Bento, Marta; Henrique Niza; Alexandra Cartaxana; Alexandra Marçal Correia. "Marine collections and global digital repositories as source data to assess the effects of habitat condition and biodiversity loss on African Coastal ecosystem functioning and services". Paper presented in Biodiversity Next, 2019.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.13079.11680
Journal article
  1. A Resende Santos; M Bento; S Broszeit; J Paula; A Marçal Correia. "Linking ecosystem pressures and marine macroinvertebrate ecosystem services in mangroves and seagrasses". Marine Ecology Progress Series (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps14527.
    10.3354/meps14527
  2. Frederick Asante; Marta Bento; Stefanie Broszeit; Salomão Bandeira; Sadia Chitará-Nhandimo; Manuela Amoné-Mabuto; Alexandra Marçal Correia. "Marine macroinvertebrate ecosystem services under changing conditions of seagrasses and mangroves". Marine Environmental Research 189 (2023): 106026-106026. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2023.106026.
    10.1016/j.marenvres.2023.106026
  3. Marta Bento; Henrique Niza; Alexandra Cartaxana; Salomão Bandeira; José Paula; Alexandra Marçal Correia. "A Dataset of Marine Macroinvertebrate Diversity from Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe". Data (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/data8050076.
    10.3390/data8050076
  4. Marta Bento; José Paula; Salomão Bandeira; Alexandra Marçal Correia. "Catching the Drift of Marine Invertebrate Diversity through Digital Repositories—A Case Study of the Mangroves and Seagrasses of Maputo Bay, Mozambique". Diversity (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/d15020242.
    10.3390/d15020242
  5. Marta Bento; Henrique Niza; Alexandra Cartaxana; Salomao Bandeira; José Paula; Alexandra Marçal Correia. "Mind the Gaps: Taxonomic, Geographic and Temporal Data of Marine Invertebrate Databases from Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe". Diversity (2023): https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/15/1/70.
    10.3390/d15010070
  6. Henrique Niza; Marta Bento; Luis Lopes; Alexandra Cartaxana; Alexandra Correia. "A picture is worth a thousand words: using digital tools to visualise marine invertebrate diversity data along the coasts of Mozambique and São Tomé & Príncipe". Biodiversity Data Journal (2021): https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e68817.
    10.3897/BDJ.9.e68817
  7. Niza, Henrique; Bento, Marta; Lopes, Luis; Cartaxana, Alexandra; Correia, Alexandra. "A picture is worth a thousand words: using digital tools to visualise marine invertebrate diversity data along the coasts of Mozambique and São Tomé & Príncipe". Biodiversity Data Journal 9 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/bdj.9.e68817.
    10.3897/bdj.9.e68817
  8. Marta Bento; Henrique Niza; Alexandra Cartaxana; Alexandra Marçal Correia. "Marine collections and global digital repositories as source data to assess the effects of habitat condition and biodiversity loss on African Coastal ecosystem functioning and services". Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 3 (2019): https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.35077.
    10.3897/biss.3.35077
  9. Bento, Marta Alexandra Rodrigues dos Santos; Paula, José. "Keys and bibliography for the identification of larval stages of brachyuran crabs from the Western Indian Ocean". Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science 17 1 (2018): 13-51. https://www.ajol.info/index.php/wiojms/article/view/165690/167148.
    Open access • Published
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Bento, Marta Alexandra Rodrigues dos Santos. "Keys and bibliography for the identification of larval stages of brachyuran crabs from the western Indian Ocean". Master, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/31638.

Other

Dataset
  1. Marta Bento; Henrique Niza; Alexandra Cartaxana; Salomão Bandeira; José Paula; Alexandra Marçal Correia. A dataset of marine macroinvertebrate diversity from Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe.
    10.15468/W4S7CC
  2. Marta Bento. A dataset of marine macroinvertebrate diversity from Maputo Bay, Mozambique.
    10.15468/DD.2QG6GJ
  3. Marta Bento. A dataset of marine macroinvertebrate diversity from Maputo Bay, Mozambique.
    10.5281/ZENODO.7557141