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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Miguel Nunes da Costa da Graça Matias

Citation names

  • Matias, Miguel

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9411-05A4-4486
ORCID iD
0000-0001-9198-2051

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
Italian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Beginner (A1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2011
Concluded
Doctor of Philosophy in Science (Doutoramento)
The University of Sydney Faculty of Science, Australia
"Scaling down general ecological models to explain small-scale variability in responses to changes in natural habitats" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
n/a
2005
Concluded
Masters by Research in Marine Biology (Mestrado)
University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
"Habitat heterogeneity: effects of interactions among structural components on assemblages of gastropods." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Distinção (A)
2003
Concluded
Licenciatura em Biologia ramo Biologia Marinha (Licenciatura)
Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
"Colonização inicial de estruturas artificiais na zona submersa de São Roque (São Miguel, Açores)." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2018/02/01 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain
2018/02 - Current Visiting Researcher (Research) Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2015/01/01 - 2017/12/31 Marie Curie Fellow Imperial College London, United Kingdom
2013/01/01 - 2014/12/31 Post-doctoral fellow Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2011/01/01 - 2012/12/31 Post-doctoral fellow Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
2007/02/01 - 2011/02/07 PhD student The University of Sydney Faculty of Science, Australia
2005/09/01 - 2006/12/31 Colaborator Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2005/04/01 - 2005/09/01 Visiting MRes Student The University of Sydney Faculty of Science, Australia
2004/09/01 - 2005/09/01 Mres Marine Biology University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
2002/09/01 - 2004/08/30 Colaborator Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
2004/04/01 - 2004/05/31 Visiting Student Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2002/09/01 - 2003/03/31 Trainee (Programa Estagiar - L) Quercus Associação Nacional de Conservação da Natureza, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2016/01 - 2018/12 Trophic responses to macroecological gradients
Principal investigator
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
2016/01 - 2018/12 Predicting state shifts in energetic food webs under climate change
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
2014/03 - 2015/03 Environmental controls of community structure and ecosystem function: an assessment with cork oak (Quercus suber) communities in the Iberian Peninsula
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
2012/04 - 2014/07 METHADE - Effects of Habitat Destruction on Marine Benthic Metacommunities: A Multi-Habitat Field Study on the
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/09/01 - 2022/08/31 WarmResponse - Predicting ecosystem-level responses to climate change
RTI2018-094640-A-I00
Principal investigator
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain
Ongoing
2019/03/01 - 2022/02/02 AdaptAlentejo: Predicting ecosystem-level responses to climate change
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030793
Principal investigator
Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
Ongoing
2017/01/01 - 2021/08/31 Network of Leading European AQUAtic MesoCOSM Facilities Connecting Mountains to Oceans from the Arctic to the Mediterranean
INFRAIA-01-2016-731065
Researcher
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Cátia Lúcio Pereira; Miguel Bastos Araújo; Miguel Graça Matias. "Interplay between productivity and regional species pool determines community assembly in aquatic microcosms". Aquatic Sciences 80 4 (2018): https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs00027-018-0596-x.
    10.1007/s00027-018-0596-x
  2. Alicia Montesinos-Navarro; Alba Estrada; Xavier Font; Miguel G. Matias; Catarina Meireles; Manuel Mendoza; Joao P. Honrado; et al. "Correction: Community structure informs species geographic distributions". PLOS ONE 13 7 (2018): e0200556-e0200556. https://doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0200556.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0200556
  3. Alicia Montesinos-Navarro; Alba Estrada; Xavier Font; Miguel G. Matias; Catarina Meireles; Manuel Mendoza; Joao P. Honrado; et al. "Community structure informs species geographic distributions". PLOS ONE 13 5 (2018): e0197877-e0197877. https://doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0197877.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0197877
  4. Martins, G.M.; Matias, M.G.; Moniz, I.; Rius, C.; Sanderson, J.; Neto, A.I.; Jenkins, S.R.. "Post-settlement dispersal ability determines structure of marine benthic metacommunities". Marine Ecology Progress Series 569 (2017): 15-23. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85020422597&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3354/meps12108
  5. Miguel G. Matias; Cátia Lúcio Pereira; Pedro Miguel Raposeiro; Vítor Gonçalves; Ana Mafalda Cruz; Ana Cristina Costa; Miguel Bastos Araújo. "Divergent trophic responses to biogeographic and environmental gradients". Oikos (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/oik.02604.
    10.1111/oik.02604
  6. Mariana Mayer-Pinto; Miguel G. Matias; Ross A. Coleman. "The interplay between habitat structure and chemical contaminants on biotic responses of benthic organisms". PeerJ 4 (2016): e1985-e1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1985.
    10.7717/peerj.1985
  7. Matias, M.G.; Arenas, F.; Rubal, M.; Pinto, I.S.. "Macroalgal composition determines the structure of benthic assemblages colonizing fragmented habitats". PLoS ONE 10 11 (2015): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84953235513&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0142289
  8. Morales-Castilla, I.; Matias, M.G.; Gravel, D.; Araújo, M.B.. "Inferring biotic interactions from proxies". Trends in Ecology and Evolution 30 6 (2015): 347-356. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84931004744&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.tree.2015.03.014
  9. Matias, Miguel. "Estimates of species extinctions from species–area relationships strongly depend on ecological context". Ecography (2014):
    10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00448.x
  10. Moniz Isadora; Matias Miguel; Neto Ana; Jenkins Stuart; Martins Gustavo. "Habitat isolation and size influence the structure of macroinvertebrate benthic assemblages". Frontiers in Marine Science 1 (2014): https://doi.org/10.3389%2Fconf.fmars.2014.02.00036.
    10.3389/conf.fmars.2014.02.00036
  11. Matias, Miguel G.. "Macrofaunal responses to structural complexity are mediated by environmental variability and surrounding habitats". Marine Biology 160 3 (2013): 493-502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-012-2155-7.
    10.1007/s00227-012-2155-7
  12. Matias, Miguel G.; Coleman, Ross A.; Hochuli, Dieter F.; Underwood, Antony J.. "Macrofaunal Responses to Edges Are Independent of Habitat-Heterogeneity in Experimental Landscapes". PLoS ONE 8 4 (2013): e61349-e61349. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0061349.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0061349
  13. Matias, Miguel G.; Mouquet, Nicolas; Chase, Jonathan M.. "Dispersal stochasticity mediates species richness in source-sink metacommunities". Oikos 122 3 (2013): 395-402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20479.x.
    10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20479.x
  14. Matias, Miguel G.; Combe, Marine; Barbera, Claire; Mouquet, Nicolas. "Ecological strategies shape the insurance potential of biodiversity". Frontiers in Microbiology 3 (2013): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2012.00432.
    10.3389/fmicb.2012.00432
  15. Matias, M.G.; Coleman, R.A.; Hochuli, D.F.; Underwood, A.J.. "Correction: Macrofaunal responses to edges are independent of habitat-heterogeneity in experimental landscapes (PLoS ONE)". PLoS ONE 8 4 (2013): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84895557475&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1371/annotation/c6bcddf5-835c-417f-a32e-201537ad4924
  16. Matias, Miguel. "Competition–colonization dynamics in experimental bacterial metacommunities". (2012):
    10.1038/ncomms2239
  17. Matias, MG; Chapman, MG; Underwood, AJ; Oâ¿¿Connor, NE. "Increasing density of rare species of intertidal gastropods: tests of competitive ability compared with common species". Marine Ecology Progress Series 453 (2012): 107-116. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps09639.
    10.3354/meps09639
  18. Matias, Miguel. "Habitat identity influences species-area relationships in heterogeneous habitats". (2011):
    10.3354/meps09273
  19. Matias, Miguel. "Canopy-forming species mediate the effects of disturbance on macroalgal assemblages on Portuguese rocky shores". (2010):
    10.3354/meps08729
  20. MATIAS, M. G.; UNDERWOOD, A. J.; COLEMAN, R. A.. "Effects of structural diversity and identity of patches of habitat on diversity of benthic assemblages". Austral Ecology 35 7 (2010): 743-751. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-9993.2009.02081.x.
    10.1111/j.1442-9993.2009.02081.x
  21. Matias, Miguel G.; Underwood, A. J.; Hochuli, D. F.; Coleman, R. A.. "Independent effects of patch size and structural complexity on diversity of benthic macroinvertebrates". Ecology 91 7 (2010): 1908-1915. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/09-1083.1.
    10.1890/09-1083.1
  22. MATIAS, MIGUEL G.; UNDERWOOD, A. J.; COLEMAN, ROSS A.. "Interactions of components of habitats alter composition and variability of assemblages". Journal of Animal Ecology 76 5 (2007): 986-994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2007.01277.x.
    10.1111/j.1365-2656.2007.01277.x
Distinctions

Other distinction

2014 Marie Curie Fellowship
2009 Ruhm Travelling fellowship
2009 Postgraduate Research Support Scheme (PRSS) 2009
2008 Travel Award - 7th International Temperate Reef Symposium, The University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), CA USA - June 26 to July 1, 2006
2005 Mres Marine Biology awarded with Distinction
University of Plymouth, United Kingdom