Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Alexandra Sofia Baptista Vicente Baeta
Citation names
- Baeta, Alexandra
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- A11F-6781-661B
Websites
- http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9898-9096 (Professional)
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexandra_Baeta2 (Professional)
- http://www1.ci.uc.pt/imar/unit/people/cvs/cv/a_baeta.php (Scholar)
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Marine Biology
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
Spanish; Castilian | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | |
French | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2010/09/21
Concluded
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Doutoramento (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
Université de La Rochelle, France "FOOD WEBS IN INTERTIDAL ECOSYSTEMS-A STABLE ISOTOPE APPROACH AND TROPHIC NETWORK ANALYSIS" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Aprovada com Distinção e Louvor |
2005/05/24
Concluded
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Mestrado em Ecologia (Mestrado)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Biologia, dinâmica populacional e ecologia alimentar de Carcinus maenas no estuário do Mondego" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Muito Bom |
2002/07/22
Concluded
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Licenciatura em Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Licenciatura em Biologia" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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16 (dezasseis) valores |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2018/01/03 - Current | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2014/04/01 - 2018/01 | Post-Doc Grant (SFRH/BPD/95160/2013) | Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal |
2011 - 2014 | Pos-Doc Grant (SFRH/BPD/74447/2010) | Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal |
2010 - 2010 | Research Grant | IMAR ( (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal), Portugal |
2006 - 2009 | PhD Grant (SFRH/BD/23574/2005) | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal |
2005 - 2005 | Research Grant | IMAR ( (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal), Portugal |
2003 - 2004 | Research Grant | IMAR ( (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal), Portugal |
2002 - 2003 | Research Grant | IMAR ( (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal), Portugal |
Projects
Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2012 - 2016 | DEVOTES (Development of innovative tools for understanding marine biodiversity and assessing good environmental status.
FP7-ENV-308392
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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European Commission
Concluded
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2013 - 2015 | What may we learn from ecological functioning in tropical ecosystems (Paraíba, Brazil)? Assessment of anthropogenic and natural
effects.
CNPq and CAPES, Brazil (R$ 269 165)
Researcher
Universidade Estadual da Paraiba, Brazil
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Concluded
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2011 - 2014 | 3M_RECITAL - ESTUÁRIOS DO MINHO, MONDEGO E MIRA, observatórios: Variações do estado ecológico a longo prazo originadas por
pressões naturais e humanas. Implicações na gestão e recuperação.
LTER/BIA-BEC/0019/2009
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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Concluded
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2010 - 2013 | SIGNAL- Effects of pollution on estuarine zooplankton-zooplanktivorous fish ecological interactions in relation to climate
changes
PTDC/AAC-AMB/110331/2009
Researcher
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
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Concluded
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2011/06/01 - 2012 | CleF - The combined impacts of invasion and climate change on coastal ecosystem functioning
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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Concluded
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2010 - 2012 | 3M_RECITAL - ESTUÁRIOS DO MINHO, MONDEGO E MIRA, observatórios: Variações do estado ecológico a longo prazo originadas por
pressões naturais e humanas. implicações na gestão e recuperação
LTER/BIA-BEC/0019/2009
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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Concluded
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2009 - 2012 | WISER (Water Bodies in Europe: Integrative systems to assess ecological status and recovery)
UE, Programa INCO FP7-ENV-2008-1
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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European Commission
Concluded
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2008 - 2011 | LusoMarBol - Integrating molecular approaches into marine biodiversity research in Portugal: Implementing DNA barcoding and
investigating phylogeographic patterns
PTDC/MAR/69892/2006
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
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Concluded
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2008 - 2011 | RECONNECT (System dynamic response to an ample artificial RE-establishment of the upstream CONNECTion between the two arms
of the Mondego estuary (Portugal): Implications for recovery, ecological quality status, and management)
PTDC/MAR/64627/2006PTDC/MAR/64627/2006
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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Concluded
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2005 - 2008 | EFICAS (Effects of natural stress generated by freshwater discharges in the benthic invertebrate estuarine communities and
its influence on the assessment of the benthic ecological status)
POCI/MAR/61324/2004
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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Concluded
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2003 - 2004 | Caracterização do estuário do Mondego e estabelecimento de cenários de gestão em termos da qualidade da água e da integridade
do ecossistema
x
Research Fellow
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Concluded
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2000 - 2002 | Ecological adaptation and genetic divergence in changing sandy shores. Concepts and guidelines for beach protection and management
POCTI/CTA/36553/99
Researcher
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Concluded
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Other
Designation | Funders | |
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2011 - 2012 | Monitorização das comunidades biológicas do estuário do Mondego, associada à intervenção do prolongamento do molhe Norte do
Porto da Figueira da Foz, no período pós-obra.
IPTM - Instituto Portuário e dos Transportes Marítimos
Researcher
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Concluded
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2009 - 2010 | Monitorização das comunidades biológicas do estuário do Mondego, associada à intervenção do prolongamento do molhe Norte do
Porto da Figueira da Foz na fase de obra
IPTM - Instituto Portuário e dos Transportes Marítimos
Researcher
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Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book chapter |
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Journal article |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2019/12/05 | Macroalgae as remediators of aquaculture effluents: Can stable isotopes ratio be indicators of C and N enrichment? | AlgaEurope
x (Paris, France)
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2019/09/10 | Show your beaks and we tell you what you eat: Different ecology in sympatric Antarctic benthic octopods under a climate change context | 20th Iberian Symposium on Marine Biology Studies
Universidade do Minho, Portugal (Braga)
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2018 | Habitat and trophic significance of external subsidies in wrack-associated beach macrofauna assemblages | |
2015 | Integrated ecological-economic valuation of ecosystem services to support spatial planning and sustainable governance of coastal and marine ecosystems | |
2015 | Fish richness, traits and food webs in two tropical estuaries. Are we building knowledge or increasing confusion? | |
2015 | Research on ecosystem functioning: are we building knowledge or increasing confusion? Fish richness, functional traits and food webs in two tropical estuaries. | |
2015 | Cephalopods from South Georgia Antarctic waters during the Austral Winter: information from top predators. | |
2014 | The role of cephalopods around South Sandwich Islands: information from predators diet (Dissostichus eleginoides and D. mawsoni) and stable isotopes. | |
2014 | Cephalopods in the diet of nonbreeding black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses from South Georgia. | |
2014 | Inter-annual shifts in foraging behaviour of yellow-legged gulls (Larus michahellis) trigged by variation in the availability of Henslow's swimming crab (Polybius henslowii) | |
2014 | Seasonal and spatial variation in the feeding ecology of larvae Pomatoschistus microps in two temperate estuarine ecosystems. | |
2014 | Linking biodiversity indicators, ecosystem functioning and provision of services in estuarine systems: application of a conceptual framework and new research opportunities | |
2013 | The role of cephalopods around South Sandwich Islands: information from predators diet (Dissostichus eleginoides and D. mawsoni) and stable isotopes. | |
2012 | Stable isotopic signatures of the cephalopod fauna in South Georgia waters. | |
2012 | Ecosystem services and ecological status improvement: Determinants of willingness-to-pay values for water quality and its role for decision-making | |
2012 | Habitat-related diet of macrofauna consumers in intertidal areas. | ISOECOL
(France)
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2011 | Modelling the effects of eutrophication, mitigation measures and an extreme flood event on estuarine benthic food webs. | ISEM Conference
International Society for Ecological Modelling (Pequim, China)
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2010 | Habitat-related diet of macrofauna consumers in intertidal areas | ECSA47 |
2010 | What does a loss of Zostera bed imply on the functioning of the benthic food web? Comparison of Ecological Network Analysis properties between Zostera beds vs. bare sediment adjacent areas in two European sites, the Mondego estuary and the Sylt-Rømø Bight. | ECSA47 |
2010 | Integração da significância ecológica no contexto dos usos e serviços da água: aplicação da abordagem DPSIR ao estuário do Mondego | |
2009 | Water uses and ecological cost’s evaluation: a DPSIR approach on the Mondego estuary | ECSA45 |
2008 | d15N and d13C in a southern European estuary food web: effects of eutrophication, presence of seagrass, and trophic structure | |
2008 | Ecological response of subtidal macrobenthic communities to natural and human induced changes in a temperate NE Atlantic estuary. | |
2008 | Ecological Response of subtidal macrobenthic communities to natural an human induced changes in a temperate NE Atlantic estuary. | |
2007 | Relative sensitivity of seasonal variation in stable isotopic signatures in the Mondego food web. | Spring 2007
New England Estuarine Research Society (NEERS) (Boothbay Harbor, Maine, United States)
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2004 | Population dynamics of the green crab, Carcinus maenas (L.), in the Mondego estuary | ECSA |
Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2014 - 2016 | Filtros ambientais e traits de chironomidae (Insecta: Díptera): mecanismos para entendimento da dinâmica ecológica de reservatórios
no semiárido brasileiro. Universidade Estadual da Paraíba (Brazil).
Co-supervisor
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2014 - 2016 | Composição, estrutura e dieta das assembleias de peixes associadas a áreas vegetadas e não vegetadas do estuário do rio Mamanguape,
Paraíba – Brasil.
Co-supervisor
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2014 - 2016 | Estrutura da ictiofauna em um estuário inverso no nordeste do Brasil. Universidade Estadual da Paraíba (Brazil).
Co-supervisor
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2010 - 2015 | Ecological quality status and functioning evaluation of rocky shore ecosystems: A macrobenthic community based approach.
Co-supervisor
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Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
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2010 - 2014 | Ecological status and functioning evaluation of sandy beach ecosystems: A macrobenthic communities based approach.
Co-supervisor
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Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
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2008 - 2010 | Spatial and temporal variablility of benthic producers and consumers d13C and d15N signatures in the Mondego estuary food
web.
Co-supervisor
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Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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2006 - 2008 | Seasonal and temporal variations in population dynamics of the green crab, Carcinus maenas (L.): the effect of an extreme
drought event in a southern european estuary.
Co-supervisor
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Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
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Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2021 - Current | Módulo 10 - Preparação de Amostras para IRMS (EA/IRMS - Análise Elementar/Espectrometria de Massa de Razões Isotópicas)/ Module 10 - Sample Preparation for IRMS (EA/IRMS - Elemental Analyzer/Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry) | Acção de Formação MAREFOZ 1.1., MARE-UC | Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
2023/03/13 - 2023/03/13 | 'Application of stable isotopes in food web research and use of stable isotope mixing models (SIMMs) to elucidate food web structure and trophic interactions' | (Outros) | Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
2019/11/07 - 2019/11/07 | Food webs in Coastal Ecosystems | Stable isotopes in Ecology and Environment: a tool to integrate scales and complexity (Pós-Graduação) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
2014/07/28 - 2014/07/31 | Lecturer in the post-graduation in Ecology and Conservation of the course "Ecologia Trófica e Isótopos Estáveis em Ecossistemas Aquáticos", 28-31 July. Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Campina Grande, Brasil. | Ecologia Trófica e Isótopos Estáveis em Ecossistemas Aquáticos (Postgraduate Certificate) |
Other jury / evaluation
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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2020/09 - 2020/09 | Reviewer for the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), the Strategic Basic Research (SBO) programme. The magnitude of the project budget was about 300 Thousand euros. | |
2018/08 - 2018/08 | Reviewer for the Research Foundation ¿ Flanders (FWO), the Strategic Basic Research (SBO) programme. The magnitude of the project budget was about 2 Million euros. | |
2018 - 2018 | Reviewer for the Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) programme |
Distinctions
Other distinction
2011 | The Second Prize Winner in the 2nd biennial Best Researcher Award, for the Best Scientific Manuscript published in 2010/2011
in the Journal “ Ecological Modelling”, by the International Society for Ecological Modelling (doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.12.010
International Society for Ecological Modelling (ISEM), United States
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2004 | Winner of the prize FCTUC-BPI for the student with higher classification in the degree of Biology.
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
BPI, Portugal |