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Catarina Pereira Santos is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Ciências ULisboa under ERC project PLAnT, and integrated member of MARE-ULisboa/ARNET. Her research has focused on climate change and its impacts over marine life for more than a decade and strives to best encapsulate scientific information and human perspectives into frameworks that facilitate decision-making for a more sustainable future. Catarina has worked on projects OCEANPLAN, NGANDU and MSPOLAR and is a co-founding member of a marine conservation NGO in Cabo Verde. She has a PhD in Biology from the University of Lisbon, a Master in Ocean Sciences and Marine Resources from University of Porto, and a degree in Marine Biology from the University of Lisbon.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Catarina da Conceição Pereira Santos

Citation names

  • Santos, Catarina
  • Santos, Catarina P.
  • Santos, Catarina Pereira

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
DB11-FB7D-53FB
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6526-4291

Email addresses

  • cdcsantos@fc.ul.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • MARE - Centro de Ciências do Mar e Ambiente. Av. Nossa Senhora do Cabo, 939, 2750-374, Cascais, Cascais, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biodiversity Conservation
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Marine Biology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biology
  • Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences - Climatic Research

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Rosa, Rui; Rummer, Jodie; Santos, Catarina P.. "Introduction to elasmobranch physiology". In Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology, 323-335. Elsevier, 2024.
    10.1016/b978-0-323-90801-6.00186-5
  2. Rosa, Rui; Santos, Catarina P.; Borges, Francisco; Amodio, Piero; Amor, Michael; Bower, John R.; Caldwell, Roy L.; et al. "Past, present, and future trends in octopus research". In Octopus Biology and Ecology, 421-454. Elsevier, 2024.
    10.1016/b978-0-12-820639-3.00010-8
  3. Rummer, Jodie; Bouyoucos IA; Wheeler CR; Santos, Catarina P.; Rosa, Rui. Corresponding author: Rummer, Jodie. "Climate change and sharks". In Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives, 767-793. CRC Press, 2022.
Journal article
  1. Guerreiro, MF; Santos, CP; Borges, FO; Santos, CF; Xavier, JC; Rosa, R. "Projecting future climate change impacts on the distribution of pelagic squid in the Southern Ocean". Marine Ecology Progress Series 757 (2025): 85-98. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14814.
    10.3354/meps14814
  2. Varela, Jaquelino; Santos, Catarina Pereira; Nunes, Emanuel; Pissarra, Vasco; Pires, Stiven; Ribeiro, Bárbara P.; Vieira, Eduarda; et al. "Corrigendum: Sharks in Cabo Verde, Canarias, Madeira and Azores islands: species richness, conservation status and anthropogenic pressures". Frontiers in Marine Science 12 (2025): https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1583166.
    10.3389/fmars.2025.1583166
  3. Varela, Jaquelino; Santos, Catarina Pereira; Nunes, Emanuel; Pissarra, Vasco; Pires, Stiven; Ribeiro, Bárbara P.; Vieira, Eduarda; et al. "Sharks in Cabo Verde, Canarias, Madeira and Azores islands: species richness, conservation status and anthropogenic pressures". Frontiers in Marine Science 12 (2025): https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1490317.
    10.3389/fmars.2025.1490317
  4. Catarina Pereira Santos; Francisco Oliveira Borges; Miguel Guerreiro; Vasco Pissarra; Jaquelino Varela; Catarina Frazão-Santos; Rui Rosa. "Shifts in the habitat suitability for large hammerhead sharks under climate change". Marine Biology (2024): https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-024-04512-4.
    10.1007/s00227-024-04512-4
  5. Santos, Catarina Pereira; Rosa, Rui; Frazão-Santos, Catarina. "Global risk assessment of sharks to climate change". Science of The Total Environment 954 (2024): 176361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.176361.
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.176361
  6. Pissarra, Vasco; Santana, Aristides; Panisi, Martina; Santos, Catarina Pereira; Maia, Hugulay; Vasconcelos, Lia; Nuno, Ana; et al. "Fisher’s perceptions on shark fisheries in Sao Tome Island (Gulf of Guinea, West Africa)". Regional Studies in Marine Science 77 (2024): 103711. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2024.103711.
    10.1016/j.rsma.2024.103711
  7. Martins, Sandra; Ferreira, Cristina; Mateus, Ana Patrícia; Santos, Catarina Pereira; Fonseca, Joana; Rosa, Rui; Power, Deborah M.. "Immunological resilience of a temperate catshark to a simulated marine heatwave". Journal of Experimental Biology 227 22 (2024): https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.247684.
    10.1242/jeb.247684
  8. Fernandes Guerreiro, Miguel; Oliveira Borges, Francisco; Pereira Santos, Catarina; Rosa, Rui. "Future distribution patterns of nine cuttlefish species under climate change". Marine Biology 170 12 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-023-04310-4.
    10.1007/s00227-023-04310-4
  9. Borges, Francisco O; Sampaio, Eduardo; Santos, Catarina P; Rosa, Rui. "Climate-Change Impacts on Cephalopods: A Meta-Analysis". Integrative And Comparative Biology 63 6 (2023): 1240-1265. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icb/icad102.
    10.1093/icb/icad102
  10. Baden, Tom; Briseño, John; Coffing, Gabrielle; Cohen-Bodénès, Sophie; Courtney, Amy; Dickerson, Dominick; Dölen, Gül; et al. "Cephalopod-omics: Emerging Fields and Technologies in Cephalopod Biology". Integrative And Comparative Biology 63 6 (2023): 1226-1239. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icb/icad087.
    10.1093/icb/icad087
  11. Helena Oliveira; Ana L. Maulvault; Catarina P. Santos; Marlene Silva; Narcisa M. Bandarra; Luísa M.P. Valente; Rui Rosa; António Marques; Patrícia Anacleto. "Can marine heatwaves affect the fatty acid composition and energy budget of the tropical fish Zebrasoma scopas?". Environmental Research (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.115504.
    10.1016/j.envres.2023.115504
  12. Varela, Jaquelino; Martins, Sandra; Court, Melanie; Santos, Catarina Pereira; Paula, José Ricardo; Ferreira, Inês João; Diniz, Mário; Repolho, Tiago; Rosa, Rui. "Impacts of Deoxygenation and Hypoxia on Shark Embryos Anti-Predator Behavior and Oxidative Stress". Biology 12 4 (2023): 577. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology12040577.
    10.3390/biology12040577
  13. Rosa, Rui; Nunes, Emanuel; Pissarra, Vasco; Santos, Catarina Pereira; Varela, Jaquelino; Baptista, Miguel; Castro, Joana; et al. "Evidence for the first multi-species shark nursery area in Atlantic Africa (Boa Vista Island, Cabo Verde)". Frontiers in Marine Science 10 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1077748.
    10.3389/fmars.2023.1077748
  14. Guerreiro, M.F.; Borges, F.O.; Santos, C.P.; Xavier, J.C.; Hoving, H.-J.; Rosa, R.; Guerreiro, Miguel Fernandes; et al. "Impact of climate change on the distribution and habitat suitability of the world’s main commercial squids". Marine Biology 170 10 (2023): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85169663995&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s00227-023-04261-w
  15. Borges, Francisco Oliveira; Guerreiro, Miguel; Santos, Catarina Pereira; Paula, José Ricardo; Rosa, Rui. "Projecting future climate change impacts on the distribution of the ‘Octopus vulgaris species complex’". Frontiers in Marine Science 9 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.1018766.
    10.3389/fmars.2022.1018766
  16. Borges, F.O.; Sampaio, E.; Santos, C.P.; Rosa, R.. "Impacts of Low Oxygen on Marine Life: Neglected, but a Crucial Priority for Research". Biological Bulletin 243 2 (2022): 104-119. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85144497084&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1086/721468
  17. Santos, Catarina Pereira; Sampaio, Eduardo; Pereira, Beatriz P.; Pegado, Maria Rita; Borges, Francisco O.; Wheeler, Carolyn R.; Bouyoucos, Ian A.; et al. "Elasmobranch Responses to Experimental Warming, Acidification, and Oxygen Loss—A Meta-Analysis". Frontiers in Marine Science 8 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.735377.
    10.3389/fmars.2021.735377
  18. Borges, Francisco O.; Santos, Catarina P.; Paula, José R.; Mateos-Naranjo, Enrique; Redondo-Gomez, Susana; Adams, Janine Barbara; Caçador, Isabel; et al. "Invasion and Extirpation Potential of Native and Invasive Spartina Species Under Climate Change". Frontiers in Marine Science 8 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.696333.
    10.3389/fmars.2021.696333
  19. Sampaio, Eduardo; Santos, Catarina; Rosa, Inês C.; Ferreira, Verónica; Pörtner, Hans-Otto; Duarte, Carlos M.; Levin, Lisa A.; Rosa, Rui. "Impacts of hypoxic events surpass those of future ocean warming and acidification". Nature Ecology & Evolution 5 3 (2021): 311-321. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01370-3.
    10.1038/s41559-020-01370-3
  20. Pegado, Maria Rita; Santos, Catarina; Raffoul, Dayanne; Konieczna, Marta; Sampaio, Eduardo; Maulvault, Ana Luísa; Diniz, Mário; Rosa, Rui. "Impact of a simulated marine heatwave in the hematological profile of a temperate shark (Scyliorhinus canicula)". Ecological Indicators 114 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106327.
    Published • 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106327
  21. Pegado, Maria Rita; Santos, Catarina; Pimentel, Marta; Cyrne, Ricardo; Paulo, Maria; Maulvaut, Ana Luísa; Raffoul, Dayanne; et al. "Effects of elevated carbon dioxide on the hematological parameters of a temperate catshark". Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jez.2333.
    Published • 10.1002/jez.2333
  22. Pegado, M.R.; Santos, C.P.; Pimentel, M.; Cyrne, R.; Sampaio, E.; Temporão, A.; Röckner, J.; Diniz, M.; Rosa, R.. "Lack of oxidative damage on temperate juvenile catsharks after a long-term ocean acidification exposure". Marine Biology 167 11 (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85092578344&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s00227-020-03770-2
  23. Schmidt, Jörn O.; Bograd, Steven J.; Arrizabalaga, Haritz; Azevedo, José L.; BarbeauxSteven J.; Barth, John A.; Boyer, Tim; et al. "Future Ocean Observations to Connect Climate, Fisheries and Marine Ecosystems". Frontiers in Marine Science (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00550.
    Open access • Published • 10.3389/fmars.2019.00550
  24. Moura, Érica; Pimentel, Marta; Santos, Catarina; Sampaio, Eduardo; Pegado, Maria R.; Lopes, Vanessa M.; Rosa, R.. "Cuttlefish Early Development and Behavior Under Future High CO2 Conditions". Frontiers in Physiology (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2019.00975.
    Open access • Published • 10.3389/fphys.2019.00975
  25. Rosa, Rui; Santos, Catarina; Lopes, Ana; Baptista, Miguel; Sampaio, Eduardo; Rosa, Inês C.; Repolho, T.. "Stenophagy as a Pathway for the Occurrence of Unique Coral Fatty Acid Biomarkers in Higher Branches of the Marine Tree of Life: The Nudibranch Armina maculata Case". Ocean Science Journal (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12601-019-0004-z.
    Published • 10.1007/s12601-019-0004-z
  26. Borges, Francisco O.; Santos, Catarina; Sampaio, Eduardo; Figueiredo, Cátia; Paula, José R.; Antunes, Carlos; Rosa, R.; Rosa, Rui; Grilo, T.F.. "Ocean warming and acidification may challenge the riverward migration of glass eels". Biology Letters (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0627.
    10.1098/rsbl.2018.0627
  27. Pegado, Maria R.; Santos, Catarina; Couto, Ana; Pinto, Eduarda; Lopes, Ana R.; Diniz, Mário; Rosa, Rui. "Reduced impact of ocean acidification on growth and swimming performance of newly hatched tropical sharks (Chiloscyllium plagiosum)". Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10236244.2019.1590120.
    Published • 10.1080/10236244.2019.1590120
  28. Lopes, Ana R.; Sampaio, Eduardo; Santos, Catarina; Couto, Ana; Pegado, Maria R.; Diniz, Mário; Munday, Philip L.; Rummer, Jodie; Rosa, Rui. "Absence of cellular damage in tropical newly hatched sharks (Chiloscyllium plagiosum) under ocean acidification conditions". Cell Stress and Chaperones (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12192-018-0892-3.
    10.1007/s12192-018-0892-3
  29. Rosa, Rui; Paula, José R.; Sampaio, Eduardo; Pimentel, Marta; Lopes, Ana R.; Baptista, Miguel; Guerreiro, Miguel; et al. "Neuro-oxidative damage and aerobic potential loss of sharks under elevated CO2 and warming". Marine Biology (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-016-2898-7.
    Published • 10.1007/s00227-016-2898-7
  30. Rosa, R.; Pimentel, M.; Galan, J.G.; Baptista, M.; Lopes, V.M.; Couto, A.; Guerreiro, M.; et al. "Deficit in digestive capabilities of bamboo shark early stages under climate change". Marine Biology 163 3 (2016): 1-5. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84959367385&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s00227-016-2840-z
  31. Rosa, Inês C.; Raimundo, Joana; Lopes, Vanessa M.; Brandão, Cláudio; Couto, Ana; Santos, Catarina; Cabecinhas, Adriana S.; et al. "Cuttlefish capsule: An effective shield against contaminants in the wild". Chemosphere (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2015.03.050.
    Published • 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2015.03.050
  32. Faleiro, Filipa; Miguel, Baptista; Santos, Catarina; Aurélio, Maria L.; Pimentel, Marta; Pegado, Maria R.; Paula, José R.; Repolho, Tiago; Rosa, R.. "Seahorses under a changing ocean: the impact of warming and acidification on the behaviour and physiology of a poor-swimming bony-armoured fish". Conservation Physiology (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/conphys/cov009.
    Published • 10.1093/conphys/cov009
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/05 Marine spatial planning in (changing) polar regions Species On The Move 2023
(United States)
2023/04 MSPOLAR project: Marine spatial planning in Polar regions 5th International Symposium on the Effects of Climate Change on the World’s Ocean
(Bergen, Norway)
2022/05/18 Estudo de berçários de tubarões: o caso da ilha da Boa Vista (Cabo Verde) 1ª Jornada Científica sobre a Biodiversidade de Cabo Verde
(Santiago, Cape Verde)
2022/03/15 Tubarões num Oceano em Mudança - Efeitos e Riscos das Alterações Climáticas sobre um dos Principais Grupos de Predatores Marinhos X Jornadas de Investigação em Biologia
NEBFCUL (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022 Climate change impacts on cephalopods: a meta-analysis Cephalopod International Advisory Council Conference
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2019 Rosa R, Santos CP, Ferreira V, Pörtner H-O, Duarte CM, Levin L, & Sampaio E (2019). Hypoxia surpasses the impacts of ocean acidification and warming in marine biota. Species on the Move International Conference.
(Kruger National Park, South Africa)
2019 Pegado MR, Santos CP, Raffoul D, Konieczna M, Maulvault AL, Diniz M, Bispo R, Rosa R. 2019. Marine heatwaves may elicit haematological and respiratory changes in juvenile small-spotted catsharks. 23rd Annual Conference of the European Elasmobranch Association
(Rende, Italy)
2019 Santos CP, Lopes R, Pegado MR, Pimentel M, Cyrne R, Paula JR, Rosa R. Early development and physiology of a temperate shark under ocean acidification conditions (2019) XXIII European Elasmobranch Association Meeting
(Rende, Italy)
2018 Paula JR, Repolho T, Pegado MR, Thornqvist PO, Santos CP, Bispo R, Munday PL, Winberg S & Rosa R (2018). Neurobiologia de interações mutualísticas de peixes no oceano do futuro. 1o Congresso de Biologia Marinha – Uma ponte entre mares.
(Faro, Portugal)
2018 Impacto da acidificação dos oceanos nos tubarões. 1o Congresso de Biologia Marinha – Uma ponte entre mares.
(Faro)
2018 Santos CP, Pegado MR, Pimentel M, Cyrne R, Paula JR, Martins G & Rosa R (2018). Early perspective: A 3D approach to the effects of elevated CO2 in the neuroanatomic development of an oviparous shark. 4th International Symposium – The Effects of Climate Change on the World’s Oceans
PICES/UNESCO/ICES/FAO (Washington D.C., United States)
2018 Santos CP, Borges F, Sampaio E, Figueiredo C, Paula JR, Pimentel M, Rosa R & Grilo T (2018). Global warming and acidification challenge the European eel riverward migration. SIBIC2018
(Faro, Portugal)
2018 Lopes AR, Sampaio E, Santos CP, Couto A, Pegado MR, Diniz M, Munday PL, Rummer JL & Rosa R (2018). Absence of cellular damage in tropical newly-hatched sharks (Chiloscyllium plagiosum) under ocean acidification conditions. SIBIC2018 – VII Congresso Ibérico de Ictiologia
(Faro, Portugal)
2018 Sampaio E, Rosa IC, Santos CP, Ferreira V, Portner H-O, Duarte CM, Levin L, & Rosa R (2018). Ocean deoxygenation supersedes ocean warming and acidification impacts in marine biota. Annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB)
(Florence, Italy)
2018 Rosa R, Rosa IC, Santos CP, Ferreira V, Portner H-O, Duarte CM, Levin L, & Sampaio E (2018). Ocean deoxygenation overrides ocean warming and acidification impacts in marine biota. Ocean Deoxygenation: Drivers and Consequences
(Kiel, Germany)
2018 Pegado MR, Santos CP, Couto A, Pinto E & Rosa R (2018). Physiological responses of whitespotted bamboo shark juveniles exposed to ocean acidification. 22nd Annual European Elasmobranch Association (EEA) Meeting
(Peniche, Portugal)
2017 Paula JR, Repolho T, Pegado MR, Thörnqvist P-O, Santos CP, Bispo R, Winberg S, Munday PL & Rosa R (2017). Neurobiological-induced breakdown of cleaning mutualisms under ocean warming and acidification. 10th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference (IPFC)
(Tahiti, French Polynesia)
2016 Rosa R, Couto A, Pegado MR, Santos CP, Pimentel M, Repolho T & Paula JR (2016). Impact of hypoxia, warming and acidification on the early ontogeny of tropical sharks. 4th International Symposium on the Ocean in a High-CO2 World.
(Tasmania, Australia)
2016 Grilo TF, Paula JR, Pimentel MS, Santos CP & Rosa R (2016). Impaired riverward migration behaviour of glass eels under climate change. 4th International Symposium on the Ocean in a High-CO2 Worl
(Tasmania, Australia)
2015 Faleiro F, Baptista M, Santos CP, Aurélio MA, Pimentel M, Pegado MR, Paula JR, Calado R, Repolho T & Rosa R (2015). Seahorses under a changing ocean: the impact of warming and acidification on the behaviour and physiology of a poor-swimming bony-armoured fish. European Congress of Ichthyology XV,
(Porto, Portugal)
2015 Santos CP, Paula JR, Aurélio M, Baptista M & Rosa R (2015). Eye for an eye: agonistic interactions in a future hot and acidified ocean. 34th International Ethological Conference
(Cairns, Australia)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023 - Current Physiological interspecific differences among juvenile sharks under capture stress
Co-supervisor
Mestrado em Ecologia Animal (Master)
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2022/04/04 - 2022/04/08 2022. Membro da organização “CIAC 2022: Cephalopods in the Anthropocene: multiple challenges in a changing ocean”. 4 a 8 de Abril, Sesimbra, Portugal. (2022/04/04 - 2022/04/08)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2016/10/13 - 2016/10/14 2016. Membro da organização “13º Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Etologia”. Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 13 e 14 de Outubro, Lisboa, Portugal (2016/10/13 - 2016/10/14)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
2015/05/01 - 2015/05/02 2015. Membro da organização “Congresso Nacional de Malacologia 2015”. Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, 1-2 Maio, Algés, Portugal. (2015/05/01 - 2015/05/02)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)