Ana Cristina Matos Ricardo Costa
Assistant Professor
Biodiversity and Islands
CIBIO, Centro de Investigacao em Biodiversidade e Recursos Geneticos
Portugal
Biography
"Ana C. Costa obtained her Degree in Faunistic Resources and Environment (1988) at Faculty of Sciences of Lisbon University. She started her academic career at University of the Azores in 1990, as assistant trainee and there she obtained her PhD in Marine Sciences – Marine Ecology (2004). She has been involved in Coastal Zone Management Planning for small islands in the Azores, Marine Spatial Planning and Conservation in Marine Protected Areas. She currently teaches Animal Diversity and Biology, Biological Oceanography, Coastal Biology and Toxicology, and coordinates the Master Program in Biodiversity and Island Ecology (MBEI)."
Research Interest
"Her main interest is in marine and freshwater biodiversity: aquatic invertebrate biology and ecology and, to a lesser extent, invertebrate taxonomy. The work on freshwater systems started with the invasive crayfish in São Miguel (1996), and in 2004 broadened to freshwater benthic macroinvertebrates and water quality monitoring under WFD. "
Publications
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Borges LMS, Hollatz C, Lobo J,Cunha AM, Vilela AP, Calado G, Coelho R, Costa AC, Ferreira MSG, Costa MH, Costa FO (2016) With a little help from DNA barcoding: investigating the diversity of Gastropoda from the Portuguese coast. Scientific Reports, 6: 20226.
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Raposeiro PM, Rubio MJ, González A, Hernández A, Sánchez-López G, Vázquez-Loureiro D, Rull V, Bao R, Costa AC, Gonçalves V, Sáez A, Giralt S (2017) Impact of the historical introduction of exotic fishes on the chironomid community of Lake Azul (Azores Islands). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 466: 77-88.
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Gillon A, Costa AC, Micael J (2017) Caprella scaura Templeton, 1836: an invasive caprellid new to the Azores archipelago. Marine Biodiversity, 47(2): 499-510.
