Miguel Matias
Researcher
Climate Change and Biodiversity
CIBIO, Centro de Investigacao em Biodiversidade e Recursos Geneticos
Portugal
Biography
"I am a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with Miguel B. Araújo at the iBiochange Group(CSIC-National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid) and the Rui Nabeiro’ Biodiversity Chair (CIBIO-InBIO-University of Évora, Portugal). I am a community ecologist trying (very hard!) to understand the mechanisms underlying species’ responses to loss or changes in their natural habitats. I believe that, in order to understand the consequences of such changes, we must be able to explain why those same species were supposed to be in their habitats in the first place! I use experimental and theoretical approaches that range from microcosms to macro-ecological models."
Research Interest
My main research goal is to understand the mechanisms underlying species’ responses to global environmental change, particularly the effects of global warming and loss of natural habitats.
Publications
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Mayer-Pinto M, Matias MG, Coleman RA (2016) The interplay between habitat structure and chemical contaminants on biotic responses of benthic organisms. PeerJ, 4: e1985.
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Matias MG, Pereira CL, Raposeiro PM, Gonçalves V, Cruz AM, Costa AC, Araújo MB (2016), Divergent trophic responses to biogeographic and environmental gradients. Oikos, 0: 1-10
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Martins GM, Matias MG, Moniz I, Rius C, Sanderson J, Neto AI, Jenkins SR (2017) Post-settlement dispersal ability determines structure of marine benthic metacommunities. Marine Ecology Progress series, 569: 15-23.
