Nuno Miguel Pinto De Sousa Monteiro
Researcher
Behavioural Ecology
CIBIO, Centro de Investigacao em Biodiversidade e Recursos Geneticos
Portugal
Biography
"I graduated in the Univeristy of Porto in 1996, where I also earned a MSc (2000) and a PhD (2005) as part of the GABBA Program. I moved to CIBIO-InBIO in 2009, where I helped establishing the Behavioural Ecology Group, as an Assistant Researcher (Ciencia 2008 Program). I have been working mainly in animal behaviour, mating systems and sexual selection related topics. I am interested in understanding life history and mating system variation across a species geographical distribution. Moreover, I am also exploring other topics that involve the unravelling of previously undescribed alternative mating tactics. Primarily using syngnathids as a model species, a fascinating family of fish displaying male pregnancy, I am currently addressing the mechanisms of post-copulatory sexual selection and its implications on species evolution."
Research Interest
I am interested in understanding life history and mating system variation across a species geographical distribution.
Publications
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Monteiro N, Cunha M, Ferreira L, Vieira N, Antunes A, Lyons D, Jones AG (2017) Parabolic variation in sexual selection intensity across the range of a cold-water pipefish: Implications for susceptibility to climate change. Global Change Biology, 23(9): 3600-3609.
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Miranda B, Vieira N, Monteiro N (2017) Pregnant pipefish with a simple brooding surface loose less weight when carrying heavier eggs: evidence of compensation for low oocyte quality? Acta Ethologica, 20(3): 313-317.
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Cunha MAB, Berglund A, Monteiro NM (2017) Female ornaments signal own and offspring quality in a sex-role-reversed fish with extreme male parental care. Marine Ecology - Na Evolutionary Perspective, 38(5): e12461.
