Leila Bagaço

Ghent University | UGhent

The occurrence of the polychaete worm Nereiphylla paretti in Azorean waters is reported for the first time, increasing the total number of littoral marine polychaetes to 168 species in the archipelago. Our finding extends the known geographical distribution of this species in the northeast Atlantic Ocean. A list of the littoral marine polychaetes f...

Human activities, among which dredging and land use change in river basins, are altering estuarine ecosystems. These activities may result in changes in sedimentary processes, affecting biodiversity of sediment macrofauna. As macrofauna controls sediment chemistry and fluxes of energy and matter between water column and sediment, changes in the str...

Human activities, among which dredging and land use change in river basins, are altering estuarine ecosystems. These activities may result in changes in sedimentary processes, affecting biodiversity of sediment macrofauna. As macrofauna control sediment chemistry and fluxes of energy and matter between water column and sediment, changes in the stru...

Massive fossil shell accumulations require particular conditions to be formed and may provide valuable insights into the sedimentary environments favouring such concentrations. Shallow-water shell beds appear to be particularly rare on reefless volcanic oceanic islands on account of narrow, steep and highly-energetic insular shelves where the poten...

Massive fossil shell accumulations require particular conditions to be formed and may provide valuable insights into the sedimentary environments favouring such concentrations. Shallow-water shell beds appear to be particularly rare on reefless volcanic oceanic islands on account of narrow, steep and highly-energetic insular shelves where the poten...

In the Açores, the most important, ecologically significant and endangered intertidal habitats, not just here but worldwide, are lagoons and marshes. In the Açorean Archipelago, the largest marsh used to occur between Paúl and Ponta das Contendas at Praia da Vitória on the island of Terceira. The eminent Açorean and Terceiran scientist, Colonel Jos...

Prefácio O trabalho que agora se apresenta de Sérgio Ávila e colaboradores é mais um precioso contributo para a divulgação científica que emerge de trabalho de investigação académica da Universidade dos Açores. É um trabalho que procura conciliar um rigor e uma descrição exaustiva e profusamente ilustrada dos elementos factuais paleontológicos e ge...