Nina Vieira

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Research Assistant at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Baleias, peixes-boi e tartarugas (de água doce e marinhas) estão entre as espécies aquáticas mais valorizadas pelos colonos e exploradores europeus do Atlântico ao longo do período moderno. No processo de contato com a ecologia tropical, com base numa perceção de abundância e de recursos inesgotáveis, estes animais foram selecionados como recursos...

Marine functional connectivity (MFC) refers to the flows of organic matter, genes, and energy that are caused by the active and passive movements of marine organisms. Occurring at various temporal and spatial scales, MFC is a dynamic, constantly evolving global ecological process, part of overall ecological connectivity, but with its own distinct a...

Resumo As baleias são fantasmas da história e dos oceanos atuais. A sua captura por humanos em todos os oceanos do planeta resultou na redução drástica de populações naturais. No Brasil, a baleação comercial teve início em 1603 e foi praticada, por diferentes promotores e com diferentes estilos de captura, até 1986. Neste artigo, examina-se a ativi...

Na sequência das edições anteriores realizadas no Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação de Luanda (ISCED-Luanda), Angola (2019), na Universidade Zambeze (UniZambeze, Beira), Moçambique (2021) e na Universidad del Atlántico (UA, Barranquilla), Colômbia (2022), a IV Conferência Internacional que, este ano, se intitula Literaturas e Culturas Af...

In this work, the history of the whaling operation in Brazil during the 17th and 18th centuries is recovered. The activity was a monopoly of the Iberian (until 1640) and Portuguese crown, from 1614 to 1801, with economic, political, and ecological significance and impact both for the human and non-human protagonists.The abundance of whales and the...

Worldwide, whales have been hunted to the brink of extinction. In Brazil, whaling was a royal monopoly between 1614 and 1801. Within the dynamics of the Portuguese Empire, it was a stimulus that promoted wealth and the circulation of knowledge, practices, and products. The development of whaling stations in four coastal sites fostered the construct...

The Gulf of Guinea is a marine biodiversity hotspot, but cetacean fauna in these waters is poorly studied and our knowledge is documented mostly from opportunistic (sightings and strandings) and whaling data. This chapter presents a short review of historical whaling in the Gulf of Guinea and an update of cetacean biodiversity in the waters of São...

Cultural constructions of landscapes, space and environments, and of people’s relationship with nature, have in the Cape Verde Islands a perspective of their own and might have been mediated by the whale. To address perceptions about these marine mammals, historical sources, literature, art, memory and heritage were considered. Whaling influenced h...

O Inventário AHU_Baleias_Brasil surge na sequência da Tese de Doutoramento A taxonomia da baleação portuguesa entre os séculos XV e XVIII: Uma história atlântica do mar, das baleias e das pessoas da autoria de Nina Vieira, investigadora do CHAM-Centro de Humanidades da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa e atual c...

In September 1773, the Leviathan, a whaling vessel from Rhode Island, New England, entered the port of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. This chance landing would give rise to a whole new whaling industry in Brazil, as the American crew would teach their Portuguese counterparts how to hunt sperm whales. Sperm whales were one of the most valuable species pu...

Since prehistoric times, cetaceans have been important food sources, but they also have been seen as monsters of the sea, a perception that did not change much during the past centuries. Due to a better understanding of their biology in recent years, the public perception towards cetaceans has been evolving. Various studies have been developed aimi...

Whale, a common name, a simple word, but so many meanings. An animal, a good, a belief, a surprise, a part of these aspects or the encompassing of them all. It is, for sure, a being of some kind, but one that is described, depicted and appropriated in several forms, in a multitude of ways. To the whale is always assigned a role, but its relevance t...

Since prehistoric times, cetaceans have been important food sources, but they also have been seen as monsters of the sea, a perception that did not change much during the past centuries. Due to a better understanding of their biology in recent years, the public perception towards cetaceans has been evolving. Various studies have been developed aimi...

http://cehresearch.org/SeaCite/about.php The Sea Citation Database is a bespoke, in-house programmed, searchable, online resource. It has been established in conjunction with the specific research efforts of the CONCHA project together with partner institutions in order to provide a simple and approachable means of accessing valuable research info...

Our main goal is to document the geomorphologic evolution of Pederneira (Nazaré) and Atouguia da Baleia (Peniche) coastlines, located in the central coast of mainland Portugal. The analysis spans from medieval to modern times (ranging from the 12th to the 18th century) and is based on written sources and cartographic evidence. Tis study relies on a...

Whaling in colonial Brazil was a Portuguese royal monopoly between 1614 and 1801, mainly characterized by Basque Shore hunting techniques. The activity in Brazil was the primary Basque Shore whaling operation outside the North Atlantic. The main target species were the Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis) and the Humpback Whale (Megaptera nov...

Contando uma história de baleias e de pessoas à luz da história da ciência e da história ambiental, pretende destacar-se nesta comunicação o conhecimento sobre estes animais no período moderno, com principal enfoque nos séculos XVII e XVIII, a circulação e transferência desse conhecimento entre o Atlântico Norte e o Atlântico Sul, e a sua aplicação...

Resumo: No contexto da Expansão portuguesa no Atlântico, a baleação teve um papel importante apesar de ser mencionada pontualmente na historiografia da especialidade. Tal como outros recursos naturais, a baleia, e seus produtos derivados, esteve sujeita às dinâmicas do monopólio régio e não só beneficiou a Coroa Portuguesa e empresários, como poten...

A atividade baleeira no Brasil marcou a construção da territorialidade portuguesa na América, num período de transferência e circulação de conhecimento, produtos e pessoas. Numa triangulação de interesses económicos, entre a Europa, África e a América, a baleação teve impacto a nível social, cultural, científico e ambiental. A prática de uma caça d...

A baleação portuguesa no Atlântico é um tema muito pouco aprofundado, apenas referido ao longo da historiografia portuguesa de uma forma pontual e dispersa o que, no entanto, estimula a curiosidade em aprofundar as suas dinâmicas. Se entendermos a baleação como a recolha - seja por captura direta ou aproveitamento de animais arrojados -, o manuseio...

Portugal, together with the Basque Country, was an important whaling location where a whale culture developed since the Middle Age. Whaling and the ways of using stranded whales spread with the Portuguese expansion in the South Atlantic in the fifteenth century. In fact, organized whaling and development of related techniques did follow the Portugu...

The relationship between indigenous people and manatees in Brazil dates back to prehistoric times. It has been the subject of interdisciplinary research by specialists in marine environmental history, ethnozoology and anthropology. Manatee species, Thrichechus inunguis and Thrichechus manatus, form part of the local culture and traditions of their...

The perception of a natural environment, and human attitudes towards that environment and its elements, have always been shaped by a multitude of factors such as aesthetics, traditional, cultural and historical importance, usefulness and economic value. More recently the level of public knowledge, along with the perception of the cognitive and beha...

The relation between humans and manatees dates back to prehistoric times and is still subject on interdisciplinary disciplines as marine environmental history, ethnozoology and anthropology, among others. In Brazil, manatees’ species (T. inunguis and T. manatus) are part of local cultures and traditions and were estimated to be in the tens of thous...

Os cetáceos em Portugal continental O conhecimento sobre a ocorrência de cetáceos ao longo da costa continental portuguesa tem sido, ao longo do tempo, escasso e fragmentado. Várias compilações de dados históricos de baleação e arrojamentos, bem como observações de oportunidade, apontam para uma extensa lista de misticetos e odontocetos. Os resulta...

Historical science may play an important role in helping understanding and shaping the future of the world's oceans and to comprehend present day effects and conditions. Regarding cetaceans, historical accounts may be extremely useful to add new data to their occurrence and distribution in poorly studied regions. In Portugal, historical sources ind...

Historical science may play an important role in helping understanding and shaping the future of the world’s oceans and to comprehend present day effects and conditions. Regarding cetaceans, historical accounts may be extremely useful to add new data to their occurrence and distribution in poorly studied regions. In Portugal, historical sources ind...

The sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus, was the most captured great whale in the Azores Archipelago by land-based whaling and nowadays is the most appealing species for whale watching, one of the archipelago's principal sources of tourism. Our objective was to compare number of sightings during whaling and whale watching activities. Our main quest...

Throughout the years some researchers have dedicated their efforts to the study of cetaceans' occurrence off Portugal mainland. However, it is still missing a systemic scientific methodology for studying the presence of coastal small cetaceans. This work is a recent approach to the occurrence and relative abundance estimative of cetaceans and espec...

References to the capture of "toninhas", a Portuguese word used mainly to name common dolphins, Delphinus delphis (or eventually to name harbor porpoises, Phocoena phocoena and stripped dolphins, Stenella coeruleoalba), are part of the 20th century fishing statistics of Angola. National fishing books from this former Portuguese colony, where consul...

Throughout the years some researchers have dedicated their efforts to the study of cetaceans' occurrence off Mainland Portugal. However, it is still missing a systemic scientific methodology for studying the presence of coastal dolphins and whales. This work intends to be a first approach on the occur- rence of cetaceans off the west central coast...

Historical oral sources indicate that common dolphins (Delphinus delphis), locally known as "toninhas", were observed and captured in large numbers at Portugal mainland during late 19 th and 20 th centuries. Historical occurrences given by naturalists and scientific surveys conducted by biologists indicate their regular presence with particular pre...