BIOINTERACT

And we move the Spotlight to @catiamonteiro.bsky.social that was recently awarded a La Caixa Junior Leader fellowship and who is off today to #chile where she will soon board a ship to #antartica 🐧
Exciting times ahead!
#biodiversity #marineecology #citizenscience #fieldwork

Today we introduce @gabrielaborer.bsky.social
She is a #PhD student working on #eDNA and #imaging data to study #biodiversity of #rockyshores
#up @aneris.eu @biointeractproj.bsky.social

From data collection to groundbreaking analyses, 2025 was packed with momentum! 🐚🦀Thank you for being part of this journey 🌍🤍 Stay tuned to see what 2026 has under the shell 🌊
#science #ecology #biodiversity
@biointeractproj.bsky.social
@biomaratona.bsky.social @aneris.eu @caixaresearch.bsky.social

We have a new Msc!! 🥳
Last Thursday, João Barbosa defended his MsC thesis at ICBAS-UP, entitled “Assessing #herbivory pressure on canopy-forming #seaweeds along #temperature gradients- a case-study with Himanthalia elongata”. stay tuned for more!
#fct @aneris.eu @coastalwarming.bsky.social

Our team at #cibio-biopolis often comes across fascinating #biointeractions on the rocky shores! Here we share a video of what appears to be the crab #Pachygrapsus_marmoratus, pushing away the anemone #Anemonia_viridis to scrape some algae in a #tidepool 🦀🪸🌿
#biodiversity #invertebrates #photography

BIOINTERACT is built on collaboration 🤝
For the last weeks the Portuguese team at #cibio-biopolis hosted the PhD student Anaëlle Bizien from the partner university @univbrest.bsky.social
We performed #macroalgae surveys in northern Portugal and Galicia and shared #taxonomy knowledge 📖

Sharing some preliminary results of field experiments of the @biointeractproj.bsky.social at #itrs2025
Thank you to all collaborators!
More soon 🔎
@coastalwarming.bsky.social @trinebekkby.bsky.social @oysteinvarpe.bsky.social @manoanalu.bsky.social @fplima.bsky.social
@gabrielaborer.bsky.social

Thank you Steve for the shout-out to @manoanalu.bsky.social’s presentation on Friday at #itrs2025
Historical data is key to describe temporal changes in communities but it’s not easy to get!
@coastalwarming.bsky.social @catiamonteiro.bsky.social @fplima.bsky.social

Several team members are at #itrs2025!
Join us for oral and poster presentations throughout the week.
@catiamonteiro.bsky.social @manoanalu.bsky.social @fplima.bsky.social @coastalwarming.bsky.social

One year jubilee for this rocky shore experiment. ‪@catiamonteiro.bsky.social‬‬ and @biointeractproj.bsky.social‬ visiting the Bergen site. Treated with a generous low tide. Ascophyllum removal and responses across latitudes. #Seasonality #Espegrend

🚨New publication🚨
In a collaboration between #cibio-biopolis and #universitybergen we looked at the #sugarkelp #saccharinalatissima and the response to #temperature and #photoperiod
@catiamonteiro.bsky.social @coastalwarming.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Hoje celebramos a incrível variedade de vida do nosso planeta!🌍
Na Biomaratona, temos observado e registado espécies maravilhosas da nossa costa, como as do vídeo.
📸 Ao participares na Biomaratona, contribuis para o conhecimento e conservação da biodiversidade marinha. Observa, fotografa e partilha!

An unexpected #biologicalinteraction out on the #rockyshore 🤭
@coastalwarming.bsky.social @jpbarbosa01.bsky.social @catiamonteiro.bsky.social

I am proud to share that I won a PostDoctoral fellowship from Fundación ”la Caixa”!
Happy to dive into biological interactions at BIOPOLIS-CIBIO for the next 3 years!
@coastalwarming.bsky.social @biointeractproj.bsky.social
#seaweed #grazing #citizenscience #biogeography #ecology

We started the year setting-up a field experiment to study the impacts of #climatechange on the #brownmacraalgae Himanthalia elongata.
More over the next months!
@coastalwarming.bsky.social @jpbarbosa01.bsky.social
@catiamonteiro.bsky.social @fplima.bsky.social

The tide is the lowest «ever». Air pressure and winds are on my side 🌕💨💪🏼The temp started at -9C, but now just -5C 🥵🥰 A perfect day in the intertidal rockweed beds, downloading temperature data and photographing plots for biodiv studies together with
@catiamonteiro.bsky.social @fplima.bsky.social

We were busy last week in the coast of Portugal monitoring the brown #macroalgae #himanthaliaelongata
#fieldwork #marinebiology
@coastalwarming.bsky.social