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List of works by Maria José Costa

A critical approach to the use of published data for baseline characterisation of marine fish assemblages: An exercise on Portuguese coastal waters

scientific article published in December 2012

Abiotic control modelling of salt marsh sediments respiratory CO2 fluxes: application to increasing temperature scenarios

scholarly article by Bernardo Duarte et al published November 2014 in Ecological Indicators

Accumulation of heavy metals by flounder, Platichthys flesus (Linnaeus 1758), in a heterogeneously contaminated nursery area.

scientific article

Are Portuguese coastal fisheries affected by river drainage?

scientific article published in January 2016

Are Water Framework Directive stream types biologically relevant? The case of the Mondego river, Portugal

scientific article published in 2011

Are regional fisheries’ catches changing with climate?

scientific article published in January 2015

Are the fisheries in the Tagus estuary sustainable?

scientific article published in November 2005

Assessing food web dynamics and relative importance of organic matter sources for fish species in two Portuguese estuaries: A stable isotope approach

scientific article published on September 10, 2011

Assessing habitat specific fish assemblages in estuaries along the Portuguese coast

scientific article published in June 2009

Can different biological indicators detect similar trends of marine ecosystem degradation?

scientific article published in February 2014

Climate-induced changes in fish landings of different fleet components of Portuguese fisheries

scientific article published on 4 October 2012

Coastal versus estuarine nursery grounds: Effect of differential temperature and heat waves on juvenile seabass, Dicentrarchus labrax

scientific article published in August 2012

Comparative ecology of the European eel, Anguilla anguilla (L., 1758), in a large Iberian river

Concordance between expert judgment and fish-based multimetric indices in the assessment of estuarine waters ecological quality

scientific article published in December 2012

Contrasting impacts of climate change across seasons: effects on flatfish cohorts

scientific article published on 16 November 2012

Development of a fish-based multimetric index to assess the ecological quality of marine habitats: the Marine Fish Community Index

scientific article

Efficacy of adapted estuarine fish-based multimetric indices as tools for evaluating ecological status of the marine environment

scientific article published on 23 August 2008

Elasmobranch bycatch in a trammel net fishery in the Portuguese west coast

scientific article published in February 2010

Environmental influence on commercial fishery landings of small pelagic fish in Portugal

scientific article published on 26 March 2015

Epidemiology and pathology of Anguillicoloides crassus in European eel Anguilla anguilla from the Tagus estuary (Portugal).

scientific article published in February 2010

Erratum to “Evidence of estuarine nursery origin of five coastal fish species along the Portuguese coast through otolith elemental fingerprints” [Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci. 79 (2008) 317–327]

scientific article published in April 2009

Evidence of estuarine nursery origin of five coastal fish species along the Portuguese coast through otolith elemental fingerprints

scientific article published in August 2008

Fish communities’ response to implementation of restoring measures in a highly artificialized estuary

scientific article published in August 2016

Fish community-based measures of estuarine ecological quality and pressure–impact relationships

scientific article published in December 2013

Fisheries in a warming ocean: trends in fish catches in the large marine ecosystems of the world

scientific article published on 8 May 2014

Food Web Structure and Habitat Connectivity in Fish Estuarine Nurseries—Impact of River Flow

scientific article published on 28 July 2010

Habitat suitability index models for the juvenile soles, Solea solea and Solea senegalensis, in the Tagus estuary: Defining variables for species management

scientific article published in December 2006

Heavy metal distribution and partitioning in the vicinity of the discharge areas of Lisbon drainage basins (Tagus Estuary, Portugal)

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Identifying functional homogeneity in a dynamic environment: Application to soft-substrate fish assemblages off the Portuguese coast

scientific article published in May 2014

Impact of climate and hydrology on juvenile fish recruitment towards estuarine nursery grounds in the context of climate change

scholarly article by Catarina Vinagre et al published November 2009 in Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Impact of climate warming upon the fish assemblages of the Portuguese coast under different scenarios

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Impact of discards of beam trawl fishing on the nematode community from the Tagus estuary (Portugal).

scientific article published on 3 September 2008

Improving the “chain and tape” method: A combined topography index for marine fish ecology studies

scientific article published in February 2013

Influence of sampling effort on metrics of fish-based indices for the assessment of estuarine ecological quality

scientific article published in December 2012

Inter- and intra-estuarine fish assemblage variability patterns along the Portuguese coast

scientific article published in January 2011

MPA as management tools for small-scale fisheries: The case study of Arrábida Marine Protected Area (Portugal)

scientific article published in February 2011

Meagre Argyrosomus regius (Osteichthyes) as host of a gonad-infecting species of Philometra (Nematoda: Philometridae) off the Atlantic coast of Portugal

scientific article published in October 2007

Modeling fish biological responses to contaminants and natural variability in estuaries.

scientific article published on 5 November 2013

Modelling the effects of extreme events on the dynamics of the amphipod Corophium orientale

scientific article published in 2010

Non-indigenous species in Portuguese coastal areas, coastal lagoons, estuaries and islands

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Predicting fish community properties within estuaries: Influence of habitat type and other environmental features

scientific article published in July 2012

Preliminary results of biological monitoring using benthic macroinfauna of the discharge areas of Lisbon drainage basins in Tagus estuary after new developments in sanitation infrastructures

scholarly article by Carla Azeda published in October 2013

Relative importance of estuarine flatfish nurseries along the Portuguese coast

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Response of fish-based metrics to anthropogenic pressures in temperate rocky reefs

scientific article published in February 2013

River flow influence on the fish community of the Tagus estuary (Portugal)

scientific article published in August 2007

Seasonal variability of rocky reef fish assemblages: Detecting functional and structural changes due to fishing effects

scientific article published in May 2013

Seeking functional homogeneity: A framework for definition and classification of fish assemblage types to support assessment tools on temperate reefs

scientific article published in November 2013

Selecting statistical models and variable combinations for optimal classification using otolith microchemistry.

scientific article published in June 2011

Spatial and trophic niche overlap between Diplodus bellottii and Diplodus vulgaris in the Tagus estuary, Portugal

scientific article published in August 2004

Spatial distribution of subtidal Nematoda communities along the salinity gradient in southern European estuaries

scientific article published in March 2009

Spatial distribution of subtidal meiobenthos along estuarine gradients in two southern European estuaries (Portugal)

scientific article published on 13 July 2009

Strength and time lag of relationships between human pressures and fish-based metrics used to assess ecological quality of estuarine systems

article by Stéphanie Pasquaud et al published December 2013 in Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Structural and functional trends indicate fishing pressure on marine fish assemblages

scientific article published on 19 March 2014

Structure and Dynamics of a Benthic Invertebrate Community in an Intertidal Area of the Tagus Estuary, Western Portugal: A Six Year Data Series

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The demersal fish assemblage of the coastal area adjacent to the Tagus estuary (Portugal): relationships with environmental conditions

scientific article published in November 2003

Thermal sensitivity of native and invasive seabreams

scientific article published in 2013

Topographic complexity and the power to detect structural and functional changes in temperate reef fish assemblages: The need for habitat-independent sample sizes

scientific article published in October 2014

Trace metals (Cu, Zn, Cd and Pb) in juvenile fish from estuarine nurseries along the Portuguese coast

scientific article published on 4 February 2011

Trammel nets’ ghost fishing off the Portuguese central coast

scientific article published in June 2009

Trends in landings and vulnerability to climate change in different fleet components in the Portuguese coast

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Trends in landings of fish species potentially affected by climate change in Portuguese fisheries

scientific article published on 15 August 2013

Vulnerability of Portuguese estuarine habitats to human impacts and relationship with structural and functional properties of the fish community

scientific article published in July 2012

Worldwide patterns of fish biodiversity in estuaries: Effect of global vs. local factors

scientific article published in March 2015