CITIZEN SCIENCE CAMPAIGN
NEMA - New Marine Species of the Algarve
​João Encarnação (CCMAR, Univ. of Algarve) is leading a citizen science campaign to track the presence and spread of non-indigenous species and tropical species along the coast of the Algarve (southern Portugal). Check NEMA's social media and report new observations.
​​PAPERS PUBLISHED IN 2025 AND 2024
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​6. Schott E, Šćepanović MB, Maršić-Lučić J, Pares O, Zhao M, Hrabar J, Glamuzina L, Pećarević M, Grđan S, Encarnação J, Morais P, Pešić A, Ćetković I, Glamuzina B (accepted) The prevalence of two known pathogens of Atlantic Blue Crab  Callinectes sapidus (Rathbun, 1896) in coastal Adriatic, Aegean sea, and Atlantic Iberian coast. Mediterranean Marine Science.

5. Encarnação J, Morais P, Abecasis D, Martínez-Ramírez L, Barra M, Baptista V, Carere C, Teodósio MA (2025) Movement patterns of the invasive Atlantic blue crab in a Northeastern Atlantic estuary. Estuaries and Coasts 48: 173. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-025-01611-3.

4. Quiatuhanga D, Morais P, Teodósio MA. (2025). Trophic interactions of two sympatric small pelagic fishes off the southern coast of Angola (Africa). African Journal of Marine Sciences 47(2): 169-180. https://doi.org/10.2989/1814232X.2025.2526117

3. Quiatuhanga DPA, Morais P, Krug LA, Teodósio MA (2025). Reproduction traits and strategies of two Sardinella species off the southwest coast of Africa. Fishes 10(6):261. https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes10060261

2. Encarnação J, Dias E, Engelen A, Serrão EA, Morais P, Teodósio MA (2025) Innate feeding plasticity and animal prey support invasiveness of aquatic species in a southwestern European estuary. Biol Invasions 27: 49. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-024-03515-y

1. Encarnação J, Teodósio MA, Morais P (2024) The arrival of a non-indigenous ecosystem engineer to a heavily invaded and flow-regulated estuary in southern Portugal. BioInvasions Records 13(1): 83-95. doi: 10.3391/bir.2024.13.1.08.
JANUARY 2023
Happy to have joined the editorial board of Estuaries and Coasts.
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OCTOBER 2022 The Frontiers for Young Minds collection "Where the river meets the ocean - Stories from San Francisco Estuary" is now published in ebook format HERE.
​JUNE 2016
New non-indigenous species identified in the Guadiana estuary
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​​Weakfish Cynoscion regalis (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) (Sciaenidae) is native from the northwest Atlantic Ocean, and a single specimen of this species was collected by professional fishermen in the Guadiana estuary (SW Iberian Peninsula, Europe) on June 16th, 2016. This specimen was identified by P. Morais.

Common Portuguese name
  • corvinata real.
​Synonyms
  • corvina americana (Guadiana estuary)
  • rainha (Sado and Tagus estuary)
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APRIL 2016 Book published

Morais P & Daverat F (editors) (2016) An Introduction to Fish Migration. Boca Raton, Florida (USA). CRC Press. 307p. ISBN 9781498718738.

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