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Overview

Ana Colaço is affiliated with the University of the Azores in Portugal. Their research primarily spans the fields of environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, reflecting a focus on marine and oceanographic topics.

Their scientific work covers a broad range of subfields including oceanography, global and planetary change, ecology, biotechnology, and environmental chemistry. Research topics that Colaço frequently addresses include marine biology and ecology research, marine and fisheries research, coral and marine ecosystems studies, isotope analysis in ecology, ocean acidification effects and responses, marine ecology and invasive species, and studies related to marine sponges and natural products.

Colaço has contributed to numerous publications in respected venues with a particular emphasis on marine science. Frequent publication venues include Frontiers in Marine Science, where they have published 12 papers, Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers with 6 papers, Marine Policy with 4 papers, Trends in Ecology & Evolution with 3 papers, and the SSRN Electronic Journal with 3 papers.

Their recent notable papers consist of:

  • Climate change considerations are fundamental to management of deep-sea resource extraction, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Deep-Sea Misconceptions Cause Underestimation of Seabed-Mining Impacts, 2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • A Blueprint for an Inclusive, Global Deep-Sea Ocean Decade Field Program, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • A decade to study deep-sea life, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Biodiversity, environmental drivers, and sustainability of the global deep-sea sponge microbiome, 2022, Nature Communications

Among frequent collaborators, Colaço has coauthored multiple papers with Joana R. Xavier, Nélia C. Mestre, Lisa A. Levin, Telmo Morato, and Anna Meta×as, indicating active engagement in collaborative marine science research networks.

Best Publications

  • Hydrothermal Vents and Methane Seeps: Rethinking the Sphere of Influence

    Lisa A. Levin;Amy R. Baco;David A. Bowden;Ana Colaco

  • Variations in deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge near the Azores plateau

    D. Desbruyères;M. Biscoito;J.-C. Caprais;A. Colaço

  • Resilience of benthic deep-sea fauna to mining activities

    Sabine Gollner;Stefanie Kaiser;Lena Menzel;Daniel O.B. Jones

  • Global Observing Needs in the Deep Ocean

    Lisa A. Levin;Brian J. Bett;Andrew R. Gates;Patrick Heimbach

  • Temporal change in deep-sea benthic ecosystems: a review of the evidence from recent time-series studies

    A. G. Glover;A. J. Gooday;D. M. Bailey;D. S. M. Billett

  • Nutritional relations of deep-sea hydrothermal fields at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge : a stable isotope approach

    A. Colaço;F. Dehairs;D. Desbruyères

  • A global perspective on the trophic geography of sharks

    Christopher S. Bird;Christopher S. Bird;Ana Veríssimo;Sarah Magozzi;Kátya G. Abrantes

  • A strategy for the conservation of biodiversity on mid-ocean ridges from deep-sea mining

    Daniel C. Dunn;Cindy L. Van Dover;Ron J. Etter;Craig R. Smith

  • Climate change considerations are fundamental to management of deep-sea resource extraction

    Lisa A. Levin;Chih-Lin Wei;Daniel C. Dunn;Diva J. Amon

  • Shallow water hydrothermal vent field fluids and communities of the D. João de Castro Seamount (Azores)

    F. Cardigos;A. Colaço;P.R. Dando;S.P. Ávila

  • Deep-Sea Misconceptions Cause Underestimation of Seabed-Mining Impacts

    Craig R. Smith;Verena Tunnicliffe;Ana Colaço;Jeffrey C. Drazen

  • Societal need for improved understanding of climate change, anthropogenic impacts, and geo-hazard warning drive development of ocean observatories in European Seas

    Henry A. Ruhl;Michel André;Laura Beranzoli;M. Namik Çağatay

  • A primer for the Environmental Impact Assessment of mining at seafloor massive sulfide deposits

    Patrick Colman Collins;Peter Croot;Jens Carlsson;Ana Colaço

  • Non-indigenous marine species of the Azores

    Frederico Cardigos;Fernando Tempera;Sérgio P. Ávila;João M. Gonçalves

  • Distribution and spatial variation of hydrothermal faunal assemblages at Lucky Strike (Mid-Atlantic Ridge) revealed by high-resolution video image analysis

    Daphne Cuvelier;Jozée Sarrazin;Ana Colaço;Jon Copley

  • Biodiversity, environmental drivers, and sustainability of the global deep-sea sponge microbiome

    Unknown

  • Bioaccumulation of Hg, Cu, and Zn in the Azores triple junction hydrothermal vent fields food web

    Ana Colaco;Paco Bustamante;Yves Fouquet;Pierre-Marie Sarradin

  • Deep-sea impacts of climate interventions

    Unknown

  • Spatial variation of metal bioaccumulation in the hydrothermal vent mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus

    Richard P. Cosson;Éric Thiébaut;Maryse Castrec-Rouelle

  • Marine Conservation in the Azores: Evaluating Marine Protected Area Development in a Remote Island Context

    Rita C. Abecasis;Pedro Afonso;Ana Colaço;Nancy Longnecker

  • Evidence of seasonal reproduction in the Atlantic vent mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus, and an apparent link with the timing of photosynthetic primary production

    D.R. Dixon;D.M. Lowe;P.I. Miller;G.R. Villemin

  • Polar lipid fatty acids as indicators of trophic associations in a deep-sea vent system community

    Ana Colaço;Daniel Desbruyères;Jean Guezennec

Frequent Co-Authors

Ricardo S. Santos
Ricardo S. Santos University of the Azores
Pierre-Marie Sarradin
Pierre-Marie Sarradin University of Western Brittany
Jozée Sarrazin
Jozée Sarrazin University of Western Brittany
Daniel Desbruyères
Daniel Desbruyères French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Telmo Morato
Telmo Morato University of the Azores
Lisa A. Levin
Lisa A. Levin University of California, San Diego
Maria João Bebianno
Maria João Bebianno University of Algarve
Henry A. Ruhl
Henry A. Ruhl Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Kristina M. Gjerde
Kristina M. Gjerde Middlebury College

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