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Marina R. Cunha

Marina R. Cunha

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
37
Citations
5116
World Ranking
6912
National Ranking
58

Earth Science

D-Index
35
Citations
4213
World Ranking
7691
National Ranking
14

Overview

Marina R. Cunha is affiliated with the University of Aveiro in Portugal. Their academic work spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on several related subfields including Oceanography, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their research largely centers on marine biology and ecology, covering key topics such as Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Marine Ecology and Invasive Species, Marine and Environmental Studies, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Marine and Fisheries Research.

Marina R. Cunha has contributed to multiple publications, frequently co-authoring with Ascensão Ravara, Patricia Esquete, Helena Wiklund, Fábio L. Matos, and Juan Moreira.

Common venues for their publications include the European Journal of Taxonomy, Frontiers in Marine Science, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Global Biodiversity Information Facility, and Progress In Oceanography.

Selected recent papers include:

  • Abyssal food-web model indicates faunal carbon flow recovery and impaired microbial loop 26 years after a sediment disturbance experiment, 2020, Progress In Oceanography
  • Biodiversity, biogeography, and connectivity of polychaetes in the world's largest marine minerals exploration frontier, 2023, Diversity and Distributions
  • Ecosystem Functioning Under the Influence of Bottom-Trawling Disturbance: An Experimental Approach and Field Observations From a Continental Slope Area in the West Iberian Margin, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Four new species and further records of Dorvilleidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from deep-sea organic substrata, NE Atlantic, 2021, European Journal of Taxonomy
  • Mediterranean seascape suitability for Lophelia pertusa: Living on the edge, 2021, Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers

Best Publications

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

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

  • Systematic and evolutionary insights derived from mtDNA COI barcode diversity in the Decapoda (Crustacea: Malacostraca).

    Joana Matzen da Silva;Joana Matzen da Silva;Simon Creer;Antonina dos Santos;Ana C. Costa

  • Mud volcanism in the Gulf of Cadiz: results from the TTR-10 cruise

    L.M Pinheiro;M.K Ivanov;A Sautkin;G Akhmanov

  • The influence of geological, geochemical, and biogenic habitat heterogeneity on seep biodiversity

    Erik E. Cordes;Marina R. Cunha;Joëlle Galéron;Camilo Mora

  • DNA barcoding reveals cryptic diversity in marine hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from coastal and deep-sea environments

    Carlos J. Moura;David J. Harris;Marina R. Cunha;Alex D. Rogers

  • The El Arraiche mud volcano field at the Moroccan Atlantic slope, Gulf of Cadiz

    Pieter Van Rensbergen;Davy Depreiter;Bart Pannemans;Geert Moerkerke

  • Environmental gradients in a southern Europe estuarine system: Ria de Aveiro, Portugal implications for soft bottom macrofauna colonization

    M. H. Moreira;H. Queiroga;M. M. Machado;M. R. Cunha

  • Biodiversity of cold seep ecosystems along the European margins

    A. Vanreusel;A.C. Andersen;A. Boetius;D.P. Connelly

  • Biodiversity of macrofaunal assemblages from three Portuguese submarine canyons (NE Atlantic)

    Marina R. Cunha;Gordon L.J. Paterson;Teresa Amaro;Teresa Amaro;Sabena Blackbird

  • Europe’s Grand Canyon: Nazaré submarine canyon

    Paul Tyler;Teresa Amaro;Raquel Arzola;Marina R Cunha

  • Spatial and seasonal changes of brackish peracaridan assemblages and their relation to some environmental variables in two tidal channels of the Ria de Aveiro (NW Portugal)

    M. R. Cunha;J. C. Sorbe;M. H. Moreira

  • An overview of chemosynthetic symbioses in bivalves from the North Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea

    Sebastien Duperron;Sylvie Marylene Gaudron;Clara Lúcia Ferreira Rodrigues;Clara Lúcia Ferreira Rodrigues;Marina Pais Ribeiro da Cunha

  • Canyon conditions impact carbon flows in food webs of three sections of the Nazaré canyon

    D. van Oevelen;K. Soetaert;R. Garcia;R. Garcia;H. C. de Stigter

  • Strike-slip faults mediate the rise of crustal-derived fluids and mud volcanism in the deep sea

    Christian Hensen;Florian Scholz;Marianne Nuzzo;Vasco Valadares

  • The use of the DNA barcode gene 16S mRNA for the clarification of taxonomic problems within the family Sertulariidae (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa)

    Carlos J. Moura;Mariana R. Cunha;Filipe M. Porteiro;Alex D. Rogers

  • Deep-sea bacterial communities in sediments and guts of deposit-feeding holothurians in Portuguese canyons (NE Atlantic)

    Teresa Amaro;Teresa Amaro;Harry Witte;Gerhard J. Herndl;Marina R. Cunha

  • The amphipod Corophium multisetosum (Corophiidae) in Ria de Aveiro (NW Portugal). I. Life history and aspects of reproductive biology

    M. R. Cunha;J. C. Sorbe;M. H. Moreira

  • On the structure of the neritic suprabenthic communities from the Portuguese continental margin

    M. R. Cunha;J. C. Sorbe;C. Bernardes

  • The effect of depth and sediment type on the spatial distribution of shallow soft-bottom amphipods along the southern Portuguese coast

    Susana Carvalho;Marina R. Cunha;Fábio Pereira;Pedro Pousão-Ferreira

  • Abyssal plain faunal carbon flows remain depressed 26 years after a simulated deep-sea mining disturbance

    Tanja Stratmann;Lidia Lins;Autun Purser;Yann Marcon

  • Disturbance, productivity and diversity in deep-sea canyons: A worm's eye view

    Gordon L.J. Paterson;Adrian G. Glover;Marina R. Cunha;Lenka Neal

  • NEW RECORD OF ''BATHYMODIOLUS'' MAURITANICUS COSEL 2002 FROM THE GULF OF CADIZ (NE ATLANTIC) MUD VOLCANOES

    Luciana Génio;Luciana Génio;Shannon B. Johnson;Robert C. Vrijenhoek;Marina R. Cunha

  • Lost fishing gear and litter at Gorringe Bank (NE Atlantic)

    Rui P. Vieira;Rui P. Vieira;Isabel P. Raposo;Paula Sobral;Jorge Manuel dos Santos Gonçalves

Frequent Co-Authors

Fatima F Abrantes
Fatima F Abrantes Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Ann Vanreusel
Ann Vanreusel Ghent University
Norbert Frank
Norbert Frank Heidelberg University
Dierk Hebbeln
Dierk Hebbeln University of Bremen
Filipe O. Costa
Filipe O. Costa University of Minho
Paul A. Tyler
Paul A. Tyler University of Southampton
Sébastien Duperron
Sébastien Duperron Sorbonne University
Gerhard Schmiedl
Gerhard Schmiedl Universität Hamburg
Alex Rogers
Alex Rogers University of Oxford
David S.M. Billett
David S.M. Billett National Oceanography Centre

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