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Overview

Ricardo Calado is affiliated with the University of Aveiro in Portugal and has contributed extensively to fields related to environmental science and biological sciences. Their research primarily focuses on aquatic science, ecology, global and planetary change, oceanography, and molecular biology.

Their publication record includes a range of studies centered on marine and coastal environmental issues and aquaculture. Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Ricardo Calado are:

  • A global horizon scan of issues impacting marine and coastal biodiversity conservation, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Noise pollution on coral reefs? - A yet underestimated threat to coral reef communities, 2021, Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Summer Is Coming! Tackling Ocean Warming in Atlantic Salmon Cage Farming, 2021, Animals
  • Valuing Bioactive Lipids from Green, Red and Brown Macroalgae from Aquaculture, to Foster Functionality and Biotechnological Applications, 2020, Molecules
  • Polar Lipids Composition, Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Activities of the Atlantic Red Seaweed Grateloupia turuturu, 2021, Marine Drugs

The scientist frequently publishes in several venues, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Animals
  • Marine Drugs

Ricardo Calado often collaborates with a range of co-authors, with notable frequent collaborators being:

  • M. Rosário Domingues
  • Fernando Ricardo
  • Ana I. Lillebø
  • Diana Madeira
  • Felisa Rey

Their main research topics cover areas such as aquaculture nutrition and growth, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, marine and coastal plant biology, identification and quantification in food, protein hydrolysis and bioactive peptides, isotope analysis in ecology, and coral and marine ecosystems studies.

Best Publications

  • Trends in the Discovery of New Marine Natural Products from Invertebrates over the Last Two Decades – Where and What Are We Bioprospecting?

    Miguel Costa Leal;Miguel Costa Leal;João Puga;João Serôdio;Newton C. M. Gomes

  • Cnidarians as a Source of New Marine Bioactive Compounds—An Overview of the Last Decade and Future Steps for Bioprospecting

    Joana Rocha;Luisa Peixe;Newton C.M. Gomes;Ricardo Calado

  • Advances in Breeding and Rearing Marine Ornamentals

    Ike Olivotto;Miquel Planas;Nuno Simões;G. Joan Holt

  • Marine Ornamental Decapods—Popular, Pricey, and Poorly Studied

    Ricardo Calado;Junda Lin;Andrew L. Rhyne;Ricardo Araújo

  • Seafood traceability: current needs, available tools, and biotechnological challenges for origin certification

    Miguel Costa Leal;Tânia Pimentel;Fernando Ricardo;Rui Rosa

  • Phage Therapy as an Approach to Prevent Vibrio anguillarum Infections in Fish Larvae Production

    Yolanda J. Silva;Liliana Costa;Carla Pereira;Cristiana Mateus

  • Early-life exposure to climate change impairs tropical shark survival.

    Rui Rosa;Miguel Baptista;Vanessa M. Lopes;Maria Rita Pegado

  • A global horizon scan of issues impacting marine and coastal biodiversity conservation

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  • Coral aquaculture to support drug discovery

    Miguel C. Leal;Miguel C. Leal;Ricardo Calado;Christopher Sheridan;Andrea Alimonti

  • Molecular analysis of bacterial communities and detection of potential pathogens in a recirculating aquaculture system for Scophthalmus maximus and Solea senegalensis.

    Patrícia Martins;Daniel F. R. Cleary;Ana C. C. Pires;Ana Maria Rodrigues

  • Biogeography and biodiscovery hotspots of macroalgal marine natural products.

    Miguel C. Leal;Miguel C. Leal;Murray H. G. Munro;John W. Blunt;João Puga

  • Marine Ornamental Shrimp: Biology, Aquaculture and Conservation

    Ricardo Calado

  • A rearing system for the culture of ornamental decapod crustacean larvae

    R Calado;L Narciso;S Morais;A.L Rhyne

  • Seagrass ecophysiological performance under ocean warming and acidification

    Tiago Repolho;Bernardo Duarte;Gisela Dionísio;Gisela Dionísio;José Ricardo Paula

  • Bioprospecting of Marine Invertebrates for New Natural Products — A Chemical and Zoogeographical Perspective

    Miguel Costa Leal;Carolina Madeira;Cláudio Alexandre Brandão;João Puga

  • Lipidomics as a new approach for the bioprospecting of marine macroalgae — Unraveling the polar lipid and fatty acid composition of Chondrus crispus

    Tânia Melo;Eliana Alves;Vítor Azevedo;Ana Sofia Martins

  • Differential impacts of ocean acidification and warming on winter and summer progeny of a coastal squid (Loligo vulgaris).

    Rui Rosa;Katja Trübenbach;Marta S. Pimentel;Joana Boavida-Portugal;Joana Boavida-Portugal

  • Influence of environmental variables in the efficiency of phage therapy in aquaculture

    Yolanda J. Silva;Liliana Costa;Carla Pereira;Ângela Cunha

  • Crawling leaves: photosynthesis in sacoglossan sea slugs

    Sónia Cruz;Ricardo Calado;João Serôdio;Paulo Cartaxana

  • Ecotoxicity and genotoxicity of cadmium in different marine trophic levels

    Maria D. Pavlaki;Mário J. Araújo;Diogo N. Cardoso;Ana Rita R. Silva

  • Marine Microorganism-Invertebrate Assemblages: Perspectives to Solve the “Supply Problem” in the Initial Steps of Drug Discovery

    Miguel Costa Leal;Christopher Sheridan;Ronald Osinga;Gisela Dionísio

  • Symbiont type influences trophic plasticity of a model cnidarian–dinoflagellate symbiosis

    Miguel C. Leal;Kenneth Hoadley;D. Tye Pettay;Alejandro Grajales

Frequent Co-Authors

Miguel Costa Leal
Miguel Costa Leal Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Rui Rosa
Rui Rosa University of Lisbon
Ana I. Lillebø
Ana I. Lillebø University of Aveiro
Pedro Domingues
Pedro Domingues University of Aveiro
João Serôdio
João Serôdio University of Aveiro
M. Rosário M. Domingues
M. Rosário M. Domingues University of Aveiro
Luís Narciso
Luís Narciso University of Lisbon
Newton C. M. Gomes
Newton C. M. Gomes University of Aveiro
Henrique Queiroga
Henrique Queiroga University of Aveiro
Daniel F. R. Cleary
Daniel F. R. Cleary University of Aveiro

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