Ricardo Jorge Lopes
I am a scientist, trained as an evolutionary ecologist. Most of my work uses birds to study the importance of key traits on the evolution and long-term conservation of biodiversity. These range from coloration and trophic interactions to host-parasite systems. As Curator, I promote the value of avian specimens for research.
I mainly work with isolated, insular, fragmented, migratory and domesticated species, especially in Iberia, North Africa and Macaronesia.
BSc Biology
University of Coimbra
MSc Ecology
University of Coimbra
PhD Biology
University of Coimbra
Researcher
CIBIO/UP
Curator
MHNCUP
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Museum Techniques in the 21st Century
Organizor of PhD Advanced Course (4 days) focused on the importance of biological specimens.
June 2022
New Portuguese Breeding Bird Atlas
Member of the Scientific Committee
May 2022
Textbook on Conservation Genomics
Our work highlighted in a dedicated box in the 3rd edition of "Conservation and the Genomics of Populations".
March 2022
Mondego January Waterbird Census
Data for 2022 is already available.
February 2022
Diet study of geckos reveals the first records of pseudoscorpions on Desertas Islands (Cabo Verde)
Journal of Arachnology 50: 39-42.
February 2022
The Hummingbird Collection of the Natural History and Science Museum of the University of Porto (MHNC-UP), Portugal
Biodiversity Data Journal
July 2021
Museum Techniques in the 21st Century
Organized this advanced PhD Course on the BIODIV Doctoral Program, focused on the importance of biological specimens.
June 2021
Low MSP-1 haplotype diversity in the West Palearctic population of the avian malaria parasite Plasmodium relictum
Malaria Journal 20: 265.
June 2021
European Raptor Biomonitoring Facility COST Action
Formal envolvement, as substitute member of the Management Committee.
May 2021
Unravelling the evolutionary story and current taxonomic status of the Cape Verde population of Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea bournei). A species on its own?
Won the Kushlan Research Award from the Waterbirds Society
April 2021
Effects of stress exposure in captivity on physiology and infection in avian hosts: no evidence of increased Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. infectivity to vector ticks
Microbial Ecology online.
March 2021
Molecular Parallelisms between Pigmentation in The Avian Iris and in the Integument of Ectothermic Vertebrates
PLOS Genetics 17(2): e1009404
February 2021
High‐resolution multi‐marker DNA metabarcoding reveals sexual dietary differentiation in a bird with minor dimorphism
Ecology and Evolution 10(19): 10364-10373
October 2020
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