Ricardo Jorge Lopes

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I’m a Professor at the Department of Animal Biology of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. I am also the Curator of the Bird Collection of the MUHNAC - National Museum of Science and Natural History and Invited Curator of the Bird Collection of the MHNC-UP - Natural History and Science Museum of the University of Porto.

I am a scientist, trained as an evolutionary ecologist. Most of our 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 Museum Curators of Avian Collections we promote the value of avian specimens for research. We mainly work with isolated, insular, fragmented, migratory and domesticated species, especially in Iberia, North Africa and Macaronesia.

Papers

WIMANET: The Power of a Network in Wildlife Malaria Research

Table for two: Diet composition differences of allopatric and sympatric populations of island geckos

The Wildlife Malaria Research network (WIMANET) Meeting report on the 1st WIMANET workshop

A molecular mechanism for bright color variation in parrots

Building a Portuguese coalition for biodiversity genomics

The European Reference Genome Atlas, piloting a decentralised approach to equitable biodiversity genomics

Predicting the expansion of invasive species, how much data do we need?

At the tipping point, Can biodiversity and rural livelihoods endure uncontrolled cashew expansion in West Africa?

Sanderlings Calidris alba in Portugal: directed counts reveal a much larger population than previously thought

Envisaging a global infrastructure to exploit the potential of digitised collections

DNA metabarcoding uncovers prey diversity overlap among tunas and seabirds of Eastern Tropical Atlantic, implications for an ecosystem-based management

DNA sequencing shows that tropical tuna species misidentification can be an underestimated issue in fish landings

Sexual segregation in the foraging distribution, behaviour, and trophic niche of the endemic Boyd’s shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri boydi)

High-throughput sequencing reveals prey diversity overlap between sympatric Sulids in the tropical Atlantic

The role of natural science collections in the biomonitoring of environmental contaminants in apex predators in support of the EU’s zero pollution ambition

Diet study of geckos reveals the first records of pseudoscorpions on Desertas Islands (Cabo Verde)

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

A mechanism for red coloration in vertebrates

The Hummingbird Collection of the Natural History and Science Museum of the University of Porto (MHNC-UP), Portugal

Low MSP-1 haplotype diversity in the West Palearctic population of the avian malaria parasite Plasmodium relictum

Molecular parallelisms between pigmentation in the avian iris and the integument of ectothermic vertebrates

High-resolution multi-marker DNA metabarcoding reveals sexual dietary differentiation in a bird with minor dimorphism

A Genetic Mechanism for Sexual Dichromatism in Birds

Genetic Basis of De Novo Appearance of Carotenoid Ornamentation in Bare Parts of Canaries

Posts

Teaching at the BIODIV PhD Course on Conservation Genetics

Appointed Bird Curator of the MUHNAC

Carla Culda joined our team during a 2 week ERASMUS+ mission

Mentoring “little naturalists” at the MHNC-UP

Teaching at the WIMANET Introductory Course on Genomics

Organizing the 2nd workshop of the Cabo Verde Breeding Atlas

Nadito Barbosa joined our team as a BIODIV PhD student

Attending the World Ornithological Show

IWC at the Mondego Estuary

Being part of Sara Mendes PhD Viva