Diana M. Matos

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Email: 
dianammatos92@outlook.com
URI: 
MARE - UCoimbra
Role: 
Researcher
Qualifications: 
PhD
Research domain: 
Coastal Systems and Ocean
Research lines: 
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning
ORCID ID: 
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8078-456X
ResearchGate: 
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Diana_Matos3
Google Scholar: 
https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=jMwiIQQAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT

Activity summary

I am a Biologist and Ecologist with expertise in avian species ecology, I focus on how human activities disrupt natural systems. My goal is to apply this understanding to conservation planning. Over the last seven years, I have focused on tropical seabirds in the Cabo Verde archipelago, contributing to research on seabirds' distribution, abundance, foraging, and trophic ecology. In my PhD focusing on seabird contamination (e.g. plastic and chemical pollution) in a multi-level approach.

Highlights

Seabirds as indicators of plastic pollution: a multi-level approach to plastic exposure Anthropogenic debris ingestion in a tropical seabird community: Insights from taxonomy and foraging distribution Microplastics ingestion and endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) by breeding seabirds in the east tropical Atlantic: Associations with trophic and foraging proxies (δ15N and δ13C) Influence of paternal factors on plastic ingestion and brominated chemical exposure in East Tropical Atlantic Procellariid chicks How fishing intensity affects the spatial and trophic ecology of two gull species breeding in sympatry