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Ana Picado, Humberto Pereira, Magda C. Sousa and João Miguel Dias
A large number of estuarine systems provide favorable conditions for aquaculture, including high nutrient content, sheltered waters, and favorable water temperatures. In this context, the main objective of this work is to identify the most suitable areas...
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Marisa Marques Gouveia, Natasha Nonemacher Magni, Carina Lurdes Lopes, Américo Soares Ribeiro, João Miguel Dias and Helena Silva
Salt marshes are among the most valuable ecosystems on earth; however, previous research has reported global losses in their extent accompanied by an impairment of their ecological processes. Nonetheless, investigations on salt marsh vegetation ecology a...
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Rubén Varela, Maite DeCastro, Laura Rodriguez-Diaz, João Miguel Dias and Moncho Gómez-Gesteira
Knowing future changes in the sea surface temperature (SST) is of vital importance since they can affect marine ecosystems, especially in areas of high productivity such as the Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems (EBUS). In this sense, it is key to have f...
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Md. Ashrafuzzaman, Filipe Duarte Santos, João Miguel Dias and Artemi Cerdà
Global greenhouse gas emissions have caused sea level rise (SLR) at a global and local level since the industrial revolution, mainly through thermal expansion and ice melting. Projections indicate that the acceleration of SLR will increase in the near fu...
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Beatriz Arguilé-Pérez, Américo Soares Ribeiro, Xurxo Costoya, Maite deCastro, Pablo Carracedo, João Miguel Dias, Liliana Rusu and Moncho Gómez-Gesteira
The wave power resource (WP) was calculated along the Galician coast (NW Spain) over the period 2014?2021 using high spatial resolution hourly data from the SWAN model. In addition, the electrical energy (PE) that can be extracted for a particular wave e...
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José Fortes Lopes, Carina Lurdes Lopes and João Miguel Dias
Extreme weather events (EWEs) represent meteorological hazards for coastal lagoon hydrodynamics, of which intensity and frequency are increasing over the last decades as a consequence of climate changes. The imbalances they generated should affect primar...
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Américo Soares Ribeiro, Carina Lurdes Lopes, Magda Catarina Sousa, Moncho Gomez-Gesteira and João Miguel Dias
Ports constitute a significant influence in the economic activity in coastal areas through operations and infrastructures to facilitate land and maritime transport of cargo. Ports are located in a multi-dimensional environment facing ocean and river haza...
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Francisco Silveira, Carina Lurdes Lopes, João Pedro Pinheiro, Humberto Pereira and João Miguel Dias
Coastal floods are currently a strong threat to socioeconomic activities established on the margins of lagoons and estuaries, as well as to their ecological equilibrium, a situation that is expected to become even more worrying in the future in a climate...
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João Miguel Dias, Francisco Pereira, Ana Picado, Carina Lurdes Lopes, João Pedro Pinheiro, Sérgio Miguel Lopes and Paulo Gabriel Pinho
Shallow coastal lagoons driven by tidal processes are extremely dynamic environments prone to continuous natural and anthropogenic pressures. The hydrodynamics of these systems deeply depends on the effect of local morphology on the tidal propagation, so...
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Serafino Afonso Rui Mucova, Ulisses Miranda Azeiteiro, Walter Leal Filho, Carina Lurdes Lopes, João Miguel Dias and Mário Jorge Pereira
Mean sea-level is expected to rise significantly by 2100 in all scenarios, including those compatible with the objectives of the Paris Climate Agreement. Global sea level rise projections indicate devastating implications for populations, ecosystem servi...
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