1. personal data
2. academic degree
3. area of scientific activity
4. research projects
5. membership in scientific societies
6. referee and editor of scientific journals
7. publications
8. supervising theses
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1. personal data
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name
Rute Isabel Costa Pinto
address
IMAR-CMA Marine and Environmental Research Centre, Department of Zoology, FCTUC, 3004-517 Coimbra, Portugal
contact data
tel. +351 239837797
fax. +351 239823603
email rutepinto@ci.uc.pt
 
2. academic degree
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year academic degree scientific area institution
2004 Graduation Biology University of Coimbra
2007 MSc Ecology University of Coimbra
2012 PhD Biology University of Coimbra
2008 other Economy Post-Graduation: ‘Diploma de Estudos Básicos em Economia’ Faculty of Economy of University of Coimbra
 
3. area of scientific activity
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domain of specialization
Ecosystem goods and services approach
Ecosystem stability
Sustainability
Estuaries
Ecological Indicators
Benthos
 
present investigation interests
Policies and ecosystem management
Socio-ecological systems
Ecosystem resilience
Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF)
Complex systems ecology
 
other skills/activities
 
4. coordination/participation of research projects
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With Portuguese national financial support
As a member of team:

Title: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment- Post-graduate training supervised by Professor João Carlos Marques in the scope of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment - Portuguese evaluation.
Meetings: Tomar (Portugal), 9-10 October 2003; Vimeiro (Portugal), 11-12 March 2004.
Working contributions:
a) ‘The Mondego estuary: a Millennium Assessment point of view’. Marques J.C., Salas F., Adão H., Martins M.J., Carvalho H. and Pinto R., 2004. University of Coimbra and Évora.
b) ‘The Mondego and Mira hydrographical basins: a transversal viewpoint’. Marques J.C., Salas F., Adão H., Martins M.J., Carvalho H. and Pinto R., 2004. University of Coimbra and Évora.


Title: Estudo piloto do estuário do Mondego no âmbito da implementação do programa Objectivos de Qualidade AMBIENTAL – Eutrofização (ECOQOS-EUTRO-OSPAR). Harmonização dos critérios OSPAR com a Directiva Quadro da Água Europeia.
Duration: 2005-present
Funding: INAG (contract nº 2004/067/INAG)
Coordinator: João Carlos Marques (IMAR-CIC)


Title: EFFECTS OF EXTREME FRESHWATER INPUT FLUCTUATIONS ON THE ECOLOGICAL STATUS ASSESSMENT IN ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEMS - THE BENTHIC PERSPECTIVE. (EXTREMIS)
Duration: 2008-2009
Funding: University of Coimbra
Coordinator: Joana Patrício (IMAR-CIC)



Title: Resposta dinâmica do sistema a um amplo restabelecimento artificial da ligação a montante entre os dois braços do estuário do Mondego (Portugal): Implicações para a recuperação, estado ecológico e gestão (RECCONNECT)
Duration: 2008-2010
Funding: FCT (PTDC/MAR/64627/2006)
Coordinator: João Carlos Marques (IMAR-CIC)

Title: MINHO, MONDEGO, AND MIRA ESTUARIES observatory: Long term vaRiation of ECOLOGICAL sTAtus as a response to naturaL and human induced changes. implications for management and restoration (3M_RECITAL)
Duration: 2011-2014
Funding: LTER/BIA-BEC/0019/2009
Coordinator: João Carlos Marques (IMAR-CIC)
With international financial support
Title: POLICYMIX (Assessing the role of economic instruments in policy mixes for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services provision)
Duration: 2010-2014
Funding: Commission of the European Communities (7th Framework Programme of RTD)
Coordinator: Paula Antunes

Title: ESAWADI (Utilizing the Ecosystem Services Approach for Water Framework Directive Implementation)
Duration: 2010-2012
Funding: Commission of the European Communities


Title: WISER – Water Bodies in Europe: Integrative systems to assess ecological status and recovery (FP7-ENV-2008-1).
Duration: 2009-2012
Funding: Commission of the European Communities (contract n° 015226)


Title: WADI (Sustainable management of Mediterranean coastal fresh and transitional water bodies: a socioeconomic and environmental analysis of changes and trends to enhance and sustain stakeholders’ benefits)
Duration: 2006-2008
Funding: Commission of the European Communities (contract n° 015226)
Coordinator: Felicita Scapini, Department of Animal Biology and Genetics, University of Florence, Italy
Services rendered
 
5. membership in scientific societies
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6. referee and editor of scientific journals
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» Ecological Indicators
» Environmental Engineering and Management Journal
» Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
» Journal of Geophysics & Remote Sensing
» Marine Ecology
» Ocean and Coastal Management
» Sustainability
 
7. publications
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|books| |book chapters| |book reviews| |proceedings (int)|
|proceedings (nat)| |national journals| |technical reports| |oral presentations| |posters|
papers in international scientific periodicals with referee (ISI)
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2013 » Pinto, R., de Jonge, V.N., Marques, J.C., Chainho, P., Medeiros, J.P., Patrício, J. Temporal stability in estuarine systems: Implications for ecosystem services provision. Ecological Indicators 24, 246 – 253.

2012 » de Jonge, V.N., Pinto, R., Turner, K. Integrating ecological, economic and social aspects to generate useful management information under the EU Directives’ ‘Ecosystem Approach’. Ocean and Coastal Management 68, 169 – 188.

2011 » Pinto, R., de Jonge, V.N., Neto, J.M., Domingos, T., Marques, J.C., Patrício, J. Towards a DPSIR driven integration of ecological value, water uses and ecosystem services for estuarine systems. Ocean and Coastal Management ( doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2011.06.016).

2011 » Blancher, P., Vignon, C., Catalon, E., Maresca, B., Dujin, A., Mordet, X., Borowski, I., Neubauer, L., Rotter, S., Interwies, E., Cunha, M.C., Marques, J.C., Pinto, R., Palma, C. Ecosystem services approach for water framework directive implementation. Management of Natural Resources, Sustainable Development and Ecological Hazards III: Ecology and the Environment 148, 1743 – 3541.

2011 » Ceia, F.R., Patrício, J., Franco, J., Pinto, R., Fernández-Boo, S., Losi, V., Marques, J.C., Neto, J.M. Assessment of estuarine macrobenthic assemblages and ecological quality status at a dredging site in southern Europe estuary. Ocean and Coastal Management (doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2011.07.009).

2010 » Pinto, R., Patrício, J., Salas, F., Neto, J.M., Marques, J.C. Assessing estuarine quality under the ecosystem services scope: ecological and socio-economic aspects. Ecological Complexity 7, 389 – 402.

2010 » Neto, J.M., Teixeira, H., Patrício, J., Baeta, A., Veríssimo, H., Pinto, R., Marques, J.C. The response of estuarine macrobenthic communities to natural- and human-induced changes: dynamics and ecological quality. Estuaries and Coasts (Ec 2000), 1327 – 1339.

2009 » Pinto, R., Patrício, J., Baeta, A., Fath, B.D., Neto, J., Marques, J.C. Review of Biotic Indices for application in Estuarine Environments. Ecological Indicators 9, 1 – 25.

2009 » Baeta, A., Valiela, I., Rossi, F., Pinto, R., Richard, P., Niquil, N., Marques, J.C. Eutrophication and trophic structure in response to the presence of the eelgrass Zostera noltii. Marine Biology 156: 2107–2120.

2009 » Baeta, A., Pinto, R., Valiela, I., Richard, P., Niquil, N., Marques, J.C. 15N and 13C in the Mondego estuary food web: Seasonal and short-term variation in producers and consumers. Marine Environmental Research 67 (3), 109 – 116.

2009 » Teixeira, H., Neto, J.M., Patrício, J., Veríssimo, H., Pinto, R., Salas, F., Marques, J.C. Quality assessment of benthic macroinvertebrates under the scope of WFD. BAT, the Portuguese Benthic Assessment Tool. Marine Pollution Bulletin 58(10), 1477 – 1486.

2008 » Teixeira, H.L., Salas, F., Neto, J.M., Patrício, J., Pinto, R., Veríssimo, H., Garcia-Charton, J.A., Marcos, C., Pérez-Ruzafa, A., Marques, J.C. Ecological indices tracking distinct impacts along disturbance-recovery gradients in a temperate NE Atlantic Estuary - guidance on reference values. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 80, 130 – 140.
 
books
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book chapters
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2009 » Pinto, R., Patrício, J., Salas, F., Neto, J.M., Marques, J.C. Assessing ecosystem services and goods: socio-economic and ecological aspects in the Mondego Basin. In Scapini, F., Boffa, J.M., Cassar, L.F., Conrad, E., Nardi, M. (Eds.) Sustainable management of Mediterranean coastal fresh and transitional water bodies: a socio-economic and environmental analysis of changes and trends to enhance and sustain stakeholder benefits. Firenze University Press (ISBN 978-88-6453-015-4).

2009 » Serrano, L., Serrano, O., Pinto, R., Zakhama, R., Ramsi, Y., Scapini, F., Bayed, A., Abdrabo, M., Farag, M.M., Baccar, F., Charfi, F., Rossano, C., Nourisson, D., Mateo, M.A. Ecological functioning of transitional water bodies: from conceptual and mechanistic models to management. In Scapini, F., Boffa, J.M., Cassar, L.F., Conrad, E., Nardi, M. (Eds.) Sustainable management of Mediterranean coastal fresh and transitional water bodies: a socio-economic and environmental analysis of changes and trends to enhance and sustain stakeholder benefits. Firenze University Press (ISBN 978-88-6453-015-4).

2009 » Pinto, R., Patrício, J., Salas, F., Neto, J.M., Marques, J.C. Avaliação dos bens e serviços de ecossistema na Bacia do Mondego no âmbito do Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (Capitulo 15).
 
proceedings of international meetings with referee
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2012 » Vilela, N., Pinto, R. Mainstreaming the Environment in Aggregate Agricultural Support Measures. Energy Future: The Role of Impact Assessment. Conference Proceedings of the International Association for Impact Assessment, Portugal, Porto, 27 May - 1 June.

2011 » Blancher, F., Vignon, C., Catalon, E., Maresca, B., Dujin, A., Mordet, X., Borowski, I., Neubauer, L., Rotter, S., Interwies, E., Cunha, M.C., Marques, J.C., Pinto, R., Palma, C. Ecosystem Services Approach for Water Framework Directive Implementation. Paper presented at the International Conference on Sustainable Development, Malaysia, Putrajaya, 5-7 December.
 
national journals, from portugal or from abroad, with peer review
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proceedings of portuguese national meetings
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editorial and book reviews
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technical reports
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2011 » Blancher, P. , Girard L., Vignon, C., Catalan, E., Maresca, C., Dujin, A., Moderat, X., Borowski, I. Neubauer, L., Rotter, S., Interviews, E., da Conceição Cunha, M., Marques, J.-C., Pinto, R., Roseta Palma, C. ESAWADI Framework of Analysis (www.esawadi.eu).

2007 » Newton, A., Cristina, S., Guiomar, J., Goela, P.C., Fragoso, B., Marques, J.C., Neto, J.M., Teixeira, H., Patrício, J., Baeta, A., Pinto, R., Veríssimo, H., Rocha, F., Cunha, R., Vale, C. 2007. Reference Conditions and Intercalibration of Portuguese Coastal Waters. Intercalibration exercise of guidelines for the applications of the European Union Water Framework Directive, 135 p.

2007 » Marques, J.C., Neto, J.M., Patrício, J., Pinto, R., Teixeira, H., Veríssimo, H. Monitoring the Mondego estuary. Anthropogenic changes and their impact on ecological quality. Preliminary results from the first assessment of the effects of reopening the communication between the North and South arms on the eutrophication state of the system. Final Report, January 2007. IMAR/INAG, 87 pp.

2006 » Marques, J.C., Neto, J.M., Patrício, J., Pinto, R., Teixeira, H.L., Veríssimo, H. 2006. Estudo piloto do estuário do Mondego no âmbito da implementação do Programa Objectivos de Qualidade Ambiental Eutrofização (EcoQOs-Eutro-OSPAR). Harmonização dos critérios OSPAR com a Directiva Quadro da Água Europeia. Progress Report, March 2006. IMAR/INAG, 48p.
 
oral presentations
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2012 » Pinto, R. Marques, J.C., Cunha, M.C. Avaliação dos Serviços prestados por ecossistemas na área do Baixo Mondego. Gestão Sustentável de Cidades: Infraestruturas & Ambiente. Coimbra, Portugal 12nd October.

2012 » Pinto, R., Patrício, J., Abreu, P., Marta-Pedroso, C., Baeta, A., Franco, J., Domingos, T., Marques, J.C. Ecosystem services and ecological status improvement: Determinants of willingness-to-pay values for water quality and its role for decision-making. 4th International EcoSummit. Ecological Sustainability: Restoring the Planet’s Ecosystem Services. Columbus, Ohio, USA 30th September – 05th October.

2012 » de Jonge, V.N., Pinto, R., Turner, K. Bridging fundamental science, policy making and management in practice. 51st ECSA International Symposium, Klaipeda, Lithuania 23-27 September.

2012 » Blancher, P., Neubauer, L., Borowski-Maaser, I., Interwies, E., Görlitz, S., Cunha, M.C., Marques, J.C., Pinto, R., Maresca, B., Mordret, X., Dujin, A., Catalon, C., Wallis, C. Using Ecosystem Services Approach in the Water Directive Implementation (ESAWADI). IWRM SCP Mid-Term Event,
Lyon, France 25th June.

2012 » Neubauer, L., Borowski-Maaser, I., Interwies, E., Görlitz, S., Cunha, M.C., Marques, J.C., Pinto, R., Maresca, B., Mordret, X., Dujin, A., Catalon, C., Wallis, C., Blancher, P. Ecosystem Services Approach for Water Framework Directive Implementation: The Ems river basin. TEEB Conference 2012
(‘Mainstreaming the Economics of Nature: Challenges for Science and Implementation’), Leipzig, Germany 19-22th March.
2012 » de Jonge, V.N., Pinto, R., Turner, K. Integrating ecological, economic and social aspects to generate useful management information under the EU Directives’ ‘Ecosystem Approach’. ECSA Meeting, Sylt, Germany 3-7 April.

2012 » Pinto, R., Patrício, J., Marques, J.C. Pressões e Impactos na qualidade ecológica do estuário do Mondego: que implicações para os usos e serviços da água? XIII Jornadas sobre Conservação da Natureza e Educação Ambiental/EDS, Leiria, Portugal 21-22 April.

2012 » Vilela, N., Pinto, R. Mainstreaming the Environment in Aggregate Agricultural Support Measures. Energy Future: The Role of Impact Assessment. 32nd Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment. Centro de Congressos da Alfândega, Porto, Portugal 27 May-1 June.

2012 » de Jonge, V.N., Pinto, R., Turner, K. Bridging fundamental science, policy making and management in practice: some historical aspects and some ideas. 50th ECSA Conference (‘Today's science for tomorrow's Management’), Venice, Italy 3-7 June.

2011 » de Jonge, V.N., Pinto, R. Bridging fundamental science, policy making and management in practice. ECSA Symposium 49 (‘Estuarine, coastal and oceanic ecosystems: Breaking down the boundaries’), Grahamstown, South Africa 4-7 April.

2011 » de Jonge, V.N., Pinto, R. Bridging fundamental science, policy making and management in practice. ECSA UK local meeting, University of Hull, England 26-28 April.

2011 » de Jonge, V.N., Pinto, R., Turner, K. Integrating ecological, economic and social aspects to generate useful management information under the EU Directives’ ‘Ecosystem Approach’. ECSA local meeting (‘Estuarine and lagoon ecosystem trajectories’), CEMAGREF, Bordeaux, France 24-28 October.

2011 » Blancher, F., Vignon, C., Catalon, E., Maresca, B., Dujin, A., Mordet, X., Borowski, I., Neubauer, L., Rotter, S., Interwies, E., Cunha, M.C., Marques, J.C., Pinto, R., Palma, C. Ecosystem Services Approach for Water Framework Directive Implementation. International Conference on Sustainable Development, Putrajaya, Malaysia 5-7 December.

2010 » de Jonge, V.N., Pinto, R. Changing current monitoring without changing it. ECSA meeting, Sylt, Germany 3-7 May.

2010 » Pinto, R., Patrício, J., Neto, J.M., Domingos, T., Baeta, A., Teixeira, Z., Marques, J.C. Integração da significância ecológica no contexto dos usos e serviços da água: aplicação da abordagem DPSIR ao estuário do Mondego. Ciência 2010: Encontro com a Ciência e a Tecnologia em Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal 5-7 July.

2010 » Pinto, R., de Jonge, V.N., Patrício, J., Neto, J.M., Marques, J.C. Biodiversity and human wellbeing – Elusive links within an integrated estuarine services approach. ECSA 47th meeting, Figueira da Foz, Portugal 14-19 September.

2010 » de Jonge, V.N., Pinto, R. Tool proposal to bridge fundamental science, policy making and management. ECSA 47th meeting, Figueira da Foz, Portugal 14-19 September.

2010 » Ceia, F., Patrício, J., Neto, J.M., Franco, J., Pinto, R., Fernández-Boo, S., Losi, V., Marques, J.C. The influence of dredging in macrobenthic assemblages and environmental quality assessment in the Mondego Estuary (Portugal). ECSA 47th meeting, Figueira da Foz, Portugal 14-19 September.

2010 » Pinto, R., Patrício, J., Neto, J.M., Domingos, T., Marques, J.C. Integration of ecological significance within the water uses and services Framework: A DPSIR approach to the Mondego estuary. 12º SPECO meeting, Porto, Portugal 18-20 October.

2010 » Neto, J.M., Pinto, R., Patrício, J., Marques, J.C. Compliance of Natural Capital and Ecological Quality in estuaries. Insights for a sustainable management and planning. 12º SPECO meeting, Porto, Portugal 18-20 October.

2009 » de Jonge, V.N., Pinto, R. Boundaries of nature, health, carrying capacity, ecological & economical judgement: how to determine what is sustainable? ECSA meeting, Emden, Germany 9-10 December.

2009 » Pinto, R., Patrício, J., Neto, J.M., Domingos, T., Baeta, A., Teixeira, Z., Marques, J.C. Water uses and ecological cost’s evaluation: a DPSIR approach on the Mondego estuary. ECSA 45th meeting, Dublin, Ireland 30 August-04 September.

2008 » Hassaan, M.A., Serrano, L., Serrano, O., Abdrabo, M., Mateo, M.A., Magdy, Pinto, R., Rossano, C., Scapini, F., El Houssaini, F. Suitability analysis of wetlands for human activities using GIS techniques: Case study Lake Maryuit, Egypt. Held on the scope of International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems (IMDIS 2008), Greece 31 March-3 April.

2008 » Marques, J.C., Neto, J.M., Patrício, J., Baeta, A., Veríssimo, H., Pinto, R. Ecological response of subtidal macrobenthic communities to natural and human induced changes in a temperate NE Atlantic estuary. XV Simpósio Ibérico de Estudos de Biologia Marinha, Funchal, Portugal 9-13 September.

2008 » Neto, J.M., Patrício, J., Teixeira, H., Baeta, A., Veríssimo, H., Pinto, R., Marques, J.C. Ecological Response of subtidal macrobenthic communities to natural a human induced changes in a temperate NE Atlantic estuary. Held on the scope of the ECSA congress, Bahia Blanca, Argentina, 29 September–03 October.

2008 » Pinto, R., Patrício, J., Salas, F., Neto, J.M., Marques, J.C. Mondego’s catchment basin: Assessment of ecosystem services and goods. WADI Final Meeting – Malta 5-8 November.

2007 » Pinto, R., Patrício, J., Neto, J., Marques, J.C. Mapping ecosystem services – An insight to choice and valuation. The Mondego estuary case-study. 6th WADI (WAter Demand Integration) International Meeting, undertook in Coimbra, Portugal, with organization of Dr. João Carlos Marques, University of Coimbra.

2007 » Marques, J.C., Pinto, R., Patrício, J., Neto, J. Productivity effects on water quality, and vice-versa, in the Mondego estuary – An integrated ecosystem services approach. 6th WADI (WAter Demand Integration) International Meeting undertook in Coimbra, Portugal, with organization of Dr. João Carlos Marques, University of Coimbra.

2007 » Baeta, A., Valiela, I., Fox, S., Teicherg, M., Pinto, R., Marques, J.C. Relative sensitivity of seasonal variation in stable isotopic signatures in the Mondego food web – NEERS SPRING 2007 MEETING PROGRAM, Maine, USA 3-5 May.

2007 » Baeta, A., Valiela, I., Pinto, R., Richard, P., Niquil, N., Marques, J.C. Characterization of the food web structure in the Mondego estuary using stable 15N and 13C isotopes- Comparison of the Food Web Properties of Semi-Enclosed Soft Bottom Littoral Ecosystems, La Rochelle Workshop, France 12-14 March.

2007 » Marques, J.C., Pinto, R. The City and the Sea: aquatic landscapes. Integrated in the University of Coimbra summer course: “Art, Language and Culture: A Social approach in a Mediterranean Context”, Coimbra, Portugal 16-27 July.

2007 » Pinto, R., Derous, S. Presentations of the case-studies, with special focus on lessons learned and suggestions on how to move forward with the concept and protocol of marine biological valuation: The Mondego estuary – Portugal. Workshop ENCORA THEME 7, Paris, France 6th December.

2006 » Marques, J.C., Neto, J.M., Patrício, J., Teixeira, H., Pinto, R., Veríssimo, H. 2006. Funcionamento hidrológico do estuário do Mondego. Bases para um programa de restauração ecológica. Workshop Técnico “Avaliação do impacto ecológico e/ou químico das pressões antropogénicas nas águas costeiras e de transição”, Instituto Nacional da Água, Lisbon, Portugal 15 December.

2006 » Marques, J.C., Patrício, J., Neto, J., Pinto, R. Role of ecological indicators in environmental coastal assessment. 3rd WADI (WAter Demand Integration) International Meeting, undertook in Grosseto, Italy, with organization of Dr. Felicita Scapini, University of Florence, Italy.
 
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language reading writing conversation
portuguese born language born language born language
english excelent very good very good
french good basic basic
spanish very good basic regular
 
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