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Patricia Esquete Garrote

Assistant researcher

Researcher ID: E-8881-2015
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9595-1524
Department: Biology department (UA)
Research Group: Marine & Estuarine Ecology
ISI Web of KnowledgeSM search factor: RID=E-8881-2015

Research interests

Taxonomy, biology and ecology of Peracarida
Benthic Ecology
Deep sea Ecology
Deep sea mining

Academic degrees

Licenciatura Biologia (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
Ms. Oceanography (Universidad de Cádiz)
PhD. Oceanography (Universidade de Vigo)

Scientific activities

Current: Contract Researcher under Decree-Law 57/2016 Art.23rd - Transitional Rule

Research Positions
11/2015-02/2019. Postdoctoral Reaearch fellow at Departamento de Biologia & CESAM, Universidade de Aveiro. Funded by the FCT research grant ref. SFRH/BPD/94985/2013
03/2014-09/2014. Researcher at Departamento de Ecoloxía e Bioloxía Animal. Universidade de Vigo.
01/2013- 04/2013. Researcher at Fundación CEQUA (Center of Quaternary studies of Tierra de Fuego, Patagonia and Antartica).

Research Visits:
11/2017 Université de la Normandie, France. Collaborator: Prof. JC Dauvin. Tanaidacean taxonomy. Student supervision.
02/2018 University of Lodz, Poland. Collaborator: Prof. M. Blazewicz. Tanaidacean taxonomy.
10/2016 Universidad de Magallanes. Punta Arenas, Chile. Collaborator: Professor C. Aldea. Magellanic Peracarida: Taxonomy and biogeography.
05/2014 Instituto de la Patagonia. Punta Arenas, Chile. Collabotator: Professor C. Aldea and Prof. Américo Montiel. Antarctic Peracarida: Taxonomy and ecology
09/2013-12/2013 and 02/2012- 05/2012 Australian Museum. Collaborator: Dr. GDF. Wilson. Isopoda: Taxonomy and population Dynamics
09/2010- 11/2010. ARTOO Marine biology Consultants. Southampton, UK. Collaborator: R. Bamber.
Pycnogonida and Peracarida: Taxonomy and population dynamics

Others

07/2007- 09/2007. Volunteer at CRCP (Coral Reef Conservation Program). Wildlife Conservation Society in Mombasa, Kenya
06/2014-08/2014, 06/2016-08/2016 and 06/2017-08/2018. Research mentor for Organization for Tropical Studies- OET at Las Cruces, Costa Rica, for the minority participation programs NAPIRE: Native American and Pacific Islander Research Experience (2014 and 2016 editions) and REU- Research Experience for Undergraduates (2018)

Expecialization courses participation
15-19/05/2017 Invited Intervener in the National Action Training (ANF, in French): ”8th Taxonomic Workshop”. CNRS Resomar. CRESCO-Dinard, France.
10-16/10/2016 Universidad de Magallanes (Chile)
Organization and delivery of the course: “Crustáceos Australes: Carcinología de peracáridos magallánicos y antárticos"/ “Austral Crustaceans: Carcinology of magellanic and antarctic peracarids”. 10 hours.

Publications

Esquete P., Fersi A., Dauvin J.C. (2019) The family Apseudidae Leach, 1814 (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) in the Gulf of Gabes (Mediterranean Sea): taxonomic and biogeographic remarks and description of Apseudopsis gabesi Esquete sp. nov. MARINE BIODIVERSITY, 49 , (4), 1695-1711. See more

3. Dias M, Abelló P, Esquete P, Lampadariou N, Company J, Cunha MR (2018) Suprabenthic crustacean assemblages subjected to high-energy hydrodynamic events in the Blanes Canyon and adjacent slope (NW Mediterranean Sea). Progress In Oceanography , 169 138-150. See more

Esquete P, Falagán C, Somoza L Troncoso JS Benthic macrofauna associated to the contourite depositional system of the Gulf of Cádiz: Preliminary results from the MVSEIS08 cruise . 11 35-37. See more

Esquete P, Moreira J, Troncoso JS First record of Perioculodes aequimanus (Crustacea: Amphipoda) in the north –east Atlantic, with remarks on taxonomic characters. Marine Biodiversity Records, e112 . See more

Garcia-Herrero A, Esquete P, Cunha, M (2017) Do marine canyons present differences in tanaidaceans diversity? An example from three marine canyons on the Portuguese margin (NE Atlantic). The Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting, 19 June-22 June, . See more

Esquete P., Cunha M.R. (2015) Spatial distribution of the Tanaidaceans (Crustacea, Peracarida) from the Mud Volcanoes of the Gulf of Cadiz (NE Atlantic). 14th Deep Sea Biology Symposium, 31 August-4 September, Aveiro,Portugal. See more

Esquete, P. Aldea, C. Taxonomic and biogeographic inventory of the benthic Amphipoda in the Magellan Region (Chile). . 16th International Colloquium of Amphipoda, , Universidade de Aveiro. See more

Esquete P., Cunha M.R., Rodrigues C. After disturbance, the Tanaidaceans take over: results from deep sea mining impact experiment. The Crustacean Society Mid – Year Meeting , 19-22 June 2017, Barcelona, Spain. See more

Fersi A, Esquete P, Neifar L, Dauvin JC First data of Tanaidacea from the tidal channels of the Gulf of Gabès (central Mediterranean sea,Tunisia) with the discovery of three new species. . 9th International Crustacean Congress (ICC9), 22-25 May 2018, Washington DC. See more

Esquete P, Schizas N, Chatterjee T Discovering the Tanaidacea of Caribbean Mesophotic Reefs. . 9th International Crustacean Congress (ICC9), 22-25 May 2018, Washington DC. See more

Esquete P, Garcia-Herrero A. The Tanaidacea of the Iberian Margin and Adjacent Abyssal Plains: Diversity and Connections. . 9th International Crustacean Congress (ICC9), 22-25 May 2018, Washington DC. See more

Ramalho SP, Rodrigues CF, Almeida M, Esquete P, Génio L, Ravara A, Lampadariou N, Vanreusel A and Cunha MR Benthic assemblages from a disturbed region by bottom-trawling fisheries off the SW Portuguese Margin. MMR'18 | International Meeting on Marine Research 2018, 5-6 July 2018, Peniche, Portugal. See more

Projects

MiningImpact2 - Environmental impacts and risks of deep-sea mining See more

EMSO-PT - European Multidisciplinary Seafloor Observatory - Portugal See more

Scientific Supervision

Erasmus Practice (Main Supervisor): Álvaro Garcia Herrero (not a CESAM member)

Erasmus Practice (Main Supervisor): Jose Luis Zamora Sánchez (not a CESAM member)

Licenciatura- Pesquisa (Co-supervisor): Bruna Bruna Simões (nº mec. 75576). (not a CESAM member)

Research interest

Benthic Ecology; Deep sea mining; crustacean biology and taxonomy; systematics; biogeography.

Academic degrees

2012. PhD in Oceanography. University of Vigo (Spain)

2009. Ms Oceanography. University of Cadiz (Spain)

2007. Degree in Biology. University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)