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Sofia Ribeiro

      

Sofia Ribeiro

  • Email - sri@geus.dk
  • Sofia Ribeiro is a biologist, interested in using the sediment archive of marine protists (mainly dinoflagellates) to reconstruct environmental and climatic change, and to study population dynamics. Sofia has experience working with recent and late-Holocene dinoflagellate cysts assemblages from various fully marine to estuarine environments. These include the upwelling system off the Iberian Peninsula, the Azores, the Black Sea, the Swedish west coast, West Greenland (Disko Bay area), and the Baltic Sea. Sofia joined GEUS in 2011 as a team-member of project INFLOW. In 2012, she is starting project ARCGEN - Arctic fjords as archives of microevolution in a warming climate. This project is aimed at quantifying the direct effects of climate change on the marine microbiota, by reviving and testing resting stages naturally preserved in Arctic fiord sediments. With this project, Sofia aims at finding links between Arctic climate change and microevolution at the genomic level. The impact of climate change on human societies (e.g. the Greenland Norse) is also part of her research interests. 

    Personal publications

    Peer-reviewed publications:

    1.    Ellegaard, M., Ribeiro, S., Lundholm, N., Andersen, T. J., Berge, T., Ekelund, F., Härnström, K., Godhe, A. Submitted. Using the sediment archive of living dinoflagellate cysts and other protist resting stages to study population dynamics through time.

    2.    Ribeiro, S. Amorim, A., Andersen, T. J., Abrantes, F. Ellegaard, M. In Press. Reconstructing the history of an invasion: the toxic phytoplankton species Gymnodinium catenatum in the Northeast Atlantic. Biological Invasions DOI: 10.1007/s10530-011-0132-6

    3.    Ribeiro, S., Moros, M, Ellegaard, M., Kuijpers, A. 2012. Climate variability in West Greenland during the last 1500 years – evidence from a high-resolution marine palynological record from Disko Bay. Boreas 41, 68-83. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1502-3885.2011.00216.x/abstract

    4.    Lundholm, N., Ribeiro, S, Andersen, T.J., Koch, T., Ekelund, F., Ellegaard, M. 2011. Buried alive – long-term survival and germination of marine protist resting stages. Phycologia 50, 629-640.

    5.    McCarthy, F., Mertens, K., Ellegaard, M., Pospelova, V., Ribeiro, S., Vercauteren, D. 2011. Resting cysts of freshwater dinoflagellates in southeastern Georgian Bay (Lake Huron) as proxies of cultural eutrophication. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 166: 46-62.

    6.    Ribeiro, S. Berge, T., Lundholm, N., Andersen, T., Abrantes, F., Ellegaard, M. 2011. Phytoplankton growth after a century of dormancy illuminates past resilience to catastrophic darkness. Nature Communications 2, article 311 http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1038/ncomms1314

    7.    Ribeiro, S., Lundholm, N., Amorim, A., Ellegaard, M. 2010. Protoperidinium minutum (Dinophyceae) from Portugal: cyst–theca relationship and phylogenetic position on the basis of single-cell SSU and LSU rDNA sequencing. Phycologia 49(1): 48-63. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.2216/09-11.1

    8.    Mertens, K., Ribeiro, S., Bouimetarhan, I., Caner, H., Combourieu-Nebout, N., Dale, B., de Vernal, A., Ellegaard, M. et al. (+24 authors). 2009. Process length variation in cysts of a dinoflagellate, Lingulodinium machaerophorum, in surface sediments: investigating its potential as salinity proxy. Marine Micropaleontology 70: 54-69. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.marmicro.2008.10.004

    9.    Mertens, K.N., Verhoeven, K., Verleye, T., Louwye, S., Amorim, A., Ribeiro, S et al (+31authors) 2009. The absolute abundance calibration project: the Lycopodium markergrain method put to the test. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 157: 238-252. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2009.05.004

    10.     Ribeiro, S.,  Amorim, A. 2008. Environmental drivers of temporal succession in recent dinoflagellate cyst assemblages from a coastal site in the North-East Atlantic (Lisbon Bay, Portugal). Marine Micropaleontology 68: 156-178. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.marmicro.2008.01.013


    Published abstracts at international scientific meetings (selected):

    Ribeiro, S., Amorim, A., Andersen, T. J., Abrantes, F., Ellegaard, M. 2011.  Reconstructing the history of an invasion – the phytoplankton species Gymnodinium catenatum in the NE Atlantic. Dino9 – IX International Conference on Modern and Fossil Dinoflagellates. Liverpool, U.K.

    Ribeiro, S., Moros, M., Kuijpers, A. 2011.  A microfossil record of late-Holocene environmental changes in the Gotland Basin (Baltic Sea) with focus on dinoflagellate cysts. Baltic Sea Science Congress. St. Petersburg, Russia.

    Ribeiro, S., Berge, T., Lundholm, N., Ellegaard, M. 2010. Tracking population changes through 100 years in Pentapharsodinium dalei: ecophysiological variability. Ocean Sciences Meeting. Portland, Oregon, USA.

    Lundholm, N., Ribeiro, S., Andersen, T., Ellegaard, M. 2010. Tracking population changes through 100 years in Pentapharsodinium dalei: genetic variability. Ocean Sciences Meeting. Portland, Oregon, USA.

    Ribeiro, S., Ellegaard, M., Amorim, A., Abrantes, F. 2008. Environmental changes in W Iberia over the last two centuries as evidenced by marine dinoflagellate cyst records. Dynamics of Eastern Boundary Upwelling Ecosystems: Comparative and integrative approaches. Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain.

    Ribeiro, S., Lundholm, N., Amorim, A., Ellegaard, M. Protoperidinium minutum from Portugal (North-East Atlantic) - cyst-theca relationship and phylogeny as inferred from SSU and LSU rDNA genetic sequences. 2008. Eight International Conference on Modern and Fossil Dinoflagellates – Dino8. Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.

    Ribeiro, S., Amorim, A. Dinoflagellate cyst assemblages from two contrasting sites in the Azores (Portugal) – Horta Bay and D. João de Castro Seamount. 2008. Eight International Conference on Modern and Fossil Dinoflagellates – Dino8. Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.

    Ellegaard, M., Lundholm, N., Ribeiro, S., Ekelund, F., Thorbjørn, J. 2008. Long-term survival of dinoflagellate cysts in anoxic marine sediments. Eight International Conference on Modern and Fossil Dinoflagellates – Dino8. Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.

    Ribeiro, S. & Amorim, A. 2006. Time-series study on the occurrence of dinoflagellate cysts in surface sediments from a warm-temperate region (Cascais Bay, Portugal). XII International Conference on Harmful Algae, ISSHA, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Other publications:

    Copello, S.; Dean, N.; Evans, K.; Guarderas, A.; Haderlie, Northern, J.; Outlaw, R.; L.; Pajuelo, M.; Ribeiro, S.; Papiez, C.; Weiskel, H; Klinger, T.; Wonham, M.; Kappel, C. 2004. A comparison of multiple biological metrics between Point Caution research reserve and neighbouring public access sites. Marine Conservation Biology, Friday Harbor Laboratories papers (Biol 533), University of Washington, USA.

     


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    Jacob Geltzer, GEUS - jgel@geus.dk


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