Rita da Silva

The paper quantifies thermal buffering by intertidal macroalgae, showing that species, cover, tidal level, and solar exposure significantly influence microclimate temperatures.

This study evaluates how heat stress affects the brown seaweed Ascophyllum nodosum across its European range, finding that temperature change magnitude, not absolute maxima, drives physiological responses and population resilience.

This study uses DNA barcoding to identify coral species in aquarium collections, finding that 44% could be identified to species level and 80% provisionally, highlighting biases in reference databases.