T. Couto
University of Coimbra
7 Papers
54 Citations
T. Couto is an academic researcher from University of Coimbra. The author has contributed to research in topics: Spartina maritima & Salt marsh. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 7 publications.
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Papers
The influence of mesh size in environmental quality assessment of estuarine macrobenthic communities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the performance of different ecological indicators based on data from 0.5 and 1-mm mesh sieves and compared the costs involved in using these two mesh sizes.
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Salt marsh plants carbon storage in a temperate Atlantic estuary illustrated by a stable isotopic analysis based approach
TL;DR: Biomass values were higher in the warmer seasons than in the cold seasons, with carbon contents following the same trend, and stable carbon isotopic analysis showed that apparently the sedimentary organic matter is composed by a mix of terrestrial sources, macro and microalgae.
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Abiotic modulation of Spartina maritima photobiology in different latitudinal populations
Bernardo Duarte,T. Couto,Joana Gaspar de Freitas,J.M. Valentim,Helena Silva,João Carlos Marques,João Miguel Dias,Isabel Caçador +7 more
TL;DR: S. maritima is one of the most abundant halophytes colonizing the Portuguese salt marshes and how climate change will affect their metabolism and thus the ecosystem services provided by this species to the estuarine system has greater importance if one considers the large abundance of this halophytic species.
Modelling the effects of global temperature increase on the growth of salt marsh plants
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed growth models of three different plants (Spartina maritima, Scirpus maritimus and Zostera noltei) found in the Mondego estuary.
Scirpus maritimus leaf pigment profile and photochemistry during senescence: implications on carbon sequestration.
TL;DR: Overlooking the operational PSII quantum efficiency it was possible to observe that it suffered almost no changes during leaf maturation (with the exception of the senescent leaves), whilst the maximum quantum efficiency, showed more evident changes, decreasing with the leafmaturation.
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