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Raquel Vasconcelos
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Animal Behavior Biodiversity Biogeography Conservation Biology Ecology Evolutionary Studies Molecular Biology Taxonomy Zoology
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Universidade do Porto
January 2019
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April 2024
CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Universidade do Porto
My PhD focused on using integrative approaches to revise the systematics of the reptiles of the Cabo Verde Islands and on combining predicted species richness with genetic diversity to optimise reserve design in that archipelago.
The collected data clarified taxonomy, provided inferences of colonization and speciation processes and established the first atlas of the caboverdian herpetofauna, and proposed protected areas to conserve all evolutionarily significant units of endemic reptiles.
My post-doc also focused on the conservation of genetic diversity in insular biodiversity hotspot systems, this time using Socotra archipelago as model. The idea is to use a multi-disciplinary approach integrating phylogenetics, geostatistics, species distribution modelling, and reserve selection algorithms to assist the conservation of the genetic diversity of reptiles under climate change scenarios on that world heritage site.
Currently I'm a researcher at CIBIO-InBIO, UP, developing these same research lines.
January 2, 2020