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Office: +351 289800900; Fax: +351 289 818353; E-mail:  lbentes@ualg.pt

Researcher at the Center of Marine Sciences (CCMAR-University of the Algarve) with studies mainly on fisheries biology, acoustic telemetry and modelation.

Graduate in Marine Biology and Fisheries by the Faculty of Environment and Marine Sciences of the University of the Algarve.

 

Current Research Interests

Main research focus in modeling and mapping biodiversity of the Algarve´s coast. Other research interests are acoustic telemetry, mainly in fish spatial patterns modeling.

 

Thesis

Bentes, L. (1996) “Growth and Feeding Ecology of Mullus surmuletus, Red Mullet, in the Southwest Coast of Portugal”. Graduation thesis. Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences of the University of the Algarve. 54 pp. + Annexes (in Portuguese).

 

Publications in international peer reviewed journals

Almeida, C., Coelho, R., Silva, M., Bentes, L., Monteiro, P., Ribeiro, J., Erzini, K. & Gonçalves, J. M.S. 2008. Use of different intertidal habitats by faunal communities in a temperate coastal lagoon. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (in press).

Machado, D., Veiga, P., Monteiro, P., Bentes L., Oliveira, F., Erzini, K., Pardal, M., Gonçalves, J.M.S. 2008. Juvenile flatfish assemblages in south Portugal: a comparison of estuarine and coastal environments. Journal of Applied Ichthyology (in press).

Gonçalves, J.M.S., Bentes, L., Monteiro, P., Coelho, R., Corado, M. & Erzini, K. (2008). Reducing discards in a demersal purse-seine fishery. Aquatic Living Resources, 21: 135-144.

Gonçalves, J.M.S., Bentes, L., Coelho, R., Monteiro, P., Ribeiro, J., Correia, C., Lino, P.G. & Erzini, K. (2008). Non-comercial invertebrate discards in an experimental trammel net fishery. Fisheries Management and Ecology, 15: 199-210.

Erzini, K., Bentes, L., Coelho, R., Lino, P.G., Monteiro, P., Ribeiro, J. & Gonçalves, J.M.S. (2008). Catches in "ghost-fishing" octopus and fish traps in the north-eastern Atlantic (Algarve, Portugal). Fishery Bulletin, 106: 321-327

Ribeiro, J., Monteiro, C.C., Monteiro, P., Bentes, L., Coelho, R., Gonçalves, J.M.S., Lino, P.G. & Erzini, K. (2008). Long-term changes in fish communities of the Ria Formosa coastal lagoon (southern Portugal) based on two studies made 20 years apart. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 76: 57-68.

Abecasis, D., Bentes, L., Coelho, R., Correia, C., Lino, P.G., Monteiro, P., Gonçalves, J.M.S. Ribeiro, R., & Erzini, K. (2008) Ageing seabreams: comparative study between scales and otoliths. Fisheries Research, 89: 37-48.

Erzini, K.; Gonçalves, J.M.S.; Bentes, L.; Moutopoulos, D.K.; Hernando-Casal, J.A.; Soriguer, M.C.; Puente, E.; Errazkin, L.A. & Stergiou, K.I. (2006) Size selectivity of trammel nets in southern European small-scale fisheries. Fisheries Research, 79 (1-2): 183-201.

Monteiro, P., L. Bentes, R. Coelho, C. Correia, J. M. S., Gonçalves, P. Lino, J. Ribeiro, K. Erzini. (2006). Age and growth, mortality, reproduction and relative yield per recruit of the bogue, Boops boops Linné, 1758 (Sparidae), from the Algarve (southern of Portugal) longline fishery. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 22: 345-352.

Ribeiro, J.; Bentes, L.; Coelho, R.; Gonçalves, J.M.S.; Lino, P.G.; Monteiro, P. & Erzini, K. (2006) Seasonal, tidal and diurnal changes in fish assemblages in the Ria Formosa lagoon (Portugal). Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 67: 461-474.

Malaquias, M.A.E.; Bentes, L.; Erzini, K. & Borges, T.C. 2006 Molluscan diversity caught by trawling fisheries: a case study in southern Portugal. Fisheries Management and Ecology, 13: 39–45.

Abecasis, D.; Bentes, L.; Ribeiro, J.; Machado, D.; Oliveira, F.; Veiga, P.; Gonçalves, J.M.S. & Erzini, K. 2006. First record of the Mediterranean parrotfish, Sparisoma cretense in Ria Formosa (south Portugal). JMBA2 - Biodiversity records.