Dr. Gleice de Souza Santos

Dr. Gleice de Souza Santos
Scientific ResearcherBiologist, with research experience on marine and freshwater pelagic systems focused on zooplankton community dynamics under different environmental conditions.
Email:
gleice.santos@icbcluj.ro
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Currently, I am interested in understanding the relationships between zooplankton functional groups and their prey in freshwater ecosystems. My research involves:
- Understanding the life cycle and adaptation of zooplankton species in culture environments (food preferences and population growth rates with different diets).
- Investigating the viability of zooplankton resting eggs from eutrophic permanent lakes.
- Exploring interactions between plankton species in food web simulations via mesocosm experimental studies.
- PredAqua (2024 – prezent):Predictability and modelling of planktonic food webs performing mesocosm experiments in freshwater systems.
- AtlantECO (2021-2023): Understanding the structure and functioning of microbiomes in the Atlantic Ocean. My main goal was to study carbon flux and zooplankton dynamics in seamount ecosystems.
- PMBA (2018-2021): Monitoring program of aquatic biodiversity (with focus on zooplankton) from freshwater ecosystems impacted by mining tailings (Fundão dam failure - Brazil).
- INCT (2014-2018): Spatial and temporal variability of zooplankton in pelagic environments in responses to climate change.
- Santos GS, Cortez-Silva EE, Diniz LP, Delfim BL, Calvi RX, Oliveira D, Eskinazi-Sant’Anna EM, 2024. Deep lakes support higher zooplankton functional diversity than shallow lakes: a case study in lacustrine environments affected by mining tailings (Lower Doce River basin, Brazil). Freshwater Biology, 69 (7): 945-958. Doi: 1111/fwb.14257
- Santos GS, Diniz LP, Cortez-Silva EE, Paula TLT, Gomes PCS, Delfim BL, Simões NR, Eskinazi-Sant’anna EM, 2023. What drives zooplankton taxonomic and functional β diversity? A review of Brazilian rivers. Hydrobiologia, 851(5): 1305-1318. Doi: 1007/ s10750- 023- 05394-1
- Castilho-Noll MSM, Perbiche-Neves G, Santos NG, Schwind LTF, Lansac-Tôha FM, Silva ACS, Meira BR, Joko CY, Morais-Júnior CS, Cortez-Silva EE, Eskinazi-Sant’Anna EM, Oliveira FR, Santos GS, Silva JVF, Portinho JL, Araujo-Paina K, Chiarelli LJ, Diniz LP, Braghin LSM, Velho LFM, Souza MET, Silva MLC, Rocha MA, Progênio M, Ferreira N, Cirillo PH, Morari PHR, Arrieira RL, Mantovano T, Gazulha V, Melo VLSA, Ghidini AR, Melo-Júnior M, Lansac-Tôha FA, Bonecker CC, Simões NR, 2023. A review of 121 years of studies on the freshwater zooplankton of Brazil. Limnologica, 100, 126057. Doi: 1016/j.limno.2023.126057
- Cortez-Silva EE, Souza VF, Santos GS, Eskinazi-Sant’anna EM, 2022. Egg production and life history of Alona guttata Sars, 1862 (Cladocera, Chydoridae): implications for colonization of temporary ponds. Brazilian Journal of Biology, 82, e237351. Doi: 1590/1519-6984.237351
- Santos GS, Cortez-Silva EE, Balmant, FM, Gomes PCS, Eskinazi-Sant’anna EM, 2021. Impacts of exposure to mine tailings on zooplankton hatching from a resting egg bank. Aquatic Ecology, 55: 545–557. Doi: 1007/s10452-021-09844-7
- Santos GS, Cortez-Silva EE, Barroso G, Pasa V, Eskinazi-Sant’anna EM, 2021. Do metals differentiate zooplankton communities in shallow and deep lakes affected by mining tailings? The case of the Fundão dam failure (Brazil). Science of the Total Environment, 806, 150493. Doi: 1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150493
- Eskinazi-Sant’anna EM, Santos GS, Alves NJS, Brito LAF, Leite MGP, 2020. The relative importance of regional and local factors in shaping zooplankton diversity in high-altitude tropical shallow lakes. Journal of Freshwater Ecology, 35: 203-221. Doi: 1080/02705060.2020.1770874
- Brito-Lolaia M, Santos GS, Neumann-Leitão S, Schwamborn R, 2020. Micro- and mesozooplankton at the edges of coastal tropical reefs (Tamandaré, Brazil). Helgoland Marine Research, 74(7): 1-7. Doi: 1186/s10152-020-00539-4
- Santos GS, Ibraim VRC, Cortez-Silva EE, Eskinazi-Sant’anna EM, 2020. Interaction between Epistylis and copepods in tropical lakes: responses of epibiont infestation to species host density. Limnologica, 84, 125815. Doi: 10.1016/j.limno.2020.125815
- Cortez-Silva EE, Santos GS, Leite, MGP, Eskinazi-Sant’anna EM, 2020. Response of cladoceran assemblages to restoration of riparian vegetation: A case study in a tropical reservoir of Brazil. Limnologica, 85, 125822. Doi: 1016/j.limno.2020.125822