Hi, I’m Paulo.

 

I’m an independent marine biologist,

polychaete taxonomist,

deep-sea ecologist and

scientific speaker and writer.

 

I love to identify worms,

read, teach, write and

try to understand ecological processes.

 

Looking for help? Hire me as a consultant.

You can follow me on Twitter @bonifs for great content and last scientific news.

Paulo Bonifácio

Paulo Bonifácio

Marine biologist & Polychaetologist

Freelancer

h-index 11 (Google Scholar)

About me

I was a PhD student at Université de Bordeaux and co-supervised at UPMC Université Paris 06 (Sorbonne Université). During my PhD, the principal focus was the ecology and diversity of macrobenthic communities at different spatial and temporal scales in the Mediterranean Sea. My research elucidated ecological responses in macrobenthos communities to changes caused by hydrological regime (i.e. Rhône River) and climate changes (i.e. Bay of Banyuls-sur-Mer and Gulf of Lions).
Recently, I have finished two post-doc positions at Ifremer where I concentrated effort across the nodule province of CCFZ: (a) describing the diversity patterns and community composition of polychaete assemblages; and (b) describing species and reclassifying the polynoids subfamilies.
Now, I’m launching myself as consultant for taxonomic polychaete identification, scientific writing and more…

Interests

  • Polychaete systematics and ecology
  • Deep-sea ecology
  • Macrobenthic communities
  • Diversification, evolution, biogeography
  • Climate change

Education

  • PhD in Evolutionary, Functional and Community Ecology, 2015

    University of Bordeaux, France

  • Msc in Animal Biology, 2009

    Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

  • BSc in Biological and Environmental Sciences, 2007

    Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

Last News

Diversity of deep-sea scale-worms in the CCFZ: the most oligotrophic site is also the most diverse?

The Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCFZ) harbours the largest field of polymetallic nodules in the world potentially holding 34 billion metric tons of manganese that could represent at least 25 trillion USD.

New genera and species of polynoids provide phylogenetic insights into deep-sea scale-worms

This paper was published end 2018 after two long years of work and I would like to remember it :D The family Polynoidae is one of the six polychaete families of scale-worms, so-called because they are covered by some sort of scales on dorsal side (often lost).

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