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Leonel Pereira

University of Coimbra Portugal

Leonel Pereira has a degree in biology (scientific branch), a Ph.D. in biology (specialty in cellular biology), and a habilitation degree (biosciences, specialty in biotechnology) from the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra, where he is currently an associate professor. In addition to teaching at this university, he is a researcher whose interests focus on the areas of marine biodiversity (algae), marine biotechnology (bioactive compounds from algae), and marine ecology (environmental assessment). Since 2008, he has been the author and editor of the electronic publication MACOI—Portuguese Seaweeds Website (http://www.flordeutopia.pt/macoi/), and since 2018 he has been a member of the editorial board of the scientific journals Marine Drugs and Applied Sciences, is editor of several special issues of scientific journals (Journal of Applied Phycology, Botanica Marina, Marine Drugs, Applied Sciences), was editor or author of more than 20 books, and has authored more than 150 indexed articles and more than 66 chapters of books. He has given more than a hundred lectures and oral communications at various national and international scientific events. He is the coordinator of the master’s degree on biodiversity and plant biotechnology, and several national and international research projects. In 1998, he received the Francisco de Holanda award (Honorable Mention) and, more recently, the Rei D. Carlos Sea Award (18th edition), and winner of the CHOICE Award—Outstanding Academic Title Award 2016 for the book Edible Seaweeds of the World (CRC Press).

2books edited

2chapters authored

Latest work with IntechOpen by Leonel Pereira

Plankton is a group of small organisms that are passively displaced by water, that is, they are dragged by marine tides and currents. Marine plankton, which includes organisms such as protozoa, microalgae, small crustaceans, and jellyfish, play an important role in maintaining the health and balance of the ocean and its complex food chains. Over three sections and eight chapters, this book provides a comprehensive overview of zooplankton and phytoplankton as well as their environmental and economic importance.

Plankton Communities

Plankton Communities

Edited by Leonel Pereira

Books edited

Alginates

Alginates

Edited by Leonel Pereira

Chapters authored

Introductory Chapter: Alginates - A General Overview

By Leonel Pereira and João Cotas

Part of the book: Alginates

Plankton: Environmental and Economic Importance for a Sustainable Future

By Glacio Souza Araujo, Diana Pacheco, João Cotas, José William Alves da Silva, Jefferson Saboya, Renato Teixeira Moreira and Leonel Pereira

Plankton is composed by unicellular, filamentous or colonial organisms that may have prokaryotic or eukaryotic cell structures. These organisms have an extreme ecological importance in the different water bodies worldwide, as they fix carbon dioxide, produce oxygen and are an important key element in the basis of various food chains. Through an industrial perspective, phytoplankton species have been used as a feedstock for a wide range of applications, such as wastewater treatment, or production of high value compounds; and commercial products, such as food and feed supplements, pharmacological compounds, lipids, enzymes, biomass, polymers, toxins, pigments. Zooplankton is commonly used as live food for larval stages to the period of termination of fish, shrimp, mollusks and corals. These types of organisms have characteristics such as a valuable nutritional composition, digestibility, buoyancy, ease of ingestion and attractive movement for post-larvae, thus presenting economic importance. This book chapter aims to demonstrate the several advantages that plankton have, their ecological and economic importance, targeting the production of add-value products.

Part of the book: Plankton Communities

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