Jean C. G. Ortega

Research Interests

I am Research Officer Ecologist in Teagasc. My research is focused in assessing the effect of niche, dispersal correlates and of anthropogenic impacts (habitat and climate change, and biological invasions) on community structure. For this, I often work with streams, floodplains, lakes, reservoirs, fish, macroinvertebrates, and zooplankton as study systems. I use uni (generalized linear models) and multivariate statistics, systematic review, meta-analysis techniques, spatially and temporally extensive data in my research.

Current Projects

Agricultural Catchments Programme

Education

• 2017: Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences, Graduate Program in Ecology of Continental Aquatic Environments, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Brazil.
• 2014: M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences, Graduate Program in Ecology of Continental Aquatic Environments, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Brazil.
• 2011: B.Sc. Biological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Career

• April, 2022 – April, 2024: Visiting Professor at Universidade Federal do Pará.
• September, 2019 – March, 2022: Postdoctoral Researcher at Universidade Federal do Acre.
• October, 2017 – August, 2019: Postdoctoral Researcher at Universidade Federal de Goiás.

Professional Membership

• Associação Brasileira de Limnologia
• Environmental Biology of Fishes – Advisory Editor
• PLoS Water – Academic Editor

• Publications