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Maycira Costa
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Latest papers
Global floating kelp forests have limited protection despite intensifying marine heatwave threats.
Nature communications · 2025
A blueprint for national assessments of the blue carbon capacity of kelp forests applied to Canada's coastline.
npj ocean sustainability · 2025
Publisher Correction: Combining multi-marker metabarcoding and digital holography to describe eukaryotic plankton across the Newfoundland Shelf.
Scientific reports · 2022
Latest funding
- $1,655,991
Increasing local preparedness to Sargassum tides in the Amazon and Mesoamerican reef through enhanced monitoring and blue economies.
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $499,620
Spatial-temporal resilience of kelp forests in the face of changing conditions in British Columbia, Canada (BCKelpR)
NSERC · 2021 · Principal investigator
- $258,000
Ocean Colour Remote Sensing of British Columbia Coastal Waters
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
7 publications.
Global floating kelp forests have limited protection despite intensifying marine heatwave threats.
Arafeh-Dalmau N, Villaseñor-Derbez JC, Schoeman DS, Mora-Soto A, Bell TW, Butler CL, Costa M, Dunga LV, Houskeeper HF, Lagger C, Pantano C, Del Pozo DL, Sink KJ, Sletten J, Vincent T, Micheli F, Cavanaugh KC
A blueprint for national assessments of the blue carbon capacity of kelp forests applied to Canada's coastline.
McHenry J, Okamoto DK, Filbee-Dexter K, Krumhansl KA, MacGregor KA, Hessing-Lewis M, Timmer B, Archambault P, Attridge CM, Cottier D, Costa M, Csordas M, Johnson LE, Lessard J, Mora-Soto A, Metaxas A, Neufeld CK, Pontier O, Reshitnyk L, Starko S, Yakimishyn J, Baum JK
Publisher Correction: Combining multi-marker metabarcoding and digital holography to describe eukaryotic plankton across the Newfoundland Shelf.
MacNeil L, Desai DK, Costa M, LaRoche J
Combining multi-marker metabarcoding and digital holography to describe eukaryotic plankton across the Newfoundland Shelf.
MacNeil L, Desai DK, Costa M, LaRoche J
Addressing distribution equity in spatial conservation prioritization for small-scale fisheries.
Kockel A, Ban NC, Costa M, Dearden P
Evaluating approaches for scaling-up community-based marine-protected areas into socially equitable and ecologically representative networks.
Kockel A, Ban NC, Costa M, Dearden P
The source and fate of sediment and mercury in the Tapajós River, Pará, Brazilian Amazon: Ground- and space-based evidence.
Telmer K, Costa M, Simões Angélica R, Araujo ES, Maurice Y
Increasing local preparedness to Sargassum tides in the Amazon and Mesoamerican reef through enhanced monitoring and blue economies.
Principal investigators: Costa, Maycira
Spatial-temporal resilience of kelp forests in the face of changing conditions in British Columbia, Canada (BCKelpR)
Principal investigators: Costa, Maycira M
Keywords: climate change; coastal ecosystems; critical habitats; ecosystem-based management; environmental drivers; historical ecology; kelp; remote sensing; resiliance; time series
Ocean Colour Remote Sensing of British Columbia Coastal Waters
Principal investigators: Costa, Maycira
Keywords: ocean colour; remote sensing; ocean optics; phytoplankton; chlorophyll; coastal; ships of opportunity; fisheries
Quantifying productivity rates and the fate of organic matter: A Canadian collaboration with the EXPORTS program
Principal investigators: Hamme, Roberta
Spatial-temporal bio-optics and ocean colour remote sensing of coastal waters of British Columbia
Principal investigators: Costa, Maycira
NSERC Canadian integrated multi-trophic aquaculture network (CIMTAN)
Principal investigators: Chopin, Thierry
In-water light attenuation and remote sensing of coastal waters and riverine ecosystems
Principal investigators: Costa, Maycira
VENUS: Victoria experimental network under the sea
Principal investigators: Tunnicliffe, Verena
The effects of phytoplankton horizontal and vertical speciation on the quality and quantity of light in the Strait of Georgia BC, Canada
Principal investigators: Costa, Maycira
Optical spectro-radiometry of natural waters
Principal investigators: Costa, Maycira
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Maycira Costa and Julie LaRoche: 2 shared papers
- Maycira Costa and Philippe Archambault: 1 shared paper
- Maycira Costa and Anna Metaxas: 1 shared paper
- Philippe Archambault and Anna Metaxas: 1 shared paper
- Geography
- biology
- Oceanography
- Biologie
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