Postdoc Costão Rochoso

I am a biologist with a PhD in Marine Biology from the Universidade Federal
Fluminense (UFF), where I developed my thesis on the ecology and nutrition of
herbivorous fish in collaboration with Dr Kendall Clements (University of Auckland,
New Zealand). I was a postdoctoral researcher at the IRD (France) for two years,
working on the macroecology of reef fish with Dr Michel Kulbicki (IRD, France).
Currently, I am a post-doctoral researcher at UFF and coordinate the monitoring of
reef fish assemblages and coral health in the Arraial do Cabo Marine Reserve
(RESEXMar) as part of the Costão Rochoso Project. My main research goals are to
understand the ecological and trophic relationships between herbivores and their
food resources, the ecosystem functions performed by different species on the reefs,
the influence of coral structure on reef diversity, and the effects of anthropogenic
impacts on reef communities.

Publication
Barreto CR, Quimbayo JP, Mendes TC, Cordeiro CAMM, Flores AV (2024) Spatial structure
and potential processes linking fish and benthic communities in a protected reef ecosystem
in SE Brazil. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 738: 41–55. PDF

Eggertsen L, Luza AL, Cordeiro CAMM, Dambros C, Ferreira CEL, Floeter SR, Francini-Filho
R, Freire KMF, Gasalla MA, Giarrizzo T, Giglio VJ, Hanazaki N, Lopes PFM, Longo GO, Luiz OJ,
Magris RA, Mendes TC, Pinheiro HT, Quimbayo JP, Reis-Filho JA, Vila-Nova DA, Bender MG
(2024) Complexities of reef fish fisheries in Brazil: a retrospective and functional approach.
Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. 34: 511–538. PDF

Ferrari DS, Nunes LT, Mendes TC, Ferreira CEL, Floeter SR (2024) Hyperdominance and
habitat composition drive reef fish foraging at Atlantic oceanic islands. Marine Ecology
Progress Series. 726: 1–15 PDF

Giglio VJ, Aued AW, Cordeiro CAMM, Eggertsen L, Ferrari DS, Gonçalves LR, Hanazaki N, Luiz
OJ, Luza AL, Mendes TC, Pinheiro HT, Segal B, Waechter LS, Bender MG (2024) A global
systematic review of ecosystem services in reef environments. Environmental Management.
73: 634–645. PDF

Waechter LS, Luza AL, Eggertsen L, Quimbayo JP, Hanazaki N, Pinheiro HT, Giglio VJ, Cordeiro
CAMM, Mendes TC, Luiz OJ, Dambros C, Longo GO, Bender MG (2024) the aesthetic value of
Brazilian reefs: from species to seascape. Ocean and Coastal Management. 247: 106882 PDF

Luza AL, Barneche DR, Cordeiro CAMM, Dambros C, Ferreira CEL, Floeter SR, Giglio VJ, Luiz OJ,
Mendes TC, Picolotto VAP, Quimbayo JP, Silva FC, Waechter LS, Longo GO, Bender MG (2023)
Going cross taxa in functional ecology: review and perspectives of an emerging field. Functional
Ecology. 37: 3091–3110. PDF

Cardozo-Ferreira GC, Mendes TC, Cordeiro CAMM, Giglio VJ, Magris RA, Choat JH, Clements KD,
Eggertsen L, Ferreira CEL, Francini-Filho RB (2023) Comment on the article “Effect of human impact
on coral reef herbivorous fish niche” by Leitão et al. (2023). Marine Biology. 170: 145. PDF

Saliba BM, Eggertsen L, Mendes TC, Marconi M, Ferreira CEL, Giglio VJ (2023) Interactions of divers
with reef biota are more frequent among snorkelers than scuba divers and increase during sea turtle
watching. Tourism in Marine Environments. 17: 249–263. PDF

Carnaúba EAA, Gomes LM, Garcia GS, Cordeiro CAMM, Mendes TC, Ferreira CEL, Gherardi DFM
(2023) Non-deterministic reef fish community assembly in an upwelling-influenced transitional
subprovince of the southwestern Atlantic. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10: 1272323. PDF

Cardozo-Ferreira GC, Ferreira CEL, Choat JH, Mendes TC, Macieira RM, Rezende CE, Joyeux JC,
Clements KD (2023) Seasonal variation in diet and isotopic niche of nominally herbivorous fishes
in subtropical rocky reefs. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 722: 125–143. PDF

Cordeiro CAMM, Aued AW, Barros F, Bastos AC, Bender MG, Mendes TC, Creed JC, Cruz ICS, Dias
MS, Fernandes LDA, Coutinho R, Gonçalves JAE, Floeter SR, Mello-Fonseca J, Freire AS, Gherardi
DFM, Gomes LEO, Lacerda F, Martins RL, Longo GO, Mazzuco AC, Menezes R, Muelbert JH,
Paranhos R, Quimbayo JP, Valentin JL, Ferreira CEL (2022) Long-term monitoring projects of
Brazilian marine and coastal ecosystems. PeerJ. 10: e14313. PDF

Mazzei R, Mendes TC, Cordeiro CAMM, Luque JL, Soares MC, Ferreira CEL (2022) Diet and
abundance of the barber goby Elacatinus figaro on Brazilian marginal reefs: ecological predictors
and reliance on cleaning interactions. Marine Biology. 168: 64. PDF

Gaspar T, Quimbayo JP, Ozekoski R, Nunes LT, Aued AW, Mendes TC, Garrido AG, Segal B
(2022) Severe coral bleaching of Siderastrea stellata at the only atoll in the South Atlantic
driven by sequential Marine Heatwaves. Biota Neotropica. 21: e20201131. PDF

Quimbayo JP, Mendes TC, Barneche DR, Dias MS, Grutter AS, Furtado M, Leprieur F, Pellisier L,
Mazzei R, Narvaez P, Sasal P, Soares MC, Parravicini V, Sazima I, Kulbicki M (2022) Patterns of
taxonomic and functional diversity in the global cleaner reef fish fauna. Journal of Biogeography.
48:2469–2485. PDF

Lucena MB, Mendes TC, Barbosa MC, Cordeiro CAMM, Eggertsen L, Ferreira CEL (2021) Does the
color of light matter? Testing different light colors in nocturnal underwater visual censuses. Marine
Environmental Research. 166: 105261. PDF

Quimbayo JP, Silva FC, Mendes TC, Ferrari DS, Danielski SL, Bender MG, Parravicini V, Kulbicki M,
Floeter SE (2021) Life-history traits, geographical range, and conservation aspects of reef fishes
from the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific. Ecology. 102: e03298. PDF

Eggertsen L, Goodell W, Cordeiro CAMM, Mendes TC, Longo GO, Ferreira CEL, Berkström C (2020)
Seascape configuration leads to spatially uneven delivery of parrotfish herbivory across a Western
Indian Ocean seascape. Diversity. 12: 434 PDF

Inagaki KY, Mendes TC, Quimbayo JP, Cantor M, Sazima I (2020) The structure of fish
follower-feeding associations at three oceanic islands in southwestern Atlantic. Environmental
Biology of Fishes. 103: 1-11. PDF

Quimbayo JP, Giglio VJ, Ferreira CEL, Fraga A, Nunes JACC, Mendes TC (2020) Contrasting
feeding and agonistic behaviour of two blenny species on a small and remote island in the
equatorial Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Fish Biology. 96: 74-82. PDF

Mendes TC, Quimbayo JP, Bouth HF, Silva LP, Ferreira CEL (2019) The omnivorous triggerfish
Melichthys niger is a functional herbivore on an isolated Atlantic oceanic island. Journal of Fish
Biology. 95: 812-819. PDF

Freitas R, Mendes TC, Almeida C, Melo T, Villaça RC, Noguchi R, Floeter SR, Rangel CA, Ferreira
CEL (2019) Reef fish and benthic community structures of the Santa Luzia Marine Reserve in the
Cabo Verde islands, eastern central Atlantic ocean. African Journal of Marine Sciences. 41: 177-190.
PDF

Quimbayo JP, Dias MS, Kulbicki M, Mendes TC, Lamb RW, Johnson AF, Aburto-Oropeza O,
Alvarado JJ, Bocos AA, Ferreira CEL, Garcia E, Luiz OJ, Mascareñas-Osorio I, Pinheiro HT,
Rodrigues-Zaragoza F, Salas E, Zapata FA, Floeter SR (2019) Determinants of reef fish
assemblages in tropical oceanic islands. Ecography. 42: 77-87. PDF

Mendes TC, Ferreira CEL, Clements KD (2018) Discordance between diet and dietary
macronutrient content in four nominally herbivorous fishes from the Southwestern Atlantic.
Marine Biology. 165: 180. PDF

Ternes MLF, Giglio VJ, Mendes TC, Pereira PHC (2018) Follower fish of the goldspotted eel
Myrichthys ocellatus with a review on anguilliform fish as nuclear species. Helgoland Marine
Research. 72:2. PDF

Quimbayo JP, Dias MS, Schlickmann ORC, Mendes TC. (2017) Fish cleaning interactions
on a remote island in the Tropical Eastern Pacific. Marine Biodiversity, 47: 603-608. PDF

Giglio VJ, Ternes MLF, Mendes TC, Cordeiro CAMM, Ferreira CEL. 2017. Anchoring
damages to benthic organisms in a Southwestern Atlantic scuba dive hotspot: a note of
concern. Journal of Coastal Conservation, 21: 311-316. PDF | Versão em português

Quimbayo JP, Mendes TC, Kulbicki M, Floeter SR, Zapata FA. 2017. Unusual reef fish
biomass and functional richness at Malpelo, a remote island in the Tropical Eastern Pacific.
Environmental Biology of Fishes, 100: 149–162. PDF | Press release (português / english /
español)

Cordeiro CAMM, Mendes TC, Harborne AR, Ferreira CEL. 2016. Spatial distribution of
nominally herbivorous fishes across environmental gradients on Brazilian rocky reefs.
Journal of Fish Biology, 89: 939–958. PDF

Mendes TC, Cordeiro CAMM, Ferreira CEL. 2015. An experimental evaluation of macroalgal
consumption and selectivity by nominally herbivorous fishes on subtropical rocky reefs.
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 417: 146–152. PDF

Luiz OJ, Mendes TC, Barneche DR, Ferreira CGW, Noguchi R, Villaça RC, Rangel CA,
Gasparini JL, Ferreira CEL. 2015. Community structure of reef fishes on a remote oceanic
island (St. Peter and St. Paul’s Archipelago, equatorial Atlantic): the relative influence of
abiotic and biotic variables. Marine and Freshwater Research, 66: 739–749. PDF

Longo GO, Morais RA, Martins CDL, Mendes TC, Aued AW, Cândido DV, de Oliveira JC,
Nunes LT, Fontoura L, Sissini MN, Teschima MM, Silva MB, Ramlov F, Gouvea LP, Ferreira
CEL, Segal B, Horta PA, Floeter SR. 2015. Between-habitat variation of benthic cover, reef
fish assemblage and feeding pressure on the benthos at the only atoll in South Atlantic:
Rocas Atoll, NE Brazil. PLoS ONE 10(6): e0127176. PDF | Press release (português / english)

Mendes TC, Mazzei RCB, Correal GO, Ferreira. 2011. A new possible case of mimicry
between two Brazilian endemic reef fishes. Marine Biodiversity Records, 4: e29. PDF

Mendes TC, Villaça RC, Ferreira CEL. 2009. Diet and trophic plasticity of an herbivorous
blenny Scartella cristata of subtropical rocky shores. Journal of Fish Biology, 75:1816–1830.
PDF

Vasconcelos MA, Mendes TC, Fortes WLS, Pereira RC. 2009. Feeding and decoration
preferences of the Epialtidae crab Acanthonyx scutiformis. Brazilian Journal of
Oceanography, 57: 137–143. PDF

Book Chapter
Mendes TC, Cardozo-Ferreira GC & Ferreira CEL. 2023. Kyphosidae. In: Floeter SR, Krajewski JP,
Fiuza TMJ, Rocha LA, Carvalho-Filho A (Org.). Peixes Recifais Brasileiros. 1ed. Curitiba: CRV. pp.
207–209.

Ferreira CEL, Hachich NF, Pinheiro HT, Quimbayo JP, Luiz OJ, Mendes TC. 2020. Iilhas oceânicas.
In: Pereira RC, Soares-Filho A (Org.). Ecologia Marinha. 1ed. Rio de Janeiro: Interciência. pp.
337–368.

Quimbayo JP, Mendes TC, Cordeiro CAMM, Longo GO, Giglio VJ, Vergara D, Floeter SR, Villaça RC,
Freire AS, Francini-Filho RB, Ferreira CEL. 2018. Variação temporal das comunidades recifais no
Arquipélago de São Pedro e São Paulo: ações de Projeto de Monitoramento de Longa Duração
(PELD). In: Oliveira JEL, Viana DL, Souza MAC (Org.). Arquipélago de São Pedro e São Paulo: 20
anos de pesquisa. 1ed. Natal: Via Design Publicações. pp. 111–127.

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