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2024 had barely begun when, on 9 January, the BBC<\/a> announced that 2023 was officially the warmest year on record. A new daily global temperature record had been set on more than 200 days last year, according to analysis by the BBC of data gathered by the Copernicus Climate Change Service.<\/p>\n

For Dr Fernando Rafael De Grande, like many other environmental scientists, this confirmation came as no surprise. Fernando has been studying the impact of warming temperature on Brazil\u2019s delicate mangrove coastline for some time, but he spent 2023 working in Edinburgh with scientists from the Centre for Conservation and Restoration Science (CCRS)<\/a> at Edinburgh Napier University.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Centre is led by Professor Karen Diele at Edinburgh Napier, who also works and publishes on Brazil\u2019s mangrove environment, so I have been familiar with her work for some time,\u2019 explains Fernando, who studied his initial degree at S\u00e3o Paulo State University and is now a post-doc Research Fellow at the\u00a0 Institute of Marine Science, Federal University of S\u00e3o Paulo (IMar\/UNIFESP), Santos, Universidade Federal de S\u00e3o Paulo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2018I was keen to expand my research, to take a more global approach \u2013 and wanted to improve my English \u2013 so I applied to the Brazilian government to sponsor an opportunity to work with Professor Diele here in Scotland.\u2019 Edinburgh Napier\u2019s international reputation for mangrove research was essential to satisfy the funding conditions set by the Brazilian government, which agreed to sponsor his fellowship.<\/p>\n

For the past year, Fernando\u2019s research at Napier has focussed on producing a meta-analysis and systematic literature review, to assess where and how much warmer temperatures will likely impact mangrove fauna production around the globe.<\/p>\n

\u2018It is difficult to test the impact of temperature increase in the field\u2019, he explains, \u2018so I have collated published results from lab experiments from around the world, including many different species, and have found that, yes, increasing temperatures due to climate change can negatively affect mangrove fauna, which in turn could impact the mangrove forests themselves, given the animals\u2019 important ecological roles. Many animal species included in our study grow and reproduce less under increased temperatures. This impact is expected to become particularly acute in the Indo-Pacific and western Pacific. I am now looking forward to soon submit the results of our work to a scientific journal for publication, together with Karen and my Brazilian supervisors.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on his 12 months in Edinburgh, just before his return to Brazil on 13 January, Fernando said: \u2018Karen\u2019s team in the Centre have an international reputation for their work, and she has published globally significant research in many papers, so I have benefited directly from that [expertise]. Napier also has a good research infrastructure, nice labs and equipment for marine research, and I have been equally impressed by the other science labs at the university.<\/p>\n

\u2018CCRS works as an interdisciplinary group, and that has been a totally new and very good experience for me. I have learned how to work in this type of research environment, with colleagues from diverse disciplines, doing and publishing valuable research together. Other Marine Biology students off Karen work in Scotland, and I have been able to interact with them and discuss our areas of individual research, and that too has been very interesting and productive.<\/p>\n

\u2018My time here has also much improved my English, as I\u2019d hoped. As an academic, I can read and write in English, but living here has greatly helped my conversational English.<\/p>\n

\u2018For people from the tropics, like me, Scotland is very different and has a very beautiful landscape. I have loved Scotland, and the people in Edinburgh have been very friendly. It\u2019s a beautiful city with wonderful architecture and the culture here is amazing. There are good free museums, and of course the castle at the centre of the city! It is very different from San Paulo.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019ve also travelled around Scotland during my time here, to Fort William, Glasgow, Inverness, and St Andrews. Maybe now this is my favourite country in the world!<\/p>\n

Although now returning to continue his postdoctoral research Fellowship in S\u00e3o Paulo, Fernando will continue to collaborate with CCRS into the future. He has already been invited to work on and co-author two papers with Karen and colleagues from the Centre and says \u2018We already started to plan some exciting new joint research work here in Brazil also, and field work for this will already kick off in a few weeks.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018I am optimistic that I can apply our research when I return to Brazil, to improve mangrove management and conservation in this region of the world. Our research is relevant not only for Brazil, but also for other countries with mangrove environments.\u2019<\/p>\n

frdegrande@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Funding was provided by a FAPESP research grant No. 2022\/12556-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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