https://oceanexpert.org/expert/14050

ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3487-6129
ResearcherID : C-9416-2013

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Biological Oceanography, Marine Ecology

My research focus is on the Ocean, with focus on the deep sea, but I also work on shallow ecosystems. I am especially interested in biodiversity patterns and how biodiversity interacts with the environment today and in the past (in ecological and geological time scales). I study a special group of crustaceans, the Ostracoda, which occur in virtually all aquatic ecosystems and a in very humid tropical forest niches. Even more importantly, ostracods have an extensive fossil record since the Ordovician (+400 million years), due to their small-sized calcified carapace (mostly 0.2 to 1.00mm). Both the ecological diversity and the extensive fossil record make this group very interesting for investigation on biodiversity.

I have worked with virtually all oceans, but with focus on the Southern Ocean (from 2004 to 2009) and Southwestern Atlantic (2009 to present). However, I am developing projects on several other regions, like the Indian Ocean (last 1.5 million years), on the Sub-polar Atlantic-Artic (Recent) and the Northeastern Atlantic (last 800,000 years). Concerning the study of past biodiversity patterns, my focus is on the Holocene and Late Cenozoic, where I try to understand how the biodiversity pattern have been changing and how these changes can be related to environmental and climatic conditions.

I also enjoy taxonomy and systematics of Ostracoda, and use classic morphology, DNA, morphometrics and whatever interesting character I may find.

Arctic Ocean
North Atlantic Ocean
South Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
South Pacific Ocean
Southern Ocean

Deep Sea Biology and Micropalaeontology. Deep-sea Biogeography and Macroecology. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction through microfossils. Systematics (molecular and morphological) of Ostracoda. Biogeography of Ostracoda

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