Mattia Ghilardi

Mattia Ghilardi

Mattia Ghilardi

Doctoral Candidate

Department: Ecology
Working Groups: WG Reef Systems

Phone: +49 (0)421 23800 - 0

Fax: +49 (0)421 23800 - 30

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Office: Fahrenheitstr. 6 (Annexe)
28359 Bremen
Room: 2006 (ground floor)

Research interests

- Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
- Fish ecology and evolution
- Fish contribution to biogeochemical cycles
- Macroecology of reef fishes
- Biodiversity responses to environmental changes
- Vulnerability of ecosystem functions
- Software development for ecological research

Research projects

REEF FUTURES

Publications

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Peer-reviewed papers

  1. Ghilardi, M., Salter, M. A., Parravicini, V., Ferse, S. C. A., Rixen, T., Wild, C., Birkicht, M., Perry, C. T., Berry, A., Wilson, R. W., Mouillot, D., Bejarano, S. (2023) Temperature, species identity and morphological traits predict carbonate excretion and mineralogy in tropical reef fishes. Nature Communications 14: 985 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36617-7
  2. Casella, E., Lewin, P., Ghilardi, M., Rovere, A., Bejarano, S. (2022) Assessing the relative accuracy of coral heights reconstructed from drones and structure from motion photogrammetry on coral reefs. Coral Reefs 41: 869-875. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-022-02244-9
  3. Bejarano, S., Diemel, D., Feuring, A., Ghilardi, M., Harder, T. (2022) No short‑term effect of sinking microplastics on heterotrophy or sediment clearing in the tropical coral Stylophora pistillata. Scientific reports 12:1468. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05420-7
  4. Ghilardi, M., Schiettekatte, N. M. D., Casey, J. M., Brandl, S. J., Degregori, S., Mercière, A., Morat, F., Letourneur, Y., Bejarano, S., Parravicini, V. (2021) Phylogeny, body morphology, and trophic level shape intestinal traits in coral reef fishes. Ecology and Evolution 11(19): 13218-13231. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8045
  5. Ghilardi, M. (2019) Velella velella (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) in the Bay of Ranobe, south-west Madagascar. Plankton and Benthos Research 14(3): 206-209. https://doi.org/10.3800/pbr.14.206

Software

  1. Ghilardi, M. (2022) MorFishJ: A software package for fish traditional morphometrics (v0.2.1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6969274
  2. Ghilardi, M. (2021) CryptoTraits (v1.0.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5166934

Data and code

  1. Ghilardi, M., Salter, M. A., Parravicini, V., Ferse, S. C. A., Rixen, T., Wild, C., Birkicht, M., Perry, C. T., Berry, A., Wilson, R. W., Mouillot, D., Bejarano, S. (2023) Data and code from: Temperature, species identity and morphological traits predict carbonate excretion and mineralogy in tropical reef fishes. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7530092
  2. Ghilardi, M., Schiettekatte, N. M. D., Casey, J. M., Brandl, S. J., Degregori, S., Mercière, A., Morat, F., Letourneur, Y., Bejarano, S., Parravicini, V. (2021) Data and code of accepted version of manuscript: Phylogeny, body morphology, and trophic level shape intestinal traits in coral reef fishes (Ecology and Evolution). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5172790

Manuals

  1. Meyer, A., Volanandiana, A., Mtonga, C. J., Benjamen, D., Karan, D., Tovela, E., Mahudi, H., Baxter, J., Kipyegon, J. K., Oduor, K., Otwoma, L., Farah, L. I., Kambikambi, M., Ghilardi, M., Nyawo, M., Mrombo, N., Puebla, O., Mgleka, S., Amponsah, S., Oladipo, S. O., Bejarano, S., Wacira, T., Fanoro, T., Silali, V. (2023) Lab protocols for Fish Barcoding. https://doi.org/10.21244/zmt.2023.002

  2. Ghilardi, M. (2022) The MorFishJ user manual. https://mattiaghilardi.github.io/MorFishJ_manual/