We are interested in marine ecological and evolutionary processes in the tropics and their implications in the context of global change, management and conservation. Such processes include for example dispersal, adaptation, speciation and adaptive radiation. We work mostly on reef fishes, but are keen to also consider other marine organisms. Our main tool is population genomics, which we often complement with other approaches such as behavior or theory. Recent and ongoing projects in the lab are as varied as the genomic bases of speciation and adaptive radiation, dispersal in the context of artisanal fisheries and marine protected areas, the analysis of color pattern in reef fishes, animal personality, mimicry or the evolution of egg trading in simultaneous hermaphrodites. We have strong links with the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) at the University of Oldenburg (https://uol.de/en/icbm), where my professorship is based, as well as with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama (https://stri.si.edu/) where I am a Research Associate. See our lab webpage (http://www.puebla-lab.org/) for details, updates and news.
WG Members
- Group Leader
Prof. Dr. Oscar Puebla - Scientists
Dr. Martin Helmkampf, Dr. Melanie Heckwolf - Doctoral Candidates
Floriane Coulmance, Estradivari, Sabrin Abdelghany, Cretus Joseph Mtonga, Serra Örey - M.Sc. Students
Kirsti Burnett, Phuong Dung Doan, Nina Rebecca Tombers, Finn Opätz - Alumni
Kosmas Hench, Syrmalenia Kotronaki
Research Projects
News / Current
News Archive
- Research in short: Co-designing Science
- OECMs: new instrument for the protection of biodiversity
- Origin of rapid species diversification in coral reefs
- Top marks for Bremen institute: Successful evaluation of the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)
- Oscar Puebla appointed Professor of Fish Ecology
Events
Other Events
Publications
- Mahajan, S., Estradivari, Ojwang, L., Ahmadia, G. (2022, online first). The good, the bad, and the ugly: reflections on co-designing science for impact between the Global South and Global North. ICES Journal of Marine Science, DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsac115.
- Estradivari, Agung, M.F., Adhuri, D.S., Ferse, S.C.A., Sualia, I., Andradi-Brown, D.A., Campbell, S.J., Iqbal, M., Jonas, H.D., Lazuardi, M.E., Nanlohy, H., Pakiding, F., Pusparini, N.K.S., Ramadhana, H.C., Ruchimat, T., Santiadji, I.W.V., Timisela, N.R., Veverka, L., Ahmadia, G.N. (2022). Marine conservation beyond MPAs: Towards the recognition of other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) in Indonesia. Marine Policy 137, pp. 104939. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104939. OPEN ACCESS
- Estradivari, Andradi-Brown, D.A., Amkieltiela, H., Christian N., Sjahruddin, F.F., Agung, M.F., Campbell, S.J., Claborn, K., De Nardo, M., Fox, H.E., Glew, L., Hakim, A., Lazuardi, M.E., Nanlohy, H., Sanjaya, W., Setyawan, E., Timisela, N.R., Veverka, L., Wiwardhana, N.W., Welly, M., Zainudin, I.M., Ahmadia, G.N. (2022). Marine conservation in the Sunda Banda Seascape, Indonesia. Marine Policy 138, pp. 104994. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2022.104994.
- Hench, K., Helmkampf, M., McMillan, O.W., Puebla, O. (2022). Rapid radiation in a highly diverse marine environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119(4), pp. e2020457119. OPEN ACCESS
- Puebla, O., Coulmance-Gayrard, F., Estapé, C.J., Estapé Morgan, A., Robertson, D.R. (2022). A review of 263 years of taxonomic research on Hypoplectrus (Perciformes: Serranidae), with a redescription of Hypoplectrus affinis (Poey, 1861). Zootaxa(2), pp. 101-141. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5093.2.1. OPEN ACCESS
- Amkieltiela, C.N.H., Andradi-Brown, D.A., Estradivari, Ford, A.K., Beger, M., Hakim, A., Muenzel, D.K., Carter, E., Agung, F., Veverka, L., Iqbal, M., Lazuardi, M.E., Fauzi, M.N., Tranter, S.N., Ahmadia, G.N. (2022). The rapid expansion of Indonesia’s marine protected area requires improvement in management effectiveness. Marine Policy 146, pp. 105257. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105257.
- Claudet, J., Ban, N.C., Blythe, J., Briggs, J., Darling, E., Gurney, G.G., Palardy, J.E., Pike, E.P., Agostini, V.N., Ahmadia, G.N., Campbell, S.J., Epstein, G., Estradivari, Gill, D., Himes-Cornell, A., Jonas, H.D., Jupiter, S.D., Mangubhai, S., Morgan, L. (2022). Avoiding the misuse of other effective area-based conservation measures in the wake of the blue economy. One Earth 5(9), pp. 969-974. DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2022.08.010.
- Fidler, R.Y., Ahmadia, G.N., Amkieltiela, Awaludinnoer, Cox, C., Estradivari, Glew, L., Handayani, C., Mahajan, S.L., Mascia, M.B., Pakiding, F., Andradi-Brown, D.A., Campbell, S.J., Claborn, K., De Nardo, M., Fox, H.E., Gill, D., Hidayat, N.I., Jakub, R., Le, Duong T., Purwanto, V.A, Harborne, A.R. (2022). Participation, not penalties: Community involvement and equitable governance contribute to more effective multiuse protected areas. Science Advances 8(18), DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abl8929. OPEN ACCESS
- Tranter, S.N., Estradivari, Ahmadia, G.N., Andradi-Brown, D.A., Muenzel, D., Agung, F., Amkieltiela, Ford, A.K., Habibi, A., Handayani, C.N., Iqbal, M., Krueck, N.C., Lazuardi, M.E., Muawanah, U., Papilaya, R.L., Razak, T.B., Sapari, A., Sjahruddin, F.F., Veverka, L., Yusri, S., Beger, M. (2022). The inclusion of fisheries and tourism in marine protected areas to support conservation in Indonesia. Marine Policy 146, pp. 105301. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105301.
- de Jonge, D.S.W., Merten, V., Bayer, T., Puebla, O., Reusch, T.B.H., Hoving, H.-J.T. (2021). A novel metabarcoding primer pair for environmental DNA analysis of Cephalopoda (Mollusca) targeting the nuclear 18S rRNA region. Royal Society Open Science 8(2), pp. 1-16. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.201388. OPEN ACCESS
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