Editorial Board for section 'Marine Diversity'

Please see the section webpage for more information on this section.

Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

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Department of Ocean Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
Interests: marine plankton ecology; microbial food web dynamics; biodiversity; global change biology

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1. Department of Biological, Chemical, and Pharmaceutical Science and Technology (STEBICEF), University of Palermo, 90123 Palermo, Italy
2. Museum of Zoology “P. Doderlein”, SIMUA, University of Palermo, 90123 Palermo, Italy
Interests: Mediterranean marine biology; marine biodiversity; population genetics; barcoding; systematics and taxonomy of Amphipoda; non-indigenous species
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Department of Physical Sciences, Earth and Environment, University of Siena, via P. A. Mattioli 4, 53100 Siena, Italy
Interests: ecotoxicology; marine mammals; marine turtles; elasmobranches; sea birds; fishery interaction; organochlorine contamination; biomarkers; cell cultures; predictive theoretical statistical models
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Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Miami, FL 33149, USA
Interests: marine biology; coral reefs; molecular biotechnology
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CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere, Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre, University of Western Australia, M097, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
Interests: fisheries science; marine biology; marine ecology; coastal systems; freshwater ecosystems

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1. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (DISAT), University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza Della Scienza, 20126 Milan, Italy
2. MaRHE Center (Marine Research and High Education Center), Magoodhoo Island, Faafu Atoll 12030, Maldives
Interests: coral diseases; coral reef ecology; coral restoration; biodiversity; symbiosis; hydrozoans taxonomy
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Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Genoa, 16132 Genoa, Italy
Interests: seagrass meadows; rocky reefs; coral reefs; marine caves; seafloor ecological status; climate change; marine biodiversity
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Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
Interests: ctenophores; cnidarians (primarily anthozoa); salps; gelatinous plankton; morphological variation; marine and aquatic host/microbe interactions; catfish microbial (and pathological) associations

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Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), Oceanographic Centre of the Balearics (COB), Ecosystem Oceanography Group (GRECO), Moll de Ponent s/n, 07015 Palma, Spain
Interests: deep-sea benthic communities; cold-water corals; deep-sea ecosystems

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Department of Aquatic Resources,Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Almas Allé 8, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
Interests: adaptations; aquatic ecology; dispersal; disturbances; fish; food web; metacommunities; plankton

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Department of Life Science, Marine and Environmental Research Centre, University of Coimbra, 3004-531 Coimbra, Portugal
Interests: seabird ecology; trophic ecology of marine predators; food-web interactions; spatial ecology; habitat modelling; human impacts; heavy metals and plastic pollution; climate change; marine conservation
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Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologicheed Ambientali, Università del Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Interests: marine invertebrate zoology and developmental biology; cnidarian zoology and evolutionary developmental biology; integrative taxonomy; systematics; ecology; trophic ecology; genetic connectivity; marine bioinvasions; metagenomics; reverse development; cell transdifferentiation; organogenesis; bioactive compounds; biotechnological applications
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MISE (Molecular Invertebrate Systematics and Ecology) Laboratory, Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Marine Science, Faculty of Science, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan
Interests: marine biodiversity; Zoantharia; coral reefs; Anthozoa; coastal development; symbioses; taxonomy; eDNA
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School of Geography and Geology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S-4M1, Canada
Interests: land-based pollution on coral reefs; animal-sediment research; coral reef health, impacts and recovery; research on mangroves, seagrass beds, softbottom communities, oil spill impacts, impacts of sewage and industrial discharge, and fish habitat/coral reef ecology

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0202, USA
Interests: metazoa phylogeny; biodiversity and taxonomy; annelids; echinoderms; hydrothermal vents; methane seeps

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Laboratorio de Biología Molecular Marina (BIOMMAR), Department of Biological Sciences, Universidad de los Andes, Cl. 22 #119 a 1-99, Bogotá, Colombia
Interests: marine biodiversity; molecular ecology; phylosymbiosis; octocorals; coral reefs

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Department of Science and Technology, “Parthenope” University of Naples, 80143 Naples, Italy
Interests: marine meiofauna; bioconstructions; marine pollution; invasive species; marine biodiversity; marine protected areas
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Associazione Italiana per lo Studio della Biodiversità, Grosseto, Italy
Interests: marine biodiversity; phylogenetics; paleobiology; biogeography; extinction; speciation; macroevolution

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Graduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan
Interests: larval ecology of benthic marine invertebrates; settlement cues; bivalve aquaculture; microbial biofilms; biofouling

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The Animal Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, 90 Sippy Downs Dr, Sippy Downs, QLD 4556, Australia
Interests: sandy beaches; coastal ecology; conservation & management; human-wildlife interactions; food webs
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Department of Earth, Environment and Life Sciences, University of Genoa, 16132 Genova, Italy
Interests: biodiversity; zoology; marine ecology; polar sciences
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Istituto di Scienze Marine Bologna (ISMAR), CNR, Via Gobetti 101, I-40129 Bologna, Italy
Interests: deep-sea corals; marine molluscs; carbonate sedimentology; marine geology; extreme environments; paleoecology; cold seeps; biological invasion; quaternary geology

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Ecology and Restoration of Riverine, Estuarine and Coastal Habitats (EcoReach), Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR), University of Algarve (UAlg), 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
Interests: zooplankton ecology; conservation of aquatic habitats; fish larvae physiology and behavior; impacts of global change on marine biodiversity: ocean acidification; jellification; microplastics
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Department of Biology (Group of Biodiversity & Conservation), University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Interests: marine ecology; climate change impacts; local impacts; phanerogam meadows; coastal ecosystems
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Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117997 Moscow, Russia
Interests: biodiversity; Decapoda; deep-sea plankton; pelagic fauna

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Department of Biology, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cadiz, Campus of International Excellence of the Sea (CEIMAR), 11510 Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain
Interests: seagrass; macroalgae; primary production; ecophysiology; photosynthesis; nutrient uptake; eutrophication; benthic ecology; integrated aquaculture seaweed and seagrass ecology

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Department of Biology and Earth Sciences, Université de Caen Normandie, 14032 Caen, France
Interests: marine and brackish phytoplankton; ex-situ culture

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1. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 2333 CR Leiden, The Netherlands
2. Environmental Biology Department, Institute of Environmental Sciences, CML, Leiden University, 2333 CC Leiden, The Netherlands
Interests: marine biodiversity; taxonomy; symbioses; sponges; coral reef; marine biogeography; population genetics; sponge-associated prokaryote; chemical ecology

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Centre of Molecular Biodiversity, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, 53113 Bonn, Germany
Interests: marine heterobranchia; evolution; life style strategies; biodiversity; molecular and morphological phylogenetics
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