Postdoc (UB)
Stefano Ambroso is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut de Ciències del Mar of Barcelona.
His main current research, especially focusing on gorgonians distribution pattern, their abundances, population structure, energetic state, reproductive and taxonomy. He is also focusing on conservation and ecological restoration of marine ecosystems, mainly dominated by gorgonians species.
His research was supported by a Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral fellowship granted by the UB and he was advised by Dr. Andrea GORI (UB) and Dr. Cristina Linares (UB).
He obtained his PhD in 2021 at UB/UPC under the supervision of Josep Maria Gili and Nuria Teixidó Ullod. During his thesis, he studied the structure and dynamics of the Antarctic macrobenthic communities dominated by long-lived species of the Weddell Sea.
Stefano is currently working at the framework of the CABALGA project, financed by Fundación Biodiversidad with the goal of restoring gorgonians populations and Posidonia oceanica along the Balearic and Galician coast, with the active collaboration of fishing industry stakeholders.
Selected articles:
- Ambroso S, Salazar J, Zapata-Guardiola R, Federwisch L, Richter C, Gili JM, Teixidó N (2017) Pristine populations of habitat-forming gorgonian species on the Antarctic continental shelf. Scientific reports, 7(1): 12251.
- Ambroso S, Böhmer A, López-González P, Teixidó N (2016) Ophiuroid biodiversity patterns along the Antarctic Peninsula. Polar Biology 39(5): 881-895.
- Ambroso S, Gori A, Dominguez-Carrió C, Gili JM, Berganzo E, Teixidó N, Greenacre M, Rossi S (2013) Spatial distribution patterns of the soft corals Alcyonium acaule and Alcyonium palmatum in coastal bottoms (Cap de Creus, northwestern Mediterranean Sea). Marine Biology 160(12): 3059-3070.
- Ambroso S, Dominguez-Carrió C, Grinyó J, López-González PJ, Gili JM, Purroy A, Requena S, Madurell T (2013) In situ observations on withdrawal behaviour of the sea pen Virgularia mirabilis. Marine Biodiversity 43(4): 257-258.
Contact: ambroso@icm.csic.es
Twitter: @StefanoAmbroso