Researcher
Integrative Marine Ecology Department

Tel.: +39 081 5833212
Fax: +39 081 7641355
E-mail: marco.uttieri(at)szn.it
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Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

My research interests focus on different aspects of the biology and ecology of zooplanktonic organisms from both marine and freshwater environments, in particular on copepods and cladocerans. To address this goal, I resort to different tools, building an integrated, multidisciplinary approach including:
- analysis of the swimming behaviour of zooplanktonic organisms recorded in microcosms;
- implementation of Individual Based Models simulating ideal and realistic swimming trajectories described by zooplanktonic organisms;
- evaluation of the ecological significance (from the individual to the community level) of behavioural adaptations.

In addition, my research interests also include the study of the surface circulation and wave motion through high frequency (HF) coastal radars, in situ and remote sensing tools, and numerical models.

Selected Publications

Svetlichny L, Hubareva E, Uttieri M (2021) Ecophysiological and behavioural responses to salinity and temperature stress in cyclopoid copepod Oithona davisae with comments on gender differences. Mediterranean Marine Science, 22: 89-101, doi: 10.12681/mms.22496

Uttieri M, Aguzzi L, Aiese Cigliano R, Amato A, Bojanić N, Brunetta M, Camatti E, Carotenuto Y, Damjanović T, Delpy F, de Olazabal A, Di Capua I, Falcão J, Fernandez de Puelles ML, Foti G, Garbazey O, Goruppi A, Gubanova A, Hubareva E, Iriarte A, Khanaychenko A, Lučić D, Marques SC, Mazzocchi MG, Mikuš J, Minutoli R, Pagano M, Pansera M, Percopo I, Primo AL, Svetlichny L, Rožić S, Tirelli V, Uriarte I, Vidjak O, Villate F, Wootton M, Zagami G, Zervoudaki S (2020) WGEUROBUS – Working Group “Towards a EURopean OBservatory of the non-indigenous calanoid copepod Pseudodiaptomus marinUS”. Biological Invasions, 22: 885-906, doi: 10.1007/s10530-019-02174-8

Ludeno G, Uttieri M (2020) Editorial for Special Issue “Radar technology for coastal areas and open sea monitoring”. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 8: 560, doi: 10.3390/jmse8080560

Uttieri M, Nihongi A, Hinow P, Motschman J, Jiang H, Alcaraz M, Strickler JR (2019) Copepod manipulation of oil droplet size distribution. Scientific Reports, 9: 547, doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-37020-9

Svetlichny L, Hubareva E, Khanaychenko A, Uttieri M (2019) Response to salinity and temperature changes in the alien Asian copepod Pseudodiaptomus marinus introduced in the Black Sea. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, 331: 416-426, doi: 10.1002/jez.2309

Uttieri M (ed) (2018) Trends in Copepod Studies - Distribution, Biology and Ecology. Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York

Cianelli D, D'Alelio D, Uttieri M, Sarno D, Zingone A, Zambianchi E, Ribera d’Alcalà M (2017) Disentangling physical and biological drivers of phytoplankton dynamics in a coastal system. Scientific Reports, 7: 15868, doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-15880-x

Sabia L, Zagami G, Mazzocchi MG, Zambianchi E, Uttieri M (2015) Spreading factors of a globally invading coastal copepod. Mediterranean Marine Science, 16: 460-471, doi: 10.12681/mms.1154

Uttieri M, Paffenhöfer G-A, Mazzocchi MG (2008) Prey capture in Clausocalanus furcatus (Copepoda: Calanoida). The role of swimming behaviour. Marine Biology, 153: 925-935, doi: 10.1007/s00227-007-0864-0

Uttieri M, Zambianchi E, Strickler JR, Mazzocchi MG (2005) Fractal characterization of three-dimensional zooplankton swimming trajectories. Ecological Modelling, 185: 51-63, doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2004.11.015