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Diana M. P. Galassi

Diana M. P. Galassi

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
37
Citations
5156
World Ranking
6906
National Ranking
141

Overview

Diana M. P. Galassi is affiliated with the University of L'Aquila in Italy, with a research focus covering Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including Ecology, Paleontology, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's research centers on various topics such as subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy, marine biology and ecology research, aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior, freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, karst systems and hydrogeology, and aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics.

Among recent publications authored or coauthored by Diana M. P. Galassi are:

  • Characteristics, Main Impacts, and Stewardship of Natural and Artificial Freshwater Environments: Consequences for Biodiversity Conservation (2020, Water)
  • Towards evidence-based conservation of subterranean ecosystems (2022, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society)
  • Groundwater is a hidden global keystone ecosystem (2023, Global Change Biology)
  • Don't forget subterranean ecosystems in climate change agendas (2021, Nature Climate Change)
  • A conservation roadmap for the subterranean biome (2021, Conservation Letters)

Diana M. P. Galassi collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Barbara Fiasca
  • Mattia Di Cicco
  • Tiziana Di Lorenzo
  • Agostina Tabilio Di Camillo

Their work is often published in journals such as Water, Scientific Reports, The Science of The Total Environment, Science, and Ecological Indicators, with a notable number of contributions in each.

Best Publications

  • Characteristics, main impacts, and stewardship of natural and artificial freshwater environments: consequences for biodiversity conservation

    Marco Cantonati;Sandra Poikane;Catherine M. Pringle;Lawrence E. Stevens

  • The biology and ecology of lotic microcrustaceans

    M. ‐J. Dole‐Olivier;D. M. P. Galassi;P. Marmonier;M. Creuzé Des Châtelliers

  • Scientists' Warning on the Conservation of Subterranean Ecosystems

    Stefano Mammola;Pedro Cardoso;David C Culver;Louis Deharveng

  • Diversity, ecology and evolution of groundwater copepods

    Diana M. P. Galassi;Rony Huys;Janet W. Reid

  • Groundwater biodiversity in Europe.

    L. Deharveng;F. Stoch;J. Gibert;A. Bedos

  • Geographic variation in range size and beta diversity of groundwater crustaceans: insights from habitats with low thermal seasonality

    M. Zagmajster;David Eme;Cene Fiser;Diana M.P. Galassi

  • Groundwater copepods: diversity patterns over ecological and evolutionary scales

    Diana M. P. Galassi

  • Stygobiotic crustacean species richness: a question of numbers, a matter of scale

    Fabio Stoch;Diana M. P. Galassi

  • Groundwater copepods: diversity patterns over ecological and evolutionary scales

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  • Towards an optimal sampling strategy to assess groundwater biodiversity: comparison across six European regions

    M.‐J. Dole‐Olivier;F. Castellarini;N. Coineau;D. M. P. Galassi

  • Longitudinal patterns of invertebrates in the hyporheic zone of a glacial river

    F. Malard;D. Galassi;M. Lafont;Sylvain Dolédec

  • Groundwater biodiversity patterns in the Lessinian Massif of northern Italy

    Diana M. P. Galassi;Fabio Stoch;Barbara Fiasca;Tiziana Di Lorenzo

  • Earthquakes trigger the loss of groundwater biodiversity

    Diana M. P. Galassi;Paola Lombardo;Barbara Fiasca;Alessia Di Cioccio

  • Don't forget subterranean ecosystems in climate change agendas

    David Sánchez-Fernández;Diana M. P. Galassi;J. Judson Wynne;Pedro Cardoso

  • Island biogeography of insect conservation in urban green spaces

    Simone Fattorini;Cristina Mantoni;Livia De Simoni;Diana M.P. Galassi

  • Recommendations for ecotoxicity testing with stygobiotic species in the framework of groundwater environmental risk assessment

    Tiziana Di Lorenzo;Walter Dario Di Marzio;Barbara Fiasca;Diana Maria Paola Galassi

  • A conservation roadmap for the subterranean biome

    J. Judson Wynne;Francis G. Howarth;Stefano Mammola;Stefano Mammola;Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira

  • Biodiversity indicators in European ground waters: towards a predictive model of stygobiotic species richness

    Fabio Stoch;Malvina Artheau;Anton Brancelj;Diana M. P. Galassi

  • Invertebrate traits, diversity and the vulnerability of groundwater ecosystems

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  • Towards a revision of the genus Parastenocaris Kessler, 1913: establishment of Simplicaris gen. nov. from groundwaters in central Italy and review of the P. brevipes‐group (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Parastenocarididae)

    Diana M. P. Galassi;Paola De Laurentiis

  • Sensitivity of hypogean and epigean freshwater copepods to agricultural pollutants.

    T. Di Lorenzo;W. D. Di Marzio;M. E. Sáenz;M. Baratti

  • Multi-causality and spatial non-stationarity in the determinants of groundwater crustacean diversity in Europe

    David Eme;Maja Zagmajster;Cene Fiser;Diana M.P. Galassi

Frequent Co-Authors

Simone Fattorini
Simone Fattorini University of L'Aquila
Pierre Marmonier
Pierre Marmonier Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Marco Petitta
Marco Petitta Sapienza University of Rome
Stefano Mammola
Stefano Mammola National Research Council (CNR)
Florian Malard
Florian Malard Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Cene Fišer
Cene Fišer University of Ljubljana
Louis Deharveng
Louis Deharveng French National Museum of Natural History
Anton Brancelj
Anton Brancelj University of Ljubljana
Stefano Cannicci
Stefano Cannicci University of Hong Kong
Ettore Randi
Ettore Randi Aalborg University

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