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Marina Manca is affiliated with the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR in Italy. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on the subfields of Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics covered in their work include Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity, and the impact of Toxic Organic Pollutants.

The scientist has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Causal networks of phytoplankton diversity and biomass are modulated by environmental context, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Climate warming restructures an aquatic food web over 28 years, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Ten Rules for the Management of Moderate and Severe Traumatic Brain Injury During Pregnancy: An Expert Viewpoint, 2022, Frontiers in Neurology
  • Seasonal and plurennial changes of POPs repository in freshwater zooplankton: A 10-year study in the large deep subalpine Lake Maggiore (Italy), 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Metabarcoding to monitor the crustacean zooplankton of a lake improves when using a reference DNA library from local samples, 2023, Journal of Limnology

Marina Manca frequently publishes in journals such as Water, Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Limnology, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Roberta Piscia
  • Rossana Caroni
  • Roberta Bettinetti
  • Ginevra Boldrocchi
  • Michela Rogora

Best Publications

  • Lake responses to reduced nutrient loading - an analysis of contemporary long-term data from 35 case studies

    Erik Jeppesen;Martin Søndergaard;Jens Peder Jensen;Karl E. Havens

  • Assembly mechanisms determining high species turnover in aquatic communities over regional and continental scales

    Duarte S. Viana;Jordi Figuerola;K. Schwenk;M. Manca

  • Ecological thresholds in European alpine lakes

    Jordi Catalan;M. Grazia Barbieri;Frederic Bartumeus;Peter Bitušík

  • Factors influencing species richness in lacustrine zooplankton

    Anders Hobæk;Marina Manca;Tom Andersen

  • Cladocera: Predators and prey

    R. de Bernardi;G. Giussani;M. Manca

  • Climate change and the future of freshwater biodiversity in Europe: a primer for policy-makers

    Brian Moss;Daniel Hering;Andy J. Green;Ahmed Aidoud

  • Major changes in trophic dynamics in large, deep sub-alpine Lake Maggiore from 1940s to 2002: a high resolution comparative palaeo-neolimnological study

    Marina Manca;Barbara Torretta;Patrizia Comoli;Susanne L. Amsinck

  • Invasion genetics of the Eurasian spiny waterflea: evidence for bottlenecks and gene flow using microsatellites

    Robert I. Colautti;Marina Manca;Markku Viljanen;Henk A. M. Ketelaars

  • Organisms' response in a chronically polluted lake supports hypothesized link between stress and size

    Antonella Cattaneo;Alessandra Asioli;Patrizia Comoli;Marina Manca

  • Response of rotifer functional groups to changing trophic state and crustacean community

    Ulrike Obertegger;Marina Manca

  • Spatial, environmental and anthropogenic effects on the taxon composition of hybridizing Daphnia.

    Barbara Keller;Justyna Wolinska;Marina Manca;Piet Spaak

  • Consequences of pelagic food‐web changes during a long‐term lake oligotrophication process

    M. Manca;D. Ruggiu

  • Causal networks of phytoplankton diversity and biomass are modulated by environmental context

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  • Eutrophication-like response to climate warming: an analysis of Lago Maggiore (N. Italy) zooplankton in contrasting years

    Anna Visconti;Marina Manca;Riccardo De Bernardi

  • Phytoplankton and zooplankton associations in a set of Alpine high altitude lakes: geographic distribution and ecology

    M. Tolotti;M. Manca;N. Angeli;G. Morabito

  • Records of environmental and climatic changes during the late Holocene from Svalbard: palaeolimnology of Kongressvatnet

    Piero Guilizzoni;Aldo Marchetto;Andrea Lami;Achim Brauer

  • Reticulate evolution of the Daphnia pulex complex as revealed by nuclear markers.

    Roland Vergilino;Silvia Markova;Silvia Markova;Marc Ventura;Marc Ventura;Marina Manca

  • Response of the Invertebrate Predator Bythotrephes to a Climate-Linked Increase in the Duration of a Refuge from Fish Predation

    Marina Manca;William R. DeMott

  • Ecological effects of multiple stressors on a deep lake (Lago Maggiore, Italy) integrating neo and palaeolimnological approaches

    Piero Guilizzoni;Suzanne N. Levine;Marina Manca;Aldo Marchetto

  • Shifts in phenology of Bythotrephes longimanus and its modern success in Lake Maggiore as a result of changes in climate and trophy

    Marina M. Manca;Magda Portogallo;Meghan E. Brown

  • Biomass estimates of freshwater zooplankton from length-carbon regression equations

    Marina Manca;Patrizia Comoli

  • High-resolution paleolimnology opens new management perspectives for lakes adaptation to climate warming

    Marie-Elodie Perga;Victor Frossard;Jean-Philippe Jenny;Benjamin Alric

  • The decline of

    Marina Manca;Claudio Ramoni;Patrizia Comoli

Frequent Co-Authors

Aldo Marchetto
Aldo Marchetto National Research Council (CNR)
Andrea Lami
Andrea Lami National Research Council (CNR)
Nico Salmaso
Nico Salmaso Fondazione Edmund Mach
Diego Fontaneto
Diego Fontaneto Water Research Institute
Alberto Basset
Alberto Basset University of Salento
Piet Spaak
Piet Spaak Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Erik Jeppesen
Erik Jeppesen Aarhus University
Norman D. Yan
Norman D. Yan York University
Vivienne J. Jones
Vivienne J. Jones University College London

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