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Piero Calosi is affiliated with the Université du Québec à Rimouski in Canada. Their research spans several fields within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, focusing on marine and environmental dynamics.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Calosi's work encompasses several subfields of study such as:

  • Oceanography
  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Ecological Modeling

The principal topics addressed in their research include:

  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Crustacean biology and ecology

Calosi has contributed multiple recent papers to the scientific community, including:

  • The evolution of critical thermal limits of life on Earth, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Exoskeleton dissolution with mechanoreceptor damage in larval Dungeness crab related to severity of present-day ocean acidification vertical gradients, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Synthesis of Thresholds of Ocean Acidification Impacts on Decapods, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Synthesis of Thresholds of Ocean Acidification Impacts on Echinoderms, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Temperate species underfill their tropical thermal potentials on land, 2023, Nature Ecology & Evolution

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Calosi include:

  • Fanny Noisette
  • Fanny Vermandele
  • Ella Guscelli
  • John I. Spicer
  • Diana Madeira

The primary publication venues for Calosi's work are:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Scientific Reports
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)

Best Publications

  • Physiological Correlates of Geographic Range in Animals

    Francisco Bozinovic;Piero Calosi;John I. Spicer

  • Evolution in an acidifying ocean

    Jennifer M. Sunday;Jennifer M. Sunday;Piero Calosi;Sam Dupont;Philip L. Munday

  • Thermal tolerance, acclimatory capacity and vulnerability to global climate change

    Piero Calosi;David T Bilton;John I Spicer

  • Macrophysiology: A Conceptual Reunification

    Kevin J. Gaston;Steven L. Chown;Piero Calosi;Joseph Bernardo

  • Oxygen supply in aquatic ectotherms: Partial pressure and solubility together explain biodiversity and size patterns

    Wilco C. E. P. Verberk;David T. Bilton;Piero Calosi;John I. Spicer

  • What determines a species’ geographical range? Thermal biology and latitudinal range size relationships in European diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

    Piero Calosi;David T. Bilton;John I. Spicer;Stephen C. Votier

  • Thermal tolerance patterns across latitude and elevation.

    Jennifer Sunday;Joanne M Bennett;Piero Calosi;Susana Clusella-Trullas

  • The evolution of critical thermal limits of life on Earth

    Joanne M. Bennett;Jennifer Sunday;Piero Calosi;Fabricio Villalobos

  • Predicted levels of future ocean acidification and temperature rise could alter community structure and biodiversity in marine benthic communities

    R. Hale;P. Calosi;L. McNeill;N. Mieszkowska

  • GlobTherm, a global database on thermal tolerances for aquatic and terrestrial organisms

    Joanne M. Bennett;Piero Calosi;Susana Clusella-Trullas;Brezo Martínez

  • Adaptation and acclimatization to ocean acidification in marine ectotherms: an in situ transplant experiment with polychaetes at a shallow CO2 vent system

    Piero Calosi;Samuel P. S. Rastrick;Chiara Lombardi;Heidi J. de Guzman

  • Integrating metabolic performance, thermal tolerance, and plasticity enables for more accurate predictions on species vulnerability to acute and chronic effects of global warming.

    Sarah Magozzi;Sarah Magozzi;Piero Calosi;Piero Calosi

  • Scaling up experimental ocean acidification and warming research: from individuals to the ecosystem

    Ana M. Queirós;José A. Fernandes;Sarah Faulwetter;Joana Nunes

  • Distribution of sea urchins living near shallow water CO2 vents is dependent upon species acid-base and ion-regulatory abilities

    Piero Calosi;S P S Rastrick;M Graziano;M Graziano;S C Thomas

  • Coralline algal structure is more sensitive to rate, rather than the magnitude, of ocean acidification.

    Nicholas A. Kamenos;Heidi L. Burdett;Heidi L. Burdett;Elena Aloisio;Helen S. Findlay

  • Will variation among genetic individuals influence species responses to global climate change

    Jennifer C. A. Pistevos;Piero Calosi;Steve Widdicombe;John D. D. Bishop

  • Dispersal ability rather than ecological tolerance drives differences in range size between lentic and lotic water beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

    Paula Arribas;Josefa Velasco;Pedro Abellán;David Sánchez-Fernández

  • Effects of ocean acidification and elevated temperature on shell plasticity and its energetic basis in an intertidal gastropod

    S. Melatunan;P. Calosi;SD Rundle;S. Widdicombe

  • Scaling of thermal tolerance with body mass and genome size in ectotherms: a comparison between water- and air-breathers.

    Félix P. Leiva;Piero Calosi;Wilco C. E. P. Verberk

  • Impact of medium-term exposure to CO2 enriched seawater on the physiological functions of the velvet swimming crab Necora puber.

    Daniel Small;Piero Calosi;Daniel White;John I. Spicer

  • Synthesis Macrophysiology: A Conceptual Reunification

    Kevin J. Gaston;Steven L. Chown;Piero Calosi;Joseph Bernardo

Frequent Co-Authors

John I. Spicer
John I. Spicer Plymouth University
David T. Bilton
David T. Bilton Plymouth University
Stephen Widdicombe
Stephen Widdicombe Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Wilco C. E. P. Verberk
Wilco C. E. P. Verberk Radboud University
Ana M. Queirós
Ana M. Queirós Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Jennifer M. Sunday
Jennifer M. Sunday McGill University
Simon D. Rundle
Simon D. Rundle Plymouth University
Susana Clusella-Trullas
Susana Clusella-Trullas Stellenbosch University
Maria Cristina Gambi
Maria Cristina Gambi National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics
Jonathon H. Stillman
Jonathon H. Stillman University of California, Berkeley

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