Emanuela Di Martino

Pubblicazioni (peer-review)

1. Liow L.H., Porto A. & Di Martino E. (2024) Trait-fitness associations via fecundity and competition in a two-million-year-long fossil record. The American Naturalist, 204. https://doi.org/10.1086/731332
2. Lürig M.D., Di Martino E. & Porto A. (2024) BioEncoder: a metric learning toolkit for comparative organismal biology. Ecology Letters, 27, e14495. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14495
3. Chowdhury I.A., Di Martino E., Lee H., Windecker C.C. & Craig S. (2024) Diversity and distribution of intertidal Microporella (Bryozoa: Cheilostomatida) From California. European Journal of Taxonomy, 932, 34–68. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2024.932.2509
4. Reitan T., Di Martino E. & Liow L.H. (2024) Estimating relative species abundance using fossil data identified to different taxonomic levels. Ecography, 2024(1), e06866. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06866
5. Di Martino E. (2023) Scanning electron microscopy study of Lars Silén’s cheilostome bryozoan type specimens in the historical collections of natural history museums in Sweden. Zootaxa. 5379, 1–106. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5379.1.1
6. Rosso A. & Di Martino E. (2023) Capturing the moment: a snapshot of the early 2023 Mediterranean bryozoan diversity. Mediterranean Marine Science, 24, 426–445. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.34329
7. Di Martino E., Berning B., Gordon D.P., Kukliński P., Liow, L.H., Ramsfjell M., Ribeiro H.L., Smith A.M., Taylor P.D., Voje K.L., Waeschenbach A. & Porto A. (2023) DeepBryo: a web-app for AI-assisted morphometric characterization of cheilostome bryozoans. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, https://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10563
8. Yasuhara M., Huang H.-H.M., Reuter M., Tian S.Y., Cybulski J.D., O’Dea A., Mamo B.L., Cotton L.J., Di Martino E., Feng R., Tabor C.R., Reygondeau G., Zhao Q., Warne M.T., Aye K.K.T., Zhang J., Chao A., Wei C.-L., Condamine F.L., Kocsis A.T., Kiessling W., Costello M.J., Tittensor D.P., Chaudhary C., Rillo M.C., Doi H., Dong Y., Cronin T.M., Saupe E.E., Lotze H.K., Johnson K.G., Renema W., Pandolfi J.M., Harzhauser M., Jackson J.B.C., Hong Y. (2022) Hotspots of Cenozoic tropical marine biodiversity. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review, 60, 243–300. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003288602-5
9. Di Martino E., Rosso A. & Mandic O. (2022) Systematic revision and scanning electron microscopic study of some critical cheilostome bryozoan species of Arthur Waters from the Pleistocene of Brucoli (Siracusa, Sicily). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, pp. i-xx. https://doi.org/10.4435/BSPI.2022.06
10. Di Martino E. & Liow L.H. (2022) Changing allometric relationships among fossil and Recent populations in two colonial species. Evolution, 76(10): 2424–2435.
11. Ramsfjell M.H., Taylor, P.D. & Di Martino E. (2022) New Early Miocene species of the cheilostome bryozoan Microporella from the South Island of New Zealand. Alcheringa, 46(2): 208–217.
12. Di Martino E. (2022) Revision of the type species of some cheilostome bryozoan genera in the collection of the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Zootaxa, 5125(2), 157–181. https://doi.org/10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5125.2.4
13. Orr R.J.S., Di Martino E.,[...] & Liow, L.H. (2022) Paleozoic origins of cheilostome bryozoans and their parental care inferred by a new genome-skimmed phylogeny. Science Advances, 8(3): 7452. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm7452
14. Subías-Baratau A., Sanchez-Vidal A., Di Martino E. & Figuerola B. (2022) Marine biofouling organisms on beached, buoyant and benthic plastic debris in the Catalan Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 175, 113405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113405
15. Di Martino E. & Rosso A. (2021) Seek and ye shall find: New species and new records of Microporella (Bryozoa, Cheilostomatida) in the Mediterranean. Zookeys, 1053, 1–42. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1053.65324
16. Floréz P., Di Martino E., Ramalho L.V. (2021) Early Miocene coral reef-associated bryozoans from Colombia. Part II: "Ascophora" Cheilostomatida. Journal of Paleontology, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2021.94
17. Lidgard S., Di Martino E., Zágoršek, K. & Liow L.H. (2021) When fossil clades 'compete': local dominance, global diversification dynamics  and causation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288, 20211632. http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1632
18. Orr R.J.S., Di Martino E., Gordon D.P., Ramsfjell M.H., Mello H.L., Smith A.M. & Liow L.H. (2021) A broadly resolved molecular phylogeny  of New Zealand cheilostome bryozoans as a framework for hypotheses of morphological evolution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 161, 107172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107172
19. Floréz P., Di Martino E., Ramalho L.V. (2021) Early Miocene coral reef-associated bryozoans from Colombia. Part I: Cyclostomata, Anasca and Cribrilinoidea Cheilostomata. Journal of Paleontology, 95, 694–719. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2021.5
20. Di Martino E. & Liow L.H. (2021) Trait-fitness association do not predict within-species phenotypic evolution over 2 million years. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288, 20202047. http://doi.org.ezproxy.uio.no/10.1098/rspb.2020.2047
21. Di Martino E. & Liow L.H. (2021) Larger offspring associated with lower temperatures across species of Microporella, a widespread colonial invertebrate. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 662: 1–13. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13656 IF = 2,326
22. Orr R.J.S., Sannum M.M., Boessenkool S., Di Martino E., Gordon D.P., Mello H., Obst M., Ramsfjell M.H., Smith A.M. & Liow L.H. (2021) A molecular phylogeny of historical and contemporary specimens of an under-studied micro-invertebrate group. Ecology and Evolution, 11, 309–320. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7042
23. Rosso A., Gerovasileiou V. & Di Martino E. (2020) Really onychocellids? Revisions and new findings increase the astonishing bryozoan diversity of the Mediterranean Sea. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 8, 904. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse8110904
24. Rosso A., Di Martino E. & Ostrovsky A.N. (2020) Cribrilinid bryozoans from Pleistocene Mediterranean deep-waters, with the description of new species. Journal of Paleontology, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2020.93
25. Gordon D.P., Sutherland J.E., Perez B.A., Waeschenbach A., Taylor P.D. & Di Martino E. (2020) The bryozoan genus Conopeum (Electridae) in New Zealand—with description of a new species and a discussion of the characters of invasive Conopeum seurati (Canu, 1928). Journal of Natural History, 54, 947–970. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2020.1771452
26. Di Martino E., Taylor P.D. & Gordon D.P. (2020) Erect bifoliate species of Microporella (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata), fossil and modern. European Journal of Taxonomy. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.678
27. Di Martino E., Liow L.H., Perkins T., Portell R.W. & Taylor P.D. (2020) Sneaking up on enemies: alleviating inherent disadvantages in competitive outcomes in a nearly 3-million-year old palaeocommunity from Florida, USA. Lethaia. https://doi.org/10.1111/let.12376
28. Rosso A., Di Martino E. & Gerovasileiou V. (2020) Revision of the genus Setosella (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata) with description of new species from deep-waters and submarine caves of the Mediterranean Sea. Zootaxa, 4728, 401–442. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4728.4.1
29. Voje K.L., Di Martino E. & Porto A. (2019) Revisiting a landmark study-system: no evidence for a punctuated mode of evolution in Metrarabdotos. The American Naturalist https://doi.org/10.1086/707664
30. Di Martino E. & Taylor P.D. (2019) Pseudidmonea Borg, 1944 (Cyclostomata: Pseudidmoneidae): description of two new species from the Miocene of New Zealand and phylogenetic relationships of the genus. Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs, 52, 67–75.
31. Orr R.J.S., Haugen M.N., Berning B., Bock P., Cumming R.L., Florence W.K., Hirose M., Di Martino E., Ramsfjell M.H., Sannum M.M., Smith A.M., Vieira L.M., Waschenbach A. & Liow L.H. (2019) A genome-skimmed phylogeny of a widespread bryozoan family, Adeonidae. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 19: 235, 10 pp. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1563-4
32. Di Martino E., Taylor P.D., Fernando A.G.S., Kase T. & Yasuhara M. (2019) First bryozoan fauna from the middle Miocene of Central Java, Indonesia. Alcheringa, 43, 461–478. https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2019.1590639
33. Di Martino E., Taylor P.D. & Portell R.W. (2019) Anomia-associated bryozoans from the upper Pliocene (Piacenzian) lower Tamiami Formation of Florida, USA. Palaeontologia Electronica, 22.1.11A 1–65. https://doi.org/10.26879/920
34. Liow L.H., Reitan T., Voje K.L., Taylor P.D. & Di Martino E. (2019) Size, weapons, and armors as predictors of competitive outcomes in fossil and contemporary marine communities. Ecological Monographs, 89, e01354. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1354
35. Taylor P.D., Di Martino E. & Martha S.O. (2018) Colony growth strategies, dormancy and repair in some Late Cretaceous encrusting bryozoans: insights into the ecology of the Chalk seabed. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-018-0358-8
36. Di Martino E., Martha S.O. & Taylor P.D. (2018) The Madagascan Maastrichtian bryozoans of Ferdinand Canu —Systematic revision and scanning electron microscopic study. Annales de Paléontologie, 104, 101–128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annpal.2018.04.001
37. Di Martino E. & Taylor P.D. (2018) Early Pleistocene and Holocene bryozoans from Indonesia. Zootaxa, 4419, 1–70. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4419.1.1
38. Di Martino E., Jackson J.B.C., Taylor P.D. & Johnson K.G. (2018) Differences in extinction rates drove modern biogeographic patterns of tropical marine biodiversity. Science Advances, 4, eaaq1508. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaq1508
39. Taylor P.D. & Di Martino E. (2018) Sonarina tamilensis n. gen., n. sp., an unusual cheilostome bryozoan from the Late Cretaceous of southern India. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 288, 79–85. https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2018/0724
40. Di Martino E. & Taylor P.D. (2017) Some Miocene cheilostome bryozoan genera of Michel Vigneaux – systematic revision and first scanning electron microscopic study. Geodiversitas, 39, 783–796. https://doi.org/10.5252/g2017n4a7
41. Liow L.H., Di Martino E., Krzeminska M., Ramsfjell M., Rust S., Taylor P.D. & Voje K.L. (2017) Relative size predicts competitive outcome through 2 million years. Ecology letters, 20(8), 981–988. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12795
42. Di Martino E., Taylor P.D., Gordon D.P. & Liow L.H. (2017) New bryozoan species from the Pleistocene of the Wanganui Basin, North Island, New Zealand. European Journal of Taxonomy, 345, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.345
43. Di Martino E., Greene S. & Taylor P.D. (2017) Discoradius, a new name for the genus Heteractis Gabb & Horn, 1862 (Cheilostomata, Bryozoa), junior homonym of Heteractis Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1851 (Cnidaria, Actiniaria). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 16(5), 445. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2017.1300197
44. Di Martino E., Taylor P.D., Cotton L.J. & Pearson P.N. (2017) First bryozoan fauna from the Eocene-Oligocene transition in Tanzania. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 16(3), 225–243. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2017.1284163
45. Di Martino E., Taylor P.D. & Portell R.W. (2017) Bryozoans from the lower Miocene Chipola Formation, Calhoun County, Florida, USA. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History, 53(4), 97–200.
46. Rosso A., Di Martino E., Pica D., Galanti L., Cerrano C. & Novosel M. (2016) Non-indigenous bryozoan species from natural and artificial substrata of Mediterranean submarine caves. Marine Biodiversity, 48, 1345–1355. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-016-0602-2
47. Liow L.H., Di Martino E., Voje K.L., Rust S. & Taylor P.D. (2016) Interspecific interactions through 2 million years: are competitive outcomes predictable? Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 283, 20160981. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0981
48. Rosso A. & Di Martino E. (2016) Bryozoan diversity in the Mediterranean Sea: an update. Mediterranean Marine Science, 17(2), 567–607. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.1706
49. Di Martino E., Taylor P.D., Gordon D.P. & Liow L.H. (2016) On Powellithecidae fam. nov., a new Pliocene to Recent bryozoan family endemic to New Zealand, with the description of Powellitheca gen. nov. (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata). European Journal of Taxonomy, 201, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2016.207
50. Di Martino E., Taylor P.D., Kudryavtsev A.B. & Schopf J.W. (2016) Calcitization of aragonitic bryozoans in Cenozoic tropical carbonates from East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Facies, 62. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-016-0462-z
51. Rosso A. & Di Martino E. (2015) Myriapora sciutoi n. sp., a new fossil Atlanto-Mediterranean bryozoan species, and comments on allied taxa. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 121(3), 369–379.
52. Sciuto F., Rosso A., Sanfilippo R. & Di Martino E. (2015) Ostracods from mid-outer shelf bottoms of the Ciclopi Islands Marine Protected Area (Ionian Sea, Eastern Sicily). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 54(2), 131–146.
53. Rosso A., Di Martino E., Sanfilippo S., Sciuto F. & Liow L.H. (2015) Resurrection of an old forgotten name: the case of the Pliocene to Recent bryozoan Cleidochasmidra portisi (Neviani, 1895) from the Mediterranean. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 54(2), 91–102.
54. Di Martino E. & Rosso A. (2015) Revision of the bryozoan genus Gephyrotes Norman, 1903 (Cheilostomata, Cribrilinidae) with the description of two new taxa. Zootaxa, 3941, 261–283. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3941.2.7
55. Reich S., Di Martino E., Todd J.A., Wesselingh F.P. & Renema W. (2015) Indirect paleo-seagrass indicators (IPSIs): a review. Earth-Science Reviews, 143, 161–186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.01.009
56. Di Martino E. & Taylor P.D. (2015) Miocene Bryozoa from East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Part II: Cheilostomata ‘Ascophora’. Scripta Geologica, 148, 1–142.
57. Santodomingo N., Novak V., Pretkovic V., Marshall N., Di Martino E., Lo Giudice Capelli E., Rösler A., Reich S., Braga J.C., Renema W. & Johnson K.J.  (2015) A diverse patch reef from turbid habitats in the Middle Miocene (East Kalimantan, Indonesia). Palaios, 30(1), 128–149. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2013.047
58. Di Martino E., Taylor P.D. & Johnson K.G. (2015) Bryozoan diversity in the Miocene of the Kutai Basin, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Palaios, 30(1), 109–115. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2013.107
59. Taylor P.D. & Di Martino E. (2014) Why is the tropical Cenozoic fossil record so poor for bryozoans? Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 94, 249–257.
60. Di Martino E. & Taylor P.D. (2014) A brief review of seagrass-associated bryozoans, Recent and fossil. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, 94, 79–94.
61. Di Martino E. & Taylor P.D. (2014) Miocene Bryozoa from East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Part I: Cyclostomata and Cheilostomata ‘Anasca’. Scripta Geologica, 146, 17–126.
62. Rosso A., Sanfilippo R., Taddei Ruggiero E. & Di Martino E. (2013) Faunas and ecological groups of Serpuloidea, Bryozoa and Brachiopoda from submarine caves in Sicily (Mediterranean Sea). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 52(3), 167–176.
63. Novak V., Santodomingo N., Rösler A., Di Martino E., Braga J.C., Taylor P.D., Johnson K.G., Renema W. (2013) Environmental reconstruction of a late Burdigalian (Miocene) patch reef in deltaic deposits (East Kalimantan, Indonesia). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 374, 110–122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.01.009
64. Di Martino E. & Taylor P.D. (2013) First bryozoan fauna from a tropical Cretaceous carbonate: Simsima Formation, United Arab Emirates-Oman border region. Cretaceous Research, 43, 80–96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2013.02.004
65. Rosso A., Di Martino E., Sanfilippo R. & Di Martino V. (2012) Bryozoan communities and thanatocoenoses from submarine caves in the Plemmirio Marine Protected Area (SE Sicily). In: Ernst A., Schäfer P. & Scholz J. (eds) Bryozoan Studies 2010. Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences, 143, 251–269. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16411-8_17
66. Di Martino E. & Taylor P.D. (2012) Pyrisinellidae, a new family of anascan cheilostome bryozoans. Zootaxa, 3534, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3534.1.1
67. Di Martino E. & Taylor P.D. (2012) Systematics and life history of Antoniettella exigua, a new genus and species of cribrimorph bryozoan from the Miocene of East Kalimantan (Indonesia). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 51(2), 99–108.
68. Di Martino E. & Taylor P.D. (2012) Morphology and palaeobiogeography of Retelepralia, a distinctive cheilostome bryozoan new to the fossil record. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 263(1), 67–74. https://doi.org/10.1127/0077-7749/2012/0211

Principali temi di ricerca

Paleobiodiversità: origine degli hotspot di biodiversità tropicale, dinamiche di diversificazione ed estinzione, processi e fattori responsabili; macroevoluzione: allometria ed evoluzione fenotipica e della storia di vita degli organismi in risposta ai cambiamenti climatici e alle interazioni biotiche alla scala dei tempi geologici; ricostruzioni paleoecologiche e paleoambientali con approccio multitaxon; tassonomia, sistematica e filogenesi dei briozoi marini dal Mesozoico a oggi.

DIREZIONE E PARTECIPAZIONE A GRUPPI DI RICERCA

• dal 2021 a oggi. Organizzazione, direzione e coordinamento (Principal Investigator) del gruppo di ricerca afferente al progetto "SELECT — Fossil temporal dynamics of phenotypic selection and life history evolution" finanziato da Young Research Talent Grant del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Norvegese (RCN) presso il Museo di Storia Naturale di Oslo, Norvegia. https://www.nhm.uio.no/english/research/projects/select/index.html
• da Aprile 2023 a oggi. Partecipazione al progetto finanziato dal Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (Artsdatabanken) – Species mapping grant (Artsprosjekt) "NorDigBryo: Digitizing bryozoans: a largely undocumented phylum in Norway" Museo di Storia Naturale di Oslo, Musei universitari di Bergen e Trondheim, Norvegia. https://www.artsdatabanken.no/artsprosjektet/tilskuddtilkartlegging
• dal 2022 a oggi. Partecipazione al gruppo di ricerca afferente al Progetto ERC Starting Grant "ROCKS PARADOX — Dissecting the paradox of stasis in evolutionary biology" diretto dal Prof. Kjetil L. Voje — Università di Oslo, Norvegia. https://www.nhm.uio.no/english/research/projects/rocks-paradox/index.html
• dal 2021 a oggi. Collaborazione con il gruppo di ricerca coordinato dalla Dott. Blanca Figuerola, Istituto di Scienze Marine, Barcelona, Spagna, su tematiche relative alla colonizzazione di substrati artificiali (plastiche) e loro ruolo nella diffusione di specie non-indigene. 
• dal 2018 a oggi. Partecipazione al gruppo di ricerca afferente al Progetto ERC Consolidator Grant "Abiota, Biota, Constraints in Macroevolutionary Processes — macroevolution.abc" diretto dalla Professoressa Lee Hsiang Liow — Università di Oslo, Norvegia. https://www.nhm.uio.no/english/research/projects/macroevolution-abc/index.html
• dal 2017 a oggi. Partecipazione ai gruppi di ricerca afferenti ai progetti finanziati da The University of Hong Kong Research Grant "Tropical western Pacific and Atlantic biodiversities during the Cenozoic: taxonomic and faunal baseline" e "Formation of the Isthmus of Panama and the history of Caribbean Sea biodiversity" coordinati dal Dott. Moriaki Yasuhara, Hong Kong University, School of Biological Sciences.
• dal 2016 a oggi. Collaborazione con il gruppo di ricerca coordinato dal Dott. Roger Portell, Direttore della Sezione di Paleontologia degli Invertebrati del Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville.
• 2017–2021. Partecipazione al gruppo di ricerca afferente al Progetto The Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant: "Molecules meet fossils–an integrated approach to studying marine palaeodiversity" diretto da Dr Andrea Waeschenbach Museo di Storia Naturale Londra, Regno Unito.
• 2017–2021. Partecipazione al gruppo di ricerca afferente al Progetto "Dissecting evolutionary rates across time: Bridging micro- and macroevolution — DETERMINE" finanziato da Young Research Talent Grant del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Norvegese (RCN) presso l'Università di Oslo, Norvegia e diretto da Kjetil L. Voje. 
• 2015–2018. Partecipazione al gruppo di ricerca afferente al Progetto Research Council of Norway EVOQUE ERC_NFR PDRA "Bringing together evolution and ecology through the Red Queen Perspective" coordinato dalla Prof. Lee Hsiang Liow presso il Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biosciences, Università di Oslo, Norvegia. 
• 2015–2018. Responsabile scientifico del gruppo di ricerca afferente al Progetto The Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant RPG-2015-036 "Origin of high tropical diversity: a test using bryozoans" presso il Museo di Storia Naturale di Londra, Regno Unito.
• 2010–2013. Partecipazione al gruppo di ricerca afferente al Progetto THROUGHFLOW Marie Curie Initial Training Network, finanziato dal programma Framework Programme 7 della Commissione Europea coordinato dal Dr Ken Johnson (NHM Londra). https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/237922