Staff Profile

Teaching

NES2501 Tropical biology

NES3306 Physiological Zoology

NES3501 Advanced Marine Research Topics I

Postgraduate Reaserch Supervision

Completed

Dr Timothy Thompson, Waikato University. (2023) Thesis title: Effects of land-derived anthropogenic stressors on temperate mangrove forests

In progress

Katarina Scaife, Newcastle University. PhD: Effects of the predictability of oxygen fluctuation on aquatic benthic community dynamics

Martina Difonzo, Newcastle University. PhD: Effects of climate change and contaminants on oxygen availability for marine biota

Katie Willis, Newcastle University. MRes: The effect of oxygen availability in coral larval development

Mohamed Ahmed, Edinburgh Napier University. PhD: The role od oxygen availability in seagrass and coral ecology

• Articles

  • Thomson, T, Ellis, JI, Fusi, M, Prinz, N, Lundquist, CJ, Bury, SJ, Shankar, U, Cary, SC, Pilditch, CA. Effects of catchment land use on temperate mangrove forests. Science of The Total Environment 2024, 940, 173579. In Preparation.
  • Soldan, R, Fusi, M, Cardinale, M, Homma, F, Santos, L, Wenzl, P, Bach-Pages, M, Bitocchi, E, Chacon-Sanchez, MI, Daffonchio, D, Preston, G. Consistent effects of independent domestication events on the plant microbiota. Current Biology 2024, 34, 557-567.
  • Booth, JM, Fusi, M, Marasco, R, Daffonchio, D. The microbial landscape in bioturbated mangrove sediment: A resource for promoting nature‐based solutions for mangroves. Microbial Biotechnology 2023, 16, 1584-1602.
  • Djamaluddin R, Fusi M, Djabar B, Evans D, Holmes R, Huxham M, O'Connell DP, Salzmann U, Singleton I, Tjoa A, Trianto A, Diele K. Point of (no) return? Vegetation structure and diversity of restored mangroves in Sulawesi, Indonesia, 14–16 years on. Restoration Ecology 2023, 31(7), e13963.
  • Giomi, F, Barausse, A, Steckbauer, A, Daffonchio, D, Duarte, CM, Fusi, M. Oxygen dynamics in marine productive ecosystems at ecologically relevant scales. Nature Geoscience 2023, 16, 560–566.
  • Fusi M, Sylvain Rigaud S, Guadagnin G, Barausse A, Marasco R, Daffonchio D, Régis J, Huchet L, Camin C, Pettit L, Vina-Herbon C, Giomi F. Ideas and perspectives: The fluctuating nature of oxygen shapes the ecology of aquatic habitats and their biogeochemical cycles – the aquatic oxyscape. Biogeosciences 2023, 20(16), 3509-3521.
  • Fusi, M, Ngugi, DK, Marasco, R, Booth, JM, Cardinale, M, Sacchi, L, Clementi,E, Yang, X, Garuglieri, E, Fodelianakis, S, Michoud, G, Daffonchio, D. Gill-associated bacteria are homogeneously selected in amphibious crabs to sustain host intertidal adaptation. Microbiome 2023, 11, 189. In Preparation.
  • Marasco, R, Fusi, M, Coscolín, C, Barozzi, A, Almendral, D, Bargiela, R, Gohlke, C, Pfleger, C, Dittrich, J, Gohlke, H, Matesanz, R, Sanchez-Carrillo, S, Mapelli, F, Chernikova, TN, Golyshin, PN, Ferrer, M, Daffonchio, D. Enzyme adaptation to habitat thermal legacy shapes the thermal plasticity of marine microbiomes. Nature Communications 2023, 14, 1045.
  • Booth, JM, Giomi, F, Daffonchio, D, McQuaid, CD, Fusi, M. Disturbance of primary producer communities disrupts the thermal limits of the associated aquatic fauna. Science of The Total Environment 2023, 872, 162135.
  • Yando, ES, Jones, S, James, WR, Colombano, DD, Montemayor, DI, Nolte, S, Raw, JL, Ziegler, SL, Chen, L, Daffonchio, D, Fusi, M, Rogers, K, Sergienko, L. An integrative salt marsh conceptual framework for global comparisons. Limnology and Oceanography Letters 2023.
  • OConnell DP, Fusi M, Djamaluddin R, Rajagukguk BB, Bachmid F, Kitson JJN, Dunnett Z, Trainto A, Tjoa AB, Diele K, Evans DM. Assessing mangrove restoration practices using species-interaction networks. Restoration Ecology 2022, 30(4), e13546.

• Review

  • Struebig MJ, Aninta SG, Beger M, Bani A, Barus H, Brace S, Davies ZG, De Brauwer M, Diele K, Djakiman C, Djamaluddin R, Drinkwater R, Dumbrell A, Evans D, Fusi M, Herrera-Alsina L, Iskandar DT, Jompa J, Juliandi B, Lancaster LT, Limmon G, Lindawati, Lo MGY, Lupiyaningdyah P, Mccannon M, Meijaard E, Mitchell SL, Mumbunan S, O'connell D, Osborne OG, Papadopulos AST, Rahajoe JS, Rosaria, Rossiter SJ, Rugayah, Rustiami H, Salzmann U, Sheherazade, Sudiana IM, Sukara E, Tasirin JS, Tjoa A, Travis JMJ, Trethowan L, Trianto A, Utteridge T, Voigt M, Winarni N, Zakaria Z, Edwards DP, Frantz L, Supriatna J. Safeguarding Imperiled Biodiversity and Evolutionary Processes in the Wallacea Center of Endemism. BioScience 2022, 72(11), 1118-1130.