Ricardo Beldade

Lines of Investigation:

Climate change driven marine eco-evolutionary processes
My work focuses on eco-evolutionary processes operating in the marine world as a result of climate change. I am particularly interested in dispersal, hybridization, genotypic and phenotypic variation. I draw inferences from several disciplines, genomics, physiology, behavior to answer questions directly related to biodiversity conservation, fisheries management and global climatic change. I am also interested in research dedicated to other environmental stresses such as sound and light pollution to inform management and conservation efforts. I work on temperate and tropical systems spanning three ocean basins.

Selected Publications:

• Beldade, R., Holbrook, S.J., Schmitt, R.J., Planes, S., Malone, D. & G. Bernardi. (2012). Larger female fish contribute disproportionately more to self-replenishment. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences 279: 2116–2121
• Beldade, R., Holbrook, S.J., Schmitt, R.J., Planes, S., Malone, D. & G. Bernardi. (2012). Larger female fish contribute disproportionately more to self-replenishment. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences 279: 2116–2121
• Norin, T., Mills, S.C. Crespel, A., Cortese, D., Killen, S.S. & Beldade, R. (2018). Anemone bleaching increases the metabolic demands of symbiont anemonefish. Proc Royal Soc B 285: 20180282.
• Mills, S.C., Beldade, R., Chabanet, P., Bigot, L., O’Donnell, J & G. Bernardi (2015). Ghosts of thermal past: exposure to historic high temperatures elevates stress response in a coral reef fish. Coral Reefs 34:1255-1260
• Mills, S.C., Beldade, R., Henry, L., Laverty, D., Nedelec, S.L., Simpson, S.D., & A.N. Radford. (2020). Hormonal and behavioral effects of motorboat noise on wild coral reef fish. Environmental Pollution 262:114250
• Beldade, R., Longo G.C., Clements K.D., Robertson D.S., Perez-Matus A., Itoi S., Sugita H., & G. Bernardi. Evolutionary origin of the Atlantic Cape Verde nibbler (Girella stuebeli), a member of a primarily Pacific Ocean family of antitropical herbivorous reef fishes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. In press

Courses in which participates:

• BIO108A Fundamentos de Ecologia y Evolucion
• BIO250M Vertebrados Marinos (invited)
• BIO 4031 Fronteras en Ecologia (invited)