Alfonso is an experienced marine ecologist with 15 years’ professional experience working for academic sectors, central government, and private agencies. Alfonso is experienced in marine, transition, and freshwater habitats, with particular focus on ecosystem function and biodiversity, native and non-native species monitoring, macroinvertebrate communities and colonization, drone surveys and GIS habitat mapping, ecological assessments, assessments…
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BSc in Biological Sciences and MSc in Marine Biology
Eco Divers – Centre of Underwater Scientific Activities
My PhD was focused on Habitat Cascades, an unidirectional sequence of positive interactions where a species provides habitat for another species, which in turn provide habitat for another species… and so on. Jointly with the direct interactions occurring (species A – species B, and species B – species C), indirect interactions are also involved…
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Senior Fishery Ranger in the Taupo Fishery team
Conferences, papers, and video-photo competitions
Some of the best shot, above and below the water surface …
Order Anguilliformes Family Anguillidae Longfin eel, Anguilla dieffenbachii: Order Cyprinodontiformes Family Poeciliidae Mosquitofish or Gambusia, Gambusia affinis: Order Osmeriformes Family Galaxiidae Giant kokopu, Galaxias argenteus: Koaro, Galaxias brevipinnis: Banded kokopu, Galaxias fasciatus: Inanga, Galaxias maculatus: Shortjaw kokopu, Galaxias postvectis: Brown mudfish, Neochanna apoda: Black mudfish, Neochanna diversus: …
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If you note some errors or you want me to publish your pictures please write me. The systematics reported in this atlas is represented by the following system of buttons, font size and style: KINGDOM PHYLUM SUBPHYLUM CLASS SUBCLASS INFRACLASS Superorder Order Family Genus species Seaweeds Seagrasses Phylum Porifera Phylum Cnidaria Phylum Ctenophora…
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INFRACLASS SELACHII Order Orectolobiformes Family Stegostomatidae Zebra shark or Variegated shark or Tiger shark or Tiburón acebrado or Sea tiger or Nurse shark or Monkey-mouth or Leopard shark or Hark with tiger-like spots, Squalo zebra, Stegostoma fasciatum: Order Carcharhiniformes Family Sphyrnidae Smooth hammerhead or Shovelhead shark or Hammerhead shark or Hammerhead, Squalo martello, Sphyrna zygaena:…
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