Personale docente

1. PERSONAL NOTES

Birthdate:                  February 11, 1959

Place of birth:           Chiari, Brescia, Italy

Nationality:              Italian

Sex:                            Female

2. ACADEMIC DEGREES AND POSITIONS

1983                           Doctor of Biology, University of Parma, Italy.

1984                           Research fellow at C.C.R.-C.E.E. EURATOM, Ispra, Italy.

1985-88                     Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences, University of Parma, Italy.

1989-92                     Postdoctoral fellow, Institute of Ecology, University of Parma, Italy.

1993-99                     Researcher in Environmental Sciences and Ecology, University of Parma, Italy.

2000-                         Assistant professor, University of Parma, Italy.

3. TEACHING ACTIVITY

1990-1992                Lecturer in Plant Ecology, Faculty of Agricultural Science, Università Cattolica

                                     of Piacenza, Italy.

1996-2003                Lecturer in Animal Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Parma, Italy.

2002-2006                Lecturer in Population Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Parma, Italy.

2006-                         Lecturer in Planktology, Faculty of Science, University of Parma, Italy.

2002-                         Lecturer in Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Parma, Italy.

2012-2016                Lecturer in Ecosystem Analysis, Department of Biosciences, University of Parma, Italy

4. RESEARCH INTERESTS

Populations biology and evolutionary ecology of aquatic invertebrates are the main topics of her research activity. She is interested in the evolution of life history traits and evolutionary genetics, with special reference to reproductive modes, dormancy and maternal effects. She has cultivated basic and applied aspects of ecology, with special focus on the dynamics of natural populations and their genetic variability (investigated by enzymatic and molecular markers). An important aspect of her activity is the investigation in nature and in the laboratory of biological and ecological features of different genotypes.

Population ecology and population genetics of aquatic crustaceans such as: Heterocypris incongruens, Eucypris virens, Limnocythere inopinata and Darwinula stevensoni (Ostracoda), Daphnia obtusa, D. longispina, D magna and D pulex (Cladocera), Mixodiaptomus kupelwieseri (Copepoda). Genetic markers are used as a taxonomic tool to distinguish ecologically different subspecies and subpopulation units. Genetic variability in time and space has been evaluated in relation to the ecology and biological characteristics of species with different reproductive modes: the geographic parthenogenesis of H. incongruens, E. virens and L. inopinata, the obligate parthenogenetic populations of D. stevensoni, the cyclical parthenogenetic populations of Daphnia and the sexual populations of M. kupelwieseri.

5. MAIN PUBLICATIONS of the last 5 years

Bellin N., Spezzano R., Rossi V. 2021. Assessing the Extinction Risk of Heterocypris incongruens (Crustacea: Ostracoda) in Climate Change with Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis. Water, 13, 1828. https://doi.org/10.3390/w 13131828

Bellin N., Tesi G., Marchesani N., Rossi V. 2022. Species distribution modelling and machine learning in assessing the potential distribution of freshwater zooplankton in Northern Italy. Ecological Informatics, 69: 101682 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2022.101682

Bellin N., Calzolari M., Magoga G., Callegari E., Bonilauri P., Lelli D., Dottori M., Montagna M., Rossi V. 2022. Unsupervised machine learning and geometric morphometrics as tools for the identification of inter and intraspecific variations in the Anopheles Maculipennis complex. Acta Tropica 233(1):106585 DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2022.106585

Riboni N., Suppa A., Buschini A., Bianchi F., Rossi V., Gorbi G., Careri M. 2022. An Efficient Solid-Phase Microextraction–Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry Method for the Analysis of Methyl Farnesoate Released in Growth Medium by Daphnia pulex. Molecules. - ISSN 1420-3049. - 27:(2022). [10.3390/molecules27238591].

Bellin N., Rossi V. 2024. To sleep or not to sleep: dormancy and life history traits in Eucypris virens (Crustacea, Ostracoda). Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.2786

Bellin N., Rossi V. 2024. Modeling the effects of climate change on the habitat suitability of Mediterranean gorgonians. Biodiversity and Conservation, 33: 1027-1049 DOI: 10.1007/s10531-024-02779-z

Cominelli S., Bellin, N., Brown C., Rossi V., Lawson J. 2024. Acoustic features as a tool to visualize and explore marine soundscapes: applications illustrated using marine mammal Passive Acoustic Monitoring datasets. Ecology and Evolution, 14, e10951. h t t p s : //d o i .org/10.1002/ece3.10951

Calzolari M., Bellin N., Dottori M., Di Luca M., Rossi V., Magoga G., Montagna M., 2024. Integrated taxonomy to advance species delimitation of the Anopheles maculipennis complex.

Citation metrics Scopus

-total publications: 103
-total number of citations: 1070
-average citations per item: 16
-h index: 19