Dr. Gian Marco Palamara
Dr. Gian Marco Palamara
Department of Biometry and Environmental System Analysis
Tennenbacher Straße 4, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
Room 03.056
email: gianmarco.palamara@biom.uni-freiburg.de
phone: +49 761 203-8670
fax: +49 761 203-3751
Research Interests
- Ecological Theory
- Population and Community Ecology
- Biodiversity
- Science of Sustainability
- Physics of Complex Systems
- Stochastic Processes
- Statistical Inference
- Mathematical Biology
Curriculum Vitae
2024-present 2023-present | Akademischer Rat at the University of Freiburg. Research Associate, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Switzerland. Link | |
2022-present
2021
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| Researcher, Department of Fish Ecology and Evolution, Eawag, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland. Link Researcher, Theoretical and Computational Ecology, Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes, Catalunya, Spain. |
2018-2021
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| Research Scientist, Department of Systems Analysis, Integrated Assessment and Modelling, Eawag, Dübendorf, Switzerland. |
2010-2016 | Ph,D. student and Postdoc, Integrative Ecology, | |
2003-2009
2000-2003
| B.Sc. and M.Sc., Theoretical Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
Mechanical Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. |
Full list of scientific publications
Selected publications
- Palamara* G.M., Rozenfeld*, A., Novaes De Santana*, C., Klecka*, J., Riera, R., Eguíluz, V., Melián, C. (2023) Biodiversity dynamics in landscapes with fluctuating connectivity. Ecography, e06385. *Equal contribution https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06385
- .Palamara G. M., Dennis S. R., Haenggi C., Schuwirth N., Reichert P. (2022) Investigating the effect of pesticides on Daphnia population dynamics by inferring structure and parameters of a stochastic model. Ecological Modelling 472 (110076), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2022.110076
- Losapio G., Schöb C., Staniczenko P., Carrara F., Palamara G. M., De Moraes C. M., Mescher M. C., Brooker R. W., Butterfield R. W., Callaway R., Cavieres L. A., Kikvidze Z., Lortie C., Michalet R., Pugnaire F. I., & Bascompte J. (2021) Network motifs involving both competition and facilitation predict biodiversity in alpine plant communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States,118 (6) https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2005759118
- Pennekamp, F., Pontarp, M., Tabi, A., Altermatt, R., Alther, R., Choffat, Fronhofer E. A., Ganesanandamoorthy, P., Garnier, A., Griffiths, J., Greene S., Horgan, K., Massie, T. M., Mächler, E., Palamara, G. M., Seymour, M. & Petchey, O. L. (2018) Biodiversity increases and decreases ecosystem stability. Nature, 563, 109–112. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0627-8
- Palamara, G.M., Carrara, F., Smith, M.J., Petchey, O.L. (2016) The effects of demographic stochasticity and parameter uncertainty on predicting the establishment of introduced species. Ecology and Evolution, 6, 8440-8451. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2495
- Palamara, G. M., Childs, D. Z., Clements, C.F., Petchey, O. L., Plebani, M. and Smith, M. J. (2014) Inferring the temperature dependence of ecological parameters: the effect of experimental design and inference algorithm. Ecology and Evolution, 4, 4736-4750. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1309
Winter Semester 2024/2025 “Mixed effect models with R”