Marina C. Rillo

Marina C. Rillo

Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oldenburg, Germany

Publications

I am currently on maternity leave, please check my Google Scholar profile for an updated list.

Peer-reviewed: first author

  1. Smith*, J., Rillo*, M. C., Kocsis*, A., …, Finnegan, S., Hull, P. (2023) BioDeepTime: a database of biodiversity time series for modern and fossil assemblages. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32(10):1680-1689
    * first co-authorship

  2. Rillo, M. C., S. Woolley, & H. Hillebrand, (2022) Drivers of global pre‐industrial patterns of species turnover in planktonic foraminifera, Ecography 2022(1) [pdf]

  3. Rillo, M. C. & R. S. Etienne, (2022) Diversity-Dependent Diversification, Oxford Bibliographies in Evolutionary Biology, Ed. Douglas J. Futuyma [pdf]

  4. Rillo, M. C., C. G. Miller, M. Kucera, & T. H. G. Ezard, (2020) Intraspecific size variation in planktonic foraminifera cannot be consistently predicted by the environment, Ecology and Evolution 10(20): 11579-11590 [pdf]

  5. Rillo, M. C., M. Sugawara, B. Cabella, L. Jonkers, U. K. Baranowski, M. Kucera & T. H. G. Ezard, (2019) On the mismatch in the strength of competition among fossil and modern species of planktonic Foraminifera, Global Ecology and Biogeography 28(12):1866-78 [pdf]

  6. Rillo, M. C., M. Kucera, T. H. G. Ezard & C. G. Miller, (2019) Surface sediment samples from early age of seafloor exploration can provide a late 19th century baseline of the marine environment, Frontiers in Marine Science 5:517 [pdf]

  7. Rillo, M. C., J. Whittaker, T. H. G. Ezard, A. Purvis, A. S. Henderson, S. Stukins & C. G. Miller, (2016) The unknown planktonic foraminiferal pioneer Henry A. Buckley and his collection at the Natural History Museum, London, Journal of Micropalaeontology, 36: 191-194 [pdf]

Peer-reviewed: collaborations

  1. Jonkers, Lukas, T. Laepple, M. C. Rillo, X. Shi, A. M. Dolman, G. Lohmann, A. Paul, A. Mix, & M. Kucera (2023). Strong temperature gradients in the ice age North Atlantic Ocean revealed by plankton biogeography Nature Geoscience 16: 1114–1119.

  2. Calderaro, L. A., Harnik, P. G., Rillo, M. C. (2023). Environmental correlates of molluscan predator-prey body size in the northern Gulf of Mexico Paleobiology 2023:1-15.

  3. Chaabane, S., Garidel, T., Giraud, X., Schiebel, R., …, Rillo, M. C., …Ziveri, P. (2023). The FORCIS database: A global census of planktonic Foraminifera from ocean waters Scientific Data 10(1), 354.

  4. Hillebrand, H., L. Kuczynski, C. Kunze, M. C. Rillo, J.-C. Dajka (2023). Thresholds and tipping points are tempting but not necessarily suitable concepts to address anthropogenic biodiversity change—an intervention. Marine Biodiversity 53, 43.

  5. Strack, A., Jonkers, L., Rillo, M. C., Hillebrand, H., & Kucera, M. (2022). Plankton response to global warming is characterized by non-uniform shifts in assemblage composition since the last ice age. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 6, 1871–1880 [pdf]

  6. Yasuhara, M., et al. (2022). Hotspots of Cenozoic tropical marine biodiversity. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review, Volume 60, 243-300, CRC Press [pdf]

  7. Morard, R., Weinkauf, M. F., Brombacher, A., Fenton, I., Fehrenbacher, J., and Rillo, M. C. (2022) Editorial: Protists as Model Ecological and Evolutionary Study Systems: Emerging methodologies of the 21st century. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9:1014238 [pdf]

  8. Ekkers, D. M., Tusso, S., Moreno-Gamez, S., Rillo, M. C., Kuipers, O. P., & van Doorn, G. S. (2022) Trade-offs predicted by metabolic network structure give rise to evolutionary specialization and phenotypic diversification. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39(6) [pdf]

  9. Jonkers, L., Meilland, J., Rillo, M. C., de Garidel-Thoron, T., Kitchener, J. A., & Kucera, M. (2022) Linking zooplankton time series to the fossil record. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 79(3), 917-924 [pdf]

  10. Yasuhara, M., H.-H. M. Huang, P. Hull, M. C. Rillo, F. L. Condamine, D. P. Tittensor, M. Kučera, M. J. Costello, S. Finnegan, A. O’Dea, Y. Hong, T. C. Bonebrake, N. R. McKenzie, H. Doi, C.-L. Wei, Y. Kubota, & E. E. Saupe, (2020) Time machine biology: Cross-timescale integration of ecology, evolution, and oceanography, Oceanography 33(2): 16-28 [pdf]

  11. Ribeiro, G. M., P. I. Prado, R. M. Coutinho, M. C. Rillo, S. Pereira Junior, A. L. Porfirio-Sousa, & D. J. G. Lahr, (2019) Growth rate modulation enables coexistence in a competitive exclusion scenario between microbial eukaryotes, Acta Protozoologica 58:4 [pdf]

  12. Hsiang, A. Y., A. Brombacher, M. C. Rillo, M. J. Mleneck‐Vautravers, S. Conn, S. Lordsmith, A. Jentzen, M. J. Henehan, B. Metcalfe, I. S. Fenton, B. S. Wade, L. Fox, J. Meilland, C. V. Davis, U. Baranowski, J. Groeneveld, K. M. Edgar, A. Movellan, T. Aze, H. J. Dowsett, C. G. Miller, N. Rios & P. M. Hull, (2019). Endless Forams: >34,000 Modern Planktonic Foraminiferal Images for Taxonomic Training and Automated Species Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Networks, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 34: 1157-1177 [pdf]

  13. Meilland, J., M. Siccha, M. F. G. Weinkauf, L. Jonkers, R. Morard, U. Baranowski, A. Baumeister, J. Bertlich, G.-J. Brummer, P. Debray, T. Fritz-Endres, J. Groeneveld, L. Magerl, P. Munz, M. C. Rillo, C. Schmidt, H. Takagi, G. Theara, & M. Kucera , (2019) Highly replicated sampling reveals no diurnal vertical migration but stable species-specific vertical habitats in planktonic foraminifera, Journal of Plankton Research 41:2, 127–141 [pdf]

Manuscripts under review

Harnik, Paul G., Anne Chao, Katie S. Collins, M. C. Rillo Declining species and functional diversity along a coastal eutrophication-deoxygenation gradient (under review MEPS)

Kéfi, Sonia, M. C. Rillo, S. Benateau, M. Verdu, F. Schneider Facilitation and the evolution of trait-syndromes in the Mediterranean flora (under review Oikos)

PhD thesis

Rillo, M. C., Unravelling macroecological patterns in extant planktonic Foraminifera. University of Southampton, UK, Doctoral Thesis, 167pp, July 2019

Datasets

Rillo, M. C., Henry Buckley Collection of Planktonic Foraminifera, Natural History Museum, London, UK, NHM Data Portal DOI: 10.5519/0035055, 2016.

Cruise reports

Kucera, M., M. Siccha, R. Morard, L. Jonkers, et al., Scales of population dynamics, ecology and diversity of planktonic foraminifera and their relationship to particle flux in the eastern tropical Atlantic, Cruise No. M140, 11.8.2017 - 5.9.2017, Mindelo (Cabo Verde) - Las Palmas (Spain), FORAMFLUX , METEOR-Berichte, DOI: 10.2312/cr_m140, Bonn, 2019.

Learning platforms

Endless Forams, Most Beautiful: large database of images of modern planktonic foraminiferal species for taxonomic training, created as a collaboration of members from the Yale University, The Yale Peabody Museum and The Natural History Museum in London.

Empirical Dynamic Modeling Tutorials for the School on Physics Applications in Biology of 2018, created by Brenno Cabella, Paulo Inácio Prado, Renato Mendes Coutinho, Marina Rillo, Rafael Lopes and Roberto Kraenkel.