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Publications

2026

From death comes diversity

Dal Bello M

Nature Ecology & Evolution

2025

Evolutionary learning of microbial populations in partially predictable environments

Omer RMY, Mazzarisi O, Dal Bello M, Grilli J

arXiv (Preprint)

2025

Microbial communities demonstrate robustness in stressful environments due to predictable composition shifts

Huisman J, Dal Bello M, Gore J

bioRxiv (Preprint)

2025

Universal sublinear population growth density dependence unrelated to resource limitation

Mazzarisi O, Droghetti R, Carmichael H, Ciandrini L, Cosentino Lagomarsino M, Dal Bello M, Fant L, Ghedini G, Grilli J, Yvon-Durocher G, Reuman DC

bioRxiv (Preprint)

2024

Temperature structuring of microbial communities on a global scale

Dal Bello M, Abreu CI

Current Opinion in Microbiology 82, 102558

2023

Caenorhabditis elegans foraging patterns follow a simple rule of thumb

Madirolas G, Al-Asmar A, Gaouar L, Marie-Louise L, Garza-Enríquez A, Khona M, Dal Bello M, Ratzke C, Gore J, Pérez-Escudero A

Communications Biology 6(1), 841

2023

Warmer temperatures favor slower-growing bacteria in natural marine communities

Abreu CI, Dal Bello M, Bunse C, Pinhassi J, Gore J

Science Advances 9(19), eade8352

2021

Inversion of pheromone preference optimizes foraging in Caenorhabditis elegans

Dal Bello M, Pérez-Escudero A, Schroeder FC, Gore J

eLife 10, e58144

2021

Resource-diversity relationships in bacterial communities reflect the network structure of microbial metabolism

Dal Bello M, Lee H, Goyal A, Gore J

Nature Ecology & Evolution 5, 1424–1434

2020

Artificial light at night erases positive interactions across trophic levels

Maggi E, Bongiorni L, Fontanini D, Capocchi A, Dal Bello M, Giacomelli A, Benedetti-Cecchi L

Functional Ecology 34(3), 694–706

2020

COVID-19 mortality risk assessment: An international multi-center study

Bertsimas D, Lukin G, Mingardi L, Nohadani O, Orfanoudaki A, Stellato B, Wiber H, Gonzalez-Garcia S, Parra-Calderón CL, Robinson K, Schneider M, Ber A, Boussioux L, Celi LA, Colombier G, Dal Bello M, others

PLoS ONE 15(12), e0243262

2019

Bottom-up approaches to synthetic cooperation in microbial communities

Rodríguez-Amor D, Dal Bello M

Life 9(1), 22

2019

Temporal clustering of extreme climate events drives a regime shift in rocky intertidal biofilms

Dal Bello M, Rindi L, Benedetti-Cecchi L

Ecology 100(2), e02578

2018

Experimental evidence of spatial signatures of approaching regime shifts in macroalgal canopies

Rindi L, Dal Bello M, Benedetti-Cecchi L

Ecology 99(8), 1709–1715

2018

Hybrid datasets: Integrating observations with experiments in the era of macroecology and big data

Benedetti-Cecchi L, Bulleri F, Dal Bello M, Maggi E, Ravaglioli C, Rindi L

Ecology 99(12), 2654–2666

2018

The role of wave-exposure and human impacts in regulating the distribution of alternative habitats on NW Mediterranean rocky reefs

Bulleri F, Cucco A, Dal Bello M, Maggi E, Ravaglioli C, Benedetti-Cecchi L

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 201, 114–122

2017

Consistent patterns of spatial variability between NE Atlantic and Mediterranean rocky shores

Dal Bello M, Leclerc J, Benedetti-Cecchi L, De Lucia GA, Arvanitidis C, Van Avesaath P, others

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 97(3), 539–547

2017

Direct observation of increasing recovery length before collapse of a marine benthic ecosystem

Rindi L, Dal Bello M, Dai L, Gore J, Benedetti-Cecchi L

Nature Ecology & Evolution 1(6), 0153

2017

Essence of the patterns of cover and richness of intertidal hard bottom communities: A pan-European study

Kotta J, Orav-Kotta H, Jänes H, Hummel H, Arvanitidis C, Van Avesaath P, others

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 97(3), 525–538

2017

Geographic patterns of biodiversity in European coastal marine benthos

Hummel H, Van Avesaath P, Wijnhoven S, Kleine-Schaars L, Degraer S, others

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 97(3), 507–523

2017

Legacy effects and memory loss: How contingencies moderate the response of rocky intertidal biofilms to present and past extreme events

Dal Bello M, Rindi L, Benedetti-Cecchi L

Global Change Biology 23(8), 3259–3268

2017

Spatio-temporal variability in Mediterranean rocky shore microphytobenthos

Maggi E, Rindi L, Dal Bello M, Fontanini D, Capocchi A, Bongiorni L, Benedetti-Cecchi L

Marine Ecology Progress Series 575, 17–29

2017

The role of physical variables in biodiversity patterns of intertidal macroalgae along European coasts

Puente A, Guinda X, Juanes JA, Ramos E, Echavarri-Erasun B, others

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 97(3), 549–560

2015

Effects of grazer diversity on marine microphytobenthic biofilm: a `tug of war' between complementarity and competition

Sanz-Lázaro C, Rindi L, Maggi E, Dal Bello M, Benedetti-Cecchi L

Marine Ecology Progress Series 540, 145–155

2015

Multifractal spatial distribution of epilithic microphytobenthos on a Mediterranean rocky shore

Dal Bello M, Maggi E, Rindi L, Capocchi A, Fontanini D, Sanz-Lázaro C, Benedetti-Cecchi L

Oikos 124(4), 477–485

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